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    (Un)Making AI Worlds

    Huret and Spector Gallery 10 Boylston Pl, Boston, MA 02116, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Presenting, "(Un)Making AI Worlds", curated by Ioana Jucan with Tushar Mathew, and Leonie Bradbury. The exhibition invites audiences to explore artworks emerging from the Data Fluencies Theatre Project team’s critical and creative interrogations of artificial intelligence and AI systems. Blending theatrical conventions, choreographed movement, poetry, and artistic experiments with machine learning, (Machine) Learning to Be is a participatory, devised, hybrid...

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    Mirror Fields: A Series of Art-Led Reflections in the Media Art Gallery

    Media Art Gallery

    Special Gallery Event in conjunction with the Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind exhibition Join Rabbi Lisa Eiduson for a contemplative experience inside the newest exhibition Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind: Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales. On view are two films and a dramatic reflecting pool that invite meditations on memory, multigenerational trauma, and...

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    Launch Party Hidden Histories

    Media Art Gallery

    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...

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    Sue Murad: ASSEMBLE, Performance Action, Boston Common, 2025

    Sue 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,...

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    Augmented Reality Public Art Walking Tour: Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill

    Saturday, October 4, 2025, 2-3:30pm Join 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. Location: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center, 139 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. Elisa Hamilton’s...

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    Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr

    Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 12-1:30pm This event has been rescheduled for Monday October 20, 12-1:30pm. Join Hidden Histories Curator Shana Dumont Garr on a special walking tour to view Kameelah Jana 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,...

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

    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...

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    In Conversation: Elisa Hamilton, Clareese Hill and Ruth Clemens

    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...

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    Public Art Walking Tour with artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill ***TO BE RESCHEDULED due to activities on the Boston Common.

    Join 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. Meeting Point: Boston Common Visitor's Center Elisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring...