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SUMMARY:MELT: the memory of ice (topographic remix)\, by Betsey Biggs
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)\, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists\, electroacoustic composers\, and music technologists from across the globe. As a part of the installation track of ICMC 2025\, presenting Betsey Bigg’s MELT: the memory of ice – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th. \n\n\n\nStill\, MELT: the memory of ice (topographic remix)\, 2024\n\n\n\nBetsey made MELT after wandering around the world’s most active glacier\, in Ilullisat\, Greenland\, with her mother and 5-year-old daughter and the film’s cinematographer\, Troy Fairbanks. All synthesizers are made out of processed field recordings from this trip. The slow film stills and music are increasingly interrupted by audiovisual glitches\, representing tipping points of our warming climate; the timing of these glitches was determined by a Max patch converting sea ice extent data to probability. \n\n\n\nThe vocal music was created collaboratively with the members of Moving Star vocal ensemble from an open score Betsey composed. The music was recorded by Jeff Cook at 2nd Story Sound\, mixed by Michael Hammond of Big Ship Audio\, and the spatial Dolby Atmos mix was created with Sean Winters. The film itself premiered at the IMAX Theatre at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn MELT: the memory of ice\, Betsey writes\, “As an installation\, I wanted to truly use the gallery space to do something more than just press play on a movie\, to explore the imaginative possibilities of transforming and relocating the sounds and visuals\, to create a new kind of space for the audience to wander through. The visual transformations\, especially\, allow me to understand the images in a different\, more imaginary way: a kind of inner topography. So I’ve titled this installation work MELT: the memory of ice (topographic remix).“ \n\n\n\nArtist Statement \n\n\n\nBetsey Biggs (Writer/Director/Composer) is a composer and media artist whose workconnects the dots between sound\, image\, place and technology. Her work has been described by the New Yorker as “psychologically complex\, exposing how we orient ourselves with our ears.” For more than twenty-five years\, she has composed music\, created live multimedia performances\, and created participatory art installations. She earned a Ph.D. in music composition at Princeton University\, and has taught music\, multimedia\, public art\, photography\, and video at Brown University\, RISD\, and the University of Colorado Boulder\, where she currently serves as Assistant Professor of Critical Media Practices. \n\n\n\nTroy Fairbanks (Director of Photography) has a well-rounded filmmaking career as adirector\, videographer\, cinematographer\, and drone operator. His Denver production companies\, Makēda Creative and Rise Aerials\, specialize in action sports\, documentaries\, and drone cinematography. He has created more than 800 video projects in 31 countries\, with a special focus on flying FPV drones for commercial purposes. When he’s not behind the camera\, you can find Troy and his wife traveling the world in their converted school bus\, enjoying the outdoors and board sports\, and chasing one adventure or another. \n\n\n\nMoving Star is a vocal ensemble creating original music infused with improvisation. They are an artistic community partner of the Carnegie Hall Education Wing. The performers of Moving Star have collaborated with Meredith Monk\, Julia Wolfe\, Ann Hamilton\, and SufjanStevens\, and have performed at Zankel Hall\, Whitney Museum\, La MaMa\, Symphony Space\,and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nMELT: the memory of ice – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/melt-the-memory-of-ice-topographic-remix-by-betsey-biggs/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Liminal by Zhitao Lin
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)\, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists\, electroacoustic composers\, and music technologists from across the globe. As a part of the installation track of ICMC 2025\, presenting Liminal – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th. \n\n\n\nStill image from the documentary video Shell Art – Mother of Pearl\, published by Meet Qingdao onYouTube (2023). Used here for cultural reference.\n\n\n\nLiminal is an AI-driven audiovisual installation by Zhitao Lin that transforms tra-ditional Chinese aesthetics into a generative\, interactive experience. Inspired by the mythical Peach Blossom Spring\, the piece uses real-time gesture tracking to control the sound of Guqin\, Xiao\, and percussion\, along with dynamic digital ink landscapes rendered as 3D particle systems. Only one audience member is tracked at a time\, allowing for a focused and intimate interaction. Each motion becomes a brushstroke in both sound and image\, creating a deeply personal and ephemeral version of this imagined utopia.At the heart of Liminal is a custom gesture-mapping system driven by computer vision. A high-frame-rate camera captures the participant’s hand and body movements in real time. The left hand triggers and modulates sounds derived from traditional Chinese percussion and xiao (bamboo flute)\, while the right hand controls timbral and articulatory variations of guqin-like textures\, such as harmonics and arpeggios. These movements simultaneously influence a custom 3D particle system\, generating visuals reminiscent of dynamic ink wash paintings. The result is an evolving visual environment that fuses digital abstraction with references to natural landscapes and lacquered ornamentation. \n\n\n\nA Generated visual output from Liminal\, illustrating gesture-driven 3D particle ink landscape.Image by Zhitao Lin.\n\n\n\nSound in Liminal is shaped through a real-time gestural mapping system. Using a high-frame-rate camera\, the installation tracks the participant’s hand and body movements to control and modulate sonic elements derived from guqin\, xiao\, and percussive textures. Each gesture dynamically alters parameters such as pitch articulation\, layering\, and spatialization—allowing the participant to sculpt a con- tinuously evolving soundscape through motion alone. \n\n\n\nDesigned for one-on-one interaction\, the installation maintains focus and clarity by tracking a single participant at a time. This enables highly responsive audio-visual interplay and encourages an intimate\, reflective mode of engagement. \n\n\n\nEach interaction becomes a unique and ephemeral composition\, situated at the intersection of body\, machine\, and cultural resonance. Liminal invites participants into a space where gestures function as both input and authorship\, transforming embodied presence into real-time audiovisual expression. It offers a sensory environment where memory\, movement\, and technology coalesce—evoking a digitally mediated encounter with introspection and transformation. