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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Erik DeLuca\, ¡wénrán zhào! and Amber Vistein
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 4\, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors \n\n\n\nIn 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 presence. Moderated by Curator of Special Projects Shana Dumont Garr. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErik DeLuca is an artist and experimental musician whose projects respond to place and invite people to listen—both literally and metaphorically. Working across performance\, installation\, text\, and community-based learning\, he explores how power shapes what weremember and how we communicate. His work has been presented at Kling & Bang\, Fieldwork: Marfa\, and the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art\, and broadcast on Montez Press Radio. His writing appears in Public Art Dialogue\, The Wire\, and Boston Art Review. DeLuca is Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and holds a PhD in Music from the University of Virginia. His ongoing collaborations with the 7ajar School of Creative Research/Resistance in Ramallah continue to shape his practice of listening and learning. \n\n\n\n¡wénrán zhào! is a Boston-based artist working with code\, language\, textiles and technology. Her work augments objects and artifacts with custom software\, exploring the textures of technology and revealing its political and cultural relevance to contemporary societies. She holds an MFA in Digital + Media from Rhode Island School of Design\, with works presented at ISEA\, the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference\, Taper\, and The New River Journal. She is a recipient of NMC Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award\, and member of New Inc Year 12.  \n\n\n\nAmber Vistein (they / them) is a composer and sound artist who delves deeply into the poetics of timbre\, texture\, and gesture. Their highly tactile approach to composition works to unearth invisible events\, networks\, and histories by introducing expressive imperfections that expose the submerged complexities of sound\, the labor of its production\, and its fragility. From 2017-19 Amber was a Composition Fellow with the American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice program. They have also created numerous site-specific sound installations\, including Growth Continuum for the deCordova Museum\, and collaborated with film-video artists Justice and Hogan Seidel on the short films Murmur\, Landscapes\, and Let’s Look at Florida. Amber holds degrees from New College of Florida (BA)\, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MFA) and Brown University (MA\, PhD). 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-eric-deluca-wenran-zhao-and-amber-vistein/
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Artists Margaux Crump and Ash Eliza Williams **on ZOOM**
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 6 *On ZOOM* 12:00 – 1:00 PM \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Learn how artists Margaux Crump and Ash Eliza Williams collaborate with non-human beings to create artwork. Meeting LINK . \n\n\n\nAsh and Margaux consider the natural world an active contributor of aesthetic meaning. They will each describe their current art-making ideas and processes and discuss ideas raised by the exhibitions in which they are showing.  \n\n\n\nThis is a joint program between Emerson Contemporary and Sala 1\, Rome\, Italy. Ash Eliza Williams is a visual artist showing in Learning with Trees\, an exhibition at Sala 1 curated by Martina Tanga. Margaux Crump is a visual artist showing in a sentient land; artistic alliances with forests\, beetles\, salt\, and air\, curated by Shana Dumont Garr and opening at Emerson Contemporary\, Media Art Gallery in January 2026. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMargaux Crump\, photo by Feast Day / @FeastDayStudio\n\n\n\nMargaux Crump is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring the entanglements between magic\, ecology\, and the spiritual Imagination. Born in Houston\, TX\, she spent her childhood playing in gardens where she was steeped in ancestral fairy lore. These experiences wove quietly through the background of her work\, until she returned to Houston after earning her MFA in studio art from Washington University in St. Louis. With a renewed interest in the folklore and myths she grew up with\, she immersed herself in the study of esotericism and ecology. She is currently investigating the phenomena of the unseen\, from the microscopic to the mythic worlds that surround us. Taking form primarily through sculpture\, photography\, painting\, and ritual\, her work traces threads of the mythic\, magical\, and imaginal across disciplines and histories in search of how they inhabit and trouble the present. \n\n\n\nAsh Eliza Williams\n\n\n\nAsh Eliza Williams grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia. Ash is a painter and multidisciplinary artist making work about interspecies communication\, non-human language\, and more vibrant methods of connection.  Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Denver\, the Anderson Museum\, and the Chautauqua Institute.  Ash often works with scientists\, including as an artist-in-residence at Shoals Marine Laboratory\, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology\, the Museum of Comparative Zoology\, and Mountain Lake Biological Station as a Lucille Walton Fellow. Ash is currently a 2025 – 2026 Roswell Foundation Artist-in-Residence.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-artists-margaux-crump-and-ash-eliza-williams/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Public Program
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Sue Murad and Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 18 from 6:30 – 7:30pm\, 6pm doors open \n\n\n\nArtist Sue Murad shares about her ASSEMBLE walking tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr. Based 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. Murad created a series of prompts to celebrate the right to peacefully assemble and create a temporal micro-culture for each group during the tour. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\nSue Murad\, ASSEMBLE\, Reimagined Historic Walking Tours in Boston Common\, 2025.\n\n\n\nShana Dumont Garr is a contemporary art curator\, writer\, and educator based in Greater Boston. She is a curator at Emerson Contemporary and a professor in the Department of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College. She is also curating the independent project NO SLEEPING\, a nomadic\, participatory series of performances by Sue Murad and Deb Todd Wheeler at select historic houses in Massachusetts. Garr is a doctoral student at the Institute of Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. She earned her MA in Art History from Boston University and her BA in Creative Writing and Art from Colby College in Waterville\, ME. \n\n\n\nSue Murad responds to culture through an intuitive\, sensory engagement with everyday objects\, often in the public or private places they inhabit. Through a combination of attention\, study\, and play\, she may alter\, arrange\, and choreograph a subject\, or set up situations where change and chance happen without direct contact\, such as a subject melting\, falling\, or sliding. She is drawn to both semblance and difference\, and the strange and surreal synthesis that can occur with comparison and contrast. Disregarding notions of usefulness\, common meaning\, and prescribed narratives\, these formal and philosophical explorations feed her interdisciplinary practice of performance\, installation\, sculpture\, collage\, and film. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-sue-murad-and-shana-dumont-garr/
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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/
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