Author
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Renowned political artist Sheila Pinkel speaks about past and current projects, the role of the political artist in society, and the convergence of art, activism and technology.
Sheila Pinkel has been a political artist for the last thirty years. Recent works have included pieces about the aftermath of the Indochina Wars for Cambodian and Laotian Hmong refugees, lives of people living in remote tribal communities of Pakistan, museum guards, the history of the garment industry in Los Angeles and most recently, the prison-industrial complex. From 1983 to the present time she has been an international editor of Leonardo, a publication dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology.