One of the most fun ways to get a peek into another person’s life is to experience their city like a local would -- with a homebase in a their space. LifeSwap takes the fun of living how a stranger does one step further. We’ve teamed up with AirBnB to give you a taste of what it’s like to step into someone else’s shoes. We can safely say that this is the best giveaway of any SXSW party around.
Day 4 is about the word on every marketer’s mouth. Everyone’s focusing on it, but it’s not a focused word. What does it mean exactly? Why does it matter? And how do we do it right? Attend small group workshops about mobile ads, mobile responsive site and mobile app development. Learn about the rapid rise of mobile browsing (and what that means to us) in our interactive globe installation. And hear from Ruth McCarthy, Founder of Mobili Media, about how to get caught up -- and then get ahead.
Reckoning with our childhood is one the most important steps in moving forward into adulthood. The peoples and places, traditions and mental spaces that define our youth engrain themselves in us, becoming our home.
A house is a physical space, but a home is an idea that can be questioned and redefined. With this in mind, the exhibition space exaggerates connotations of home that functions as a passage towards progress. From pastoral settings such as living rooms and kitchens, to scenes that mimic the natural and manmade landmarks of each artist’s motherland, artworks will be presented in a way that pays homage to the familiar.
As young artists at the beginning of their professional careers, this exhibition aims to capture that moment of “emergence” from childhood to adulthood. The works presented were created during the artist's experience as part of NYC SALT’s Emerging Artist Residency. The program functions as a launchpad for emerging artists to foster the necessary tools to kickstart their artistic careers. Through their work, participating artists will negotiate how their Latin American, African and Indian roots and early experiences will define their artistry, and in turn, themselves. The ceramics, installations, audio/visual works, and brand developments capture the vibrant, dynamic artisans that are being nourished through this program.
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NYC Salt is a nonprofit in NYC whose mission is to engage, inspire, and empower young people through the arts in developing their full potential, a sense of agency, belonging, and integrated identity through the visual arts. We achieve this through multi-year, rigorous, sequential instruction in high school and beyond taught by artists and industry professionals combined with individualized mentoring, college preparation and guidance, career exploration, employment opportunities and vocational training.NYC SALT alumni have graduated from illustrious colleges and established themselves as emerging artists in the competitive NYC creative industry.
This is the second cohort of a new emerging artist program from young artists in NYC ages 21-26. The focus of the program is for each artist to be matched with a mentor, receive instruction in creative and professional development and to produce a new body of work during the six month program.
Joel Bautista’s work explores the trauma he experienced when his friend’s large dalmatian decided to attack him. It was hard to cope with this trauma because when Bautista was a child, he owned a stuffed dalmatian which brought him comfort and security. The dalmatian dog, which he once confided in, had come back to bite him years later.
Robbie Ginsberg is a Brooklyn based graphic design and multimedia artist. Coming from a culinary background, he finds passion and inspiration from food and travel. From a young age has found comfort in doing free flowing abstract line drawings. Loves illustrating and creating sculptures of the beauty around him.
Aranxza Lopez intends to share the hidden beauty of the mundane and ordinary within her Mexican culture. Through the use of collage, image manipulation, and her background in graphic design, she exemplifies how special Mexico City is, hoping that these artworks resonate with other expats who’s home is not just one physical location but a collection of many.
Bronks often creates with the idea of blending both physical and digital platforms in his work. He pulls inspiration from his Puerto Rican culture, his upbringing in the Bronx, New York and memes.
What began as a form of escapism has become methods for the artist to explore skills outside of his photography career in an effort to achieve introspective methods to better represent himself to the world and his community of the Bronx.
Washington Heights is a neighborhood that was structurally run by gangs and with that, Dominican machismo. Making it an unsafe space for queer, fat, and gender-nonconforming Devin Osorio to growing up. They learned from a young age to hide existential parts of themselves as a means of survival, which in turn also taught them to hate themselves. Years later, Osorio has devoted their life to returning to those spaces of trauma to provide gentleness, love, and acceptance via their artwork.
Conceptually, Osorio’s work uses Washington Heights as a geographical anchor that has allowed them to find ways to materialize what it means to be human—to be themselves. Through the dissection of diasporic practices, nostalgic ceremonies, and the loudest vibes they create spaces and practices that were once inaccessible to them.
Christian Rodriguez’s practice is primarily focused on the still image; discussing themes of immigration, notions of home, and family. His bodies of work have documented perspectives and used images to construct truths from borrowed authentic moments in his life. Rodriguez’s work has been published in major publications such as the New York Times and New York Magazine. His works have also been exhibited in gallery shows such as a collection of photographs which visualized his relationship with his father were exhibited at the AAA3A gallery in collaboration with En Foco.
Deciphering cultural identity was a process that took time for Kedwien Valdez. He’s always had an idea of what it meant to be Dominican based on what he saw at home, in school, and in his neighborhood, but realized as he got older that a lot of what he viewed as Dominicanness was actually self imposed stereotyping. Revealing that he and his community lacked concrete historical knowledge of who they truly were. Leading Valdez to collect evidence of Dominican life in order to preserve the cultural diversity of the Dominican Republic.
