https://artisticinquiry.org CAIR Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:24:08 +0000 https://artisticinquiry.org en https://artisticinquiry.org/Home Mon, 21 Nov 2022 01:47:27 +0000 CAIR https://artisticinquiry.org/Home We work with artists, designers, reporters, and editors to produce investigations that push the boundaries of traditional journalism and storytelling. https://artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Letter Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:24:08 +0000 CAIR https://artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Letter  Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter Published May 2, 2023 ︎Add your signature Since the earliest days of print journalism, illustration has been used to elucidate and add perspective to stories. Even with the advent of photography in the 19th century, hand-drawn illustrations continued to have their place, both as a synthesis of the artist’s vision and the writer’s meaning. The illustrator’s art still speaks to something not just intimately connected to the news, but intrinsically human about story itself. With the advent of generative-image AI technology, that unique interpretive and narrative confluence of art and text, of human writer and human illustrator, is at risk of extinction. Based on text prompts, these generative tools can churn out polished, detailed simulacra of what previously would have been illustrations drawn by the human hand. They do so for a few pennies or for free, and they are faster than any human can ever be. Because no human illustrator can work quickly enough or cheaply enough to compete with these robot replacements, we know that if this technology is left unchecked, it will radically reshape the field of journalism. The result will be that only a tiny elite of artists can remain in business, their work selling as a kind of luxury status symbol.&nbsp; AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. Perpetrated by respectable-seeming corporate entities backed by Silicon Valley venture capital. It’s daylight robbery. If you think this sounds alarmist, consider that&nbsp; AI-generated work has already been used for book covers and as editorial illustration, displacing illustrators from their livelihood. As a result artists and illustrators have already started suing certain creators of AI art generators for copyright infringement. Why, beyond the immediate effect on individual artists, does this matter? AI purports to have the capability to create art, but it will never be able to do so satisfactorily because its algorithms can only create variations of art that already exists. It creates only ersatz versions of illustrations having no actual insight, wit, or originality. Generative AI art is vampirical, feasting on past generations of artwork even as it sucks the lifeblood from living artists. Over time, this will impoverish our visual culture. Consumers will be trained to accept this art-looking art, but the ingenuity, the personal vision, the individual sensibility, the humanity will be missing. This is also an economic choice for society. While illustrators’ careers are set to be decimated by generative-AI art, the companies developing the technology are making fortunes. Silicon Valley is betting against the wages of living, breathing artists through its investment in AI. Generative-art AI is just beginning. If illustrators want to stay illustrators, the time to fight is now. Molly Crabapple and the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting call on artists, publishers, journalists, editors, and journalism union leaders to take a pledge for human values against the use of generative-AI images to replace human-made art. Media publishing takes intellectual property rights very seriously. Its business would not exist without upholding the laws and values that protect such rights. If newsrooms aim to resist corporate theft, they must commit to supporting editorial art made by people, not server farms. &nbsp; *To sign the open letter please use the form below. Be sure to scroll down within the box to fill out all of the fields and submit.&nbsp; Loading… Signatories ListV (Formerly Eve Ensler), WriterNaomi Klein, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada Chris Hayes, Journalist, USA Nermeen Shaikh, Co-Host, Democracy Now! John Cusack, ActorMike Duncan, Author/Podcaster Jake Hanrahan, Reporter, Popular FrontMaaza Mengiste, Writer Rula Jebreal, Journalist, Author and Visiting Professor, University of MiamiRaghu Karnad, Editor, The Wire, IndiaSpencer Ackerman, Columnist, The Nation, United StatesLizzy Ratner, Senior Editor, The Nation Magazine, USASarah Leonard, Editor-in-Chief, Lux Magazine, USA Noah McCormack, Publisher, The BafflerMatt Huynh, Artist &amp; Film Producer, CabramattaMarco Werman, Journalist, WGBH Lighthouse Reports Ari Bloomekatz, Executive Editor, In These Times Rana Ayyub, Journalist, IndiaJessica Bruder, Writer Sophie Fiennes, Film DirectorMary Cuddehe,&nbsp;Knight Wallace Fellow,&nbsp;Knight Wallace Center for Journalists, USALaszlo Jakab Orsos, VP of Arts and Culture, Brooklyn Public LibraryKhalid Albaih, Political CartoonistMolly Crabapple, Artist and JournalistMarisa Mazria Katz, Journalist and Executive Director, CAIR Jake Charles Rees, Executive Producer, CAIRSimon Ostrovsky, Journalist, USA Ben Taub, Writer Lucy Jakub, Online Editor, The New York Review of Books, USA David Weigel, Reporter, Semafor, USADouglas Rushkoff, Professor of Media Studies,&nbsp;Queens College, City