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Statement \n\n\n\nZhitao Lin is a forward-thinking composer whose work bridges traditional Chinese aesthetics\, spectral music\, and cutting-edge technology. Currently a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) candidate in Composition at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University\, he also holds a Master’s degree in Composition from Peabody and a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of California\, Berkeley. His research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence and music composition\, exploring new possibilities in sound art through deep technological integration.Lin’s work spans chamber music\, orchestral compositions\, opera\, electronic music\, and multimedia sound installations\, earning recognition for its fusion of cultural depth and technological innovation. By blending Chinese musical traditions with spectral techniques and AI-driven creativity\, he crafts a sonic world that is both avant-garde and deeply evocative. Influenced by Zen philosophy\, his compositions often evoke a surreal\, mystical quality\, transforming abstract musical narratives into immersive experiences. His practice continues to explore new human-machine collaborations that expand the boundaries of musical expression. \n\n\n\nLiminal – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/liminal-by-zhitao-lin/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Foresta-Inclusive: (ex)tending towards\, by Jane Tingley
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)\, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists\, electroacoustic composers\, and music technologists from across the globe. As a part of the installation track of ICMC 2025\, presenting Foresta-Inclusive: (ex)tending towards\, by Jane Tingley – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th. \n\n\n\n(ex)tending towards is driven by sensor data collected using the Foresta-Inclusive infrastructure at the rare Charitable Reserve in Blaire\, ON. CA. This infrastructure includes three networked ecosensors that are installed unobtrusively onto the trunk of a tree and sense phenomenon such as: temperature\, humidity\, VOCs\, particulate matter\, wind\, C02 and rain. The in-gallery installation is composed of three main components: 1) a visualization that images 24hrs of collected data\, where the outer ring shows contemporary values and each subsequent smaller ring images the values from the previous hour\, 2) a point cloud of the tree being sensed\, and 3) the soundscape that sonifies the collected data. This work uses a simple gestural interaction to allow the participant to move into the 3D space of the visualization to explore the deep time of the tree’s life. The slower one moves the easier it becomes to inspect each ring of the tree’s experience. \n\n\n\nForesta inclusive: (ex)tending towards installed at the Ottawa School of Art Gallery Orléans. 2024.\n\n\n\nIn response to the temporal difference between tree and human individuals\, this work explores ways to slow down human engagement\, and to make visible the daily experience of a tree. The aim of the work is to find ways to demonstrate the absolute liveliness of the natural world as it unfolds all around us – yet more often than not beyond our limited sensory perception. The first visualization materializes data as a particle flow field that gently undulates and is affected in real time by changing data. Inspired by tree rings as evidence of yearly experience\, the visualization is structured in the same manner and visualizes the last 24hrs of the tree’s life\, where the outer ring shows contemporary values and each subsequent smaller ring the values from the previous hour. To interact with this visualization\, there is a one-meter-tall cork cylinder that is also a scent sculpture\, which releases the scent of geosmin (the scent of a forest after it rains) every time it rains in the forest.  \n\n\n\nTo interact\, the participant uses a simple gestural interaction to move spatially into the visualization. The slower one moves\, enables the participant to inspect each ring. The interface is embedded in soil\, which also contain a set of sculptural sensor pods. Next to the visualization is a point cloud visualization of the tree at the rare Charitable Reserve. The point cloud was captured by a LIDAR scan of the forest at rare using a very large drone and rendered using Touch Designer. This point cloud is also affected in real time by live data. Like the visuals\, the sonic elements materialize the forest data in a generative sound experience that balances between mimicry and poetic memory of forest experience.  \n\n\n\nFig. 2. Visualization\n\n\n\nIn its entirety this installation creates an embodied exploratory space where the deep time of a tree’s life is remembered\, and the human body is slowed down in the engagement. \n\n\n\nArtist Statement \n\n\n\nJane Tingley is an artist\, curator\, director of the SLOlab (Systems | Life | Ontologies) andAssociate Professor at York University. Her studio work combines traditional studiopractice with new media tools – and spans responsive/interactive installation\,performative robotics\, and telematically connected distributed sculptures/installations.Her works are interdisciplinary in nature and explore the creation of spaces andexperiences that push the boundaries between science and magic\, interactivity andplayfulness. \n\n\n\nHrysovalanti Fereniki Maheras\, also known as Hryso\, is a computational art practitionerspecializing in generative audiovisual art simulations and electronic kinetic art. Shecollaborated on the sound design of this project. Currently a Ph.D. candidate inComputational Arts at York University\, she also serves as a studio instructor foraudiovisual arts. Hryso’s artistic exploration involves seamlessly traversing betweenvirtual and physical technological realms\, aiming to create art that investigates theemergence of a virtual analog environment within a shared\, intricate physical habitat. \n\n\n\nACKNOWLEDGMENTSFaadhi Fauzi: Three.js Web developmentKavi – Ilze Briede: 3D modelling and Touch DesignerMarius Kintel: Firmware and MQTT VCR development \n\n\n\n(ex)tending towards – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/foresta-inclusive-extending-towards-by-jane-tingley/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition
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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
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories: Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill\, Sue Murad\, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed part of Un-Monument
