Shawné Michaelain Holloway

SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a Chicago-based new media artist and poet. Known for her noisy experimental electronics and performance practice, HOLLOWAY shapes the rhetorics of computer programming and sadomasochism into tools for exposing structures of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally since 2012 in spaces like Performance Space New York, The New Museum, The Kitchen, The Time-Based Art Festival at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), The Knockdown Center, and the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. SHAWNÉ is currently Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University and served as the Digital Developer and Technology Manager with Black Lunch Table’s archives team between 2022 through ‘24. In addition to her work in the arts, she is an open source software advocate, 1/2 of electronics duo BONE LATTICE, and a bodybuilder.