University of New YorkFlynn Murray, Publisher, Lux MagazineSerena Danna, Deputy Editor, Journalist, ItalyGanzeer جنزير, ArtistRasha Al Aqeedi, Middle East Deputy Editor, New Lines Mag, USA Eli Valley, Artist/Writer Omar Robert Hamilton, WriterJames Bridle, Writer and Artist, GreeceMike Giglio Josh Marshall, Founder/Owner/Editor-in-Chief, TPM Media, USAKareem Chehayeb, Reporter, Associated Press, LebanonNatasha Lennard, Associate Director, The New School, USALaura Raicovich, Editor, writer, curator, USAJonathan M. Katz, Author, Journalist, USAMurtaza Hussain, The InterceptAida Alami, Reporter, MoroccoRozina AliMay Jeong, Journalist Lucy Lippard, freelance writerTansy Hoskins, Author and Journalist, UK Eric Gottesman, Artist and Co-founder, For Freedoms Kyle Webster, Artist and AuthorGrace Lavery, Writer and Academic, USA Karl Wenclas, Editor, New Pop Lit Ifeoma Ajunwa, Law Professor,&nbsp;UNC School of Law, AI-DR program &nbsp; Patrick Hilsman, Journalist/Researcher Rachel Dooley, Creative Director, In These Times Elizabeth Scheltens, Senior Producer, VoxMiriam Elder, Writer/EditorLeela Corman, Painter, cartoonist, graphic novel creator, Rhode Island School of Design; Sequential Artists Workshop Jaleen Grove, Associate Professor, Rhode Island School of Design Christopher Shay, Editor, The Nation Karen Green,&nbsp;Curator for Comics and Cartoons, Columbia University Ben Applegate, Director of Publishing Services, Penguin Random House Publisher Services Steve Cup, IllustratorTom Garcia, Comic Book Artist and Illustrator,&nbsp;Comiconart.com Sarah Lopez, Worker-Owner, Radix MediaAmy Rose Spiegel Jaya Saxena, Correspondent, Eater/Vox Media Aja Romano, Culture Writer, Vox Sarah Jaffe, Journalist, USA John Leavitt, Illustrator David Scanavino, Artist, USATim Lowery, CartoonistCarolyn Raship, IllustratorPeter Rostovsky, Artist/Part Time Assistant Professor, The New SchoolTerrell &nbsp;Starr, Founder, Black Diplomats, USA Eleanor Saitta, Security Consultant, FinlandC. Spike Trotman, Owner/Founder Iron Circus ComicsRobin van Lierop, 3D artistDaniel Söler de la Prada, Voice Artist / Voice Pedagogue / Musician / Investigator,&nbsp;Professor, Universidad de los Andes / President, OVUTim Seeley, Creator, Hack/Slash IncEmily Gaskill, Artist, Specialist Housewares Jake Price, Filmmaker, photographer, educatorEsteban Balzano Elmer, Cartoonist Tai MaPedro FerreiraWilfred Hildonen, Editorial cartoonist, illustrator, artist, Freelance, SwedenLuc Vernimmen, Freelance Illustrator, BelgiumJeremy Wyatt, Designer, United KingdomGuido Kühn, Professor of 2D Art and Animation, University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, GermanyJessica StoyaSteven Stahlberg, Senior Artist, Sweden Tom Speelman, Writer/Editor, USADaniel Hertzberg, Illustrator, USAIdar Bøyum, NorwayBrett Castle, USAYuetao Hou, PhD Candidate, Cornell University, USAMiguel &nbsp;Almeida, Brasil Sue RissbergerErin Middendorf, Game Artist Zoe Hansen, Illustrator, USA Eric Rodriguez, Illustrator/ Art Director, USARachel Meinerding, Co-Founder, Concept Art Association, USANoah Salibi, Wildlife Biologist, Equestrian, University of Guelph, CanadaTom Randal, Graphic Design student, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USARemmelt Ellen, Program Coordinator, AI Safety Camp,&nbsp;NetherlandsKathryn Wingate, Artist, USAAnne Temmink, Artist, USA Langa Nxele, Graphic design trainnee, South AfricaLaura Wilson, Freelance Illustrator, USA Loryn Harrison, USAIan Factor, Founder, Director and Lead Instructor of Factor Fine Art / Bend Academy of ArtJess Walters, Artist, USA Jonathan Krohn, Essayist and Journalist, MexicoDerek Beecham, Production Designer &amp; Photographer, USAVadim Spiridonov, 3D ArtistDavid Silva, Concept Artist, Cubo, BrasilIsmael Jiménez, Illustrator, SpainMarlene Huntte, Senior Fashion Consultant, Versace, CanadaAngela Samuel, Lawyer and Realtor, Columbia University/Columbia Law School, USAFethennour Ali, Student Artist, FranceKseniya Filippova, Illustrator, Manga artist, Russian FederationTim O’Brien, Illustrator/Educator, USARobby Garner, CEO, Institute of Mimetic Sciences, Inc., USASpiridon Giannakis, Designer/Publisher, GermanyKatie RhodyÁlvaro Cordeiro, Digital Artist, PortugalNigell Isley, Freelance Artist, USAAnoushka MohindraXanat MezaEva Toorenent, Illustrator and Artist, NetherlandsAlexandra Avram, Game Art student, Romania Mihaela Voicu, Artist, Freelance, RomaniaCatherine Lazo, Game Art Student, USASylvester Lazarus, Art Student, HungaryChristina Barton, Game Artist and Illustrator, Sweden and USABenita Amadea, Freelancer, IndonesiaGreen Linzerd, Freelance Illustrator, EnglandMada R, Artist, PortugalAbhishikta Dutta, Freelance Illustrator, IndiaLebrandon TuckerOxy Tail, Freelance Artist José De la Vega, Artist, MéxicoRick Gned, Social services and aspiring author, AustraliaMarge Nelk, Artist, EstoniaErika Zarate, Concept artist, MexicoA Giroux, Art Director / Senior Illustrator, CanadaNicole Salamone, Teller, United StatesSonja Conayne, Freelance Animator, Diurnal Studios, New ZealandDavid Poe, Songwriter, USARyan Fletcher, PR Director / Director, Dr. Bronner's / Movement Media, USA T Carter, Illustrator, United KingdomCarlos Herrera, Graphic Designer, MéxicoAnna Gordon, United StatesJon Lee, CanadaSteven Zapta, Illustrator, USASamuel Griffin, Novelist, United KingdomClaudia Patricia Valenzuela Aceves, Designer and Illustrator, MexicoMar Mai, Artist, writer, USAPavni Mittal, Journalist, Freelance, USA/IndiaMkey Krasser, Graphic Design Student, HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule