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Cannupa Hanska Luger: Indigenous Science Fiction, The Imagination and Long-Term Thinking

A reception was held Wednesday, October 16, in the Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theater at Emerson’s Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, followed by the talk Indigenous Science Fiction, The Imagination and Long-Term Thinking, where artist Cannupa Hanska Luger was in conversation with author and historian of science Dr. Jimena Canales. The conversation was presented by Emerson’s...

Performativity of Objects feat. Katherine Mitchell DiRico and Nicole L’Huillier

Join us for an intimate conversation in the gallery with spacetime artists DiRico and L'Huillier and the exhibition curator as they explore non-human performativity through movement, sound, and light. We'll discuss the agency of objects and how the art works on display are in a continual state of becoming. Spacetime (x, y, x + t)...

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Investigating the Material feat. Sarah Trahan and Zsuzsanna Szegedi

Join us for an intimate conversation in the gallery with spacetime artists Trahan and Szegedi and the exhibition curator as they discuss their experiences collaborating with machines as each artist investigates digital technology through its imperfections. Learn what happens when the work of art has no center and exists across multiple media, both virtual and...

Video and Digital Art Drive In, Area Code Art Fair

The Area Code Art Fair drive-in screening offered a wide selection of artistic content, ranging from abstract glitch art, computer generated rhythms and sounds, and Zoom karaoke, to moving personal testimonials and critical, documentary short films. You can review a complete list of artists. In addition to the screening, the Drive In displayed six independent...

Memorials: As Monuments Fall. Panel: Artist Activist Tory Bullock, Art Historian Cher Krause Knight, Artist Activist Zsuzsanna Szegedi.

  The two Memorials panels are organized in collaboration with Professors Anya Belkina and Cher Krause Knight, and inspired by their co-taught class Boston Memorials Revisited and Reimagined: Public Art and Virtual Modeling. Bringing together artists, activists, architects, urban planners, and scholars, the conversation centers around issues of memorial design and how our relationships to memorials...

Kerry Tribe: Artist Talk + Screening

Kerry Tribe Artist Talk and Screening Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Center, 559 Washington St. Boston, MA Wednesday, March 16, 6:30pm - 8:00pm (in person). Artist Reception to follow Please join us for this special, in person event held in conjunction with the exhibition Onomatopoeia on view in the Media Art Gallery until March 27,...

Tamiko Thiel: Rewilding the City

Tamiko Thiel: Rewilding the City Please click the link to join the webinar. Join artist Tamiko Thiel for a virtual artist talk and AR workshop. Thiel's artworks explore the intersection of space, place and cultural memory. Thiel’s most recent AR project ReWildAR offers a vision of how Washington D.C. can be ‘rewilded’ to create a...

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Sky Hopinka maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (virtual)

Co-presented with the Bright Family Screening Series, the Roxbury International Film Festival, Living on Earth podcast, DocYard and Emerson Contemporary. Directed by Sky Hopinka, documentary, chinuk wawa with English subtitles, 82 minutes, USA, 2021. This film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier’s wanderings through each of their worlds as they wander through and contemplate the...

Goethe-Institut: Immersive Storytelling – How Emerging Media Create Agency and Social Change

  The network meetings aim to highlight and virtually connect women and gender-marginalized people from Europe and North-America working in the creative industries and around immersive technologies to create new international connections and foster potential cooperation. These Meetups are planned as a series of events with a different focus for each event. This meeting is...