Amelia Marzec
New American Sweatshop (detail), 2014, Repurposed paper, plastic, and electronics, 2 x 3.5 x 0.5 inches
Amelia Marzec is a Brooklyn-based artist focused on enabling activist communities through innovative uses of technology. Her work has been exhibited at Flux Factory, New York Hall of Science, MIT, SIGGRAPH, DUMBO Arts Festival, and is part of the Rhizome ArtBase. She has been awarded a residency at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and the A.I.R. Gallery Emma Bee Bernstein Fellowship. Her work has been featured in Wired, Make, Hyperallergic, Neural Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, NPR, and the front page of Reddit. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from the Parsons School of Design, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts. She has written for the Huffington Post, taught at Hunter College and Queens College, and has given talks at Barnard College and the Queens Museum of Art.
View the artist's exhibition here.