Congratulations to AHVA MFA alumna Krista Dragomer (2009) for her work on the collaborative project A Father’s Lullaby, which received the Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Award of Distinction in Digital Musics and Sound Art.
Krista Dragomer and digital composer Christian Gentry co-created the sound design for this multimedia site-responsive installation as part of a team led by filmmaker Rashin Fahandej. A Father’s Lullaby marks another artistic collaboration between Dragomer and Fahandej—for the 2009 Master of Fine Arts graduate exhibition, Interrobang, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the pair co-created the video/sound work Sorkhab.
A Father’s Lullaby focuses on the role men play in raising children and the impacts of their absence when incarcerated. Manifesting in multiple formats, from an ongoing series of public interventions to immersive installations, community co-creation workshops, and a location-based participatory audio augmented reality platform, the work delves into racial inequalities in the criminal justice system in the United States.
A Father’s Lullaby has been shown at:
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2021
SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA, 2021
Concord Art, Concord, MA, 2021
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 2019
The Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, 2018
Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most prestigious media arts competition. Since 1987, the prizes are awarded to groundbreaking projects that revolve around questions of our digital society and incorporate innovative forms of technology and artistic expressions. Read more about Prix Ars Electronica here.
Krista Dragomer is an artist and independent educator. Her art and teaching practice explores bodies: human bodies, non-human bodies, how bodies perceive and are perceived, and how that perception affects relations internal and external. Her work is deeply interdisciplinary, moving between visual and sound art practices, and is informed by research into cultural history, human and non-human sense studies, speculative and feminist ecology, and multi-species research. She has worked in collaboration with experimental filmmakers, new media artists, musicians, and academics in the fields of religion, philosophy, and anthropology. Her work has been presented in a diverse range of platforms including academic conferences, art galleries and museums, science museums, concert venues, public parks, and alongside bio-hackers and eco-interventionists at underground, DIY, and artist-run spaces. She holds an MFA from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, where she also worked extensively with the School of Music.
Website: http://www.kristadragomer.com/