Bautechnik, Kunst &amp; Design, AustraliaMarie Vaugondy, writer and artist, FranceChris Alford, Materials Management Officer, NHS, United KingdomDaniel Norberto, Independent artist, Fine Arts student, Faculdade de Belas Artes - Universidade do Porto, PortugalGabriel CAMPAGNOLO, Illustrator, FranceAnne Jørgensen, Multimedia designer, DenmarkJudah Samuel, Pilot, Photographer, Qatar Airways/Air Canada, CanadaDominic Vallente, PHD Candidate at York University, Musician, York University, CanadaPablo Pérez, Graphic Designer &amp; Aspirational Illustrator, MéxicoFilipe Ferreira, 2D/3D ArtistPierre Couillaud, Biology Masters, Freelance translator, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, FranceKasai IzzardPaul Strang, Software Developer Student, GermanyAlex Martinez, Illustrator, USAGigi White, 3D Digital Artist / Costume Design, The Row House 3D, United KingdomLuca TuminskiJames Silverberg, CEO, American Society for Collective Rights Licensing, USAParis Wood, Electrical wirer, USAJames Smith, Graphic designer/illustratorJake Zetter, Concept ArtistPaolo Magtira, Illustrator, PhilippinesKevin PICQUART, Illustrator - Graphic Designer, Freelancer, FranceMarquis Petty, Freelance Character Designer, USADaniel Cubillo, Voice OverKatherine Trent, USAVanessa Veselka, Writer, USALuis Santiago, Collage Artist, USAMyo Pyae SoneAbigail Lis-PerlisAnnelies Vermeulen, USARuth Anne Burke, Illustrator and graphic designer, USALinda Mäki-Sulkava, FinlandDariusz Smolinski, Business Intelligence Specialist, PolandPanagiotis Anastasiou, Freelance Concept Designer, Fullstack Web Developer, GreecePeter Money, Poet, Novelist, Author, Actor, Painter, Musician, Playwright, Actors Equity Association, Los Lorcas, Graywolf Press, Harbor Mountain Press, Indie, Oberlin, Brooklyn College Elena Grossman, Independent artist, USADanie Drankwalter, Illustrator, USAKim Boekbinder, Director/Producer, Sharp As Knives, USAEmily Neyhard, Freelance Artist, USASally Szwed, Arts Organizer, USAAtilio Gambedotti, Illustrator, Comic artist, EspañaCecilia La Rosa, Illustrator, ArgentinaAli Qushair, 3D Artist, AustraliaF T, PhilosopherJessica Thornton, Illustrator/Artist, USAAndrew &nbsp;Morales, Auto mechanic, USAChris Russell, Freelance Illustrator, USAVinayak Varma, Illustrator / Writer, IndiaJason Seiler, Illustrator, USAMichael &nbsp;Butler, Design Director, USAJulián Medina, Filmmaker/Artist, Arte es Ética/UTADEO, ColombiaEsther Sitver, Illustrator, USANatchapol Mugtiya, Freelance Artist, ThailandCassandra Mullins, Author, USADiflatte Art, Student, freelance illustrator, FranceSantiago CARUSO, Illustrator, Arte es Ética, ArgentinaAlistair Zeelie, Student, South AfricaRicardo Sosa, Writer, MexicoAlberto Gonzalez, UX developer and Illustrator, Costa RicaAlexander Chee, Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College, USAJonathan Guyer, Writer, USABonnie Katz, PsychotherapistGoth Ross, Artist &amp; DesignerAdam Korengold, Analytics Lead/Part-time Faculty, National Institutes of Health/Maryland Institute College of Art, USABenjamin Aleshire, Editorial Assistant, USADaniel Casanova, Dubbing Actor, SpainPaco Nieto García, Locución, SpainJon Bishop, Illustrator/owner, ScotlandBenjamin Harbakk, Software Developer, NorwaySimona Blat, Founding Editor, The Brazenhead Review, USAAlex Hernández, Fine arts student, SpainJean-Paul Bondy, Product Design Director, USAJohn JohnstonDrew LewisLari Burgos, Artist, Writer, FranceMaciej Janik, Freelane Illustrator, LuksemburgAndy Barnham, Photographer, United KingdomHari Balakrishnan, Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, MIT, USAAnn Jaeger, Artist, CanadaJeremias Bulanadi, Software Engineer, PhilippinesSarah Samuel, Journalist, Freelance, CanadaNguyen Phong Hoang, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, USACharles Hubbard JrJohn Lee, Illustrator, USAGrant Goodwine, Illustrator, USAJonathan GrayMegan Lister, Freelance Artist, USAPrakhar Gupta, Senior Researcher, University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandGordan Strmac, GermanyNeil Turkewitz, President, Turkewitz Consulting Group, USAThanassis Cambanis, Director, Century International, USAYukimi Strasil, Freelance Illustrator, USACouji Giannie, Editor in Chief, Ubikwist magazine, USAJohn Tomac, Illustrator, USAChristine Cavallomagno, Agent, USARyan Brondolo, Illustrator, USAAiman Julkree, Artist, MalaysiaLee Rose, Artist, AmericaSteven Thrasher, Daniel Renberg Chair in Social Justice Reporting, Northwestern University, Medill School, USABen Zhao, Neubauer Professor of Computer Science, University of ChicagoJose Tomás Agudo Rodríguez, Dubbing Actor, SpainMicheline Ryckman, Artist, Author, Publisher, Whimsical Publishing and Illustration Pedro Caban, Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies, University at Albany, USABeatriz PeñasVíctor González Fraile, Voice Actor, Spain Fahd Bahady, CartoonistNatalie Anaya Luna, Artist, Puerto Rico Meesha Goldberg, Artist, USAAdriana Garcia, Designer/ IllustratorEmanuele Del Rosso, Freelance cartoonist, Cartoon Movement, NetherlandsJanice Cable, Writer, USARuth Michaelson, Reporter, United KingdomEsme Wang, Writer, USABen Batchelder Peter Money, Poet, Novelist, Author, Actor, Painter, Musician, Playwright, Actors Equity Association, Los Lorcas, Graywolf Press, Harbor Mountain Press, Indie, Oberlin, Brooklyn College, USACourtney Cheshire, Graphic and Motion DesignerOlga Supinska, Concept Artist, PolandNicole Katz, Director, USAHannah Rogge, Graphic Designer, USAJeremy Bauer, Content