Bianca Nozaki-Nasser is a Japanese-Lebanese-Syrian interdisciplinary artist.
They work with visual and interactive media to understand, critique, and reimagine the future. Bianca’s work is rooted in social practice and has spanned across immersive audio video installations, speculative objects, and community engagement programs. She invites collective wrecking and reckoning, exploring the tension between building new worlds and redecorating old ones.
Bianca holds a Masters degree in Media Design Practice from the Art Center College of Design and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Southern California . They have exhibited their work across the United States and participated in several artist residencies including the Level Ground Residency Program in Los Angeles and Activation in New York. Additionally, they have co-founded and organized with artist and worker-led collectives committed to radical pedagogy and collective liberation.
Over the last ten years, Bianca has worked across industries developing strategic storytelling, creative interventions, and community power for clients and collaborators like Sundance, UNICEF Innovation, Asian American Documentary Network, and The California Endowment. During her five year tenure as 18 Million Rising’s inagural Creative Director, Bianca built the visual identity that established the organization as a digital leader in progressive Asian American organizing. Previously, she co-founded a med-tech platform for patient generated health data management.
Bianca currently resides in Los Angeles and is the Director of Storytelling at Emergent Fund, a rapid response resource fund that supports emergent organizing led by frontline Black, Indigenous, and people of color. In addition to her creative practice, Bianca is also an assistant professor and teaches interdisciplinary studios and intensives on design, futurism, and political education.
Bianca holds a Masters degree in Media Design Practice from the Art Center College of Design and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Southern California . They have exhibited their work across the United States and participated in several artist residencies including the Level Ground Residency Program in Los Angeles and Activation in New York. Additionally, they have co-founded and organized with artist and worker-led collectives committed to radical pedagogy and collective liberation.
Over the last ten years, Bianca has worked across industries developing strategic storytelling, creative interventions, and community power for clients and collaborators like Sundance, UNICEF Innovation, Asian American Documentary Network, and The California Endowment. During her five year tenure as 18 Million Rising’s inagural Creative Director, Bianca built the visual identity that established the organization as a digital leader in progressive Asian American organizing. Previously, she co-founded a med-tech platform for patient generated health data management.
Bianca currently resides in Los Angeles and is the Director of Storytelling at Emergent Fund, a rapid response resource fund that supports emergent organizing led by frontline Black, Indigenous, and people of color. In addition to her creative practice, Bianca is also an assistant professor and teaches interdisciplinary studios and intensives on design, futurism, and political education.
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