Thanks for the great article, Hackaday!
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/23/printed-circuit-bird-family-calls-for-us-to-consider-analog/
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Tokenized(Female Artist); /
Tokenized(Female Artist); // Etherium NFT available through opensea.io //Kelly Heaton, 2021
Female artists are getting their asses kicked in the race to profit from NFTs. A recent headline from Bloomberg.com states that the “NFT Art Market Boom Is Overwhelmingly Benefiting Male Creators. Female artists accounted for just 5% of all sales in last 21 months.”
OMG! People who identify as female need to get with the program and sell some electronic art. For that matter, female artists need to sell more art (of any kind) because we are slacking across the board.
I am female. I am an artist. I am taking action. I have tokenized myself so that you can add me to your digital art collection. Buy my token on opensea.io (NB: auction ends 11/30/21)
(Source for the quote and pie chart: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-09/nft-crypto-art-market-boom-biggest-sales-going-to-male-artists-women-lag)
From https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-09/nft-crypto-art-market-boom-biggest-sales-going-to-male-artists-women-lag
Hotel Indigo Chattanooga / The Making of a Pretty Bird /
Kelly Heaton, The Making of a Pretty Bird, 2019. A series of three 12" x 18” panels. Copper, gold electroplate, and silkscreen on epoxy laminate.
I am thrilled to finally share these images of my series, “The Making of a Pretty Bird,” installed in the guest rooms of the Hotel Indigo in Chattanooga, TN. (Documentation of the installed work was delayed by COVID-19). The panels are actual printed circuit boards that I wall-mounted as works of art. The sequence illustrates the process by which I designed my birdsong-generating piece “Pretty Bird,” (2019) from engineering schematic to the etched copper to the final layered artifact. Some of the above images were taken at the factory in Shenzhen, China and document stages of the unorthodox method by which the art was produced. I created 121 of these series for the Hotel Indigo Chattanooga, and the series is open-ended for additional works on demand. (Please inquire)
Art&&Code /
Please join me Friday 1/15 at 6pm for a tour of my studio as part of “Art and Code: homemade.” This free online event is hosted by The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. To register, visit: http://artandcode.com/homemade/register/
Hackaday Remoticon /
Join us November 7th at 2pm EST for the Circuit Sculpture workshop, part of Hackaday’s Remoticon. I’ll be co-presenting Mohit Bhoite and Jiri Praus.
https://hackaday.io/project/175173-remoticon-circuit-sculpture-workshop
Deepfake Birdsong at InterAccess /
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/deep-fake-birdsong-artist-talk-tickets-120040575593
freedom of speech /
Collect and support freedom of speech! I’ve donated a work from my limited edition “Mother Board” to the National Coalition Against Censorship. To preview and bid, visit http://vugalleries.com/product/kelly-heaton/
Top row: photos of the donated work, “Mother Board (Study 1/2),” 2020.
Bottom row: documentation of my stenciling process
Mother Board makes the irreverent claim that high-tech society has overwritten the Madonna icon, formerly possessed with a sanctimonious authority beyond reproach. In this work on canvas, a digital reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Madonna Litta” (c.1500) is partially obscured by circuit traces rendered in thick acrylic paint. A previously untouchable archetype, the Eurocentric Mother and Child has succumbed to electronic culture, anticolonialism, gender fluidity, and bioengineering.
Broward College STEAM Lecture /
This Wednesday, I’m speaking to Broward College about my career-long journey in art and science. Join us for free on Zoom (or watch the recorded lecture on YouTube - l’ll post the link when it’s ready). My live lecture starts at 11am (Wednesday, 10/14) and Zoom meeting ID is: 951 8628 4540.