Designer, USAAna Palencia, MexicoClaire GrahamJantien Schoenmaker, IrelandJose Tomás Agudo Rodríguez, Dubbing Actor, SpainDaniel Söler de la Prada, Voice Artist / Voice Pedagogue / Musician / Investigator, Professor, Universidad de los Andes / President, OVU, Colombia Ben Taub, Writer Omar Robert Hamilton, WriterPaco Nieto García, Voiceover, SpainDaniel Casanova, Dubbing Actor, SpainTom Garcia, Comic Book Artist and Illustrator, BrasilGanzeer, ArtistDrew Lewis, USAJake Price, Filmmaker, Photographer, Educator, USANoah McCormack, Publisher, The Baffler, USAFlynn Murray, Publisher, Lux Magazine, USAJessica Bruder, Writer, USATim Lowery, Cartoonist, USAAnastasia D, Illustrator, Artist, GermanyJustin Brown, Engineer, USAMitchell Smith, USASunnie Rose, Illustrator, USA Vanessa Rasanen, &nbsp;Author, USASreoshi Sinha, Illustrator, India Leela Corman, Painter, Cartoonist, Graphic Novel Creator, Rhode Island School of Design; Sequential Artists Workshop, USA Laszlo Jakab Orsos, VP of Arts and Culture, USA Emily Gaskill, Artist, Housewares Specialist, USASophie Crumb, Artist, FranceLiara Roux, Author, Document Journal, FranceRoberto Lovato, Author, Unforgetting, Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USAYu-Ming Huang, Illustrator, Taiwan, R.O.C. Asad Dandia, NYC-based Community Organizer, USARichard Pace, Artist/writer, Canada Chris Anderson, Illustrator, USA Steve Ellis, Illustrator, USAJamal Igle, Writer/Illustrator, USA Fred Harper, Artist Clayton Cubitt, Photographer, USA Rafael Shimunov, Creative, Activist, Communications Director, The Athena Coalition, USA Alina Spatz, Graphic Designer/Artist, Rhode Island School of Design Joe Matunis, Director, Los Muralistas de El Puente, El Puente de WilliMsburg, USA Rafael Monterrosa, USA Nicola Black, Designer Tyler Hefferon, Bookkeeper Taslim van Hattum, Illustrator, USA Noah Meihoff, Illustrator, USAJean Cooney Alex Dimitropoulos, Technical Writer, USA Click to View Full List https://artisticinquiry.org/Work Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:13:01 +0000 CAIR https://artisticinquiry.org/Work C Index of our Work CODA We collaborated with CODA Story on several stories during our Future of Journalism course and Collaborative Study Project at the Rhode Island School of Design. CODA︎︎︎ <img width="1324" height="750" width_o="1324" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1fcb82b7ff8a076e6705afca0d9c4d2b73aa940d1a3746e80501399024e0220/Screenshot-2025-02-28-at-11.13.33AM.png" data-mid="227393814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1fcb82b7ff8a076e6705afca0d9c4d2b73aa940d1a3746e80501399024e0220/Screenshot-2025-02-28-at-11.13.33AM.png" /> Debates in AI We organized a two-day conference at the Rhode Island School of Design focusing on the impact artificial intelligence will have on art. You can watch or listen to all the talks from the event. Apple︎︎︎ Spotify︎︎︎ YouTube︎︎︎ <img width="1376" height="1366" width_o="1376" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/231d40ed1d5279750808114514c0b595f944d8064cf689fc9d84bfcde95adae5/Screenshot-2024-10-18-at-11.53.36AM.png" data-mid="219966625" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/231d40ed1d5279750808114514c0b595f944d8064cf689fc9d84bfcde95adae5/Screenshot-2024-10-18-at-11.53.36AM.png" /> Pretty Vacant Podcast On the heels of our Open Letter calling for the restriction of generative-image AI technologies from newsrooms and across publishing we have produced a two-part limited podcast series presented by the artist Molly Crabapple. The series focuses on how AI is already impacting the world of work and considers its further impact on society, providing listeners with perspectives on the destabilization these technologies will have.&nbsp; Apple︎︎︎&nbsp; Spotify︎︎︎&nbsp; <img width="8689" height="4867" width_o="8689" height_o="4867" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3bf454e93ca00a9d28261c7bf41fde2c00ceee4f1cff7be77f0a93550d01ecf/pvback-22.gif" data-mid="192824233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3bf454e93ca00a9d28261c7bf41fde2c00ceee4f1cff7be77f0a93550d01ecf/pvback-22.gif" /> AI Illustration Open Letter Alongside artist Molly Crabapple we penned an open letter calling for editors, newsrooms and art directors to restrict the use of AI image generators across publishing.&nbsp; Open Letter︎︎︎&nbsp; The Guardian︎︎︎&nbsp; The Los Angeles Times︎︎︎ <img width="2970" height="1442" width_o="2970" height_o="1442" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c31a907d51c53867090d67cd6848c67659a4360140d7221fe9aec193e66957c3/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-23.52.31.png" data-mid="180606888" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c31a907d51c53867090d67cd6848c67659a4360140d7221fe9aec193e66957c3/Screenshot-2023-05-31-at-23.52.31.png" /> Inside the Suspicion Machine We supported a groundbreaking multi-story investigation into welfare surveillance and algorithmic bias in the Netherlands. We connected a Lighthouse Reports investigation in collaboration with WIRED and several other publications in the Netherlands to the artist Sam Lavigne. Lighthouse Reports︎︎︎&nbsp; WIRED︎︎︎&nbsp; Sam Lavigne︎︎︎ <img width="2910" height="1692" width_o="2910" height_o="1692" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45298192de0db1a373aca6791a44299b2a8f1e5ec4aee70cb278a766b561b99b/Screenshot-2023-03-31-at-13.26.06.png" data-mid="173794416" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45298192de0db1a373aca6791a44299b2a8f1e5ec4aee70cb278a766b561b99b/Screenshot-2023-03-31-at-13.26.06.png" /> Investigating Climate Change A semester long cross-course collaborative unit for students from five different MA courses at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. This project is a collaboration with Supra Systems Studio, Investigate Europe and the Centre for Investigative Journalism to help students produce their own investigative artworks.