DESCRIPTION:Un-Monument is a two-year initiative that reimagines and fosters discourse around Boston’s monuments and memorials in a way that centers and amplifies a multiplicity of voices and creates authentic learning moments across the city. It invigorates public spaces through artist interventions that bring to the fore the rich histories that are often hidden. \n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary enthusiastically announces Hidden Histories\, a series of four public art projects produced as part of the Un-Monument initiative of the City of Boston. Hidden Histories highlights the processes of collaboration\, artistic research\, and speculation in contemporary art.  \n\n\n\nLAUNCH PARTY: SEPTEMBER 18\, 5-7:30PM\, Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, 02111 \n\n\n\nWHAT: A Series of Public Art Activations that are part of Un-Monument\, a multi-year public art initiative to bring temporary monuments and free programming to the City of Boston that expand the inclusive histories represented in public spaces across the City. \n\n\n\nWHEN: September 1 through October 28\, 2025.  \n\n\n\nWHERE: Beacon Hill\, Boston Common\, and MBTA trains and stations along the Green and Orange Lines\, and virtually via the Hoverlay augmented reality application. \n\n\n\nThis initiative is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture and the Mellon Foundation. \n\n\n\nCurated and produced by Emerson Contemporary\, the exhibition will present a series of four public art projects featuring Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill\, Sue Murad\, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Combining the gallery’s mission to educate by doing\, the inclusive experience of walking tours\, and the idea that history is a living subject that constantly evolves\, the artists received this prompt: find an aspect of the city’s past that is not currently well-known or understood and create art using new media technologies to amplify those stories.  \n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary collaborated with Boston’s foremost historic archives: The Boston Athenaeum\, Historic New England\, and Massachusetts Historical Society\, and the artists were subsequently invited as community research fellows. With the generous support and collaboration of the archives’ staff\,  artists were provided access to their rich collections and many objects that served as inspiration for their thought-provoking projects. \n\n\n\nSue Murad\, ASSEMBLE\, 2025\n\n\n\nTo support public access to Hidden Histories\, the gallery has continued to build on their multi-year collaboration and partnership with Hoverlay\, a Boston-based augmented reality platform where users can compose and publish immersive content. Hoverlay enables any storyteller to utilize AR to transform how they tell their stories by placing virtual story objects out in the world to be accessed by visitors’ smartphones.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/regarding-monuments-visualizing-hidden-histories/
LOCATION:Boston Commons\, 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, Boston\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,News,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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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/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion
DESCRIPTION: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\, 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\nThis project is part of Hidden Histories\, a series of four public art activations produced as part of the Un-Monument initiative of the City of Boston\, viewable September 1 through October 28. This project can be viewed virtually via the Hoverlay augmented reality application at 5 Pickney Street\, Beacon Hill. On site public signage will provide a Qr code and instructions to download the app and access the exhibition. \n\n\n\nUn-Monument is a multi-year public art initiative to bring temporary monuments and free programming that expand the inclusive histories represented in public spaces across the City. Hidden Histories\, curated and produced by Emerson Contemporary\, highlights the processes of collaboration\, artistic research\, and speculation in contemporary art. \n\n\n\nTo support public access to Hidden Histories\, Emerson Contemporary continues to build on its multi-year collaboration and partnership with Hoverlay\, a Boston-based augmented reality platform where users can compose and publish immersive content. Hoverlay enables any storyteller to utilize AR to transform how they tell their stories by placing virtual story objects out in the world to be accessed by visitors’ smartphones.  \n\n\n\nThis project is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/elisa-hamilton-glimpses-of-glapion/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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SUMMARY:Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle
DESCRIPTION: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 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\nThis project is part of Hidden Histories\, a series of four public art activations produced as part of the Un-Monument initiative of the City of Boston\, viewable September 1 through October 28. This project can be viewed virtually via the Hoverlay augmented reality application at 3 separate locations on Beacon Hill: 8 Smith Court\, 65 Anderson Street and 27 Myrtle street. On site public signage will provide a Qr code and instructions to download the app and access the exhibition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Clareese Hill is a practice-based researcher. She explores the validity of the word “identity” through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. Dr. Hill has performed lectures at The Royal College of Art\, Goldsmiths University of London\, University of Sussex\, CUNY Graduate Center\, The Chicago Art Department\, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. She was also a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellow (Phase One). Dr.Hill has published peer-reviewed academic essays in THEOREM Journal\, Architecture\, and Culture Journal\, and has an upcoming article in Antennae\, The Journal of Nature and Culture. \n\n\n\nTo support public access to Hidden Histories\, Emerson Contemporary continues to build on its multi-year collaboration and partnership with Hoverlay\, a Boston-based augmented reality platform where users can compose and publish immersive content. Hoverlay enables any storyteller to utilize AR to transform how they tell their stories by placing virtual story objects out in the world to be accessed by visitors’ smartphones. Public signage on Beacon Hill\, the T and in the Common will provide a Qr code and instructions to download the app and access the exhibition. \n\n\n\nThis project is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/clareese-hill-the-black-boston-dream-oracle/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140326
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SUMMARY:Launch Party Hidden Histories
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a spectacular event celebrating the launch of Emerson Contemporary’s public art exhibition Hidden Histories featuring art projects by Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill\, Sue Murad\, and Kameelah J. Rasheed. Artist will be present to discuss their unique works and visitors can partake in student led walking tours of the projects. Part of the City of Boston’s Un-Monument initiative to transform and expand Boston’s conversation around public art\, monuments\, and who should be memorialized and why. \n\n\n\nEvent Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery St. Boston\, Ma 02111
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/launch-party-hidden-histories/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20250909T135238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251222T203832Z
