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SUMMARY:Between the Worlds: Traces of Inner Landscapes feat. Christina Yijia Ren
DESCRIPTION:Between the Worlds: Traces of Inner Landscapes is a multi-sensory exhibition centered around a VR experience. It follows the journey of a painter who enters their own unfinished work and wanders through shifting landscapes shaped by memory\, perception\, and fragments of the subconscious. The exhibition brings these inner worlds to life through a layered combination of canvas paintings\, installation elements\, and virtual reality\, inviting viewers to step inside a story suspended between imagination and reality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Yijia Ren is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting\, illustration\, animation\, graphic design\, and new media. Her work explores the fusion of traditional art with emerging technologies such as AR and VR\, creating immersive\, interactive experiences and new forms of visual storytelling.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/between-the-worlds-traces-of-inner-landscapes-feat-christina-yijia-ren/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery
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SUMMARY:Curiosity\, Play\, Innovation: International Computer Music Conference Installations at Emerson
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)\, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists\, electroacoustic composers\, and music technologists from across the globe.  \n\n\n\nThis year\, the installation track of ICMC 2025 received 56 submissions from artists and researchers across 12 countries\, showcasing the expanding boundaries of sound art and interactive media. These installations will be on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th. \n\n\n\nRings…Through Rings by Tak Cheung Hai \n\n\n\nIn alignment with this year’s theme of “Curiosity\, Play\, Innovation\,” we accepted 19 installations that transform Emerson College’s Media Art Gallery and Bright Family Screening Room into laboratories of sonic exploration. The selected works span a rich spectrum of approaches—from immersive audiovisual environments and interactive sound sculptures to spatial audio experiences and video installations—each pushing the envelope of how we experience and interact with sound in physical space.  \n\n\n\nParticularly noteworthy is the diversity of artistic practices represented\, with creators employing everything from AI-driven systems and sensor-based interactions to acoustic phenomena and architectural resonances. Many works exemplify the democratization of technology that David Wessel championed\, utilizing accessible tools and gallery-provided equipment to ensure that innovative artistic expression isn’t limited by resource constraints.  These installations invite participants to move beyond traditional concert hall experiences and engage with sound as a sculptural\, architectural\, and deeply interactive medium\, and feature work by Michael Trommer\, Jane Tingley\, Zhitao Lin\, William Turner Duffin\, Tak Cheung Hui\, Matthew Ostrowski\, Matthew Azevedo\, Shomit Barua\, Betsey Biggs. \n\n\n\nRead more about the ICMC schedule of installations and screenings right here\, or about the installations at the Emerson Contemporary Gallery below.  \n\n\n\nForesta-Inclusive: (ex)tending towards by Jane Tingley\n\n\n\nContained by Michael Trommer \n\n\n\nContained presents a sonic auscultation of our Anthropocentric milieu\, integratingfield recordings\, 360o camera footage and 3D scans of urban corporate towers\,logistical networks\, industrial areas and other non-places [1] as well as urbanencampments and derelict locales that are resonant with both the heard andunheard acoustic emanations of the technotope we have become dependent uponfor our survival. In doing so\, it approaches sound as a material that can beapprehended as both corporeal and abstracted: in addition to the airborne\, audiblesound of the subject spaces\, Contained integrates the electrical\, vibrational andmnemonic emissions that permeate our everyday habitats\, highlighting their rolesas unheeded yet nonetheless deeply affective components of a quotidian andcontingent soundscape. \n\n\n\nContained – Project Still\n\n\n\nMichael Trommer is a Toronto-based sound and video artist; his practice has beenfocused primarily on psychogeographical and acoustemological explorations ofanthropocentric space via the use of spatial and tactile sound\, field recordings\,VR\, immersive installation and expanded cinema. \n\n\n\nEntrainment by Shomit Barua \n\n\n\nEntrainment is part of a series of phenomenological experiments that explore thetheme of spatial and temporal disorientation. Inspired by the passing landscapeviewed from subways and trains\, this audio-video installation employs severalmotion-based perceptual distortions: 1) the Doppler effect\, 2) Moiré interferencepatterns\, 3) skewed parallax (binocular disparity)\, and 4) the Wagon wheel effect.Entrainment refers to the synchronization of organisms to an external perceivedrhythm. \n\n\n\nEntrainment at SMOCA – Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2024-2025)\n\n\n\nShomit Barua is a Japanese-born\, Desi-American intermedia artist specializing inecoacoustics\, responsive environments\, and emergent narratives. His work is rootedin poetry and architecture\, and reflects the shared tenets of contained space\,economy of materials\, and movement that is both physical and emotional.Combining everyday technologies with esoteric programming languages\, he blursthe line between installation and performance\, weaving together object\, sound andimage. Digital and analog techniques are fused to investigate his core subject:corporeal presence in a physical space. \n\n\n\nForesta-Inclusive: (ex)tending towards by Jane Tingley\n\n\n\n(ex)tending towards is driven by sensor data collected using the Foresta-Inclusiveinfrastructure at the rare Charitable Reserve in Blaire\, ON. CA. This infrastructureincludes three networked ecosensors that are installed unobtrusively onto the trunk of atree and sense phenomenon such as: temperature\, humidity\, VOCs\, particulate matter\,wind\, C02 and rain. The in-gallery installation is composed of three main components: 1)a visualization that images 24hrs of collected data\, where the outer ring showscontemporary values and each subsequent smaller ring images the values from theprevious hour\, 2) a point cloud of the tree being sensed\, and 3) the soundscape thatsonifies the collected data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Tingley is an artist\, curator\, director of the SLOlab (Systems | Life | Ontologies) andAssociate Professor at York University. Her studio work combines traditional studiopractice with new media tools – and spans responsive/interactive installation\,performative robotics\, and telematically connected distributed sculptures/installations. \n\n\n\nthe ground beneath our feet\, the air inside our lungs by Matthew Azevedo\n\n\n\nthe ground beneath our feet\, the air inside our lungs explores the deep\, inviolableconnections between seemingly independent individuals. Visitors are invited to sitin cocoon-like hammock chairs where they will experience an infrasonicgenerative composition presented via tactile transducers built into the chair’sframe. The composition’s development is primarily directed by the visitor’s heartand respiratory rate\, which are monitored via a millimeter-wave radar sensor.While in this seemingly isolated state\, the visitor’s experience is continuouslyshaped by the sensor data from nearby hammocks and activity throughout thespace monitored by a seismic accelerometer mounted to the floor. \n\n\n\nDetail view of one of the “haptic hammock’s” two Dayton Audio TT25-8 tactile transducers.