&nbsp; London College of Communication︎︎︎ <img width="1478" height="830" width_o="1478" height_o="830" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/798f1b4755e5af08f9cb3c9f265ca2f48e61868715dfad9b7aafa96660140337/Screenshot-2023-01-11-at-09.55.57.png" data-mid="165436506" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/798f1b4755e5af08f9cb3c9f265ca2f48e61868715dfad9b7aafa96660140337/Screenshot-2023-01-11-at-09.55.57.png" /> The Nation A visual timeline that tracks the destruction of Russia’s independent media under Putin. This work, made by the artist Alina Spatz, was developed during the RISD course “Artists Report” in Spring 2022 and the first work to be supported by the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting. The Nation ︎︎︎ <img width="3062" height="1512" width_o="3062" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b7fd087e90bd3c7bc485643ea6f79324d11fa0bb1badbf979cc89fe7058f7fb/Screenshot-2022-12-07-at-22.04.04.png" data-mid="161318354" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b7fd087e90bd3c7bc485643ea6f79324d11fa0bb1badbf979cc89fe7058f7fb/Screenshot-2022-12-07-at-22.04.04.png" /> Center for the Future of Journalism With the team at Eyebeam, Marisa helped devise and launch the Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ), a program that supports artists publishing works in major news outlets. Eyebeam︎︎︎ <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76063e48f94437b7de477c86fdccea36927989b5b6052485ead94038fa75bab6/eyebeam.jpeg" data-mid="160977684" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76063e48f94437b7de477c86fdccea36927989b5b6052485ead94038fa75bab6/eyebeam.jpeg" /> Creative Time Reports Creative Time Reports was an ambitious publishing division of the non-profit public art organization Creative Time. Marisa was founding editor of the five-year-long program, which published artists’ voices on current events, often in partnership with news organizations like The Guardian, The Intercept, Foreign Policy and many more. Creative Time︎︎︎ <img width="1024" height="682" width_o="1024" height_o="682" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/977ffe50496ee78e7b607b8cf91904427bf3e0fd922c3889f6e0f774edf2813e/NGA-photo-by-Trevor-Paglen-1024x682.jpg" data-mid="161495282" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/977ffe50496ee78e7b607b8cf91904427bf3e0fd922c3889f6e0f774edf2813e/NGA-photo-by-Trevor-Paglen-1024x682.jpg" /> Artists on the News&nbsp; Artists on the News is an experimental new course designed by Marisa and Jake to teach artists, designers and new media students the tools and tactics of an investigative artistic practice. RISD︎︎︎ <img width="1000" height="535" width_o="1000" height_o="535" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c763738ad73c89ea49002ada096342bae6a9a77a021394aa2ed518fb6d433dda/Screenshot-2022-08-01-at-22.08.02.png" data-mid="160656212" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c763738ad73c89ea49002ada096342bae6a9a77a021394aa2ed518fb6d433dda/Screenshot-2022-08-01-at-22.08.02.png" /> Artistic Investigations Database Jake created the Artistic Investigations Database as&nbsp;an attempt to start mapping out the people, projects and institutions at the forefront of creative and experimental investigations that combine practices, tools and methods from across journalism and the arts. CIJ Open Lab︎︎︎ <img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31f44481340c0ea369ce56e3b3b0a3a707ed2f897ed92a966adc14dabd486908/RISD-1.033.jpeg" data-mid="160979968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31f44481340c0ea369ce56e3b3b0a3a707ed2f897ed92a966adc14dabd486908/RISD-1.033.jpeg" /> https://artisticinquiry.org/Who Mon, 21 Nov 2022 02:12:10 +0000 CAIR https://artisticinquiry.org/Who ︎︎︎ Jump to Advisory Board <img width="1037" height="1037" width_o="1037" height_o="1037" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30730a26a59d034902f46068a800a2471a5b5f9050f724891f4d496e7d2cdbaa/marisa-edited.jpg" data-mid="159973858" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30730a26a59d034902f46068a800a2471a5b5f9050f724891f4d496e7d2cdbaa/marisa-edited.jpg" />Marisa Mazria Katz Co-Founder, Executive DirectorMarisa Mazria Katz is a journalist/editor of Syrian descent. She has contributed to numerous publications, including the The New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Vogue, NPR, Marketplace, Time and The New York Review of Books. She has been awarded major grants for her editorial work from the Keith Haring Foundation, the Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2009 she received funding from the US State Department for a four-year program that taught journalism to teenagers from a marginalized community in Casablanca, Morocco. In 2018 Mazria Katz served as one of the first Kickstarter Fellows, and later that year she founded the Craig Newmark Philanthropies–funded program the Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism. The program—whose central mission is to place writing by artists in major media publications like The New Yorker, The Guardian, Wired and The Atlantic—has supported works