Thu November 21st Closed
Dorothy R. Santos
2020 YBCA 100 Honoree
Dorothy R. Santos is a Filipina American writer, artist, and educator whose academic and research interests include feminist media histories, critical medical anthropology, technology, race, and ethics. She is a Ph.D. student in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellow. She received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the GLBT Historical Society. Her writing appears in art21, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, Ars Technica, Vice Motherboard, SF MOMA’s Open Space, and Art in America. She is a co-founder of REFRESH, a politically-engaged art and curatorial collective and serves as the Executive Director for the Processing Foundation.
More on YBCA for Dorothy R. Santos
Art & Civic Experience
Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America?
A Digital Art & Civic Experience
April 1–October 1, 2020
Public Programs
Interactive Studio Hours with the YBCA 10 Artists
Saturday, October 16, 2021, 12–4:30 PM
“A lot of my own practice, I make things based on feeling because sometimes that’s where the greatest kernels or nuggets come from.”
YBCA 10 Protoype
Dorothy R. Santos’s Mahiwagang Libros (Magical Books) is a set of four books based on the four directions and elements. Each book contains loose pages of spells, recipes, incantations, and images that visitors are welcome to take to build their own spellbook.
