Art Curation
Joshua Sariñana is an artist and curator directing trans-disciplinary projects. His work emphasizes visual representation and autobiographical narratives, creating networked social identities.
Mental Mapping
This project explores the relationships between artificial intelligence, the brain, and social networks. Central to this exploration are interviews with participants whose narratives are analyzed using large language models and machine learning technologies to unearth connections within and between their experiences.
A short video explaining the Mental Mapping project.
This project is funded by the following:
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Malden Cultural Council
Somerville Arts Council
Council for the Arts at MIT
Through These Realities challenges the narratives of mass media that invalidate the experiences of people of color through the interactions of poetry and photography. Local photographers of color have created a series of images inspired by work from local poets of color. These images incorporate the figurative and literal visual elements related to associated poetry—prompted by a James Baldwin quote. Artists use poetry and photography to validate their realities, reveal the discrepancies between the dominant culture, and solidify the normality of people of color living in the everyday.
This project is supported by the Somerville Arts Council City Arts Grant.
Photo by Vanessa Leroy
The Poetry of Science creates positive associations between people of color, the arts, the sciences, how nature is perceived, and what it means to generate knowledge.
Throughout history, people of color have forged novel realities and cultures to resist systems of oppression. In pulling together these voices and collaborative works, we offer a novel form of storytelling through the experiences of people of color, emphasizing our place within the natural landscape and attempting to answer the question, “Where do we fit in?”
This project is supported by the Cambridge Arts Council, Art for Social Justice Grant.
Neuroscience is a popular fixation, but the public knows little about how science is done, who does it, or why it’s an essential research endeavor. One consequence of opaque research is the inability to see those who make new findings, their personal stories, and their motivations to help reveal the complexity of the nature we are imbued by.
This project was funded by the Council for the Arts at MIT.