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ANNOUNCING THE 2018 ARTS WRITING AWARD IN DIGITAL ART RECIPIENTS
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The Thoma Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 Arts Writing Awards. Mary Flanagan will receive $40,000 in recognition of her sustained dedication to the field as an established arts writer, and Dawn Chan will receive $20,000 for her exceptional promise as an emerging arts writer. Initiated in 2015, the Arts Writing Awards provide unrestricted, merit-based funding in support of writing that advances research, scholarship, and dialogue in digital art.
Mary Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College and leads the design research laboratory Tiltfactor.org. She has been writing about digital art since the 1990s, with a particular focus on virtual spaces, games, and feminist performances on the internet. Dawn Chan is currently a visiting scholar at New York University's Center for Experimental Humanities. She is an advocate for diversity in digital art whose writing appears in Artforum, the Atlantic.com, Bookforum, the New York Times, the NewYorker.com, New York Magazine, the Paris Review, the Village Voice, and Vogue.com, among other publications.
The Arts Writing Awards are the first of their kind to devote substantial funding to writing about digital art, including scholarship, history, criticism, and theory. The 2018 Awards will offer a fully-funded Robert Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, Florida. Flanagan and Chan were chosen from a pool of 30 nominees. The selection committee this year included Stuart Comer, Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art, the Museum of Modern Art; Kathleen Forde, Artistic Director-at-Large, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; and Dan Fox, Editor-at-Large, Frieze Magazine.
"We chose writers who are addressing digital art within a very specific political moment," reflected juror Stuart Comer. "The world is fundamentally different today than it was a year ago. Some of the more established icons and discourses must be reconsidered."
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