Nilson Carroll is the Assistant Curator and Preservation Specialist at Visual Studies Workshop, where they received their MFA in 2021. nilson is an artist working at the intersection of video games, queer theory, and experimental film/video. Their art practice centers around the live and digital body, chronic illness, and violence, and actively pushes on the patriarchal boundaries and assumptions in games culture.They are the founder of the small DIY queer art games community swampbabes, and the co- founder of the annual international mutual aid project Queer Games Bundle. They have performed and screened work at festivals such as MONO NO AWARE (NY, NY), the Milan Machinima Festival, EXis Festival (Seoul), Fu:bar Glitch Art Festival (Croatia), among others, and perform live video glitches as shonen book and expanded cinema as VWV.
