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,...

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...

Free

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...

Workshop: Kameelah Janan Rasheed on Wayward Sentences (writing constraints and algorithmic scores)

Workshop: Kameelah Janan Rasheed on Wayward Sentences (writing constraints and algorithmic scores)January 19, 2024 @1:30PM Eastern on Zoom (RSVP required) Rasheed considers learning "as a process of radical slowing down/de-acceleration in the midst of the efficiency and optimization frenzy; an engagement with curiosity, serendipity, improvisation, and tangents; learning as a persistent reminder of the shifting ecologies...

If, Then: Technology and Poetics,

On line, ZOOM

Learn from visual artist Kameelah J. Rasheed in this satellite workshop Join us for Kameelah Janan Rasheed's satellite workshop (conducted over zoom), in partnership with John Hopkins University. In If, Then: Technology and Poetics, Kameelah explores the relationship between writing constraints and algorithmic scores (dubbed wayward sentences). This workshop will be conducted over zoom. You...