\n\n\n\nM. Azevedo (b. 1977) is an artist\, educator\, and researcher based in Providence\,RI whose work is focused on the outer edges of human perception\, in particularthe liminal space between touch and hearing occupied by infrasound. They aremost widely known for their recorded works and international performances asRetribution Body\, composing site-specific works for architectural spaces driveninto resonance by massive custom subwoofers. \n\n\n\nLiminal by Zhitao Lin\n\n\n\nLiminal is an AI-driven audiovisual installation by Zhitao Lin that transforms tra-ditional Chinese aesthetics into a generative\, interactive experience. Inspired by the mythical Peach Blossom Spring\, the piece uses real-time gesture tracking to control the sound of Guqin\, Xiao\, and percussion\, along with dynamic digital ink landscapes rendered as 3D particle systems. Only one audience member is tracked at a time\, allowing for a focused and intimate interaction. Each motion becomes a brushstroke in both sound and image\, creating a deeply personal and ephemeral version of this imagined utopia. \n\n\n\nA Generated visual output from Liminal\, illustrating gesture-driven 3D particle ink landscape.Image by Zhitao Lin.\n\n\n\nZhitao Lin is a forward-thinking composer whose work bridges traditional Chineseaesthetics\, spectral music\, and cutting-edge technology. Currently a Doctor ofMusical Arts (DMA) candidate in Composition at the Peabody Institute of the JohnsHopkins University\, he also holds a Master’s degree in Composition from Peabodyand a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of California\, Berkeley. Hisresearch focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence and musiccomposition\, exploring new possibilities in sound art through deep technologicalintegration. \n\n\n\nMELT: the memory of ice by Betsey Biggs\n\n\n\nMELT: the memory of ice (topographic remix) is a spatial remix of my music-film MELT: thememory of ice\, an invitation to sit bedside in communion with our earth’s body melting andspilling through climate change. Created during a summer spent in Greenland with my mother and 5-year-old\, the installation creates a spectacular\, otherworldly\, immersive river of icebergs\, increasingly interrupted by flashes of memories of the north. A musical drone rich with glimmers of sound — calving ice\, reindeer bells\, sled dogs — surrounds a choir reciting an unfathomable list of winter’s loss — flurries\, orca\, snow angels. The transformation and relocation of the film’s sounds and images opens up a new\, imaginative space for the audience to sit with and wander through\, a kind of inner topography of the north. The ice melts on. \n\n\n\nStill\, MELT: the memory of ice (topographic remix)\, 2024\n\n\n\nBetsey Biggs (Writer/Director/Composer) is a composer and media artist whose workconnects the dots between sound\, image\, place and technology. Her work has been described by the New Yorker as “psychologically complex\, exposing how we orient ourselves with our ears.” For more than twenty-five years\, she has composed music\, created live multimedia performances\, and created participatory art installations. \n\n\n\nRings…Through Rings by Tak Cheung Hui and Xiaoqiao Li\n\n\n\nRings. . . Through Rings transforms historical military cartography of Hong Kong into an immersive sound installation\, where laser-etched vinyl discs—each encoding geographical data—are physically manipulated by participants. These custom turntable-based artifacts translate map engravings into sonic textures\, generating evolving soundscapes thatreflect the landscape’s temporal shifts. Through real-time audiovisual processing\, users explore the dynamic interplay between natural topographies\, human intervention\, and technological mediation\, experiencing history through physical engagement and spatial listening. \n\n\n\nLaser-etched vinyl disc on a turntable\, showcasing processed cartographic engravings of Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis.\n\n\n\nHUI Tak-Cheung\, a Hong Kong-born composer\, creates works spanning chamber and orchestral music\, electronic pieces\, sound installations\, and interdisciplinary projects. His multidisciplinary approach integrates immersive audio\, spatial sound\, and advanced music technologies to reconstruct soundscapes and tell stories across eras and cultures. \n\n\n\nXiaoqiao Li is an artist\, academic\, and researcher whose work examines the intersection of analogue imprints and digital imprints\, particularly in analysing digital print matrices. Li’s practice-based approach sheds light on the complexities of printmaking in the digital era by investigating how digital imaging information is captured\, retained\, lost\, and transmitted. Li holds a BA in Visual Arts from Macao Polytechnic University\, an MA in Visual Arts: Printmaking from Camberwell College of Arts\, University of the Arts London\, and a PhD from the Academy of Visual Arts\, Hong Kong Baptist University\, supported by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. His PhD thesis was selected by the Leonardo Graduate Abstracts (LGA) Peer Review Committee as a top-rated LABS Abstract for advanced research in Art and Science\, published by Leonardo (MIT Press Journals). Li’s work has been exhibited internationally\, earning accolades such as the Clifford Chance Purchase Prize (UK) and the Chinese Young Artists’ Work Award at the Beijing International Art Biennale. Beyond his studio practice\, Li actively contributes to academia through presentations at conferences and articles published in the IMPACT Printmaking Journal and Leonardo (MIT Press)\, fostering dialogue among artists and scholars in both traditional printmaking and digital art. As he continues to learn and grow\, Li hopes that his continuous efforts will contribute to evolving discussions in the field. \n\n\n\nSummerland by Matthew Ostrowski\n\n\n\nSummerland explores the intersection of the technical and the mystical at thedawn of the electrical age. Morse code sounders are driven by texts from fromtwo critical figures in early long-distance communication: Samuel Morse himself\,the telegraph’s inventor\, and Spiritualist medium Kate Fox\, who communicatedwith the dead through a ‘spiritual telegraph.’ Excerpts from Morse’s writings aretranslated into the code that bears his name\, and 21st-century analysis/synthesistechniques are used in a futile attempt to resynthesize recorded transcripts ofFox’s sessions with the beyond using 19th-century means. \n\n\n\nSummerland at the Albany Institute\, 2020 (detail). Photo by Andrew Neumann.\n\n\n\nA New York City native\, Matthew Ostrowski is a composer\, performer\, and installation artist. Using digital tools and formalist techniques to engage with quotidian materials: sonic\, physical\, and cultural; Ostrowski explores the liminal space between the virtual and phenomenological worlds. Engaged with tropes of interruption and flux\, his works function as environments in a constant state of change\, exploring the process of consciousness in its constant state of collision with the world.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/curiosity-play-innovation-international-computer-music-conference-installations-at-emerson/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Entrainment (2023 - ongoing)\, by Shomit Barua
