^{Guests celebrate the launch of UNM ART MUSE/ZINE: Responses to Hindsight Insight 5.0 on December 4, 2024. Photograph by Stefan Jennings Batista.}

In the Spring of 2024 the UNM Art Museum Student Advisory Council (SAC) created a zine titled UNM ART MUSE/ZINE: Responses to Hindsight Insight 4.0. This project was the group’s first exploration into the process of publication with a focus on creative research and artmaking. In the Fall of 2024, SAC again visited the project but this time with new participants, new research, and a new exhibition to pull inspiration from — Hindsight Insight 5.0.

Hindsight Insight 5.0 is the final installment of the Hindsight Insight series, a hybrid project and exhibition space at UNMAM.  Hindsight Insight 5.0 imagines the galleries as a laboratory, demonstrating how research and experimentation are put into action through projects at the intersection of art and science. With a focus on bio-art, science, and technology, students in SAC were encouraged to connect and expand on themes from the exhibition through a creative research project.

In August, students from across the university were invited to an informational meeting where they were introduced to the project concept, met with museum staff, and explored Hindsight Insight 5.0. To help support interested students, Joseph McKee, UNMAM Coordinator of Student Engagement and Technology and staff lead of SAC, put together a resource and reading list available on the Hindsight Insight 5.0 webpage with contributions from Andrea Polli and Fiona Bell, two artists featured in the exhibition. Joseph also built a custom ChatGPT model, named BioArtAssistant (BAA), created to assist students in brainstorming and in the development of the research projects. If you would like to chat with BAA and learn about the field of bio-art and Hindsight Insight 5.0 – click here.

In September and October, students in SAC continued creating their projects. During meetings, students would share their progress, discuss, and critique the development of each other’s work in a peer-led environment. On October 15, students presented final drafts of their projects to UNMAM staff members Joseph McKee, Arif Khan, Director; Mary Statzer, Curator of Prints and Photographs; and Andrea Perez-Martinez, Collections Manager.  Throughout November, students worked in themed sections (design, marketing, and copyediting) to prepare the zine for print, allowing students to have direct control in the construction and overall direction of the newest edition of UNM ART MUSE/ZINE.

From artist interviews; to research in bio-art and artificial intelligence; to the re-creation of a nineteenth-century typeface and more – UNM ART MUSE/ZINE: Responses to Hindsight Insight 5.0 is a creative publication that presents student responses to the exhibition, outside of UNMAM’s institutional and curatorial voice.

The complete zine is available to read at the bottom of this page.

^{Interior view of UNM ART MUSE/ZINE: Responses to Hindsight Insight 5.0. Photograph by Stefan Jennings Batista.}

“DROOP” is a typeface designed by Bre Kappel.

The typeface is a re-creation of the lettering found throughout Microphotographs Presented to the Royal Institute of Chemistry by Henry Droop Richmond a nineteenth-century album of microscopic photographs created between 1877-1883. This album was the only piece from the UNMAM collection on display in Hindsight Insight 5.0, demonstrating that a single historical object can inspire individuals artists, students, and an entire exhibition.

DROOP is available for download below. The link will open in a new tab via OneDrive.