Artist Mark Tribe visited York in the summer of 2013. In his initial work Tribe investigated the politics of belonging through living room visits with local citizens, political meetings and explorations of local and regional history of political organizing and war reenactments. Tribe’s visit culminated in a public discussion at the CCA about community development, political and economic progress, shared resources and future possibilities for the development of the City of York.
Mark Tribe is an artist whose work explores the intersection of media technology and politics. His photographs, installations, videos, and performances are exhibited widely, including recent solo projects at Momenta Art in New York, the San Diego Museum of Art, G-MK in Zagreb, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Tribe is the author of two books, The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), and numerous articles. He teaches courses on radical media, the art of curating, open-source culture, digital art, and techniques of surveillance at Brown University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies. He also teaches in the Art Practice MFA program at School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1996, Tribe founded Rhizome, an organization that supports the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. He lives in New York City.
This work was made possible by support from The America Project, a program of MAPP International Productions with funding from The Nathan Cummings Foundation.