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)\, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists\, electroacoustic composers\, and music technologists from across the globe. As a part of the installation track of ICMC 2025\, presenting Shomit Barua’s Entrainment – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th. \n\n\n\nMulti-channel video + multi-channel audio\, original footage aboard rail-based public transportation inBrooklyn\, Budapest\, Lisbon\, Montreal\, and Barcelona; 16min audio + 60min video cycle\n\n\n\nEntrainment is part of a series of phenomenological experiments that explore the theme of spatial and temporal disorientation. Inspired by the passing landscape viewed from subways and trains\, this audio-video installation employs several motion-based perceptual distortions: 1) the Doppler effect\, 2) Moiré interference patterns\, 3) skewed parallax (binocular disparity)\, and 4) the Wagon wheel effect. Entrainment refers to the synchronization of organisms to an external perceived rhythm. \n\n\n\nThis installation recreates the hypnotic and transcendental states that often emerge from the repetitious visual\, auditory\, and haptic polyrhythms experienced aboard a moving train. Original portrait-mode footage is “temporally collaged” and spatially arranged to reconstruct views from rail-based public transportation in Barcelona\, Budapest\, Lisbon\, Montreal and New York. \n\n\n\nEntrainment at SMOCA – Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2024-2025)\n\n\n\nEntrainment\, originally entitled Entrainment718\, was inspired by a hundred-foot stretch of the Brooklyn F train that connects the subterranean to the above-ground. On this transitional stretch\, the visual interplay of regularly-spaced pylons against haphazardly strung high-intensity work lights causes a skewing of parallax— looking out the window\, depth perception becomes distorted\, as though suddenly careening through a starfield. Entrainment is an exploration of that sense of disorientation\, and the hypnotic and transcendental states that often emerge from the repetitious visual\, auditory\, and haptic polyrhythms experienced aboard a moving train. This project continues to grow\, include footage from rail-based public transportation from around the world. \n\n\n\nAudio consists of a multi-channel sound system arranged linearly. The original musical composition (16mins) consists of several textural layers that are distributed spatially\, running up and down the multi-channel array in gated sequences. The effect is that of a passing train\, while also evoking the rhythmic quality of being on board the train. Each channel is synced with the video panel directly behind it and when that audio channel is active\, a variety of visual effects is applied to the corresponding panel.  \n\n\n\nIn this way\, one can visually track the sonic placement of sound in space (source-bonding [1] à la Denis Smalley’s Spectromorphology). Additionally\, a haptic channel plays infrasonic polyrhythmic patterns. The auditory (score length vs spatial distribution)\, visual (footage vs effects programming) and haptic layers are all cycles of different lengths.  \n\n\n\nAs they loop\, the layers stack in new combinations. This gestalt of sensory information that drift in and out of synchronization is an example of the nested or overlapping rhythms described in Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis [2]\, in which the body becomes a metronome that not only observes but feels—embodies—temporal perception. \n\n\n\n\n\nMost notably\, the panoramic is actually a single-channel portrait-mode video (60mins) shot on a camera-phone\, repeated 14 times and mirrored vertically. Each column is an instance of the original footage offset by 23 frames; in essence\, they are pulling from the “memory” of the video\, and placed side by side\, they become stitched together to form what appears to be a panoramic view. The perceived elongation of the image is achieved through a repeated temporal and spatial displacement. \n\n\n\nMedia Links:– https://shomitbarua.com/entrainment718 – https://shomitbarua.com/– IG@shomijah \n\n\n\nArtist Statement \n\n\n\nShomit Barua is a Japanese-born\, Desi-American intermedia artist specializing inecoacoustics\, responsive environments\, and emergent narratives. His work is rootedin poetry and architecture\, and reflects the shared tenets of contained space\,economy of materials\, and movement that is both physical and emotional.Combining everyday technologies with esoteric programming languages\, he blursthe line between installation and performance\, weaving together object\, sound andimage. Digital and analog techniques are fused to investigate his core subject:corporeal presence in a physical space.  \n\n\n\nHaving collaborated with sculptors\, dancers\, musicians\, architects\, and visualartists\, he believes that exploration of a motif is amplified – made “robust” and“thick” – through dialogue between disciplines. He holds an MFA in Poetry fromBennington College and teaches writing at Arizona State University whilecompleting his doctoral research at ASU’s School of Arts\, Media\, and Engineering. \n\n\n\nEntrainment – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/entrainment-2023-ongoing-by-shomit-barua/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:MELT: the memory of ice (topographic remix)\, by Betsey Biggs
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)\, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists\, electroacoustic composers\, and music technologists from across the globe. As a part of the installation track of ICMC 2025\, presenting Betsey Bigg’s MELT: the memory of ice – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th. \n\n\n\nStill\, MELT: the memory of ice (topographic remix)\, 2024\n\n\n\nBetsey made MELT after wandering around the world’s most active glacier\, in Ilullisat\, Greenland\, with her mother and 5-year-old daughter and the film’s cinematographer\, Troy Fairbanks. All synthesizers are made out of processed field recordings from this trip. The slow film stills and music are increasingly interrupted by audiovisual glitches\, representing tipping points of our warming climate; the timing of these glitches was determined by a Max patch converting sea ice extent data to probability. \n\n\n\nThe vocal music was created collaboratively with the members of Moving Star vocal ensemble from an open score Betsey composed. The music was recorded by Jeff Cook at 2nd Story Sound\, mixed by Michael Hammond of Big Ship Audio\, and the spatial Dolby Atmos mix was created with Sean Winters. The film itself premiered at the IMAX Theatre at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn MELT: the memory of ice\, Betsey writes\, “As an installation\, I wanted to truly use the gallery space to do something more than just press play on a movie\, to explore the imaginative possibilities of transforming and relocating the sounds and visuals\, to create a new kind of space for the audience to wander through. The visual transformations\, especially\, allow me to understand the images in a different\, more imaginary way: a kind of inner topography. So I’ve titled this installation work MELT: the memory of ice (topographic remix).