Nancy Baker Cahill

1970–

Nancy Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice spans research-based immersive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects and focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. Her monumental AR artworks extend and subvert the lineage of Land art, often highlighting the climate crisis, civics, and a desire for more equitable futures. She is the founder and artistic director of 4th Wall, a free, AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression.

Introduction

Nancy Baker Cahill (born 1970) is an American new media artist based in Los Angeles, California. She has created immersive augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences, video installations and blockchain projects, oftentimes rooted in drawing. Her work frequently merges technology and public art, drawing upon both feminist land art and the history of political interventions to examine systemic power, body autonomy, civics and climate crisis, among other issues.

She is the founder and director of 4th Wall, a free AR public art platform focused on public engagement, critical social practice and site interventions.

Wikidata identifier

Q75452977

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On view
Floor 8, Online

First acquired
2023

API
artists/21063




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On the Hour

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Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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