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SUMMARY:Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial
DESCRIPTION:Iwalani Kaluhiokalani\, The Radiance Chasers\, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation\, painting\, paper cut-outs\, video mapping\, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser\n\n\n\nIwalani Kaluhiokalani\, The Radiance Chasers\, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation\, painting\, paper cut-outs\, video mapping\, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser. \n\n\n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary – Emerson College’s platform for presenting contemporary visual art – proudly presents Echoes of the Heart: The New England Media Art Biennial\, a multimedia juried group exhibition featuring New England visual artists Clint Baclawski\, Erik DeLuca\, Iwalani Kaluhiokalani\, Justin Levesque\, VHF Studios\, and Karlie Zhao. The exhibition is on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street from July 29- December 13 \, 2025\, free and open to the public Tuesday – Saturday\, 12-6 pm.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew media art now encompasses traditional film and digital video\, as well as a wide range of technology\, from AI to hand-built radio\, representing an exciting and rapidly expanding genre in the contemporary art world. Yet\, there are few venues for emerging and mid-career video artists to showcase their work in New England. This biennial aims to expand these opportunities for the region and celebrate artists with financial and technical support and the opportunity to expand and reiterate existing and/or new works. \n\n\n\nArtist Reception\, Thursday\, September 18\, 5-7pm \n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 7\, 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors. In Conversation: Join artists Justin Levesque and VHF Studio as they discuss their broad ranging practices and what it means to be a practicing artist in our current climates. Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\nTuesday October 21\, 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors In Conversation: Join multidisciplinary installation artist Iwalani Kaluhiokalani and photographer Clint Baclawski as they discuss space\, time\, color and motion in their work. Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 4\, 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors In Conversation: Join artists Erik DeLuca and Wenran Zhao as they speak with Emerson professor and sound artist Amber Vistein to discuss experimentation\, sonic textures and the art of presence. \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. \n\n\n\nClint Baclawski is creating a new photographic sculptural installation part of his ongoing scroll series to consider the photographic impulse to capture the landscape as combined with the presentation strategies of advertising. Erik DeLuca is creating an interactive technology based object exploring silence and sound entitled White Spaces Radio. Iwalani Kaluhiokalani will combine innovative projection-mapping and sound to activate a challenging architectural area in the gallery’s entryway. Justin Levesque will reimagine his multimedia wall installation Geographical Problems for the Emerson space. VHF Studios will present a new iteration of their cheerfully riotous multi-media sculptural installation\, Narcissus Looks Back: and They Love You. Karlie Zhao will create a site-specific piece for the windows facing Avery Street\, and display her delicate\, evocative piece Thread in the Air\, which infinitely generates poetic texts through audience interaction. \n\n\n\nJuried by Distinguished Curator-in-Residence Leonie Bradbury\, Curator of Special Projects Shana Dumont Garr\, and visual artist and curator Allison Maria Rodriguez\, this exhibition recognizes the importance of contemporary new media art being created across the Northeast. Of the experience jurying\, Allison Maria Rodriguez said: \n\n\n\n“It’s been such an honor to be included in this process. It can sometimes feel like New England is dominated by more traditional artistic mediums – and that may be true – but it was so thrilling to see all the incredible new media artists working in the area that submitted to this call. The jury had a real challenge – in the best way! It proved that opportunities like this to showcase artists working in art and technology are so greatly needed\, not only to support individual practices\, but also to expand the conversation in the broader arts  ecosystem – and I’m so grateful to the folks at Emerson Contemporary for making this happen!”
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/echoes-of-the-heart-new-england-media-art-biennial/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
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SUMMARY:Kameelah J. Rasheed: I have Asked Myself: “Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?”
DESCRIPTION:In her public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” Kameelah J. Rasheed responds to Boston’s memorial landscape by exploring the layered histories of Boston as discovered in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. Rasheed gathered marginalia and ornate typefaces from their collection of Boston’s oldest books. These fragments are interwoven or sampled into digital designs to form visual poems to be displayed on digital signage situated around the Boston Common. Additionally\, the poems will be placed inside public transit cars on the Orange and Green lines. The poems are inspired by Toni Morrison and act as an interruption in the ad-based public view to consider the complexities of our current socio-political context.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/kameelah-j-rasheed-i-have-asked-myself-can-a-sentence-be-haunted-and-if-so-by-what/
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Join Hidden Histories Curator Shana Dumont Garr on a special walking tour to view Kameelah Janan Rasheed\, Sue Murad\, Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill’s new public art projects in and around the Boston Common and Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston\, Ma. We’ll see archival materials and ideas gleaned from old books and maps made public in poetic and slyly rebellious ways. \n\n\n\nFor more about the Hidden Histories exhibition click here. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Media Art Gallery\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nElisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of Louis Glapion. Glapion was a French\, biracial hairdresser and barber who\, together with his friend George Middleton\, built and owned what is now considered the oldest extant house in Beacon Hill\, located at 5 Pinckney Street. While more is known about Middleton\, the artist’s research has uncovered glimpses of Glapion that speak to an interesting and noteworthy life based in Beacon Hill. Hamilton seeks to honor Glapion and enliven curiosity about his lived experiences in our city. The AR experience will be available on Hoverlay and accompanied by a research document designed for educational purposes.  \n\n\n\nClareese Hill’s The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel\, a 19th-century Black woman from Massachusetts. By blending historical wisdom with future-focused fabulations\, the Black Boston Dream Oracle will provide a unique space for reflection\, healing\, and imagining new possibilities for liberation and collective well-being through early Black feminist thought. The Oracle will be presented as an Extended Reality (XR) experience available on the Hoverlay application\, accompanied by a web-based research document designed for educational purposes. \n\n\n\nSue Murad’s ASSEMBLE: Performance Instructions For Public Arrangement is a participatory performance that reflects on the ways we gather in public space—particularly the historic Boston Common—through the objects we bring with us or discover there. It is a guided\, interactive experience that unfolds across the landscape\, inviting participants into temporary arrangements shaped by memory\, proximity\, and shared attention. The project bears witness to the many generations of people who have gathered together for rest and rallies\, labor and loitering\, play and protest.  \n\n\n\nKameelah J. Rasheed’s public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” responds to Boston’s memorial landscape by exploring the layered histories of Boston as discovered in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. Rasheed gathered marginalia and ornate typefaces from their collection of Boston’s oldest books. These fragments are interwoven or sampled into digital designs to form visual poems to be displayed on digital signage situated around the Boston Common.  \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Hidden Histories is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr-3/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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