Statement: Shapeshifting Lineages: Contemporary Native Transformations in Video Date: November 20th 2025 to January 15th 2026 Artists: Sky Hopinka, Erica Lord, Skawennati, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Kathleen Wall Curated by: Chanee Choi / Consultant: Lara Evans Presented by: The New Media Caucus Header/Footer Gallery This online exhibition brings together five contemporary Native artists who use video to explore the transformation of body, land, and digital identity. Inspired by Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art (Peabody Essex Museum, 2012), As the Shapeshifting catalogue reminds us, Native art is always actively developing, always becoming. In this context, video becomes a dynamic medium for that continual process of becoming. To frame these works, I created five interconnected 3D environments that resonate with each artist’s identity and practice. Visitors enter the exhibition as avatars and freely navigate these virtual spaces on the website, experiencing each video piece as if moving among a series of immersive, themed theaters. Through acts of digital shapeshifting, these artists assert that change itself is sovereignty. Their videos reveal Native art beyond static identity, toward living motion—an ongoing re-creation of self, land, and story within the expanded field of the screen. Following George Longfish and Joan Randall’s idea of land base as the fabric of place, history, culture, and spirituality, the works ground transformation within Indigenous relationships to land and kinship. Margaret Dubin describes this as a hybrid simultaneity, where old and new coexist, collapsing Western hierarchies of art and artifact. Each artist enacts what Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie called, claiming the camera for our own, turning a tool of surveillance into self-representation. In doing so, they answer James Luna’s conviction that Native art speaks for Indian people first yet remains open to all who listen.

In this episode, Rene shares some of the tools he uses in the process of making exhibitions and producing the podcast. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at how things come together—and also an open invitation to curators, artists, and art historians to contribute. Whether it’s an exhibition, an episode, or something entirely different, Header/Footer Gallery welcomes your ideas and creations.

We are living through the most boring version of a cyberpunk dystopia. A divided world, massive wealth disparity, panoptic technology and corporations taking over everything. In this episode Constanza and Rene discuss how artists have tried to warn us and how these warnings failed to be heeded.

Showcasing works from: Bomi YookElizabeth AcevedoSei JungZhiwan CheungMeshal Al ObaidallahRuby QueX. A. Li This exhibition continues our commitment to highlighting BIPOC artists and scholars, offering space for reflection, experimentation, and expression through new media. See it HERE

New podcast is up! Ep 32 H/F Gallery Presents: Embodied Digital Archives Picking up from last episode, in Constanza’s solo episode, she talks about her research in embodied digital archives, memory studies, and training AI with community-led datasets

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In this solo episode, Rene takes us on a tour of many of the New Media colections around the world, their pros and cons, and what he thinks is a way to address these issues.

The Pond of Person A is the latest exhibition at the Header/Footer Gallery.Today, Constanza and Rene will have a chat with guest curator Bowie Bo Gyung Kim (@obserbowietion) and artist Muhammad Toukhy (@muhammadtoukhy) tell us about the exhibition, their motivations and more!

I am proud to announce our new exhibition guest curated by the incredibly talented Bowie Bo Gyung Kim and featuring the amazing work of Muhammad Toukhy. As always the exhibition can be found at the new media caucus homepage. See your there!

Ep 29 H/F Gallery Presents: Cyberfeminism In this episode Constanza talks to us about one of her main subjects of expertise: Cyberfeminism, its past, its present and its future!

New Episode Alert! Ep 28 H/F Gallery Presents: CAA113 & Berlin Report Constanza and Rene are back from CAA113 and will share how their panel went, the highlights, other things that happened at New York including the New Media Caucus Showcase as well as Berlin's Manifest:io a symposium ran by Header/Footer presents Alumn Harshini Karunaratne.

In this episode we talk about the upcoming CAA conference and our panel entitled Walled Gardens, Wild Artists. What is a walled garden? Who are the wild artists? And why is this subject important for the future of new media? Kat Mustatea and JLS Ganwich #NewMediaArt #ArtAndCensorship #DigitalArt #WalledGardens #WildArtists #CAAConference #ArtAndTech #AppCulture #ArtForFuture #KatMustatea #JLSGanwich #ArtisticFreedom #MediaConversations #ArtisticRevolution

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