THE ALTERNATIVE ART SCHOOL
Fathomers is proud to support an artist scholarship for the inaugural class of the Alternative Art School.
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MEET: QIANZE ZHANG
Fathomers has a new intern as part of the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship Program.
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DARK MATTER CYPHER
As part of Sage Ni’Ja Whitson’s project The Unarrival Experiments, the Dark Matter Cyphers bring together a range of artists, scholars, musicians, and scientists to experiment wildly in and about the dark.
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SCIENCE SPEED DATING: THE VIDEO!
Recapping an event to promote more accurate science representation in film and TV projects — and greater Black representation among scientists.
COVID-19 RESPONSE
Fathomers has gathered the following selection of existing online resources for artists, philanthropists, and professionals working across creative disciplines.
SCIENCE SPEED DATING
A night of exploration dedicated to bringing the research of individuals underrepresented in the sciences to the forefront.
ALL THAT LIES OUT OF SIGHT
Join Fathomers’ curator-at-large David Kim for an illuminating conversation with Michael Jones McKean featured in the fall 2019 issue of Art Papers.
THE FALL
Michael Jones McKean’s latest work includes a vitrine developed with Twelve Earths collaborator John Vandenbrooks as a prototype of McKean’s Atmosphere.
LEIMERT PARK PLAY-TEST
Documentation from an Afro-Rithms gathering at the Black Speculative Arts Movement festival in September 2019.
SPIRIT MOLECULE REPORT
Exhibition documentation from MSU Broad.
BUY THIS PRINT!
Announcing the first Twelve Earths edition: “Twelve Urns and Circles,” by Michael Jones McKean.
WORLD-BUILDING, AT NEUEHOUSE
An event with the creators of the Afrofuturist Podcast to play-test a new game for radical imagining, whose goal is to co-speculate in visions of equitable futures.
MSU BROAD COLLAB
Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Phillip Andrew Lewis enter the next phase of their project to imagine a future of bio-technologized mourning.
VANDENBROOKS’ LAB
Paleophysiologist and Twelve Earths collaborator John VandenBrooks offers a tour of his research lab, in Glendale, Ariz.
NEA GRANT
The National Endowment for the Arts approves an Art Works grant to Fathomers for the development of Atmosphere, an installation at one of twelve sites in Michael Jones McKean’s Twelve Earths.
ART & PERMISSION
In conjunction with Frieze Week at NeueHouse, Fathomers presents a film screening of The Proposal and a conversation with artists Jill Magid and Jill Soloway.
DEAR DONOR
Fathomers screens artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s short film T3511 (2018), a “post-genomic love story” that follows a biohacker’s increasingly obsessive interactions with an anonymous saliva donor.
OPEN SIGNAL
A group of artists, poets, designers, consultants, and scholars come together to begin thinking about a global communication system of beacons linking Twelve Earths’ twelve sites.