“ \n\n\n\nArtist Statement \n\n\n\nBetsey Biggs (Writer/Director/Composer) is a composer and media artist whose workconnects the dots between sound\, image\, place and technology. Her work has been described by the New Yorker as “psychologically complex\, exposing how we orient ourselves with our ears.” For more than twenty-five years\, she has composed music\, created live multimedia performances\, and created participatory art installations. She earned a Ph.D. in music composition at Princeton University\, and has taught music\, multimedia\, public art\, photography\, and video at Brown University\, RISD\, and the University of Colorado Boulder\, where she currently serves as Assistant Professor of Critical Media Practices. \n\n\n\nTroy Fairbanks (Director of Photography) has a well-rounded filmmaking career as adirector\, videographer\, cinematographer\, and drone operator. His Denver production companies\, Makēda Creative and Rise Aerials\, specialize in action sports\, documentaries\, and drone cinematography. He has created more than 800 video projects in 31 countries\, with a special focus on flying FPV drones for commercial purposes. When he’s not behind the camera\, you can find Troy and his wife traveling the world in their converted school bus\, enjoying the outdoors and board sports\, and chasing one adventure or another. \n\n\n\nMoving Star is a vocal ensemble creating original music infused with improvisation. They are an artistic community partner of the Carnegie Hall Education Wing. The performers of Moving Star have collaborated with Meredith Monk\, Julia Wolfe\, Ann Hamilton\, and SufjanStevens\, and have performed at Zankel Hall\, Whitney Museum\, La MaMa\, Symphony Space\,and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nMELT: the memory of ice – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/melt-the-memory-of-ice-topographic-remix-by-betsey-biggs/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Liminal by Zhitao Lin
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)\, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists\, electroacoustic composers\, and music technologists from across the globe. As a part of the installation track of ICMC 2025\, presenting Liminal – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th. \n\n\n\nStill image from the documentary video Shell Art – Mother of Pearl\, published by Meet Qingdao onYouTube (2023). Used here for cultural reference.\n\n\n\nLiminal is an AI-driven audiovisual installation by Zhitao Lin that transforms tra-ditional Chinese aesthetics into a generative\, interactive experience. Inspired by the mythical Peach Blossom Spring\, the piece uses real-time gesture tracking to control the sound of Guqin\, Xiao\, and percussion\, along with dynamic digital ink landscapes rendered as 3D particle systems. Only one audience member is tracked at a time\, allowing for a focused and intimate interaction. Each motion becomes a brushstroke in both sound and image\, creating a deeply personal and ephemeral version of this imagined utopia.At the heart of Liminal is a custom gesture-mapping system driven by computer vision. A high-frame-rate camera captures the participant’s hand and body movements in real time. The left hand triggers and modulates sounds derived from traditional Chinese percussion and xiao (bamboo flute)\, while the right hand controls timbral and articulatory variations of guqin-like textures\, such as harmonics and arpeggios. These movements simultaneously influence a custom 3D particle system\, generating visuals reminiscent of dynamic ink wash paintings. The result is an evolving visual environment that fuses digital abstraction with references to natural landscapes and lacquered ornamentation. \n\n\n\nA Generated visual output from Liminal\, illustrating gesture-driven 3D particle ink landscape.Image by Zhitao Lin.\n\n\n\nSound in Liminal is shaped through a real-time gestural mapping system. Using a high-frame-rate camera\, the installation tracks the participant’s hand and body movements to control and modulate sonic elements derived from guqin\, xiao\, and percussive textures. Each gesture dynamically alters parameters such as pitch articulation\, layering\, and spatialization—allowing the participant to sculpt a con- tinuously evolving soundscape through motion alone. \n\n\n\nDesigned for one-on-one interaction\, the installation maintains focus and clarity by tracking a single participant at a time. This enables highly responsive audio-visual interplay and encourages an intimate\, reflective mode of engagement. \n\n\n\nEach interaction becomes a unique and ephemeral composition\, situated at the intersection of body\, machine\, and cultural resonance. Liminal invites participants into a space where gestures function as both input and authorship\, transforming embodied presence into real-time audiovisual expression. It offers a sensory environment where memory\, movement\, and technology coalesce—evoking a digitally mediated encounter with introspection and transformation. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Statement \n\n\n\nZhitao Lin is a forward-thinking composer whose work bridges traditional Chinese aesthetics\, spectral music\, and cutting-edge technology. Currently a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) candidate in Composition at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University\, he also holds a Master’s degree in Composition from Peabody and a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of California\, Berkeley. His research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence and music composition\, exploring new possibilities in sound art through deep technological integration.Lin’s work spans chamber music\, orchestral compositions\, opera\, electronic music\, and multimedia sound installations\, earning recognition for its fusion of cultural depth and technological innovation. By blending Chinese musical traditions with spectral techniques and AI-driven creativity\, he crafts a sonic world that is both avant-garde and deeply evocative. Influenced by Zen philosophy\, his compositions often evoke a surreal\, mystical quality\, transforming abstract musical narratives into immersive experiences. His practice continues to explore new human-machine collaborations that expand the boundaries of musical expression. \n\n\n\nLiminal – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/liminal-by-zhitao-lin/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Foresta-Inclusive: (ex)tending towards\, by Jane Tingley
DESCRIPTION:Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)\, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists\, electroacoustic composers\, and music technologists from across the globe. As a part of the installation track of ICMC 2025\, presenting Foresta-Inclusive: (ex)tending towards\, by Jane Tingley – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th. \n\n\n\n(ex)tending towards is driven by sensor data collected using the Foresta-Inclusive infrastructure at the rare Charitable Reserve in Blaire\, ON. CA. This infrastructure includes three networked ecosensors that are installed unobtrusively onto the trunk of a tree and sense phenomenon such as: temperature\, humidity\, VOCs\, particulate matter\, wind\, C02 and rain. The in-gallery installation is composed of three main components: 1) a visualization that images 24hrs of collected data\, where the outer ring shows contemporary values and each subsequent smaller ring images the values from the previous hour\, 2) a point cloud of the tree being sensed\, and 3) the soundscape that sonifies the collected data. This work uses a simple gestural interaction to allow the participant to move into the 3D space of the visualization to explore the deep time of the tree’s life. The slower one moves the easier it becomes to inspect each ring of the tree’s experience. \n\n\n\nForesta inclusive: (ex)tending towards installed at the Ottawa School of Art Gallery Orléans. 2024.