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SUMMARY:Sue Murad: ASSEMBLE\, Performance Action on the Boston Common\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:Sue Murad\, ASSEMBLE\, Reimagined Historic Walking Tours in Boston Common\, 2025.\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.  \n\n\n\nMurad created a series of prompts inviting people into an embodied experience of the Common\, creating a temporal micro-culture for each tour group in celebration of the right to peacefully assemble. The guided\, interactive experience unfolds across the landscape\, inviting participants into ephemeral arrangements shaped by memory\, proximity\, and shared attention. \n\n\n\nBased in the Boston Common\, Murad’s part of the Hidden Histories walking tour is inspired by the archival photos of people spending time together in the park from the nineteenth century to the present. The project bears witness to the many generations of people who have gathered together for rest and rallies\, labor and loitering\, play and protest. As such\, Murad presents a contemplative investigation of the often overlooked First Amendment right to peacefully assemble.  \n\n\n\nARTIST LED TOUR: Friday\, October 3\, 12-1:30pm.  \n\n\n\n ARTIST LED TOUR: Saturday\, October 4\, 12-1:30pm.  \n\n\n\n ARTIST LED TOUR: Sunday\, October 5\, 12-1:30pm.  \n\n\n\nSelf-guided tours are available with the Hoverlay Augmented Reality application at channel: Un-monument: 1:30-4:00pm or anytime that works for you
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sue-murad-assemble-performance-action-boston-common/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20250918T205721Z
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SUMMARY:Augmented Reality Public Art Walking Tour: Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 4\, 2025\, 2-3:30pm \n\n\n\nJoin artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist lead walking tour of their two new public art projects Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA.  \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.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/walking-tour-elisa-hamilton-and-clareese-hill/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20251007T193851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T141605Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Ruth Clemens: “Cultures\, Technologies\, and Media of the Sonic War Machine."
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 14\, 12-1pm  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLecture 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. \n\n\n\nClemens’ broad research interests cover film\, cultural analysis\, and comparative literary studies. Her work explores the intersections between textuality and materiality\, media and politics\, and language and technology. Her research interests are varied\, with through-lines of critical post-humanism and the avant-garde across media\, film\, sound\, and visual arts and the materiality of culture. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/lecture-by-ruth-clemens-cultures-technologies-and-media-of-the-sonic-war-machine/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20251008T135338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T144548Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill and Ruth Clemens
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nDr. Ruth Clemens’ broad research interests cover film\, cultural analysis\, and comparative literary studies. Her work explores the intersections between textuality and materiality\, media and politics\, and language and technology. Her research interests are varied\, with through-lines of critical post-humanism and the avant-garde across media\, film\, sound\, and visual arts and the materiality of culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElisa H. Hamilton is a socially engaged multimedia artist who creates artworks and community-centered projects that emphasize shared spaces and the hopeful examination of our everyday places\, objects\, and experiences. She holds a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MA in Civic Media from Emerson College. Her most recent project Glimpses of Glapion presents a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of a historic figure Louis Glapion in the augmented reality application Hoverlay as part the the exhibition Hidden Histories and the City of Boston’s Un-monument Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Clareese Hill is a practice-based art researcher in XR and Immersive Media. She explores the validity of the word “identity” through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. Her most recent project 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  \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/in-conversation-elisa-hamilton-clareese-hill-and-ruth-clemens/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Clint Baclawski and Iwalani Kaluhiokalani
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 21\, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Join multidisciplinary installation artists Iwalani Kaluhiokalani and photographer Clint Baclawski as they discuss space\, time\, color and motion in their work on view as part of Echoes of the Heart until December 13\, 2025. Moderated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClint Baclawski works with photography\, technology\, light\, and space. He received his BFA in Advertising Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology\, Post-Baccalaureate from Bucknell University\, and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Design. He is Boston-based and has been an adjunct professor in Graduate Studies at MassArt since 2017. In 2022\, Baclawski had residencies in both Venice\, Italy\, and Wassaic\, NY.  \n\n\n\nHe was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in Photography in 2019. Baclawski exhibits his work extensively throughout the United States\, and his work is included in many private and institutional collections including Children’s Hospital\, Dana Farber Cancer Institute\, Whitehead Institute\, and Fidelity. He has been published in Boston Art Review\, FRAME (Amsterdam)\, Boston Home Magazine\, Designboom\, The Boston Globe\, and The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume II (New York\, NY). Clint’s studio is located in Boston’s South End. \n\n\n\nIwalani Kaluhiokalani is a Boston-based painter and interdisciplinary installation artist whose work centers movement. She holds a BFA in Painting with Distinction and Departmental Honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston\, where she also studied dance and performance art in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) program. She later continued studies in Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysis\, completing a Laban Institute of Movement Studies program at Lesley College\, Cambridge\, MA.  \n\n\n\nKaluhiokalani is part of Kingston Gallery\, Boston and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Bromfield Gallery\, Boston\, The Pfizer Building and LabCentral of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Cambridge\, New Art Center Newton\, and La Traverse/Catherine Bastide Projects in Marseille\, France. She has created installation work for corporate collections and for the ACTivate residency at Boston Center For the Arts. Kaluhiokalani’s work is held in individual and corporate private collections.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-clint-baclawski-and-iwalani-kaluhiokalani/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20251024T204436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251112T201331Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis of VHF Studio will be talking with Malic Amalya
