GAHDT’s Arts Creation Grants advance the mission, goals and diversity of the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme by engaging artists and designers across the university in the creation of new, impactful, arts-led research and creative work.

These awards aim to seed cross-disciplinary and collaborative creative responses at the intersections of arts, technology and social change. Technological advances and their broad applications have had a profound impact on almost every aspect of human culture, including the arts. Increasingly, the tools that promise liberatory innovations, democratic access, connectivity and economic growth are the same ones that may serve to exclude, marginalize and reiterate structural inequities and asymmetric power relations.

2022-23 Arts, Technology and Social Change Grant Award Winners

• LA SAPE: TRANSGRESSION OR ASSIMILATION
  PIs: Momar Ndiaye (Dance) and Kathryn Logan (Dance)
  Project description: This project focuses on the transgression of cultural norms and challenging hierarchies in the subculture “SAPE”, a popular fashion trend that was born in the Ba-Congo area in central Africa. Gathered information will be collected in a video format and will be developed into two major works: a documentary and a dance piece.
   
• MICRO-RESIDENCY PROGRAM
  PIs: Amy Youngs (Art), Kris Paulsen (History of Art), Kelly Kivland (Wexner Center for the Arts) and Tanya Berger-Wolf (TDAI)
  Project description: This program aims to extend and deepen campus and community engagement around social justice issues through the lens of artistic interventions in technology. Envisioned as a series of micro-residencies, it will bring artists and thinkers to campus for public dialogs and hands-on workshops on social justice issues.
   
• MONUMENTS OF SCIOTO VALLEY
  PIs: John Low (Comparative Studies), Justin Parscher (Architecture), Jacob Boswell (Architecture), Beth Blostein (Architecture) and Bart Overly (Architecture)
  Project description: This project aims to create a modular traveling exhibit on the Native American earthworks of centra Ohio’s Scioto Valley by using contemporary technology to build awareness and scholarship around the region’s most important historical features.