Hi everyone, I'm Stephanie. I'm born in Australia and grew up in Singapore. For undergrad, I entered Brown pursuing a bachelors in International Relations, with a concentration on race and identity. I soon added another major, Studio Art, for as long I can remember, I have always loved making and creating art. Art, to me, is a limitless platform of self expression and social commentary. My primary interest is using commonplace materials to create something beautiful, and thus of 'value'. My senior honors thesis was an installation project where I hand drew with pencils, pens, and markers the same mark (of a heart) over and over again on printer and tracing paper. All these materials were purposefully inexpensive, and my idea is that after it was installed into a singular white gallery room, the end product was a comfortable, zen environment. An environment so leisurely and luxurious that it forces us to acknowledge our privilege-asking ourselves to explore the arbitrary values we place on consumer goods.
Throughout college, I always knew I wanted to work in the art world, I had done internships at the Whitney, Christie's, and the Venice Biennale. Reality was that I needed a full time, paying job and I started working as the gallery assistant in an UES antiques gallery. Over the past four years, I moved to a sales role, while still trying to create art in my free time. Truthfully, my time in the commercial art world was all consuming, and I began to question my love for 'the arts'. My mother has been running a kindergarten for the past 25 years, and I've always worked for her during summers. Thus, I'm looking forward to merging my interest in art with education!
With regards to technology and art, I confess that I have little background knowledge. My personal educational experience was very traditional, I think this was very much a conscience of my instructors at the time. From K-12, instructors by definition are always older in age than their students. Kids these days are exposed to technology from a young age, and thus are probably more technology apt that their older counterparts, their teachers. I think an important point that was raised in the first class is that the only barriers of entry to 'technology' are self imposed, and that it is all about one's personal mindset. Teachers have the power to modernize and learn about this expansive, constantly evolving space of new media and technologies. I'm eager to learn about new techniques, new machines, and new interdisciplinary ideas in this course.
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