10 Questions: What is Freedom?

Great Wall Project

Chair and Professor, Interdisciplinary Studio at UCLA Department of Art

Andrea Fraser has been identified with institutional critique, feminist practice, group relations, project-based art, and context art. She has worked in performance, video, installation, sound, text, and a range of other mediums. Fraser work has been seen at major museums and galleries around the world, and her writings have been published in books and magazines. Her books include Andrea Fraser: Works 1984-2003 (Dumont and Kunstverein Munich, 2003); Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser (MIT Press, 2005); Texts, Scripts, Transcripts (Walther Koenig Verlag and Museum Ludwig Cologne, 2013); and Andrea Fraser (Hatje Cantz and Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2015). Fraser was a founding member of the feminist performance group, The V-Girls (1986-1996).

Lauren McCarthy's Social Soul installation project

Assistant Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts

Lauren McCarthy is an artist whose work explores issues of surveillance, automation, and network culture as they affect our social relationships. She is the creator ofp5.js, an open source platform for learning creative expression through code online. Lauren's work has been exhibited internationally, at places such as Ars Electronica, Conflux Festival, SIGGRAPH, LACMA, Onassis Cultural Center, IDFA DocLab, and the Japan Media Arts Festival. She is a Sundance Institute Fellow and was previously a resident at CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Eyebeam, Autodesk, NYU ITP, and Ars Electronica / QUT TRANSMIT³.

Artbound: Art and Protest by El Mac

Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography and inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin

Ananya Roy holds the Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy. Previously she was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Ananya’s research has a determined focus on poverty and inequality, both in Los Angeles and in other cities around the world. Her most recent book is Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World. Ananya is recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest teaching recognition that UC Berkeley bestows on its faculty.

Reverse side of the Cyrus Cylinder

Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice

Seana Shiffrin has taught at UCLA since 1992. Her research addresses issues in moral, political and legal philosophy, as well as matters of legal doctrine, that concern equality, autonomy, and the social conditions for their realization. She has written extensively on the morality of promising and the role of law in facilitating and fostering moral character, with a special emphasis on the connection between contracts and promises. Her recent book, Speech Matters, explored the ethics of communication and the connection between the prohibition on lying, freedom of speech, and moral progress. She has studied at UC Berkeley, Oxford University and earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Shiffrin teaches courses on moral and political philosophy as well as contracts, freedom of speech, constitutional rights and individual autonomy, remedies and legal theory.