that have gone on to win a Pulitzer Prize, Emmy, New York Press Club award, and a SXSW Film Festival 2021 Special Jury Recognition for Immersive Journalism. Mazria Katz was the founding editor of Creative Time Reports. The program’s key goal was to publish artists’ unflinching perspectives on the most challenging issues of our times. With Creative Time Reports, artists were correspondents and brought their own unique spin to current events. Under her tenure, the website co-published Creative Time Reports content with The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, Slate, Salon, The Intercept and many more. In 2019 with Paper Chase Press, she published Artists on the News, a selection of work from Creative Time Reports. E <img width="1037" height="1037" width_o="1037" height_o="1037" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14fa097f3e30ef084072cfa61d30e449d7f013761502a8125ec99e98f062381e/jake-edited.jpg" data-mid="159980005" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14fa097f3e30ef084072cfa61d30e449d7f013761502a8125ec99e98f062381e/jake-edited.jpg" />Jake Charles Rees Co-Founder, Executive ProducerJake Charles Rees is a curator, producer and programme manager for The Centre for Investigative Journalism in London, UK. He has worked with artists, journalists, documentary film-makers and creative technologists to produce artworks, events and publications about journalism and the emerging field of artistic investigative reporting. For the CIJ he produces the biannual Logan Symposium, Closed Circuit webTV series, Logan Talks public lecture programme, and is currently focusing on leading the CIJ’s Source Protection Programme, an ongoing collaboration with The Freedom of the Press Foundation. Jake lectures on subjects including curating, open source intelligence and information security at a variety of universities including: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). Jake has also worked as an Associate Curator for Somerset House Studios where he ran a recurring event series called DEFRAG about the intersection of art, technology and society. He also worked as a Futures Researcher and Curator for the art &amp; design studio Superflux where he worked with the United Nations Development Programme, Red Cross &amp; Red Crescent Societies, the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, Mozilla Foundation, Vienna Biennale and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB).F Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting Advisory Board <img width="882" height="882" width_o="882" height_o="882" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0bd719512316502621a783d86772ec6c662edeeb0e8d397bcd5aafffe96e74a/Headshot-Disney-Era.jpeg" data-mid="167983462" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/882/i/f0bd719512316502621a783d86772ec6c662edeeb0e8d397bcd5aafffe96e74a/Headshot-Disney-Era.jpeg" /> Kaizar CampwalaKaizar Campwala is the co-founder of Slow Talk, a technology platform that aims to improve discourse and create connection through rich, guided, small-group conversation. He was previously Vice President, Business Operations at the Walt Disney Company, where he led Disney’s streaming news initiatives. He joined Disney from Al Jazeera, where he led their entry into podcasting as Entrepreneur in Residence. Kaizar serves on the board of Internews, and lives in New York City. <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b5b673b7d3725421c560d4d2fe49037a14510ac7a7b2a9a912d6d4bc208f824/Jenna-Corderoy-1-300x212.jpeg" data-mid="167983451" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/3b5b673b7d3725421c560d4d2fe49037a14510ac7a7b2a9a912d6d4bc208f824/Jenna-Corderoy-1-300x212.jpeg" /> Jenna Corderoy Jenna Corderoy is a reporter for openDemocracy’s investigations team. She specialises in obtaining documents under the Freedom of Information Act, and her work on access to information has been widely recognised. In 2022, openDemocracy won Campaign of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for their work on transparency in British public life. In 2021, she was shortlisted for Private Eye’s Paul Foot Award for an openDemocracy investigation into the government’s ‘Clearing House’ and the state of freedom of information.&nbsp; <img width="501" height="500" width_o="501" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4ac78bd8bf110d04e69e4a09561b5b3b795a13cf48b95dadd926d83a9e049ad/emily.png" data-mid="166826884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/501/i/a4ac78bd8bf110d04e69e4a09561b5b3b795a13cf48b95dadd926d83a9e049ad/emily.png" /> Emily Goligoski Emily is the Head of Research and SVP at Charter, a media and insights organization that exists to transform every workplace. She previously led audience research at The Atlantic, the Membership Puzzle Project at New York University, and The New York Times. <img width="2437" height="2437" width_o="2437" height_o="2437" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d36203084a5e2ede19cc96c76a7260a9bf822851f49cffea23fe80b3e81b6512/AG-7.jpg" data-mid="167983281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d36203084a5e2ede19cc96c76a7260a9bf822851f49cffea23fe80b3e81b6512/AG-7.jpg" />Dr. Alison GreenAlison Green is a researcher, curator, writer and educational leader in the history and theory of art and curating as creative and social practices. She is a Reader in Art, Curating and Culture at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where she teaches and contributes to developing postgraduate courses and training.