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 19\, Artists talk 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors –  \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis of VHF Studio will talk with Malic Amalya\, Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and Film Production\, about the conceptual underpinnings of their installation “Narcissus look back: and they love you\,” that is currently on view at the Emerson Media Art Gallery until December 13th. \n\n\n\nThis embodied\, multi-sensory experience with a camp aesthetic explores loneliness as a collective experience in our current moment. They will discuss the tenuous and often shifting relationship between spectator and performer\, loops of identity\, and the duality of being haunted/haunting. With Malic Amalaya\, the artists will discuss major influences on their piece\, the political and moral values intrinsic to their work\, and the challenges they’ve faced making and relating to art at this socio-political moment. \n\n\n\n\nVHF STUDIO is a new media collective founded by artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis. As collaborators they make genre-defying installation work\, blurring the boundaries of “low” and “high” art. They pull inspiration from the queer club scene\, haunted houses\, and popular media to create high concept large-scale multi-channel video and sound installations. \n\n\n\n\nModerated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-artists-jack-gruman-and-logan-puleikis-of-vhf-studio-will-be-talking-with-malic-amalya/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20251201T185242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T203217Z
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SUMMARY:Lisa Tang: "Be Whole In Everything" MFA Thesis Show
DESCRIPTION:This work is a non-doctrinal spiritual practice made visible. It draws on prehistoric abstraction\, sacred geometry\, and the ordinary courage of repetition. Each element invites a small\, complete gesture: to strike\, to bow\, to trace. The videos loop; the stones hang; breath returns. Nothing is illustrated\, yet everything is implicated — matter\, memory\, tide\, light.  \n\n\n\nTo be whole in everything is not to be grand. It is to become exact in presence: to place your full attention inside the tiniest coordinate\, until the world answers back.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/lisa-tang-be-whole-in-everything-mfa-thesis-show/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20251201T184755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T203259Z
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SUMMARY:Leaning Against The Wall: Photo Practicum Fall 2025
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to attend this year’s Photo Practicum Fall 2025 exhibit \n\n\n\nThis semester\, students in Lucie March’s photography class dove into themes such as identity\, the passing of time\, and our roots represented through six different personal projects. We invite you to join us for the reception of our show at the Huret & Spector Gallery on December 9th\, from 6 pm – 8 pm. We hope to see you there! \n\n\n\nExhibiting artists: Emilie Dumas\, Kiki Tobor\, Natalie He\, Danny Kennedy\, Zoë Grandstaff-Gruber\, Cooper Rich
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/leaning-against-the-wall-photo-practicum-fall-2025/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20250826T200918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T180204Z
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SUMMARY:A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air
DESCRIPTION:Nelly-Eve Rajotte\, Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 hertz\, 2024. Video installation: 3-channel 4K video\, colour\, generative sound\, 25 min; modular synthesizer\, electrodes\, and tree. VFX artist and software developer: Codrin-Mihail Tablan Negrei. Courtesy of the artist. \n\n\n\nA Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air\, a four-person exhibition featuring works made through innovative intersections of science\, aesthetics\, and spirituality. \n\n\n\nArtists Margaux Crump\, Julia Krupa\, Eileen Ryan\, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte realize the potential of communicating directly and sharing authorship with the materials they use to make their art. Their artistic practices are intuitive and collaborative\, enabling trees\, stones\, salt\, and air\, among other materials\, to inform the creative process and the resulting potential meanings. Their methods include a cloud chamber\, oral history\, bio-sonification\, LIDAR scanning\, fumage\, and saining. \n\n\n\nThe resulting works of art forge stronger interspecies connections and increased empathy and hope for the future. These innovative modes of working also raise questions: do the artists translate on behalf of the materials? How do speculation and anthropomorphism fit into these explorations of restoration\, time\, and scale? The four immersive installations engage viewers in dynamic aesthetic experiences that may linger beyond the gallery as a shift in perspective. \n\n\n\nCurated by Shana Dumont Garr  \n\n\n\nExhibition catalogue featuring essays by Shana Dumont Garr\, Doctoral Candidate\, and Martina Tanga\, Ph.D. \n\n\n\nSentientLand-Guide-webDownload
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sentient-land-aesthetic-alliances-with-forests-beetles-salt-and-air/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20260110T014223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260111T013015Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Reception\, A Sentient Land: Artistic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 21\, 5:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nMedia Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston MA \n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrate the opening of this groundbreaking four-person exhibition featuring artists Margaux Crump\, Julia Krupa\, Eileen Ryan\, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte\, who blur the boundaries between creator and material\, science and art\, human and more-than-human. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExperience immersive installations that invite direct dialogue with the natural world. Through innovative methods including bio-sonification\, cloud chambers\, LIDAR scanning\, and ancient practices like fumage and saining\, these artists share authorship with trees\, stones\, salt\, and air itself. \n\n\n\nThis is your first opportunity to encounter works that challenge traditional notions of artistic agency and forge new pathways for interspecies connection. Witness how forests communicate at 220 hertz\, how materials become collaborators\, and how art can shift our relationship with the living world. \n\n\n\nMeet the artists and the curator\, Shana Dumont Garr\, and explore questions that bridge aesthetics\, ecology\, and empathy: What happens when materials inform their own representation? How do we translate on behalf of the more-than-human? \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\nExhibition runs January 21 – March 28\, 2026Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday\, 12–6 PM \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public \n\n\n\nimage: Eileen Ryan
