Category: Observations

• Header Footer Gallery Presents: Being a POC in The Art World, Episode 3

  This past month, I had the pleasure of being in conversation with the Header / Footer Gallery curator Rene Cepeda, NMC Board member Constanza Salazar, and producer Harshini Karunaratne. It was great to be a guest alongside two incredible artists and educators. One of them was Kiley Brandt. She is a video artist and visiting […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  July 31, 2022

  Art, Art and Technology, Art Writing and Criticism, arts and technology, Culture Criticism, Curatorial Practice, Observations, Visual Arts, Writing Practice

  conversation, dialogue, digital art, header footer gallery, n-media, new media

• Logic School

  Despite the start to 2022 being rather challenging, it’s been wonderful to reflect on all of the wonderful things that gave me hope this past year. One of the projects I had the pleasure and honor of working on was the development of Logic School (LS). Alongside good friend and collaborator, writer, artist, scholar, and […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  January 13, 2022

  Art and Technology, Culture Criticism, Observations

  activism, alternative education, experimental, logic school, organizing, political, technology

• American Gun Show featured in KQED’s Fall Arts Preview 2015

  “Liberator by Cody Wilson, printed by James Morgan.” medium: 3d print ABS, 2013 (Photo courtesy of the artist.) Cherri Lakey for KQED writes, “Curators James Morgan and Dorothy Santos have put together an impressive exhibition of 22 artists from the U.S. and abroad to visually weigh in on the hot button topic of guns and […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  September 11, 2015

  Art, Culture Criticism, Curatorial Practice, Observations

  american gun show, bay area, gun culture, san jose, works gallery

• The American Gun Show

  Call to Artists: American Gun Show Open call for artwork: Few technologies have had the impact on civilization that the gun has had. With a storied history of a millennium and having been woven into American culture, it is not surprising that it is as contentious as it is empowering. Dorothy Santos and James Morgan are […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  August 11, 2015

  Art, arts and technology, Conceptual, conceptual art, Culture Criticism, Observations, Post Modernism, Sculpture, Visual Arts

  Art, bay area, curatorial statement, guns, san jose, technology

• Conceiving Place // In Coversation with Mabel Negrete at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

     When: Friday, August 7, 2015  Time: 5:00pm– 7:30pm Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Front Door Gallery As a culmination of the public programming associated with the current Room for Big Ideas project, Conceiving Place, Bay Area-based writer Dorothy Santos will be in conversation with Mabel Negrete on her work and ask questions […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  August 7, 2015

  Conceptual, Culture Criticism, Interactive / Participatory Art, Multi Media, Observations, Performance and Conceptual

  bay area, conceiving place, mabel negrete, room for big ideas, San Francisco, yerba buena center for the arts

• Silencing the Conscious: The Representation of the API Body in Ex Machina // published in Hyphen

  The plot line dictates, culturally and historically, a dominant narrative told many times in film and media. I wish it were different. With the myriad of racial, cultural, and social stories flooding the media, visibility of API bodies is still so very far behind in the mainstream culture even when it is inserted into film […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  July 10, 2015

  Art, Culture Criticism, Film, Observations

  alex garland, api, ex machina, Film, gender, hyphen