&nbsp; <img width="456" height="456" width_o="456" height_o="456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f27d6a2c0ea5b970e7caebc7c9695e84edfb9cc5f0d08310317d08efa3df6bb5/munira.png" data-mid="166826717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/456/i/f27d6a2c0ea5b970e7caebc7c9695e84edfb9cc5f0d08310317d08efa3df6bb5/munira.png" /> Munira Khapra-Reininger With over twenty years of combined experience in the social service, education, and arts sectors, Munira Khapra-Reininger supports organizations by telling their story and rallying engagement in innovative ways. Formerly Eyebeam’s Director of External Affairs, she brings a rich experience of helping grow the capacity of leading values-driven cultural institutions, including Creative Time and Queens Museum. <img width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc8c1cc63ceb224d4d250add2efd8ffceb6c68f1f8d842085075b2e16c67d2b2/q7qxm4wtltekj5pbpkvg5ji6ykdk.jpeg" data-mid="168569586" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/cc8c1cc63ceb224d4d250add2efd8ffceb6c68f1f8d842085075b2e16c67d2b2/q7qxm4wtltekj5pbpkvg5ji6ykdk.jpeg" />Alison KillingAlison Killing is a journalist and licensed architect who uses maps and data to investigate urgent social issues. She worked in architecture and urban planning practices in London and Rotterdam for several years, before starting her own studio, Killing Architects. In 2021 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, together with Megha Rajagopalan and Christo Buschek, for a series of articles exposing the network of detention camps in Xinjiang, China. <img width="4992" height="4992" width_o="4992" height_o="4992" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d73f9545166e1d8a44fae686630082eb433303674381cd1611a09ad75045acc/Kevin-B.-Lee-credit-Victor-Brigola.jpg" data-mid="167983390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d73f9545166e1d8a44fae686630082eb433303674381cd1611a09ad75045acc/Kevin-B.-Lee-credit-Victor-Brigola.jpg" /> Kevin B. Lee Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker and media researcher who has produced nearly 400 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning “Transformers: The Premake” introduced the “desktop documentary” format. He is the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). <img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/536e606bb72623119d6e8711e1d1a1cdcda9601dabefb7126e0bc18e645158ff/NGWATILO-HEADSHOTS-22.png" data-mid="166827129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/536e606bb72623119d6e8711e1d1a1cdcda9601dabefb7126e0bc18e645158ff/NGWATILO-HEADSHOTS-22.png" /> Ngwatilo Mawiyoo Ngwatilo Mawiyoo is an interdisciplinary story-maker on the lookout for, and working to forge, paths to joy and freedom. Principally working in film and poetry, her recent writing appears in Wasafiri, Obsidian, Creative Time Reports and The Malahat, while her writing/directing debut short, “Joy’s Garden,” screened at Zanzibar and Pan African film festivals and elsewhere around the world. Ngwatilo lives in Nairobi, Kenya. <img width="997" height="997" width_o="997" height_o="997" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f8066e8f6f9369f7a11dfacad255f7e9a7c0d5706a3ec70a710ba2ad838884b/Bob-headshot-2.jpg" data-mid="168570979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/997/i/0f8066e8f6f9369f7a11dfacad255f7e9a7c0d5706a3ec70a710ba2ad838884b/Bob-headshot-2.jpg" />Robert Trafford Robert is an assistant director with Forensic Architecture, an investigative research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. His role with the agency covers open source research, editing and writing, coordinating investigations and exhibitions. Robert is trained as an investigative journalist, and has written for UK outlets including The Times, Telegraph, and OpenDemocracy, as well as The Intercept in the US. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford and City, University of London. https://artisticinquiry.org/Apply Mon, 21 Nov 2022 02:05:03 +0000 CAIR https://artisticinquiry.org/Apply YApply︎ Apply here As an initiative deeply committed to being responsive to an ever-fluctuating news cycle, applications for production support will be accepted on a rolling basis. In addition to longform investigative collaborations, artists can receive support for the following kinds of pieces: PhotographyAudioVideoText-based Our Support: Production support will be allocated for a variety of works. Please be sure to annotate your application to specify which kind you are seeking: Longform Investigative Collaborations: Four artists will receive $5000 each as well as ongoing production support. This award is focused on supporting artists to produce their own investigative artworks for publication in online news outlets. The award can be used to support collaborations with reporters to produce works that support traditional written journalism, or the production of a multi-media investigation (film, audio, interactives etc) that you produce yourself. The award is medium agnostic, but you will be required to detail your story plan as well as the investigative techniques you intend to use to create your work. Interactive Storytelling Support: Two artists will receive $3000 each as well as ongoing production support. As the aesthetics and technical possibilities for the presentation of digital news stories evolve, what can artists do to help shape the future of storytelling in the media? This award aims to support artists and publications looking to push