Issue – 23
Function 23 200 Pages, Perfect Bound, Softcover, 80lbs Silk Coated, 9″x11″
Rahim Perez-Anderson Gray Hairs at Eighteen
Gray Hairs at Eighteen is a confrontation on the expectations I’ve been held to as a Black teenager in today’s world. Throughout life I have been expected to maintain unrealistic standards: being “manly” and “strong” since I am the oldest child, or acting “hard” and “ghetto” because I am Black. These expectations have led me…
About
This is Function. Function is a visual art and culture publication that is curated, designed, and produced by a team of 4th-year students at the School of Image Arts. Our magazine’s primary focus is the work of current students, faculty, and industry professionals working with lens-based media and engaging contemporary art discourse. Function 23 Editorial…
Technologies of the diasporic mind: an Interview with Timothy Yanick Hunter
An Interview by Heather Rigg Timothy Yanick Hunter’s practice is rooted in a research based process of sampling and remixing. He draws from AI algorithms, familial knowledge, DJs, mix-tapes, videos, and institutional archives to create his own multidisciplinary repertoire of Black diasporic culture. His videos and music recontextualize his sources, often pulling them out of…
Fantastic Futures: Cosplay in the Work of Phil Ly and Marissa Sean Cruz by Dallas Fellini
The photograph I interact with most on a daily basis is, of course, the image I have saved as my phone lockscreen. It is a photo by emerging Toronto photographer Phil Lý. In this image, a woman turns her cheek towards the camera, her gaze resting outside of the frame. Late afternoon light flits down…
On Photographic Futures by Solana Cain
“What I want to see more of in photography’s future, and within the larger media industry, are contributors and content that is more reflective of this world’s great diversity and the variety of human experiences. My photographic future places less importance on the gear photographers use and more emphasis on who is behind the lens.”…
Alumni Spotlight with Noga Cadan
My recent work mostly revolves around my move to Vancouver—lots of images relating to transportation and the ocean that kind of feel like depictions of transition and independence. Q + A Tell us a bit about your most recent work. My recent work mostly revolves around my move to Vancouver—lots of images relating to transportation…
Alumni Spotlight with Stine Danielle
Q&a Tell us a bit about your most recent work. My most recent work investigates what it means for me to be a participant in outdoor recreation in North America. Informed by my lived experience, my identity as an immigrant woman of color, and research on the history of outdoor recreational spaces. I examine outdoor…