Kayla Anderson is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and organizer based in Chicago, IL. Using a playful approach to methods of excavation, her work engages with cultural artifacts of the past in order to propose parallel worlds. She received her BFA with dual emphasis in Film, Video, and New Media and Fiber & Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 and her BA in Visual and Critical Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 with a thesis on the intersections of object-oriented ontology and media art. She has completed artists' residencies at ACRE, WI, Elsewhere: a Living Museum, Greensboro, NC, and the Chicago Artists' Coalition. She is a 2015 Visual Arts Fellow of the Luminarts Cultural Foundation.
Her work has been exhibited in venues throughout the United States and abroad including Currents International New Media Festival, Santa Fe; West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival; Regis Center for Art at the University of Minnesota; Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography; Grey Projects, Tiong Bahru, Singapore; Nối Projects, Hanoi, Vietnam; Johalla Projects, Tritriangle, Woman Made Gallery, The Nightingale Cinema, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Her writing has been published by Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), The Royal College of Art, and MU Art Space, Eindhoven (NL), and presented at SIGGRAPH 2014, SIGGRAPH 2015, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the UCSB, and the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In 2016 she will be a participating artist and researcher at the Anthropocene Campus at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin.
In addition to her art practice, she has curated several exhibitions focusing on film, video, and new media art, including Freeze Frame: Artists Books and the Moving Image at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, and [History] Under Construction at Gallery X, Chicago, IL. She currently holds the position of Manager of Library Special Collections at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she curates exhibitions, lectures, and mentors students in the history, theory, and creation of artists’ publications. In her spare time, she organizes a monthly critique group for female media makers called Media Grrrl and co-organizes an apartment gallery called May 2000.
Her work has been exhibited in venues throughout the United States and abroad including Currents International New Media Festival, Santa Fe; West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival; Regis Center for Art at the University of Minnesota; Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography; Grey Projects, Tiong Bahru, Singapore; Nối Projects, Hanoi, Vietnam; Johalla Projects, Tritriangle, Woman Made Gallery, The Nightingale Cinema, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Her writing has been published by Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), The Royal College of Art, and MU Art Space, Eindhoven (NL), and presented at SIGGRAPH 2014, SIGGRAPH 2015, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the UCSB, and the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In 2016 she will be a participating artist and researcher at the Anthropocene Campus at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin.
In addition to her art practice, she has curated several exhibitions focusing on film, video, and new media art, including Freeze Frame: Artists Books and the Moving Image at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, and [History] Under Construction at Gallery X, Chicago, IL. She currently holds the position of Manager of Library Special Collections at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she curates exhibitions, lectures, and mentors students in the history, theory, and creation of artists’ publications. In her spare time, she organizes a monthly critique group for female media makers called Media Grrrl and co-organizes an apartment gallery called May 2000.
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