Jordan “Silver” bridges soft-art frameworks for cultural practice.
Currently based in Los Angeles, Jordan (she/they) shares over a decade of experience crafting projects at the intersection of art, technology, and cultural practice. After working between New York's art and technology sectors, then expanding their practice through residencies in New Mexico and an exhibition in London, Jordan now combines her expertise in arts administration and program development to offer strategic guidance that helps artists and cultural institutions thrive.
Listening to music was my first encounter with a spatial technology.
Not just as something to hear, it provided me with worlds to inhabit. Those early experiences sparked an inquiry into how technology shapes memory, memory shapes emotion, and emotion shapes reality. My practice emerges from this original curiosity – opening deeper questions about how we form meaning through embodied experience, expanding from individual perception into collective possibilities.
As a projector working at the intersection of artistic practice, critical research, and community organizing, I develop meaningful frameworks for emergent realities to be grounded and shared. My practice moves between digital and physical realms, exploring subjects from affective computing to radical placemaking, and translating theoretical insights into practical applications. Through installations, experimental research and writing, program design, and facilitation, I create “soft art” spaces that are at once speculative and viscerally real.
Over time, my work has progressed from curating sensory moments for individual transformation to developing shared structures for examining how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the systems we inhabit. This evolution reflects an understanding that lasting change must engage multiple scales simultaneously. By maintaining an interdisciplinary approach, I investigate patterns across scales — from intimate experiences to broader, collective interventions — approaching art as an essentially interconnected act. My practice is invigorated by the same hybrid interdependence it studies — weaving together different forms of communicating, learning, and gathering in service of communal visioning efforts. As we are faced with growing abuses of power via technology, I decide to presence liberatory, humanist perspectives, which center technology's ability to help us practice the living conditions we're fighting to claim. My work asks: Where can technologies of shared language and experience propagate in order to transform our capacity — both individual and collective — to re-member and re-imagine as digital systems actively reshape our cultures and fragment our communities?
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