Nicole James
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II
Nicole James utilizes video, digital software, and archival material to examine the performative acts of identity, content virality, and constructed fictions surrounding womanhood, whiteness, and the duality of occupying positions as oppressor and oppressed. She received her MFA from Florida State University (2022) and her BA in Media Studies and Studio Art from the University of Virginia (2017) which has heavily influenced her practice in both the relationship between Internet technology theory and identity creation through the moving image and viral video landscape. Her current work also stems from the sociopolitical implications of the ‘Unite the Right’ rally which took place in her then hometown, Charlottesville, VA during the August of 2017, and the revitalized movements surrounding white supremacy and white nationalism which have steadily continued growing in noise.
James has been awarded an Aunspaugh Fifth Year Fellowship (2017-2018) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship (2019-2020) to further explore her work in digital media and video. In 2019, James was accepted into the Master’s in Fine Arts in Studio Art program at Florida State University. During her time at Florida State, she has worked in the Digital Fabrication Lab, allowing her to explore more advanced digital software and applications for her work, such as deepfake technology and 3D scanning and modeling. She has taught in the Arts Foundations Program at Florida State University and Virginia Commonwealth University as an adjunct instructor, specializing in introductory courses in digital making and integrating technology in art practices. Nicole is currently working at Quinnipiac University in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts as a visiting professor of digital art.