Martine Syms MFA ’17 Interviewed in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Martine Syms MFA ’17. Photo by Christian Zürn
Visual artist and director Martine Syms MFA ’17 spoke with The Believer about her art practice, excerpted in McSweeney’s. She discusses her creative process, prioritizing, and how projects change as they move from an idea to their final form. “In art, I love an unknown; it’s great,” Syms says. “That’s the whole point to me: I don’t know what it’s gonna look like, I don’t know what it’s gonna be, I just have this weird idea in my head: let’s see where it takes me.”
Introducing the interview, Claire L. Evans describes Syms as “mov[ing] through mediums and ideas like a freeway moves through neighborhoods.” After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago, Syms founded Dominica Publishing, earned her graduate degree at Bard, and was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Her first movie, The African Desperate, was shot at Bard and satirizes art school.
Post Date: 02-10-2025
Introducing the interview, Claire L. Evans describes Syms as “mov[ing] through mediums and ideas like a freeway moves through neighborhoods.” After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago, Syms founded Dominica Publishing, earned her graduate degree at Bard, and was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Her first movie, The African Desperate, was shot at Bard and satirizes art school.
Post Date: 02-10-2025