Joselyn McDonald
Most Recent Affiliation:
- Duke University
Location:
- durham, United States of America
Bio:
Joselyn McDonald (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, critical maker, and creative researcher whose work centers on issues relating to power, gender, and the Anthropocene. Often her work includes emergent technologies, recycled electrical components, and found materials. McDonald’s work has been exhibited widely including at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leaders in Software and Art, Sketching in Hardware, Designing Interactive Systems in Hong Kong, and Revisius Textor in Nevers, France. Her career began in filmmaking, often working with super 8mm and 16mm film formats. Later, she dedicated much of her practice to exploring technology’s impact on society, receiving an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in Design and Technology and an MS from Carnegie Mellon in Human-Computer Interaction. Presently, Joselyn McDonald is a Senior Analyst at Duke University where she is leading an initiative to develop a foundational technology-education curriculum to support Duke students to engage with an ethically and effectively rapidly shifting technological landscape. Additionally, she frequently creates work for online and IRL gallery exhibitions.
