a Leonardo/ISAST In-Person Rendezvous Event Sunday, March 17, 2024 – 3:00-6:00PM ET Listen and watch the full talk here: The NY LASER program is a series of lectures and presentations on art, science, and technology-related projects and an affiliate of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology (ISAST). Ellen K. Levy, PhD, artist, writer, and co-editor […]

For the fifth and final installment of the Basilica Conversation Series, artists Mary Mattingly and Anita Glesta speak about watersheds, cultivating ecological understanding, the role of art in imagining the future and more. Both Mattingly and Glesta have been working at Basilica Hudson during the month of October and there are many intersections between their […]

Women We Create, 4/11/2020 Anita Glesta is a New York City-based multimedia artist best known for her installations in the public and alternative venues internationally. Listen to the interview here.

Studio International, 03/31/2020 Brooklyn-based artist Anita Glesta sends a video message from her temporary studio in upstate New York. “I am reading about, and working on, what it means when a foreign substance … enters the body, and the fragility of being human”. Read the full article here.

OCTOBER 1, 2015 Panel at the Brooklyn Museum Watch the Panel here. PARTICIPANTS: Anita Glesta, Fion Gunn, Eleanor Heartney, Shirin Neshat, Luisa Valenzuela, Marjorie Martay A discussion of art’s role in raising awareness of war, genocide, rape, and sexual violence, as well as the ways that art is used as a tool for transformation in the […]

Studio International, 09/30/2015 The artist talks about the motivation behind her brightly colored projection of frenzied fish on to the National Theatre as part of the Totally Thames festival. Read the full article here.

WYBC Yale Radio, 08/10/2015 Artist, author, and lecturer Brainard Carey interview Anita Gelsta whose project WATERSHED is a public art projection dealing with Climate Change that will be projected on the face of the National Theater on the Thames as part of the Totally Thames Festival in September 2015. She is also creating a work as part […]

Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, 11/22/2012 The bombing of Guernica during the Civil War in 1937 became history thanks to a painting by Pablo Picasso. Anita Glesta, an American artist, recalls these events in her multimedia installation. 

5/12/2010 Anita Glesta’s Gernika/Guernica, shown in Lower Manhattan in Spring 2007, juxtaposed the provocative abstraction of Picasso’s infamous painting with survivor accounts of the 1937 bombing of a Basque village. Ellen Driscoll’s sculpture Revenant, a bridge made from hundreds of number 2 plastic bottles, was recently installed at the Nippon Ginko Bank in Hiroshima, Japan, […]

Artist Anita Glesta is interviewed by Whitney Curator Elisabeth Sussman about her recent installation “PUTTI FOR SARA” and her other work at a NYFA sponsored evening in January 2010.