\n\n\n\nIn response to the temporal difference between tree and human individuals\, this work explores ways to slow down human engagement\, and to make visible the daily experience of a tree. The aim of the work is to find ways to demonstrate the absolute liveliness of the natural world as it unfolds all around us – yet more often than not beyond our limited sensory perception. The first visualization materializes data as a particle flow field that gently undulates and is affected in real time by changing data. Inspired by tree rings as evidence of yearly experience\, the visualization is structured in the same manner and visualizes the last 24hrs of the tree’s life\, where the outer ring shows contemporary values and each subsequent smaller ring the values from the previous hour. To interact with this visualization\, there is a one-meter-tall cork cylinder that is also a scent sculpture\, which releases the scent of geosmin (the scent of a forest after it rains) every time it rains in the forest.  \n\n\n\nTo interact\, the participant uses a simple gestural interaction to move spatially into the visualization. The slower one moves\, enables the participant to inspect each ring. The interface is embedded in soil\, which also contain a set of sculptural sensor pods. Next to the visualization is a point cloud visualization of the tree at the rare Charitable Reserve. The point cloud was captured by a LIDAR scan of the forest at rare using a very large drone and rendered using Touch Designer. This point cloud is also affected in real time by live data. Like the visuals\, the sonic elements materialize the forest data in a generative sound experience that balances between mimicry and poetic memory of forest experience.  \n\n\n\nFig. 2. Visualization\n\n\n\nIn its entirety this installation creates an embodied exploratory space where the deep time of a tree’s life is remembered\, and the human body is slowed down in the engagement. \n\n\n\nArtist Statement \n\n\n\nJane Tingley is an artist\, curator\, director of the SLOlab (Systems | Life | Ontologies) andAssociate Professor at York University. Her studio work combines traditional studiopractice with new media tools – and spans responsive/interactive installation\,performative robotics\, and telematically connected distributed sculptures/installations.Her works are interdisciplinary in nature and explore the creation of spaces andexperiences that push the boundaries between science and magic\, interactivity andplayfulness. \n\n\n\nHrysovalanti Fereniki Maheras\, also known as Hryso\, is a computational art practitionerspecializing in generative audiovisual art simulations and electronic kinetic art. Shecollaborated on the sound design of this project. Currently a Ph.D. candidate inComputational Arts at York University\, she also serves as a studio instructor foraudiovisual arts. Hryso’s artistic exploration involves seamlessly traversing betweenvirtual and physical technological realms\, aiming to create art that investigates theemergence of a virtual analog environment within a shared\, intricate physical habitat. \n\n\n\nACKNOWLEDGMENTSFaadhi Fauzi: Three.js Web developmentKavi – Ilze Briede: 3D modelling and Touch DesignerMarius Kintel: Firmware and MQTT VCR development \n\n\n\n(ex)tending towards – on display at Emerson Contemporary’s Media Art Gallery from June 11th – 14th.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/foresta-inclusive-extending-towards-by-jane-tingley/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250729T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135129
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SUMMARY:Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial
DESCRIPTION:Iwalani Kaluhiokalani\, The Radiance Chasers\, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation\, painting\, paper cut-outs\, video mapping\, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser\n\n\n\nIwalani Kaluhiokalani\, The Radiance Chasers\, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation\, painting\, paper cut-outs\, video mapping\, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser. \n\n\n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary – Emerson College’s platform for presenting contemporary visual art – proudly presents Echoes of the Heart: The New England Media Art Biennial\, a multimedia juried group exhibition featuring New England visual artists Clint Baclawski\, Erik DeLuca\, Iwalani Kaluhiokalani\, Justin Levesque\, VHF Studios\, and Karlie Zhao. The exhibition is on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street from July 29- December 13 \, 2025\, free and open to the public Tuesday – Saturday\, 12-6 pm.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew media art now encompasses traditional film and digital video\, as well as a wide range of technology\, from AI to hand-built radio\, representing an exciting and rapidly expanding genre in the contemporary art world. Yet\, there are few venues for emerging and mid-career video artists to showcase their work in New England. This biennial aims to expand these opportunities for the region and celebrate artists with financial and technical support and the opportunity to expand and reiterate existing and/or new works. \n\n\n\nArtist Reception\, Thursday\, September 18\, 5-7pm \n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 7\, 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors. In Conversation: Join artists Justin Levesque and VHF Studio as they discuss their broad ranging practices and what it means to be a practicing artist in our current climates. Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\nTuesday October 21\, 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors In Conversation: Join multidisciplinary installation artist Iwalani Kaluhiokalani and photographer Clint Baclawski as they discuss space\, time\, color and motion in their work. Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 4\, 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors In 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 the art of presence. \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. \n\n\n\nClint Baclawski is creating a new photographic sculptural installation part of his ongoing scroll series to consider the photographic impulse to capture the landscape as combined with the presentation strategies of advertising. Erik DeLuca is creating an interactive technology based object exploring silence and sound entitled White Spaces Radio. Iwalani Kaluhiokalani will combine innovative projection-mapping and sound to activate a challenging architectural area in the gallery’s entryway. Justin Levesque will reimagine his multimedia wall installation Geographical Problems for the Emerson space. VHF Studios will present a new iteration of their cheerfully riotous multi-media sculptural installation\, Narcissus Looks Back: and They Love You. Karlie Zhao will create a site-specific piece for the windows facing Avery Street\, and display her delicate\, evocative piece Thread in the Air\, which infinitely generates poetic texts through audience interaction. \n\n\n\nJuried by Distinguished Curator-in-Residence Leonie Bradbury\, Curator of Special Projects Shana Dumont Garr\, and visual artist and curator Allison Maria Rodriguez\, this exhibition recognizes the importance of contemporary new media art being created across the Northeast. Of the experience jurying\, Allison Maria Rodriguez said: \n\n\n\n“It’s been such an honor to be included in this process. It can sometimes feel like New England is dominated by more traditional artistic mediums – and that may be true – but it was so thrilling to see all the incredible new media artists working in the area that submitted to this call. The jury had a real challenge – in the best way! It proved that opportunities like this to showcase artists working in art and technology are so greatly needed\, not only to support individual practices\, but also to expand the conversation in the broader arts  ecosystem – and I’m so grateful to the folks at Emerson Contemporary for making this happen!”
