University of Toronto New Media Artist Profile Guerilla Girls Discusssion

4 pages (NOT including headers and properly

formatted bibliography)

This assignment asks you to identify and profile a new media artist whose life or work you

find particularly inspirational.

Some questions to consider:

• Who are they and what do they do?

• How has their practice developed or changed over time?

• What makes this artist a “new media” artist? What make their work “new media”?

• What are some of their projects that particularly inspire you? Why?

• How and where has their work been presented and what can you learn from this?

• Have they ever experienced any difficulties or challenges that have influenced the

development of their work?

I encourage you to think very broadly about what might constitute “new media” with

respect to this assignment. Think historically. Think globally. This will help broaden the

available pool of artists and creative practices to consider, and may help you find

inspiration in places you might not have thought of before. I also encourage you to find

and profile an artist whose work you find particularly inspiring!

To help you in your profile, please explicitly consider AT LEAST TWO of the artist’s

projects. As well, you will be required to find AT LEAST THREE scholarly articles to help

with you develop your arguments as to why the artist and their work can be properly

considered “new media”.