15. Joshua King, Artist & Executive Director, Aurora: Artist Relief Fund, Creative Technology, The Case to Die An Artist

Joshua King’s belief in cultivating tomorrow's culture lead him to be one of the founders and Executive Directors of AURORA, an art, technology, and community-based organization that expands the future of art through the creative possibilities within ourselves and each other. With the success of Aurora, the culture of North Texas is rapidly emerging to new international heights. Since 2010, AURORA and King's work has exhibited 480 artists on over 270 acres of public land, bringing in more than 200,000 in attendance.

King's artwork is known for re-defining form and purpose. It gives a new intensity and expression to post-industrial objects grounded within our relationships to life. 

“Everything has a cycle,” says King. “Ideas evolve, visions fade, and societies move on.”

King and I discuss success and failure, creative technology, and his influences. 

With influences from Christian Boltanski, Michael Heizer, and Tom Friedman, King's artwork challenges the viewer to pay attention and to explore outside the confines of the traditional art space.

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Run time: 39 minutes

Host, Earlina Green Hamilton 

Chapters

• 2:50 pandemic shifts
• 3:58 aurora
• 6:14 AREA 3
• 7:44 artist relief fund
• 10:09 non restricted grants
• 11:12 beginnings
• 13:23 college
• 20:30 embedded in the community
• 21:51 response
• 23:38 the merging of art and technology
• 25:19 influenced
• 26:19 'Antibodies'
• 27:54 post pandemic
• 29:12 influences
• 30:41 the case to die an artist
• 34:47 a multitude of choices
• 35:26 failure