Untitled Podcast

Presented by Hyperpavilion, space, supported by AXA Investment Managers.

Rolando Carmona of Hyperpavilion and artist Sofía Crespo in conversation exploring AI and the concepts revolving around augmented creativity.

Future Knowing: A Discussion with Artists and Untitled Art Miami Beach guest curator Natasha Becker.

Participants include: Ana Teresa Fernández (Catharine Clark Gallery), Alexander Lee (Marisa Newman Projects), Phyllis Stephens (Richard Beavers Gallery), Adébayo Boljai showing with BEERS London, Natasha Becker (Curator of African Art at the De Young Museum who is our moderator)

Julio Criado of Alarcón Criado Gallery exhibiting at the fair in booth B38, and DJ Hellerman, curator for SCAD Museum of Art, who join us today to discuss the work of artist Ira Lombardía.

Untitled Art Miami Beach guest curator Miguel A. López in conversation with Moving Feeling artists Jim Denomie (Bockley Gallery) and Sylvia Fernandez (Galería del Paseo)

Miguel A. López is a writer, researcher, and curator. Between 2015 and 2020, he worked at TEOR/éTica, in Costa Rica, first as chief curator and, from 2018, as co-director and chief curator. Recent curatorial projects include: ‘and if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?’ at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2021); ‘Cecilia Vicuña, a Retrospective Exhibition’ at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019) and MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City (2020); co-curated ‘Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Central America: Desiring a Place’ at MUAC, Mexico City, (2019); ‘Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For’ at the Americas Society, New York (2019); and ‘Social Energies/Vital Forces. Natalia Iguiñiz: Art, Activism, Feminism (1994–2018)’ at ICPNA, Lima (2018njj). Recent books include: Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia (Dissident Fictions in the Land of Misogyny) (2019), and Robar la historia. Contrarrelatos y prácticas artísticas de oposición (Stealing History: Counter-narratives and Oppositional Art Practices (2017). His writing has appeared in Afterall, Artforum, Art in America, e-flux journal, and Manifesta Journal, among others. López is also a co-founder of the independent art space Bisagra, active in Peru since 2014.

Beyond NFTs - Hosted by CADAF (international contemporary and digital art fair) x NDR NW MGMT (exhibiting at Untitled in booth C26)

Panelists:

Raina Mehler, curator

Ori Carino, artist

Elena Zavelev, CEO and Founder of CADAF

Andrea Steuer, Director and Designer (moderator)

NFTs have become mainstream and the art world is catching up while still assessing the use cases for blockchain technology in fine art. Traditional artists, galleries and institutions have been slow to legitimize it while the digital art community has become an early adopter. Today NFTs enable us to establish provenance, exhibition history and the authenticity of ownership in digital art and other assets. NFTs have also become a medium of its own where creators are using the technology both conceptually and aesthetically. This panel assesses the role of digital art and NFTs at the art fairs in Miami this year, as well as discusses the different styles of NFTs, the benefits of the technology, and how it might be used in the future since it opens up a world of new creative opportunities.

Paul Amenta of Site Lab hosts a live discussion onsite at Untitled Art Miami Beach on their Special Project in the fair’s Monuments section entitled Open Frame: Miami Beach. Amenta speaks with Chris Fox of Not Design Graphic Design Studio in Grand Rapids Michigan, along with collaborators and students from Calvin University, about their practice engaging with the public and live letterpress printing on the beach as part of the fair.

Presented by SF Artists Alumni (SFAA). This conversation revolves around Referencing ideas in the book The Disposable City by Mario Alejandro Ariza, SF Artists Alumni (SFAA) embraces the theme of resilience as it relates to the environment and society. As a group of San Francisco Art Institute Alumni, SFAA gathered strength during a moment of crisis to resurrect themselves in order to preserve the legacy of their alumni by forming the non-profit SF Artist Alumni. While cities have departments of resilience to foster how the city can react to climate change, vulnerable communities disproportionately composed of people of color are most affected by limited funding to protect themselves against potential disaster to their homes and sense of security. The site, Miami Beach, speaks to urgency while we see continuous progress through the construction occurring simultaneously. How do we create justice between the developers and ideas of sanctuary? Juxtaposed areas are economically divided by these environmental, political and governmental systems. Art as a vehicle brings awareness to these issues with poetic, psychological and visual aesthetics.

This program, recorded in July 2020 in the weeks leading up to UNTITLED, ART Online, focuses on the importance of Black-owned galleries and arts spaces in today's world. Hear the conversation with artist Genesis Tramaine, gallerist Richard Beavers, and Prizm Art Fair founder Mikhaile Solomon, moderated by Donnamarie Baptiste. As part of their participation in UNTITLED, ART Online, Phaidon & Artspace have produced a benefit edition by Brooklyn-based artist Genesis Tramaine to support programming, fellowships and grants at the New York Foundation for the Arts.

This conversation was recorded on July 14, 2020 in the lead up to UNTITLED, ART Online, which runs from July 31–Aug 2, 2020.

Jeff Lawson, Founder of UNTITLED, ART and Mattis Curth, Founder of Artland, discussed their collaboration on UNTITLED, ART Online, the world’s first virtual reality art fair in a conversation moderated by arts writer Brian Boucher.

Visual artist Binta Oxossi Ayofemi creates urban forms inspired by black abstraction through sound, movement, and space. Her first building as artwork, COMMONS, opens in Oakland in 2020, in collaboration with renowned architect Bonnie Bridges of Studio BBA. Studio BBA transforms buildings with historic fragments into contemporary buildings.

COMMONS began with Oxossi’s strategic cuts into the building as performance, next shaped as an opening or flow between form and function in dialogue with Studio BBA. The space transforms a formerly vacant music building in downtown Oakland, into a portal for gathering, sound, and sustenance. Inspired by both Black Panthers and Black Shakers, COMMONS infuses an Afrofuturist narrative with materials gathered, honed, and milled from Oakland.

Recorded in January at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, Oxossi Ayofemi and Bonnie Bridges discussed the making of COMMONS, explored contemporary art, architecture, race, buildings, urban subjects and urban material. James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation.