ALICE YUAN ZHANG
The Seeding Resilience augmented reality project is a virtual food sanctuary rooted in the work of Black, Indigenous, and people of color seed-keepers as well as the artists’ own cultural lineages of food.
About the Artists
Alice Yuan Zhang 张元 (she/her) is a media artist, writer, cultural organizer, and 1st-generation Chinese-American migrant living on Tongva land (Los Angeles). Her transdisciplinary practice operates on cyclical and intergenerational time, exploring socio-ecological entanglement through browsers, AR, and other digital spaces, as well as embodied and analog exchanges. Alice is the co-founder of virtual care lab, a 2022 DWeb fellow, recent research resident at 0x Salon, resident artist at CultureHub, and community member of NAVEL and Trust.
Website | IG: @aliceyuanzhang
Nailah Hunter (she/her) is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles. Her music for harp, electronics and voice shimmers with spiritual radiance, full of magic, wonder, and healing energies. Her debut EP Spells was released by LA’s acclaimed Leaving Records in May 2020 and described by Rolling Stone as “one of the best recent releases of its kind.” Nailah hosts a monthly NTS radio show, Astral Garden, and has collaborated with Lyra Pramuk, No Joy, John Carroll Kirby and Bing and Ruth.
Website | IG: @nailah.hunter
Jay Carlon (he/they) is a contemporary dance artist and community organizer based between LA and NYC and is committed to connecting his art practice to sustainability and his personal and collective journey of decolonization. Carlon was named Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2020. He is a performer and directing associate with the Sway, where he has performed at the 2014 Olympics, the 2016 World EXPO, and the 2018 Super Bowl. Carlon has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Bill T. Jones, jumatatu m. poe, Oguri, Solange Knowles, Rodrigo y Gabriela; and choreographed works for Kanye West and Mndsgn.