Spoiler free review of Glass Onion. It’s a hit go see it. we enjoyed the elegant structure, fabulous, set ups, and payoffs, great cast, and of course the class politics. The final moments of the film are deeply satisfying. Janelle Monáe is transcendent and brilliant. She deserves all the awards.
In 2021 Calling Up Justice was contracted by Kyong’s Pacific beat to create and launch Mosaic Network Online Portal. We studied and interviewed representatives from several platforms such as Hopin.to and Circle and chose the Mighty Network Platform.
After designing the portal we created orientation materials. These included FAQ, live orientation sessions, written tutorials and videos. We also provided 1-hour long, bi-weekly Consultations for Portal Moderation and Maintenance to the Mosaic team for 21 months. We also posted content and engaged with the content of others while answering any questions.
Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “WOMAN” began as an exercise in creating a series of Black women dancing. It was actually a complicated task of using different prompts to get images that resulted in the right images. The machine kept producing white dominant images if Claudia was not specific. The animation was meant to evoke Black joy and femme power. She named the piece “Woman” and searched for a song to add to the animation. She chose the song Woman from Doja Cat.
Accessibility check-ins disrupt ableism in meeting culture. The majority of meeting systems, structures, and cultural norms are centered around the needs of abled, neurotypical participants. As a result, neurodiverse and people with disabilities
are prevented from fully participating. An accessibility check-in provides an opportunity at the beginning of a gathering for every participant to share what they need in order to bring their whole selves to the process. These check-ins play an important role in
developing an accessible workplace, establishing a culture of inclusion, as well as fully supporting individual participants. They are great for business, art, and education setting.
Collaboration is the process of working together with others to achieve a common goal. Collaboration can bring a number of benefits, both for individuals and
Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “HER” began as a exercise to make a woman walk with apowerfist in the air. Claudia made a collage using different elements and fed it through a generator to produce hundreds of images. The artistic impulse was one to add collaged images that would inspire the machine to produce what she wanted. When she shared the animation online she added the Megan the Stallion song Her and names the piece after that.
Calling Up Justice practice members speak on panels, provides lectures and workshops and support university students. Below is a selection of our gigs for 2022 that reflect our values and practice. This is not an exhaustive list but reflects some of the main thrusts of our practice.
Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “Funky Girl” was inspired by a tiktok artist named Fungkiigrrl’s video where she edited herself dancing with cool visuals.
Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “Sis You a Bad Bitch” began with a collage of a Black woman. I used the AI generators to generate versions that were screaming in joy, pain, or standing in their power. I edited an animation that cycled through these different emotions. I added the music Sis You A Bad Bitch 2.0 by Shariya Wise and named the piece after the song.
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