Emily Twines

Bio

Emily Twines is an interdisciplinary performance and technology artist with a primary interest in interactive digital arts.

She attended Brooklyn College, earning both her MA in Theatre History and Criticism (2017), a degree aimed at teaching students context and research methodologies for studying and archiving theatre, as well as her MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (2020), which focused on teaching collaborative and digital performance skills, such as sound and video manipulation through MaxMSP. Her projects also call for script writing and film direction, for graphic design, animation, and game design in Unity 3D.

She recently consulted for Myriad on an NEH grant as part of a design charrette addressing the question of how to define, create, and share best practices for the preservation of complex digital born media works, and she currently teaches her own curriculum with Urban Arts.

Mission Statement

My artistic practice is founded on the belief that large-scale change can be brought about by what begins as small-scale communication within individual communities. Sharing openly, seeing each other, hearing what we collectively need – and then making tangible moves towards achieving these conditions – this is what legitimate political power looks like to me.

To this end, I aspire to create work that helps communities both A) to re-enforce the fact that a better world is attainable and B) to articulate in each situation what the material conditions are that would need to change for this “better” to be achieved.

I work in a variety of mediums, styles, formats, and am interested in creative solutions that fit form to content rather than the other way around. As this exploration and innovation is central to my practice, so is collaboration. My goals are to listen more than I talk, to experiment, and to find ways forward together.

If you would like to participate in any ongoing projects (or to suggest any others), please do not hesitate to message at emilytwines@gmail.com.