Molly Hankwitz, Ph.D.
My current research engages human/social relations--mobile and digital communications environments-- at the intersection ofform, culture, history, and experimental and independent media. Ongoing public space in changing urban technoculture, i.e. the Internet of Things, the "surveillance state", and hybrid "media ecological" wireless/data provides a platform of concerns through which development of cities can be reimagined and intervened upon. Re-formation of the web, the user-interface, mobile tools and social communications applications; ongoing social uses/responses to pervasive communications technologies, race, class and gender--"place-based" communications and the future imagination of cities in an era of neo-liberal dominance, are of particular interest.
Contact: Tel. 415 283 7757, email: mollybh@aya.yale.edu Mailing: 3288 21st Street, #28, San Francisco, CA 94110
RESEARCH + WRITING
PUBLISHED BOOKS: (Associate Editor/Writer)
2015 - “Water Views: Caring and Daring” e-book from World Water Day Symposium 2014, a multi-disciplinary project of curated art, science, panels, and performance created for and by water-wheel.net.
To download the book: http://bit.ly/e-book_3WDS14
PUBLISHED RESEARCH:
2013 SEAD White paper: "Environmental Equity: Enabling Excellence in Media Art and Science in Underserved Communities"
AWARDS:
2013 "Top choice" for Abstracts, from Leonardo LABS, International peer review, 2013-2014.
2013 "Iron Coordinator Award", Community Technology Network, San Francisco.
2007 Innovation Stipend, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology
ART + TECHNOLOGY + CULTURE WRITING:
2013 Attack on City College of San Francisco, Historical Essay, http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Attack_on_City College SF
2013 Jesse Drew on Democratic Media, Review of book, OTHERZINE.
2013 Dark Matter: Mass Artistic Resistance to the Neo Liberalization of Everyday Life, Review of Gregory Sholette book, OTHERZINE.
2012 Changing Housework/BAD SUBJECTS, http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2012/82/hankwitz.htm
2012 Culled from the Net: Interview with Dominic Gagnon/OTHERZINE
2012 Resistance and Geography: Jesse Lerner and the Maya of Modernism /OTHERZINE
2011 Urban Hacking: Culture Jamming in the Risky Spaces of Modernity/ OTHERZINE
2010 Citycentered: A Festival of Wireless Art and Locative Media http://citycentered.org/
2001 Archifesto: Towards a Digital Urbanism of Radical Difference, Sarai/Archimedia http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/02-the-cities-of-everyday-life
EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, SHORT FILMS:
2014, Hydrologies +History: Water and Memory, World Water Day Symposium, Water-wheel.net, https://www.flickr.com/photos/waterwheel1/sets/72157644879901413/
2013, Augmented Reality and Wearable Computing, Talk by Archimedia, Other Cinema, Curated by Craig Baldwin.
2012, I AM CRIME: Art on the Edge of the Law, Group exhibition, SOMArts 2012 Curated by Justin Hoover.
2012, My Pike Loop film on Vimeo. Screened at Other Cinema's 'Occupy Cinema' Spring 2012. Curated by Craig Baldwin.
BLOG POSTS + INTERVIEWS:
The New Aesthetic: Interview with Molly Hankwitz, David Cox blog, 2013.
The New Aesthetic: Interview with Molly Hankwitz, Internet of Things Council, 2013.
Illegality Shapes Public Space, Guest blog post for I AM CRIME exhibition, 2012.
Press: MY PIKE LOOP film by Molly Hankwitz, Interview by Kelly Pendergast, 2012.