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Anne Yoncha
Associate Professor of Fine Art
Art
[email protected]Office Hours
Wednesdays noon-5pm
or by appointment
Biography
Anne Yoncha (US) was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and has lived in Jacksonville, FL; Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica; Philadelphia, PA; Missoula, MT; Oulu, Finland; and Ada, Oklahoma. Her practice combines digital sensing technology, such as bio-data sonification, and analog, traditional processes including painting with ink she makes from locally-sourced plant matter. Outside the studio she can often be found doing another kind of environmental “research” via bicycle.Research Interests
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My work combines experimental art + ecological science to explore mechanics of plant physiology. By translating these processes into artworks, I aim to build affinity with unfamiliar ecologies apparently out of sight or possessing different temporalities than our own. I'm most interested in places we've altered through extraction - our post-human "novel" landscapes - and how we can get to know these new places and the beings that call them home.
Teaching Interests
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What can art be, and do, for people today? A good painting class is a community of practice addressing 3 types of questions: questions of all time (like identities, belief systems, love, and death), questions of today (like climate change or border politics or the Plasticene), and questions of tomorrow (join a class and we'll try to figure out what these might be!). Classroom conversations grounded in issues like these can set precedent for critical examination of our systems of knowing, and often-hidden, default means of making sense of the world.
Education
MFA in
University of Montana
BA in Fine Art
University of Delaware
Personal Website
Published Works
- Yoncha, A. Malus Domestica: Apple Tree Recordings from stretch-rift-graft-lift. Arboreus Earth. https://arboreus.earth/.
- Yoncha, A. Suon Laulu: Song of the Swamp. Archives issue Labocine: Science New Wave. https://www.labocine.com/issues/archives.
- Yoncha, A., Feldman, S. Crosstimbers: A Graphic Score in Collaboration with Oklahoma Soil Microbes. Soils Turn: A Field Guide to Artistic Earthly Engagements Ecoartspace.
- Yoncha, A. (2024). Lands and Symbiotic Futures.
- Yoncha, A. (2024, June). Re:Peat - A Look and Listen to Post-Extraction Peatland. International Symposium on Electronic Art.
- Yoncha, A. (2024). Re:Peat - A Look and Listen to Post-Extraction Peatland.
- Yoncha, A. (2024). Peat Quilt. New Geologic Epoch (Exhibition catalogue). Ecoartspace, LLC. https://ecoartspace.org/New-Geologic-Epoch-2023.
- Yoncha, A. (2023). Re:Peat - A Look and Listen at Post-Extraction Peatland. Living Histories, 9. Southwest Contemporary. https://southwestcontemporary.com/.
- Yoncha, A. (2023). Re:Peat - A Look and Listen to Post-Extraction Peatland. FEMeeting, Cultivamos Cultura, Ionian University, STEMarts Lab and SciArt Santa Fe, https://femeeting.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/femeeeting-book-of-abstract-2023-v6.pdf.
- Yoncha, A., Pappas, C., Seals, D., Norman, T., George, L., Cummins, L. (2023). Shape of the River. (pp 27-29). Ecoartspace LLC. https://ecoartspace.org/Earthkeepers-Handbook-2023.
- Yoncha, A. (2021). Second Wind. Into the Clouds: New Media Art 2021 (Exhibition catalogue). CICA Press. https://cicamuseum.com/publication-into-the-clouds-new-media-art-2021/.
- Yoncha, A. (2021). Succession. Embodied Forest (Exhibition catalogue). Ecoartspace LLC. https://ecoartspace.org/Embodied-Forest.
- Yoncha, A., Grant, M., De Peyer, O., Dumitriu, A., Shepherd, P., May, A., Pietarinen, H., Sandgren, N., Imlach, H., Bovermann, T. (2021). High-Altitude Bioprospecting. (Issue 3, pp 60-65). University of Massachusetts, Amherst.