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EL Putnam Artist Talk

Friday, March 24, 2023 Join us for a audio-visual presentation on EL Putnam's artist practice. Putnam will discuss recent performance and video works. Location: Media Art Gallery, 25 Avery Street

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Digital Art and/as Performance: A Conversation with Dr. Leonie Bradbury and Dr. EL Putnam

  Digital Art and/as Performance: A Conversation with Dr. Leonie Bradbury and Dr. EL Putnam Cabot Science Library Harvard University CORRECTION: Friday, March 24, 2023 3:00 p.m.  Join contemporary art curator Leonie Bradbury and performance artist EL Putnam discuss their collaborative work on the recent exhibition PseudoRandom at Emerson Contemporary, considering the challenges and possibilities of creating and presenting digital art. This...

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New Standards related events

In celebration of the one-of-a-kind installation, the New Standards Boston Takeover will include public programs, such as panel discussions, curated artist talks, and afternoon and evening concerts that will take place at multiple venues across the City of Boston, curated by Carrington and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Opening Reception: Wednesday July...

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Truth Be Told: (Re)Considering Innovation, Transformation, and Genius through the Lens of Jazz, Gender, and Justice

Grammy Award winning artist Terri Lyne Carrington recently conceived and curated the New Standards Exhibit, celebrating the work of women composers and performers who have been either under-acknowledged or rendered invisible regarding the overall representation of the art form. This multidisciplinary exhibit imagines the sound of jazz through the lens of gender justice and is...

“Artists Defusing Barriers to Discovery” feat. Nicole L’Huillier and Nathan Miner

  Organized in partnership with the Long Now Boston Conversation Series, this artist talk will explore artistic research as a place of possibilities; an open-ended strategy of experimentation and failure that can lead to new modes of thinking and reframes knowledge conventions. This program presents two artists whose transdisciplinary practices dynamically intersect with technology, science,...

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History and Archives: A Music Video Workshop with Dr. Julian Saporiti

EVENTBRITE Registration required, limited seats (15), free. In this workshop, musician and scholar Dr. Julian Saporiti will discuss how to use your personal story, family archive, and history in your work. He has used the medium of music videos to transform his doctoral research on Asian American history into easily consumable public art pieces. Through his project...

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Artist Talk with filmmaker and sculptor Tuan Andrew Nguyễn.

Please join us for a talk and Q&A with filmmaker and sculptor Tuan Andrew Nguyễn. Walker 202, 120 Boylston St. Boston, MA. Doors open at 4pm. Free, but Registration Required via EventBrite. Nguyễn lives and works Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam. Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s practice explores the power of memory and its potential to act...

Vietnam and Diasporic Aesthetics: Two Meditations. Dr. Howie Tam & Dr. Catherine H. Nguyen

Media Art Gallery 25 Avery Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The first event in the Writing, Literature & Publishing Scholar Series, this program is presented in conjunction with One Day We’ll Go Home and supported in part by the Harvard University Asia Center. Taking as a point of departure some works of Vietnamese American artistic production both in the gallery space and beyond, this two-part talk with...