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/echoes-of-the-heart-new-england-media-art-biennial/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250812T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135129
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SUMMARY:2025 GBFA THESIS EXHIBITION
DESCRIPTION:PUT THE SOIL OVER EVERY YEAR \n\n\n\nAugust 12–August 16\, 2025 \n\n\n\nIsabella Gierbolini Esteva\, Hanna Sato\, and Gabriela Tamar \n\n\n\nIn this dynamic exhibition of experimental works\, these three artists introduce audiences to the various ways memories are constructed and how they transform recollection processes and sensibilities into an experiential ‘document’ that envisions the past in a manner that may or may not be an accurate reflection of reality or lived experience. \n\n\n\nGierbolini Esteva in Las Palabras Ya No Importan deploys the complex methodologies of language formation with an exploration of ‘possession’ as conjured through live performance to confront the inherent uncertainties when one is born Puerto Rican.  \n\n\n\nIn Shattered Memories Shine Above the Sea\, Sato highlights the importance of tangibility through a conversation that bridges the past\, the present\, and explores the potentialities of what remains in store for the future in facing the near-death experience.  \n\n\n\nCritiquing the ever-present image of the Shoah\, Tamar presents a sonic approach to Holocaust memorialization in landscapes where acoustic documents fail to exist or have long been silenced. Utilizing theories of post-memory\, Keyner Iz Dortn Nisht Geven questions the act of monumentality: what has been buried in the past and what can be uncovered in the future?  \n\n\n\nInspired by their multicultural experiences of displacement and cultural dislocation\, Gierbolini Esteva\, Sato\, and Tamar explore the emotive power of ancestral connections and understand that it is through their creative actions that they can expand history and actualize the past as an integral part of an ever becoming and imaginative present.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/9172/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250901T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T190000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories: Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill\, Sue Murad\, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed part of Un-Monument
DESCRIPTION:Un-Monument is a two-year initiative that reimagines and fosters discourse around Boston’s monuments and memorials in a way that centers and amplifies a multiplicity of voices and creates authentic learning moments across the city. It invigorates public spaces through artist interventions that bring to the fore the rich histories that are often hidden. \n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary enthusiastically announces Hidden Histories\, a series of four public art projects produced as part of the Un-Monument initiative of the City of Boston. Hidden Histories highlights the processes of collaboration\, artistic research\, and speculation in contemporary art.  \n\n\n\nLAUNCH PARTY: SEPTEMBER 18\, 5-7:30PM\, Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, 02111 \n\n\n\nWHAT: A Series of Public Art Activations that are part of Un-Monument\, a multi-year public art initiative to bring temporary monuments and free programming to the City of Boston that expand the inclusive histories represented in public spaces across the City. \n\n\n\nWHEN: September 1 through October 28\, 2025.  \n\n\n\nWHERE: Beacon Hill\, Boston Common\, and MBTA trains and stations along the Green and Orange Lines\, and virtually via the Hoverlay augmented reality application. \n\n\n\nThis initiative is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture and the Mellon Foundation. \n\n\n\nCurated and produced by Emerson Contemporary\, the exhibition will present a series of four public art projects featuring Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill\, Sue Murad\, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Combining the gallery’s mission to educate by doing\, the inclusive experience of walking tours\, and the idea that history is a living subject that constantly evolves\, the artists received this prompt: find an aspect of the city’s past that is not currently well-known or understood and create art using new media technologies to amplify those stories.  \n\n\n\nEmerson Contemporary collaborated with Boston’s foremost historic archives: The Boston Athenaeum\, Historic New England\, and Massachusetts Historical Society\, and the artists were subsequently invited as community research fellows. With the generous support and collaboration of the archives’ staff\,  artists were provided access to their rich collections and many objects that served as inspiration for their thought-provoking projects. \n\n\n\nSue Murad\, ASSEMBLE\, 2025\n\n\n\nTo support public access to Hidden Histories\, the gallery has continued to build on their multi-year collaboration and partnership with Hoverlay\, a Boston-based augmented reality platform where users can compose and publish immersive content. Hoverlay enables any storyteller to utilize AR to transform how they tell their stories by placing virtual story objects out in the world to be accessed by visitors’ smartphones.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/regarding-monuments-visualizing-hidden-histories/
LOCATION:Boston Commons\, 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, Boston\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,News,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T170000
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SUMMARY:Kameelah J. Rasheed: I have Asked Myself: “Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?”
DESCRIPTION:In her public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” Kameelah J. Rasheed responds to Boston’s memorial landscape by exploring the layered histories of Boston as discovered in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. Rasheed gathered marginalia and ornate typefaces from their collection of Boston’s oldest books. These fragments are interwoven or sampled into digital designs to form visual poems to be displayed on digital signage situated around the Boston Common. Additionally\, the poems will be placed inside public transit cars on the Orange and Green lines. The poems are inspired by Toni Morrison and act as an interruption in the ad-based public view to consider the complexities of our current socio-political context.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/kameelah-j-rasheed-i-have-asked-myself-can-a-sentence-be-haunted-and-if-so-by-what/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135129
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SUMMARY:Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion
DESCRIPTION:Elisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of Louis Glapion. Glapion was a French\, biracial hairdresser and barber who\, together with his friend George Middleton\, built and owned what is now considered the oldest extant house in Beacon Hill\, located at 5 Pinckney Street. While more is known about Middleton\, the artist’s research has uncovered glimpses of Glapion that speak to an interesting and noteworthy life based in Beacon Hill. Hamilton seeks to honor Glapion and enliven curiosity about his lived experiences in our city. The AR experience will be available on Hoverlay and accompanied by a research document designed for educational purposes. \n\n\n\nThis project is part of Hidden Histories\, a series of four public art activations produced as part of the Un-Monument initiative of the City of Boston\, viewable September 1 through October 28. This project can be viewed virtually via the Hoverlay augmented reality application at 5 Pickney Street\, Beacon Hill. On site public signage will provide a Qr code and instructions to download the app and access the exhibition. \n\n\n\nUn-Monument is a multi-year public art initiative to bring temporary monuments and free programming that expand the inclusive histories represented in public spaces across the City. Hidden Histories\, curated and produced by Emerson Contemporary\, highlights the processes of collaboration\, artistic research\, and speculation in contemporary art. \n\n\n\nTo support public access to Hidden Histories\, Emerson Contemporary continues to build on its multi-year collaboration and partnership with Hoverlay\, a Boston-based augmented reality platform where users can compose and publish immersive content. Hoverlay enables any storyteller to utilize AR to transform how they tell their stories by placing virtual story objects out in the world to be accessed by visitors’ smartphones.  \n\n\n\nThis project is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/elisa-hamilton-glimpses-of-glapion/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T170000
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SUMMARY:Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle
