Angela Washko

Angela Washko is an American new media artist and facilitator based in New York. After nine years as a professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University, she is currently the Catherine B. Heller Collegiate Professor of Art at University of Michigan. Washko mobilizes communities and creates new forums for discussions of feminism where they do not exist.

Washko is the founder of the Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft to bring attention to and protest the sexist language from players in the game. Washko has been creating performances inside the online video game ''World of Warcraft'' (WoW) since 2012 in which she initiates discussions about feminism within the gameplay.

In 2015, Washko presented an ongoing project focused on noted pick-up artist Roosh V, called Banged. The project was initially supported by a Rhizome at the New Museum Internet Art Microgrant. Her video game project "The Game: The Game" premiered in 2018 in a solo exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Johanna Fateman named "The Game: The Game" at Museum of the Moving Image as one of the top ten exhibitions of 2018 for Artforum. Rhizome (organization) added "The Game: The Game" to their Net Art Anthology, a project aiming to preserve historically important works of net art.

In 2021, Angela Washko moved into film-making by directing a documentary film called Workhorse Queen. After premiering at Slamdance Film Festival and a long international film festival run, the film was released in June 2022 for television broadcast and streaming on Starz, and additionally became available for VOD on Amazon Prime, AppleTV, Roku, and Vudu. Workhorse Queen is distributed by Breaking Glass Pictures. Washko was the recipient of the Best Documentary Feature award at American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, and the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Buffalo International Film Festival.

In 2020, Angela Washko was awarded the Creative Capital Award for her new video game project "Mother, Player." In 2023, she received the United States Artists Fellowship in the Media category. Provided by Wikipedia