Digital Art and/as Performance: A Conversation with Dr. Leonie Bradbury and Dr. EL Putnam Cabot Science Library Harvard University CORRECTION: Friday, March 24, 2023 3:00 p.m.  Join contemporary art curator Leonie Bradbury and performance artist EL Putnam discuss their collaborative work on the recent exhibition PseudoRandom at Emerson Contemporary, considering the challenges and possibilities of creating and presenting digital art. This […]

Putnam acts as the human mediator between two generative animation systems, making visible the labor that responds to and produces data, as her body acts as the database of lived experience. A collaborative performance, Friction, created and performed with German sound artist David Stalling will debut in March. 

Join us for a live performance “Ghost Work” by video and performance artist EL Putnam. Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri define ghost work as the hidden human labor that powers our digital systems. In the performance of this title, Putnam acts as the human mediator between two generative animation systems, making visible the labor that […]

Join us for a celebration and unveiling of the new spring exhibition EL Putnam: PseudoRandom. Artist will perform a newly created piece “Ghost Work” live at 6PM. Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri define ghost work as the hidden human labor that powers our digital systems. In the performance of this title, Putnam acts as the […]

Artist Reception for the new exhibition”Perspectives: Micro to Macro” featuring 11 emerging Boston artists. RSVP required The exhibit showcases a broad range of media by Boston-based emerging artists and includes photography, sculpture, digital video, animation and an interactive installation. Free and open to the public, gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday, 12:00-7:00 pm. “Perspectives: Micro to Macro” […]

Emerson College’s VM 492 Photo Practicum course allows students the opportunity to deeply research and consider a photographically based project as an advanced capstone experience. After completing other introductory and intermediate photography courses, technical abilities are honed, and the first conceptual insights are made over several semesters.  The students who then persist into Photo Practicum, […]

Border Pedagogies, Queer Kinships, and Archival Resonances: Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas in Conversation. Moderated by Laurel V. McLaughlin. Saturday, November 5th, 7-8:30p.m. (Doors open at 6:30p.m.) Dessert Reception to follow. RSVP required EVENTBRITE Location: Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116 Join Emerson Contemporary for a conversation between artists Tania Bruguera and […]

A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father The Iwasaki Library RSVP required leonie_bradbury@emerson.edu The live performance and installation, A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father, presents Rojas’ deconstructions of the popular novel, Pequeño Hombre, one of many written by his estranged father, who bears his […]

A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father The Iwasaki Library October 15-16, 2022 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. RSVP required leonie_bradbury@emerson.edu The live performance and installation, A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father, presents Rojas’ deconstructions of the popular novel, Pequeño Hombre, one of many […]