My Other Hat

Me as Editor of ProWax Journal

So it’s been almost a year & a half since I started the online mag ProWax Journal (for/about artists who use encaustic wax in their work). We’re on Issue #8, we’ve grown to a staff of 15 including me as editor-in-chief, and we’re now on a mostly coordinated plan to publish the journal quarterly. It’s been quite the learning curve! Thanks to all the artists who have contributed, had awesome work to review, and to all of our readers too. ALSO… we have a new look! I hope you have time to check it out! ~Maritza

Hacking Clickbait

The show I was just in, IRL: Internet <-> Real Life just concluded on Jan. 3rd & is about to be packed up. (Thanks, Laura Isaac, for all you did for the show!!). It was in Kansas City at the Paragraph Gallery run by Charlotte Street Foundation. In the show, I– along with five other artists– examined the relationship between virtual and embodied life. In fact, we all met online, and that informs my own work in the show. The show considered the physicality of internet connections, the implicit trust in participation, the psychological impact, the possibilities, and how we live with it in our daily lives.

In the spirit of wrapping my mind around another aspect of online life, below is my best attempt at a clickbait list… about clickbait. I wanted to see what I’d come up with. I wrote this weeks ago and am finally posting.