Proud to announce that “The Razor’s Edge” has been officially selected as part of the 2021 ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL - Tāctus in Athens, Greece. The online portion of the festival is currently live. VIDEO ART and others forms of experimental and emerging media can be viewed here: online.adaf.gr
Work from the series domicile. was featured in the traveling exhibition Scatter Terrain organized by Ejecta Projects. The exhibition is featured in the John and June Allcott Gallery from August 24 - September 23, 2021. Exhibition catalogue available here.
domicile. featured in Video Fenster
The video domicile. will be featured in the public video art festival Video Fenster in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany, June 22-27, 2021. Featuring video art and installations made during lock down. More information and event schedule listed on their website: https://videofenster.net
“A Razor’s Edge” will be featured in the exhibition A Digital Art Salon at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, March 5 - May 2nd, 2021.
The video installation “True Love” was selected for the Split Video Art Festival, October 8-10th, 2020.
True love Stefani Byrd (USA).
Flesh Spaces represents artists, especially those of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ groups, whose works challenge, disrupt, and dismantle the logic of the shiny, new, cool aesthetic popularized by male techno-culture and the “tech bros” of Silicon Valley. Employing a variety of techniques, such as video, GIFs, performance, or installation, they bring attention to different bodies and forms of embodiment in between digital spaces and RL places. These works continue the legacy of the Cyberfeminist movement, but simultaneously depart from them
True Love featured in exhibit at the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea in the Concept 2020 exhibition
Burden of Selfhood will be featured in the artwork portion of the upcoming ACM Creativity and Cognition 2019 and Designing Interactive Systems 2019 at UC San Diego.
A fantastic line up of alternative film and video installation work from artists in Southern California.
Upcoming exhibition of new work True Love featured at Space4 Art.
The Burden of Selfhood is the next event in the IDEAS performance series in the Qualcomm Institute. The interdisciplinary work by UC San Diego graduate students and alumni explores feminism, identity and technology.
Technology has accelerated the recursive gaze to the point that we continually perform and project back onto each other our internalized expectations for unattainable perfection. By combining research from cognitive science, music, poetry, video and performance art, this work investigates the experience of viewing and being viewed as a gendered body. This poly-vocal performance will use large-scale data visualizations and live performers to make explicit both the collective gaze and the implicit impact of being seen. Through projection mapping and large scale video, the face becomes a malleable surface bearing traces of all the data it absorbs.
For Directions to Calit2 Atkinson Hall at UC San Diego: http://qi.ucsd.edu/contact.php
Parking: http://transportation.ucsd.edu/parking/visitor/index.html
Featured in "The Arts Issue" of Modern Luxury Magazine San Diego about local artists, curators, and collectors who are shaping the art community of Southern California. Full feature here.
The Burden of Selfhood
Stefani Byrd, Sarah Ciston, Amy Fox, and Fernanda Navarro
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2017, 5 to 7 p.m.
Location: Calit2 Theater, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
The Burden of Selfhood is an interdisciplinary work exploring the intersection of feminism, identity and technology. By using interactive technology and research from cognitive science, music, poetry, video and performance art, the performance will investigate the experience of viewing and being viewed as a gendered body.
Material Mortality: New Video Works
October 19th, 8:30-10:30 PM
Each of the works comes from an engagement with corporeality, visceral-ity, or mortality as material and there are overlaps, symmetries, and echos in the ways these makers work in collaboration. Screening of new videos by
Angela Jennings
Abigail Severance
Bill Basquin
Heidi Kayser
Lyndsay Bloom
Stefani Byrd
I am so pleased to have worked as the video designer on this production of Angels in America. Working with director Jon Reimer's vision, I aimed to visually create a world where the ethereal, the technological, and the surreal are visibly interwoven with the physical world we engage everyday in this staging of Tony Kushner's landmark epic.
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika is the second half of Kushner’s seven-hour epic Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Noted for its controversial commentary on the themes of sexuality, politics and race in 1980s America, Perestroika remains unnervingly relevant and loud in 2016’s struggle for racial, sexual and political justice.