DESCRIPTION:Clareese Hill’s The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel\, a 19th-century Black woman from Massachusetts. By blending historical wisdom with future-focused fabulations\, the Black Boston Dream Oracle will provide a unique space for reflection\, healing\, and imagining new possibilities for liberation and collective well-being through early Black feminist thought. The Oracle will be presented as an Extended Reality (XR) experience available on the Hoverlay application\, accompanied by a web-based research document designed for educational purposes. \n\n\n\nThis project is part of Hidden Histories\, a series of four public art activations produced as part of the Un-Monument initiative of the City of Boston\, viewable September 1 through October 28. This project can be viewed virtually via the Hoverlay augmented reality application at 3 separate locations on Beacon Hill: 8 Smith Court\, 65 Anderson Street and 27 Myrtle street. On site public signage will provide a Qr code and instructions to download the app and access the exhibition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Clareese Hill is a practice-based researcher. She explores the validity of the word “identity” through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. Dr. Hill has performed lectures at The Royal College of Art\, Goldsmiths University of London\, University of Sussex\, CUNY Graduate Center\, The Chicago Art Department\, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. She was also a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellow (Phase One). Dr.Hill has published peer-reviewed academic essays in THEOREM Journal\, Architecture\, and Culture Journal\, and has an upcoming article in Antennae\, The Journal of Nature and Culture. \n\n\n\nTo support public access to Hidden Histories\, Emerson Contemporary continues to build on its multi-year collaboration and partnership with Hoverlay\, a Boston-based augmented reality platform where users can compose and publish immersive content. Hoverlay enables any storyteller to utilize AR to transform how they tell their stories by placing virtual story objects out in the world to be accessed by visitors’ smartphones. Public signage on Beacon Hill\, the T and in the Common will provide a Qr code and instructions to download the app and access the exhibition. \n\n\n\nThis project is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/clareese-hill-the-black-boston-dream-oracle/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135129
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SUMMARY:Launch Party Hidden Histories
DESCRIPTION: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 City of Boston’s Un-Monument initiative to transform and expand Boston’s conversation around public art\, monuments\, and who should be memorialized and why. \n\n\n\nEvent Location: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery St. Boston\, Ma 02111
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/launch-party-hidden-histories/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135129
CREATED:20250909T135238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251222T203832Z
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SUMMARY:Sue Murad: ASSEMBLE\, Performance Action on the Boston Common\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:Sue Murad\, ASSEMBLE\, Reimagined Historic Walking Tours in Boston Common\, 2025.\n\n\n\nSue 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.  \n\n\n\nMurad created a series of prompts inviting people into an embodied experience of the Common\, creating a temporal micro-culture for each tour group in celebration of the right to peacefully assemble. The guided\, interactive experience unfolds across the landscape\, inviting participants into ephemeral arrangements shaped by memory\, proximity\, and shared attention. \n\n\n\nBased 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. The project bears witness to the many generations of people who have gathered together for rest and rallies\, labor and loitering\, play and protest. As such\, Murad presents a contemplative investigation of the often overlooked First Amendment right to peacefully assemble.  \n\n\n\nARTIST LED TOUR: Friday\, October 3\, 12-1:30pm.  \n\n\n\n ARTIST LED TOUR: Saturday\, October 4\, 12-1:30pm.  \n\n\n\n ARTIST LED TOUR: Sunday\, October 5\, 12-1:30pm.  \n\n\n\nSelf-guided tours are available with the Hoverlay Augmented Reality application at channel: Un-monument: 1:30-4:00pm or anytime that works for you
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sue-murad-assemble-performance-action-boston-common/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T153000
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SUMMARY:Augmented Reality Public Art Walking Tour: Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 4\, 2025\, 2-3:30pm \n\n\n\nJoin 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA.  \n\n\n\nElisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of Louis Glapion. Glapion was a French\, biracial hairdresser and barber who\, together with his friend George Middleton\, built and owned what is now considered the oldest extant house in Beacon Hill\, located at 5 Pinckney Street. While more is known about Middleton\, the artist’s research has uncovered glimpses of Glapion that speak to an interesting and noteworthy life based in Beacon Hill. Hamilton seeks to honor Glapion and enliven curiosity about his lived experiences in our city. The AR experience will be available on Hoverlay and accompanied by a research document designed for educational purposes.  \n\n\n\nClareese Hill’s The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel\, a 19th-century Black woman from Massachusetts. By blending historical wisdom with future-focused fabulations\, the Black Boston Dream Oracle will provide a unique space for reflection\, healing\, and imagining new possibilities for liberation and collective well-being through early Black feminist thought. The Oracle will be presented as an Extended Reality (XR) experience available on the Hoverlay application\, accompanied by a web-based research document designed for educational purposes.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/walking-tour-elisa-hamilton-and-clareese-hill/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T133000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 8\, 2025\, 12-1:30pm This event has been rescheduled for Monday October 20\, 12-1:30pm. \n\n\n\nJoin 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\, Ma. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135129
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Ruth Clemens: “Cultures\, Technologies\, and Media of the Sonic War Machine."
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 14\, 12-1pm  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLecture 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. \n\n\n\nClemens’ broad research interests cover film\, cultural analysis\, and comparative literary studies. Her work explores the intersections between textuality and materiality\, media and politics\, and language and technology. Her research interests are varied\, with through-lines of critical post-humanism and the avant-garde across media\, film\, sound\, and visual arts and the materiality of culture. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/lecture-by-ruth-clemens-cultures-technologies-and-media-of-the-sonic-war-machine/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T200000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill and Ruth Clemens
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nDr. Ruth Clemens’ broad research interests cover film\, cultural analysis\, and comparative literary studies. Her work explores the intersections between textuality and materiality\, media and politics\, and language and technology. Her research interests are varied\, with through-lines of critical post-humanism and the avant-garde across media\, film\, sound\, and visual arts and the materiality of culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElisa H. Hamilton is a socially engaged multimedia artist who creates artworks and community-centered projects that emphasize shared spaces and the hopeful examination of our everyday places\, objects\, and experiences. She holds a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MA in Civic Media from Emerson College. Her most recent project Glimpses of Glapion presents a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of a historic figure Louis Glapion in the augmented reality application Hoverlay as part the the exhibition Hidden Histories and the City of Boston’s Un-monument Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Clareese Hill is a practice-based art researcher in XR and Immersive Media. She explores the validity of the word “identity” through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. Her most recent project The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel\, a 19th-century Black  \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Hidden Histories is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-elisa-hamilton-clareese-hill-and-ruth-clemens/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T133000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour: Join guide and curator Shana Dumont Garr to see the public art created by Hidden Histories artists Kameelah Janan Rasheed\, Clareese Hill\, Elisa Hamilton\, and Sue Murad. We’ll see archival materials and ideas gleaned from old books and maps made public in poetic and slyly rebellious ways. Walk will take place in and around the Boston Common and Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston\, Ma. \n\n\n\nFor more about the Hidden Histories exhibition click here. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Hidden Histories is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr-2/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135129
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Clint Baclawski and Iwalani Kaluhiokalani
