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Mark Tribe is an artist and curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics. He is assistant professor of modern culture and media studies at Brown University, where he teaches courses on digital art, curating, open-source culture, radical media, and surveillance. He is the co-author, with Reena Jana, of New Media Art (Taschen, 2006). His work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany; the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz am Rheine, Germany; and Gigantic Art Space in New York City. He has organized curatorial projects for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City; MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts; and the inSite_05 festival in San Diego/Tijuana.

In 1996, Tribe founded Rhizome.org, an online resource for new-media artists, and now chairs the organization's board of directors. He received an MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego, in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990. He splits his time between Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City.

The above image is from Tribe's Port Huron Project, a series of reenactments of Vietnam War-era protest speeches from the New Left movement. This image is from the reenactment of Angela Davis' speech, "The Liberation of Our People," delivered on November 12, 1969, at Bobby Hutton Park in Oakland, California.

Tribe's work is currently on view in Disruptions: The Political in Art Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Read our listing for more info.

Mark Tribe
Port Huron Project 6: The Liberation of Our People, 2008
Photo credit: Nick Davis

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