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-reception-a-sentient-land-artistic-alliances-with-forests-beetles-salt-and-air/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Public Program,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20260111T013551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T193936Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Margaux Crump
DESCRIPTION:Top: Margaux Crump\, bottom: Nelly-Eve Rajotte. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air \n\n\n\nThursday\, January 22\, 2026 | 12–1 PMEmerson Contemporary25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA 02111 \n\n\n\nJoin artists Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Margaux Crump for an intimate conversation about their innovative practices of collaboration with the natural world. \n\n\n\nRajotte will discuss her work with bio-sonification and how she enables trees to generate their own sonic landscapes\, including her installation Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 hertz\, which translates forest communication into immersive audiovisual experience. Crump will share insights into her process of working with materials as co-creators\, exploring how stones\, beetles\, and other elements inform the artistic outcome. \n\n\n\nTogether\, they’ll explore questions at the heart of A Sentient Land: How do we share authorship with non-human collaborators? What does it mean to translate on behalf of materials? How can art deepen our empathy and connection across species? \n\n\n\nThis conversation offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from two artists reimagining the relationship between maker and material\, challenging us to consider the agency of the more-than-human world. \n\n\n\nFree and open to the publicNo registration required
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-nelly-eve-rajotte-and-margaux-crump/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140327
CREATED:20260204T161347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T180142Z
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SUMMARY:Repair and Renew: A Visible Mending Workshop with Deepika Prakash
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 17\, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm \n\n\n\nCourtesy Deepika Prakash\n\n\n\nRepair and Renew is a hands-on\, slow-making workshop that invites participants to explore visible mending and meditative hand-sewing as both a practical skill and a reflective creative practice. Through simple stitches and intentional repair\, participants will learn how caring for textiles can deepen our relationship with materials\, reduce waste\, and encourage a more mindful approach to consumption.  \n\n\n\nSet within the inspiring environment of the exhibition A Sentient Land\, this workshop draws parallels between attention to materials and mending—both acts of care\, patience\, observation\, and renewal. Participants will leave not only with a repaired garment\, but with foundational hand-sewing skills and a renewed appreciation for sustainability\, imperfection\, and craft.  \n\n\n\nWhat to bring: \n\n\n\n\nSmall scissors\n\n\n\nJeans which need repair\n\n\n\n\nWe will provide: \n\n\n\n\nHand sewing needles and thread\n\n\n\nSome sewing supplies to share\n\n\n\n\nExample of Visible Mending Jeans\, image Courtesy Deepika Prakash\n\n\n\nAbout the Instructor: Deepika Prakash is a textile educator\, community organizer\, and founder of PatternReview.com\, an international sewing community with over half a million members worldwide. She has taught Repair & Renew workshops for libraries and community organizations across Massachusetts for the past two years\, covering topics such as visible and invisible mending\, meditative hand-sewing\, repairing sweaters and socks\, hemming pants\, and upcycling through hand embroidery.  \n\n\n\nDeepika is deeply passionate about sustainability and teaching practical life skills that empower people to extend the life of their belongings and reduce their environmental footprint. Her community work spans over a decade in Acton and Boxborough\, including organizing cultural events\, mentoring youth programs\, and leading inclusive educational initiatives.  \n\n\n\nShe has delivered keynote addresses at national sewing conferences\, contributed to sewing publications and podcasts\, and is the co-author of 1\,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips\, with all royalties donated to charity. In 2021\, she was honored as a Commonwealth Heroine by the State of Massachusetts for her work promoting equality and community engagement. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/repair-and-renew-a-visible-mending-workshop-with-deepika-prakash/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Public Program,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T190000
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SUMMARY:Messing With Language: A Multimodal Pop-Up Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Open March 23 – 25 \n\n\n\nOpening Reception: March 23\, 5:00 – 7:00 PM \n\n\n\nMark Hernandez-Motaghy \n\n\n\nJihyun Lee   \n\n\n\nGavin Miller \n\n\n\nBrooke Toczylowski  \n\n\n\nRenato Verdugo  \n\n\n\nkathy wu \n\n\n\nLanguage is deeply tied to culture\, history\, and our identity. It is a tool of communication and a carrier of meaning that takes infinite forms\, functions\, and uses. But language also carries implicit politics in how we name\, represent\, and categorize the world around us.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition brings together six artists working in the Northeast whose practices critically examine our perceptions of language\, and\, by extension\, of power.  Working across projection\, sound\, installation\, translation\, and code\, their distinct creative processes explore alternative systems of communication and ways of knowing. Through these interventions\, Mark Hernandez-Motaghy\, Jihyun Lee\, Gavin Miller\, Brooke Toczylowski\, Renato Verdugo and Kathy Wu pick apart linguistic systems\, inviting new possibilities for expression.  \n\n\n\nCurated by Sophie Dodd \n\n\n\n*Please note: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Visitor registration and ID required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP.  \n\n\n\nContact contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/messing-with-language-a-multimodal-pop-up-exhibition/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T130000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Julia Krupa and Eileen Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 26\, 12–1 PM \n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with artists Julia Krupa and Eileen Ryan as they discuss their work in A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air. \n\n\n\nKrupa and Ryan will explore their innovative artistic practices that blur the boundaries between creator and material. Through methods\, including oral history and specimen collection\, forge collaborative relationships with natural elements—inviting beetles and herbs to become active participants in the creative process. \n\n\n\nThis conversation delves into the intersections of science\, aesthetics\, and spirituality that shape their work. Together\, these artists\, who created immersive installations in A Sentient Land\, address questions central to the exhibition: How do we translate on behalf of non-human materials? What role do speculation and anthropomorphism play in fostering interspecies connections? How can artistic practice generate greater empathy and hope for our shared future? \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air is on view through March 28\, 2026\, at Emerson Contemporary\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-julia-krupa-and-eileen-ryan/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T191500
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SUMMARY:Artist Presention and Mindfulness Exercise with Julia Krupa
DESCRIPTION:Julia Krupa\, Herstory Paintings\, installation view. \n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Julia Krupa creates large-scale paintings with herbs and other plants she forages from rural Poland\, where she is based. She is visiting Boston as one of the four artists in A Sentient Land: Artistic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air. Learn how Julia makes dyes with plants\, along with her doctoral research informing this process. A fascinating part of her process involves interviewing elder herbalists based in the Carpathian region of Southern Poland. Her field work and research evolve into paintings and innovative\, panoramic video documentation\, both of which are on view in the space where the workshop takes place. \n\n\n\nNo prior skills or materials required to attend.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/workshop-creating-herbal-dyes-with-julia-krupa/
LOCATION:Emerson Contemporary
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T170000
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SUMMARY:"GATHER"
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Shannon Johnson\, With one look you take me back to everything I used to be\, 2025\, from the series “Gathering Rosebuds\,” archival inkjet print and ink on Rives BFK paper\, 29 x 40 inches\, courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nHuret & Spector Gallery \n\n\n\nMarch 31 – April 8\, 2026 \n\n\n\nGATHER\, a student-curated exhibition of photographers and lens-based artists exploring meaning\, memory\, connection\, and community at a transformative moment. \n\n\n\nStudent Lightning Talks: Friday\, April 3rd\, Noon \n\n\n\nOpening Reception: Friday\, April 3rd\, 5-7 pm \n\n\n\nPhotography and related media have the power to knit together people\, places\, and things\, both literally and metaphorically. The present moment seems fraught with peril\, and systems appear to be unravelling. Yet\, at the same time\, we have witnessed the power of unity\, of people coming together to empower and support each other.From a thematic\, regional open call\, 14 emerging student-curators selected 14 emerging artists from New England\, ranging from undergraduate to graduate students\, emerging to more established\, and several pieces per person to present a fuller picture. The resulting exhibition GATHER showcases a broad range of media and genres\, including portrait and vernacular photography; printing and sewing on fabric; collaborative and woven imagery; video and 16mm film installation; and kinetic and multi-media sculpture — using analog\, digital\, and historical processes.  \n\n\n\nIn the pieces selected for GATHER\, we were delighted to see new themes emerge including communities and collection\, identity and queerness\, nostalgia and nature — all with an overall meditative and hopeful tone. In addition\, the chosen artists represent a wide geographical range\, gathering together artists from across Great Boston and New England. GATHER aims to weave these various threads together to make a larger whole and make a difference. \n\n\n\nGATHER was curated by upper-level Emerson undergraduate students (listed below) as part of the seminar VM415\, “Curating Contemporary Art\,” taught and led by Leslie K. Brown\, PhD. As a part of the class and the exhibition\, students are responsible for all aspects of the exhibition\, encompassing graphic designs\, loan agreements\, object checklists\, educational didactics\, social media assets\, and press materials. \n\n\n\nThe Artists of GATHER: \n\n\n\n“Alchemy of the Unknowns”:Lisa Tang Liu & James David Tabor (Stoughton\, MA & Phoenix\, AZ) \n\n\n\nalina balseiro (Medford\, MA)  \n\n\n\nDouglas Breault (Bridgewater\, MA) \n\n\n\nHaley Cooper (Abington\, MA)  \n\n\n\nBeth D’Elia (Barnstable\, MA) \n\n\n\nPorter Gifford (Cambridge\, MA)  \n\n\n\nMonica Hamilton (Salem\, MA)  \n\n\n\nJessie James (Medford\, MA) \n\n\n\nShannon Johnson (Boston\, MA) \n\n\n\nLee Kilpatrick (Arlington\, MA) \n\n\n\nLisa Tang Liu (Stoughton\, MA) \n\n\n\nJordan Marshall (Brookline\, MA)  \n\n\n\nMichelle Schapiro (Roxbury\, MA)  \n\n\n\nFrancine Weiss (Newport\, RI) \n\n\n\nEmerging student-curators of GATHER: Abigail Andrews\, Anjali Bakhru\, Dylan Boyd\, Sophie Dodd\, Claire English\, Julia Giammarco\, Lang Han\, Ruyi Huang\, Kitty Lei\, Daniel Petrylka\, Arlo Rader\, Jie Sun\, Bianca Todini\, Maya Wang.The students in Emerson Curatorial Practices represent majors from Media Arts Production (SOF)\, Writing\, Literature & Publishing (WLP)\, and Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS)\, with minors as diverse as Art History\, Curatorial Practice & Visual Culture\, History\, Philosophy\, Psychology\, Religion\, and Science. \n\n\n\n* Please note: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Visitor registration and ID are required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP. Contact mailto:contemporary@emerson.edu contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit. Hours are Monday through Friday\, 12-5 pm. \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Lightning Talks \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Opening Reception
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/gather/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Reception,Student Projects
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T130000
