Jodi Darby
Jodi Darby is a media artist, activist and educator specializing in experimental video and photography.
Her work reflects an interest in re-purposing history, mapping the changing North American landscape and finding beauty in that which has been discarded and abandoned. She has exhibited at venues including
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Washington Project for the Arts (DC), Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Anthropology Film Archives (New York), the Portland Art Museum (Portland) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle).
She has developed and taught trauma-informed media arts curriculum for young people in the Portland area since 2005.
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Sept. 25, 2026
S5E31: Desert Dispatch, Data Centers, and the People Pushing Back
Chris talks with Melinda Matson Spina, Jodi Darby, and Sage Bond about Desert Dispatch Media’s effort to document communities responding to the rapid expansion of AI data centers across the desert Southwest. They discuss a community-led film, public assemblies, and music that draws on sounds from the land.