Saturday, September 24th, 7:30PM
Sunday, September 25th, 2:00PM & 7:30PM
Molli and Arthur Wagner Dance Building
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
TICKETS: http://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/Perestroika/index.htm
DIRECTIONS & PARKING: http://theatre.ucsd.edu/places/parking.html
More details about the event and the Launchpad program can be found here:
Breathing is viewed as one of the most basic and trustworthy ways of linking together the body and the mind, our embodied existence alongside our mental experience of the world. It is also the marker of the dividing line between life and death. The title of the exhibition, I Am That, comes from the English translation of the sanskrit mantra “so’ham.” The phrase refers to the natural sound of the breath; the first part of the phrase “so” is the sound of inhalation, “hum” being the sound of exhalation. This ancient phrase, often called the universal mantra because it references the universal quality of the breath, originates from Indian Vedic philosophies and is used in meditation practices to relax the body and calm the mind.
This exhibition features two installations that explore the theme of breath, the immersive sound installation Cacophony (24hr News Cycle) and a multi screen video installation The Razor's Edge. An exploration in themes of mediation, embodiment, and the nature of time, both works explore the breath through sound and image. The exhibition is the culmination of three years of work at the UC San Diego graduate program and a requirement for the awarding of a degree of Master of Fine Arts.
On View May 4-6th, 2016 at the UC San Diego VAF Performance Space, Room 306
Gallery Hours:
Open Wed & Thurs, 2-6PM
Friday, 4-6PM
(By Appointment May 7-8th)
Reception: Thursday, May 5th, 6-8PM
My latest collaborative work The Unattainable/The Intimate, created for the 'Immersive Lab' debuted recently at the Calit2 Research Institute at UC San Diego. The ‘Immersive Lab’ is an artistic and technological research project of the Institute of Computer Music and Sound Technology at the Zurich University of the Arts. It is a media space that integrates panoramic video, surround audio with full touch interaction on the entire screen surface.
The Immersive Lab project, along with creators Jan Schacher and Daniel Bisig, visited UC San Diego for the Fall of 2015. Students and artists were invited to create new works that use the platform of the immersive lab and explore idea of touch, interaction, and immersion. This new interactive work, The Unattainable/The Intimate, was made in collaboration with composers Fernanda Navarro and Juan David Rubio R. and will become a part of the traveling repertoire a works for the Immersive Lab. Many, many thanks to the organizer of this event Katharina Rosenberger.
The Razor's Edge will be screening as a part of the alternative art fair event, December 12th and 13th, in collaboration with ShipInTheWoods.
DATE NIGHT
Contemporary art fair arrives and sets up shop the weekend of December 12-13th, 2015, at Horton Plaza Mall. An architectural venture based on Ray Bradbury's essay The Aesthetics of Lostness, this mall has been described as "a temple where we can all tilt our faces to the sun," with "more angles than a train wreck - a multilayer maze of walkways, stair steps, terraces, bridges, arches, pillars, beams, and cupolas." We invited local artist-run and alternative gallery spaces as well as artists, poets, and musicians to participate in DATE NIGHT, offering them booths and walls; some chose to work without walls.
Through a generous invitation from the San Diego Art Institute we have had the pleasure of programming an event in an unused storefront. Collectively we decided to use this as an opportunity to pass sections of space and air wave across mvwbers of a community that often feels dispersed, fragmented, and decisively liminal. And what a more fitting location than the mall?! A place for the misfits, the disjointed, and the dislocated to reclaim and hang out in full anti-capitalist critique! Contrary to contemporary mall critique, at this mall, ambient sources of aesthetic arousal amplify to keep the customer coming. Intrepid spaces are: Carla, Friend's Collective, Helmuth Project, Poderes Unidos, A Ship in the Woods, Space 4 Art, SPF15, TARP Reform, UAG, Untitled Space.
I was happy to have my latest video work The Razor's Edge featured at the 2015 San Diego Art Fair. This was made possible by the San Diego Visual Arts Network and ShipInTheWoods. Special thanks to Lianne Thompson and Patricia Frischer.
