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 […]

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 […]

GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM! Artist Performance + Talk by Emilio Rojas Media Art Gallery October 14, 2022 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.   GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM! is a lecture/performance by artist Emilio Rojas. It moves away from this xenophobic phrase and investigates the history of colonialism and border trauma. This lecture […]

Emilio Rojas performs A VAGUE AND UNDETERMINED PLACE (A GLORIA) Boylston Place Courtyard Saturday, September 234, 2022, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This performance and installation examines what artist Emilio Rojas terms “border pedagogies,” or teaching opportunities to question and reimagine national borders. Rojas will be inviting participants to draw the U.S.-Mexican border on transparent […]

Emilio Rojas performs A VAGUE AND UNDETERMINED PLACE (A GLORIA) Boylston Place Courtyard September 23, 2022, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This performance and installation examines what artist Emilio Rojas terms “border pedagogies,” or teaching opportunities to question and reimagine national borders. Rojas will be inviting participants to draw the U.S.-Mexican border on transparent paper, […]