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SUMMARY:Student Lightning Talks for "GATHER"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this unique opportunity to hear student-curators deliver short talks about the artists of GATHER!  \n\n\n\nGATHER was curated by upper-level Emerson undergraduate students (listed below) as part of the seminar VM415 “Curating Contemporary Art\,” taught and led by Leslie K. Brown\, PhD. As a part of the class and the exhibition\, students are responsible for all aspects of the exhibition\, encompassing graphic designs\, loan agreements\, object checklists\, educational didactics\, social media assets\, and press materials. \n\n\n\nEmerging student-curators of GATHER: Abigail Andrews\, Anjali Bakhru\, Dylan Boyd\, Sophie Dodd\, Claire English\, Julia Giammarco\, Lang Han\, Ruyi Huang\, Kitty Lei\, Daniel Petrylka\, Arlo Rader\, Jie Sun\, Bianca Todini\, Maya Wang.  The students in Emerson Curatorial Practices represent majors from Media Arts Production (SOF)\, Writing\, Literature & Publishing (WLP)\, and Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS)\, with minors as diverse as Art History\, Curatorial Practice & Visual Culture\, History\, Philosophy\, Psychology\, Religion\, and Science. \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Lightning Talks \n\n\n\nImage: Beth D’Elia\, 45 objects/Mum\, 2025\, from the series “Holding\,” 10 x 8 inch cyanotypes on paper\, 50 x 72 inches\, courtesy of the artist 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/student-lightning-talks/
LOCATION:Huret/Spector Gallery
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T190000
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for the student-curated exhibition\, GATHER
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Tang Liu\, Analog Girl In A Digital World\, 2023\, from the series “Self-Reconstructed\,” cyanotype print woven with inkjet print\, 14 x 14 inches\, courtesy of the artist\n\n\n\nThis opening reception celebrates the fourteen artists of GATHER\, a photography exhibition curated by students of a seminar\, Curating Contemporary Art\,” taught by Dr. Leslie Brown.  \n\n\n\nIn the pieces selected for GATHER\,  new themes emerge\, including communities and collection\, identity and queerness\, nostalgia and nature — all with an overall meditative and hopeful tone. In addition\, the chosen artists represent a wide geographical range\, gathering together artists from across Great Boston and New England. GATHER aims to weave these various threads together to make a larger whole and make a difference. \n\n\n\n* Please note: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Visitor registration and ID are required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP. Contact mailto:contemporary@emerson.edu contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit. Hours are Monday through Friday\, 12-5 pm. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Opening Reception
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/opening-reception-for-the-student-curated-exhibition-gather/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T150000
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SUMMARY:Public Art Walking Tour with artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill\, in Collaboration with MAAH
DESCRIPTION:Join artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist-led walking tour of their two public art projects\, Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. \n\n\n\nMeeting Point: Boston Common Visitor’s Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist-led walking tour of their two public art projects Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle\, followed by a reception and Q&A with the artists at The Museum of African American History at 46 Joy Street\, Boston. The walking tour will begin at Boston Common Visitors Center at 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, at 1:00pm\, with the reception and Q&A at The Museum of African American History beginning at 2:15pm.Emerson Contemporary is thrilled to collaborate with the Museum of African American History (MAAH) for this program. After the walk\, an artist Q&A session will take place at the African Meeting House at 46 Joy Street\, Boston\, MA. \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.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-led-walking-tour-with-elisa-hamilton-and-clareese-hill/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260510T180000
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SUMMARY:What Distance Holds: An MFA Thesis Exhibition Featuring video installations by Sarasa Kikuchi\, Rui Shen\, and Siqi Xiong
DESCRIPTION:Siqi Xiong\, Angel Has No Share\, 2026.\n\n\n\nSarasa Kikuchi\, Rui Shen\, and Siqi Xiong invite viewers into the contemplative textures of fluid identity\, invisible labor\, and immigrant guilt\, exploring what remains amid absence with innovative aesthetics and immersive strategies that invite viewers to linger and feel.  \n\n\n\nSiqi Kikuchi\, Thirteen Hours Ahead\, still 2026\n\n\n\nSarasa Kikuchi — 13 Hours Ahead \n\n\n\nSix-channel spatial cinema \n\n\n\nThirteen hours separate a mother in Japan from her daughter in America. In Kikuchi’s immersive six-channel installation\, that gap becomes something one can feel in their body: two lives unfolding in parallel\, connected\, yet never quite touching.Through quiet domestic scenes\, layered soundscapes\, and a fractured screen arrangement\, 13 Hours Ahead asks what it means to love someone you can only reach across time zones. It holds space not only for the immigrant who left\, but for the parent left behind — a perspective rarely given its full weight. \n\n\n\nRui Shen\, I\, still\, 2026\n\n\n\nRui Shen – I \n\n\n\nInstallation \n\n\n\nShen considers the continuous becoming of identity. The moment one tries to answer who they are\, something shifts. Shen’s installation uses a single word\, I\, — the most personal word in any language — to meditate on the essence of becoming. \n\n\n\nA fan stirs the suspended surface of horizontal screens upon which projections of “I” form and dissolve. They gather\, briefly cohere\, then scatter again. The quiet circuit demonstrates how alive it is\, always moving\, always just beyond the labels we reach for. \n\n\n\nSiqi Xiong – Angel Has No Share \n\n\n\nMultimedia interactive installation \n\n\n\nIn whiskey-making\, a portion of the spirit evaporates through the barrel each year — lost to the air\, unrecoverable. Distillers call this the “angel’s share.” Meanwhile\, ice wine creation avoids evaporation because it is sealed in stainless steel. Does anything disappear\, regardless? When one compares these processes\, what is missed?  \n\n\n\nXiong’s installation transforms these questions into a factory floor to walk through. The documentation of labor sits alongside imitation and artistic recreations that move together on a conveyor belt. The spectator’s presence\, attention\, and quiet effort to look closely is part of what the work produces. You don’t observe this factory. You complete it. \n\n\n\nWhat Distance Holds Opening reception: April 22\, 2026\, 5 – 7 PM at 25 Avery Street\, Boston \n\n\n\n On view April 21 – May 10 · Tuesday through Sunday\, 11am – 6pm  \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/what-distance-holds-an-mfa-thesis-exhibition-featuring-video-installations-by-sarasa-kikuchi-rui-shen-and-siqi-xiong/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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