Presented as part of Caroline Sinder’s exhibition, The Architectures of Violence
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This panel with New Orleans Haitian artist Nic Brierre-Aziz and journalist Christopher Schiano of Unicorn Riot
explores what it means to create work, be it research work or artwork, that focuses on,
documents, explores, and condemns systemic violence.

Nic Brierre Aziz is a Haitian-New Orleanian interdisciplinary artist and curator. His current practice is deeply community-focused and rooted around the utilization of personal and collective histories to reimagine the future. In addition to his personal artistic practice, he currently serves as the Community Engagement Curator for the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has contributed to publications such as HuffPost, Burnaway, and AFROPUNK and his work has been featured by The Oxford American, The Associated Press, and The Alternative UK. He has been a recipient of several notable artist residencies and fellowships and most recently was selected as a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellow. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College and a Master of Science degree from The University of Manchester (UK). https://www.nicbrierreaziz.com/

Chris Schiano is a journalist, writer, and researcher with the Minnesota-based Indymedia collective Unicorn Riot. His work focuses on exposing racist and far-right organizing and law enforcement repression of social movements. Since covering the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, he has worked on the DiscordLeaks data journalism archive which exposed the planning conversations of rally organizers and affiliated organizations.

Caroline Sinders is a critical designer and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. She has worked with the United Nations, Amnesty International, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, Google's PAIR (People and Artificial Intelligence Research group), the Mozilla Foundation, the Weizenbaum Institute Pioneer Works, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Sci-Art Resonances program with the European Commission, and the International Center of Photography. Some of her research fellowships and funded research work has focused on dark patterns, community health, online harassment, AI inequity, and the labor and systems in AI and platforms. Currently, she is a fellow with Ars Electronica AI Lab at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA PS1, LABoral, Wired, Slate, Quartz, the Channels Festival, and others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. https://carolinesinders.com/