Hello, I come from the Internet.

I'm a technologist and exhibition maker based in Miami. I founded an experimental media art gallery called TRANSFER, and have been exploring decentralized networks and virtual worlds in contemporary art for a decade.

Owner, TRANSFER


TRANSFER is an experimental gallery that explores simulation and expanded practice.

The purpose of TRANSFER is to elevate emerging techniques across media, agnostic of form but focused around a critical encounter with software.

The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art. In 2016 the gallery shifted to focus programming on solo exhibitions from women refiguring technology, and began traveling a virtual exhibition format called the ‘TRANSFER Download’. The gallery has been featured in publications like Artforum and The New York Times, and placed works with prominent media art collections like the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Thoma Foundation. For 9 years, the gallery has produced exhibitions of experimental media art in NYC and abroad, including international exhibitions, pop-ups and art fairs: View the full history of our 80+ exhibitions.

The gallery is opening in Miami, Florida in 2022.

INTERVIEWS // TALKS // EXHIBITIONS


Art Basel Miami Beach – Serpentine and Tezos present 'Vectors for Future Art Ecosystems', Miami 2021

Interview: 'Digital Art in the NFT Space' – with Brian L. Frye for Ipse Dixit 2021

40 Under 40: Art and Tech – Apollo Art Magazine 2021

Australian Centre for the Moving Image – Speaker 'Preserving the Near Future', Melbourne 2018

Art Basel Conversations – Panelist 'Blockchain and the Art World', Basel 2018

BAMPFA – Speaker Series 'The Networked Avant-garde', San Fransisco 2018

TRANSFER Download: Santa Fe (2018), Shanghai (2017), Basel (2017), NYC (2016), and San Fransisco (2016)

Internet Age Media – Speaker 'Subversion of Paradoxes', Barcelona 2018

Interview with The Creative Independent

Interview with Independent Collectors

NADA New York: 2018, 2017 & 2016

Liminal Territory TRANSFER Download Precarious Inhabitants by Eva Papamargariti Claudia Maté 'Sweet Finances' title= Joshua Caleb Weibley 'Cruft' 'Ways of Something' compiled by Lorna Mills Rick Silva 'En Plein Air'

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

I am a design strategist with 15 years of experience creating useful, useable and enjoyable digital products and services. I work in enterprise software development, decentralized applications, and emerging form factors. Areas of expertise include: Product Strategy, UX, Design Research, Testing/Validation, Content Strategy, Information Architecture, and Workshop Facilitation.

Kelani Nichole

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