the boundaries of online news. We want to see how new tools and artistic methods can help to enhance the telling of socially engaged stories in existing contexts. Artist Illustration Support: Two artists will receive $1000 each as well as ongoing production support. How do you freeze an image? How do you make a record of a historical moment that matches its gravitas? With the ubiquity of images, how do you get an audience to slow down and actually look? As news organizations deploy more innovative storytelling techniques this award will support artists and publications that are making room for more material artistic observations of political events that speak to the human need to connect while also acting as a kind of critical cultural response. Each Applicant Must Provide: 300-word project descriptionAssignment letter from an editorA reference contact or letter of supportTwo samples of past workDetailed budget of expenses (travel costs, per diem and research costs are acceptable) Are You Eligible?If you are an individual artist, part of a collective, or part of an artist-journalist team (this includes journalists on staff at a publication), then you can apply. For collectives, please have work samples that reflect a history of collaboration. Domestic and international applicants are welcome. Applicants must have an existing commission letter from an editor. Applications must be in English. ︎ Apply here https://artisticinquiry.org/Info Mon, 21 Nov 2022 02:00:59 +0000 CAIR https://artisticinquiry.org/Info U About us Twitter Instagram Email The Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting’s vision is to deepen and expand support for artists reimagining investigative journalism.The Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting (CAIR) is a first-of-its-kind initiative that generates meaningful collaboration between journalists and artists in order to ensure powerful public interest stories have more impact and greater emotional resonance. WHY ARTISTS Artists find connections that exist beyond traditional binaries, embracing the contradictions and complexities of the world around us. WE BELIEVEAs the news faces a decline in trust and influence, we see art as a chance to reinvigorate rigorous journalism and engage with readers in imaginative ways. Art explores abstract truths, and when art is partnered with the news, the impact of a story on readers is closer to the way they experience the world itself. Our work EDUCATION&nbsp; We teach art students seeking to produce work that reaches out from beyond museums and galleries the tools and tactics of an investigative practice, as well as help to familiarize themselves with the language and codes of the journalism field. PUBLICATIONSAs journalism continues its radical metamorphosis, we connect legacy and digital newsrooms to artists with distinctive viewpoints on world events and urgent social issues to help foster the creation of more imaginative storytelling. Artists with confirmed collaborations with news organizations can also apply for production support for their work. In addition to fiscal resources, they will also receive guidance on process and deliverables from the CAIR team.&nbsp; ART INSTITUTIONS Museums are on the forefront of environmental, political and social justice issues and yet outside of their in-person attendance, most of their ideas stay within the milieu of the art-going population. We work with major art, cultural and non-profit institutions to incorporate their programming into mainstream news to reach as wide an audience as possible. For more information on how your organization can work with the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting, please contact info@artisticinquiry.org. DONATEThe Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting is fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).&nbsp; NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship is a program that enables emerging art organizations to access funding through charitable donations and grants using NYFA’s 501c3 status. NYFA was established in 1971. It serves individual artists and the arts community throughout the United States and internationally.CAIR’s success is made possible by the generous support of our donors. Gifts of any size can directly help artists fast-track their collaborations to create powerful public interest stories.&nbsp; Donate today to ensure artists are given the critical resources they need to reimagine investigative journalism. NYFA has made online giving easy and tax deductible.&nbsp; ︎Donate https://artisticinquiry.org/CAIR-The-Nation Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:49:49 +0000 CAIR https://artisticinquiry.org/CAIR-The-Nation <img width="1920" height="1277" width_o="1920" height_o="1277" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6013b615fac63da9fa542c77a28462e8affc8cd33e3845a234dcb0f548cd780e/thenation.png" data-mid="159979625" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6013b615fac63da9fa542c77a28462e8affc8cd33e3845a234dcb0f548cd780e/thenation.png" /> PROJECTThe Nation: “Is There a Future for Russian Independent Media?”Artist Alina Spatz Year2022 DescriptionThis is the first piece the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting produced. The piece, by the artist Alina Spatz, was made during our Artists Report course for the Rhode Island School of Design. The work was a visual timeline that tracks the destruction of Russia’s independent media under Putin. To see the piece, head to The Nation.