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Interview with Project Censored

10/17/2017

I was interviewed by Dr. Mickey Huff on the nationally-syndicated program Project Censored about my digital platform Poets Reading the News. Listen here for the full interview.

Interview with Sam Lefebrve for East Bay Express

8/1/2017

"Elle Aviv Newton felt crushed by this past November’s election results. She withdrew from political conversations. She avoided the news, which suddenly seemed to lack credibility. And then the 28-year-old curator and Oakland native rebounded. “I got interested in artwork that reflected a really deep engagement with the news, that showed the artists really struggling through the surface,” she told the Express. “I wanted to build a lighthouse in our ocean of screens.”

The artworks in Believe the Hype, which Newton solicited and selected from an open call for submissions, explore our so-called “post-truth” era of filter bubbles, hyper-partisan shills, and political polarity — all closely bound, the show suggests, to a great crisis in the media.

The show features a dozen artists, about half of them local, working in various mediums to complicate or elucidate how we generate and distribute information. That means analysis of the political spectrum that composes the “alt-right” online (Caroline Sinders’ “Things Are Rarely Binary”), speculative social-media headlines printed on fabrics (Lucia Goodbag’s “Alternative Facts”), and an automated Twitter account (Ben Lerchin’s “#fakenewsbot”). Believe the Hype exposes the bitter ideological battles behind even seemingly neutral reportage in the digital age..."

Read Sam Lefebrve's full review in the East Bay Express here.

Interview with DeadNite Magazine

7/26/2017

DeadNite Magazine's editor Daysia Tolentino features me in their July cover story, in a write-up on my recent projects about art and the news media: Poets Reading the News and my latest exhibition Believe the Hype at B4BEL4B Gallery. In the photograph I am standing amidst two landmark political works by Design is Play, the revolutionary atelier of California College of the Arts professors and designers Angie Wang and Marc Fox, which I had the honor to include in the Believe the Hype exhibition at B4BEL4B Gallery in Oakland, California.

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