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Nancy Baker Cahill

Art and technology together can provoke powerful social change.

AR Artist | Filmmaker | Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall

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Technology as an Artist’s Tool for Equity and Access (13:18)

The radical combination of art and technology can spur us on to greater innovation, out-of-the-box thinking, and more equitable futures. Nancy Baker Cahill is an interdisciplinary artist and expanded filmmaker whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body through ecological thinking. Through her groundbreaking art, she’s set a new standard for research-based immersive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the history of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality (AR) artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, sparking conversation around civics and inspiring us to work towards more equitable futures.

Nancy Baker Cahill is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free, AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression. Her globally-exhibited geolocated AR installations have earned her profiles in the New York Times, Frieze, and The Art Newspaper, among other publications. In 2023, the Georgia Museum of Art exhibited her first solo mid-career survey. The Whitney Museum of American Art commissioned and acquired CENTO, the museum’s first participatory AR project co-built by a global audience. She premiered her immersive film SEEK in 2024, marking the inaugural art experience at COSM in Los Angeles. 

Baker Cahill ​is an artist scholar ​alumnus of the Berggruen Institute and​ ​a TEDx speaker. In 2021, she was awarded the Williams College Bicentennial Medal of Honor and a C.O.L.A. Master Artist Fellowship. She is a 2022 LACMA Art and Tech Grant recipient, and 2024-5 Harvard metaLAB Affiliate. 

Her work is held in the collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; RFC Art Collection, Miami, FL; and 0x Collection, Prague, CZ.

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Collaborative Sensemaking in Multispace

Art and technology can collapse the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds, opening up new stories and conversations to us. In this fascinating, interactive talk, award-winning new media artist Nancy Baker Cahill offers audiences a look into “multispace,” this collapsing of boundaries and embodied simultaneity.

Baker Cahill draws on her work in AR, VR, AI, and experiential fi...

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