RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Chris Hamamoto and Leena Joshi Thursday, August 18th from 6-8pm PST.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81760779031
Meeting ID: 817 6077 9031
Chris Hamamoto is a designer, artist, and educator based in the Bay Area and teaching at California College of the Arts. In addition to teaching, he pursues an independent practice focused on how automation and algorithms affect communication and aesthetics – a topic he explores through graphic design, and software design and development. He has shown work, published, and lectured internationally at institutions such as Printed Matter, the Walker Art Center, Hongik University, Rutgers MGSA, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Leena Joshi is an artist, poet, and educator working across sculpture, video, performance, and text. Their work considers experiences of desire, illness, and the labor of appearance for queer, racialized, and trans people, often engaging the digital and speculative as spaces to explore a shifting, illegible, and expansive definition of personhood. Joshi’s work is curious about new forms and practices in an embrace of amateurism and play. Leena’s poetry and written work can be found in SFMoMA’s Open Space, baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. They work as the Digital Media Arts Instructor at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California.