Ciarán Short’s, American Re-Education (2022) video piece explores the representation of Blackness across popular media. The featured images are “digitally altered using glitch aesthetics to highlight the distortion experienced when seeking representation in popular media.” These text-based reflections are juxtaposed with popular visual representations of Black people in the media, referencing important sources of exposure and subsequent internalization of prescribed societal roles: the education system and mainstream media.
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Check out our Q+A with Ciarán.
Check out previously published iHope by Ciarán.
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Ciarán Short is a multimedia artist and activist born and raised in NYC. His work explores New York culture and tackles issues of race and masculinity. He co-founded the All Street Journal, a protest group utilizing art to raise visibility and support the BLM movement and housing justice in NY. With this group, he organized protests across the city using the creation of art as a focus to build community and make space for open dialogue and healing. The collaborative artworks made during their protests are in the permanent collections of The NY Historical Society, The Museum of the City of NY, and MOCADA. His writing has been featured in publications such as The Independent, Newsday, and Honeysuckle Magazine. He has most recently completed an artist’s residency with Localhost Gallery and partook in a photography installation at Cornell University. He is currently a 2022 artist in residence at Socially Distant Art. In the Spring of 2022, Ciarán opened an alternative art gallery and multipurpose creative space in the East Village called All St NYC. He holds a masters degree in Media Studies from the New School and is adjunct faculty at NYU Tisch’s IMA undergraduate program.
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