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Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial

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Media Art Gallery

Iwalani Kaluhiokalani, The Radiance Chasers, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation, painting, paper cut-outs, video mapping, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser. Emerson Contemporary – Emerson College’s platform for presenting contemporary visual art...

Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion

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Elisa 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,...

Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle

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Clareese 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...

Lecture by Ruth Clemens: “Cultures, Technologies, and Media of the Sonic War Machine.”

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Tuesday October 14, 12-1pm Lecture by Ruth Clemens, “Cultures, Technologies, and Media of the Sonic War Machine." Focusing on aural media and forgotten sound technologies from the early 20th century, this lecture presents a story of unexpected consequences that connects the international Dadaist avant-garde to 1940s Hollywood to military technologies and communication systems. Clemens' broad...

In Conversation: Elisa Hamilton, Clareese Hill and Ruth Clemens

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Hidden Histories Artists Elisa Hamilton and Dr. Clareese Hill will be in conversation with scholar Dr. Ruth Clemens. Moderated by Curator-in-Residence Dr. Leonie Bradbury for a discussion about the expansive role of speculative, cartographic, and de-colonial historical research methods. Dr. Ruth Clemens' broad research interests cover film, cultural analysis, and comparative literary studies. Her work...