DNR Community Grant 2024
Do Not Research is proud to award our first Community Grant to Transcendence Creative, a new transglobal entity spearheaded by Tomi Faison, Filip Kostic, and Harris Rosenblum.
Transcendence Creative is the first creative agency and logistics corporation with a historical materialist approach to brand identity and marketing. For its inaugural project, TC has commandeered the sub-level of lower_cavity as a temporary operations center, where the emergence of a new international order is already underway.
DNR Community Grants will support ambitious projects, with significant offline costs, that address internet culture and society in the 21st century.
The 2024 grant is an award of $1500. Community Grants will be distributed once a year on a per project basis. These funds are drawn from the contributions of our generous supporters on Substack.
Do Not Research is a subscriber funded arts organization. Every week we highlight the work of an emerging or established creative in the fields of writing, visual art, internet culture and beyond. Each year we produce an anthology book of the collected works published to our site. You can help to support Do Not Research by becoming a paid subscriber.
It is our hope that annual DNR Community Grants will assist artists and creatives with larger scale projects that may be financially burdensome or difficult to realize on their own. The artists of Transcendence Creative have all been long time contributors, organizers and educators. They have helped to build the context and community of Do Not Research. You can support us in building a new institution.
Meet the awardees:
Tomi Faison is an artist and filmmaker based in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been included in a solo exhibition at Smack Mellon in New York in 2023, and exhibitions and screenings in Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago, Bern, Frankfurt, and Istanbul. She is a founder of QuaranTV and head curator of Scrap Yard Screenings.
• Rhizome: Artist Profile: Tomi Faison
Filip Kostic is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. He teaches in the Fine Art and Interaction-Design Departments at ArtCenter College of Design. His performance, sculpture, and interactive-media works have been exhibited internationally, including in Ars Electronica and at Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
• Coeval Magazine: Filip Kostic
Harris Rosenblum is a sculptor based in New York. He received his MFA from Kent State University. Recent exhibitions include Relics of the Corrupted Blood at Blade Study in New York and Inorganic Demons at Sara’s in New York.
• Conversation with Harris Rosenblum, Filip Kostic, Genevieve Goffman, and Almog Cohen-Kashi at SARA'S