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 21\, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Join multidisciplinary installation artists Iwalani Kaluhiokalani and photographer Clint Baclawski as they discuss space\, time\, color and motion in their work on view as part of Echoes of the Heart until December 13\, 2025. Moderated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClint Baclawski works with photography\, technology\, light\, and space. He received his BFA in Advertising Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology\, Post-Baccalaureate from Bucknell University\, and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Design. He is Boston-based and has been an adjunct professor in Graduate Studies at MassArt since 2017. In 2022\, Baclawski had residencies in both Venice\, Italy\, and Wassaic\, NY.  \n\n\n\nHe was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in Photography in 2019. Baclawski exhibits his work extensively throughout the United States\, and his work is included in many private and institutional collections including Children’s Hospital\, Dana Farber Cancer Institute\, Whitehead Institute\, and Fidelity. He has been published in Boston Art Review\, FRAME (Amsterdam)\, Boston Home Magazine\, Designboom\, The Boston Globe\, and The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume II (New York\, NY). Clint’s studio is located in Boston’s South End. \n\n\n\nIwalani Kaluhiokalani is a Boston-based painter and interdisciplinary installation artist whose work centers movement. She holds a BFA in Painting with Distinction and Departmental Honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston\, where she also studied dance and performance art in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) program. She later continued studies in Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysis\, completing a Laban Institute of Movement Studies program at Lesley College\, Cambridge\, MA.  \n\n\n\nKaluhiokalani is part of Kingston Gallery\, Boston and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Bromfield Gallery\, Boston\, The Pfizer Building and LabCentral of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Cambridge\, New Art Center Newton\, and La Traverse/Catherine Bastide Projects in Marseille\, France. She has created installation work for corporate collections and for the ACTivate residency at Boston Center For the Arts. Kaluhiokalani’s work is held in individual and corporate private collections.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-clint-baclawski-and-iwalani-kaluhiokalani/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T183000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Join Hidden Histories Curator Shana Dumont Garr on a special walking tour to view Kameelah Janan 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\, Ma. We’ll see archival materials and ideas gleaned from old books and maps made public in poetic and slyly rebellious ways. \n\n\n\nFor more about the Hidden Histories exhibition click here. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Media Art Gallery\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nElisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of Louis Glapion. Glapion was a French\, biracial hairdresser and barber who\, together with his friend George Middleton\, built and owned what is now considered the oldest extant house in Beacon Hill\, located at 5 Pinckney Street. While more is known about Middleton\, the artist’s research has uncovered glimpses of Glapion that speak to an interesting and noteworthy life based in Beacon Hill. Hamilton seeks to honor Glapion and enliven curiosity about his lived experiences in our city. The AR experience will be available on Hoverlay and accompanied by a research document designed for educational purposes.  \n\n\n\nClareese Hill’s The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel\, a 19th-century Black woman from Massachusetts. By blending historical wisdom with future-focused fabulations\, the Black Boston Dream Oracle will provide a unique space for reflection\, healing\, and imagining new possibilities for liberation and collective well-being through early Black feminist thought. The Oracle will be presented as an Extended Reality (XR) experience available on the Hoverlay application\, accompanied by a web-based research document designed for educational purposes. \n\n\n\nSue 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\, and shared attention. The project bears witness to the many generations of people who have gathered together for rest and rallies\, labor and loitering\, play and protest.  \n\n\n\nKameelah J. Rasheed’s public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” responds to Boston’s memorial landscape by exploring the layered histories of Boston as discovered in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. Rasheed gathered marginalia and ornate typefaces from their collection of Boston’s oldest books. These fragments are interwoven or sampled into digital designs to form visual poems to be displayed on digital signage situated around the Boston Common.  \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Hidden Histories is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr-3/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T200000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135129
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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/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T193000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135129
CREATED:20251201T185242Z
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SUMMARY:Lisa Tang: "Be Whole In Everything" MFA Thesis Show
DESCRIPTION:This work is a non-doctrinal spiritual practice made visible. It draws on prehistoric abstraction\, sacred geometry\, and the ordinary courage of repetition. Each element invites a small\, complete gesture: to strike\, to bow\, to trace. The videos loop; the stones hang; breath returns. Nothing is illustrated\, yet everything is implicated — matter\, memory\, tide\, light.  \n\n\n\nTo be whole in everything is not to be grand. It is to become exact in presence: to place your full attention inside the tiniest coordinate\, until the world answers back.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/lisa-tang-be-whole-in-everything-mfa-thesis-show/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135130
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SUMMARY:Art Party\, End of Semester Celebration 
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 4\, 6-8 PM \n\n\n\nArt Party 2024\, Zine-making table. \n\n\n\nGet ready for Emerson Contemporary’s 2nd ‘Come Make Your Own Art Party! Let’s celebrate the power of art together. Join us for an evening of zines\, buttons\, paint-by-numbers\, and of course\, pizza. Relax\, unwind\, and let your imagination run wild alongside fellow artists and dreamers.  \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/art-party-end-of-semester-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135130
CREATED:20251201T184755Z
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SUMMARY:Leaning Against The Wall: Photo Practicum Fall 2025
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to attend this year’s Photo Practicum Fall 2025 exhibit \n\n\n\nThis semester\, students in Lucie March’s photography class dove into themes such as identity\, the passing of time\, and our roots represented through six different personal projects. We invite you to join us for the reception of our show at the Huret & Spector Gallery on December 9th\, from 6 pm – 8 pm. We hope to see you there! \n\n\n\nExhibiting artists: Emilie Dumas\, Kiki Tobor\, Natalie He\, Danny Kennedy\, Zoë Grandstaff-Gruber\, Cooper Rich
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/leaning-against-the-wall-photo-practicum-fall-2025/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135130
CREATED:20250826T200918Z
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SUMMARY:A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air
DESCRIPTION:Nelly-Eve Rajotte\, Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 hertz\, 2024. Video installation: 3-channel 4K video\, colour\, generative sound\, 25 min; modular synthesizer\, electrodes\, and tree. VFX artist and software developer: Codrin-Mihail Tablan Negrei. Courtesy of the artist. \n\n\n\nA Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air\, a four-person exhibition featuring works made through innovative intersections of science\, aesthetics\, and spirituality. \n\n\n\nArtists Margaux Crump\, Julia Krupa\, Eileen Ryan\, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte realize the potential of communicating directly and sharing authorship with the materials they use to make their art. Their artistic practices are intuitive and collaborative\, enabling trees\, stones\, salt\, and air\, among other materials\, to inform the creative process and the resulting potential meanings. Their methods include a cloud chamber\, oral history\, bio-sonification\, LIDAR scanning\, fumage\, and saining. \n\n\n\nThe resulting works of art forge stronger interspecies connections and increased empathy and hope for the future. These innovative modes of working also raise questions: do the artists translate on behalf of the materials? How do speculation and anthropomorphism fit into these explorations of restoration\, time\, and scale? The four immersive installations engage viewers in dynamic aesthetic experiences that may linger beyond the gallery as a shift in perspective. \n\n\n\nCurated by Shana Dumont Garr  \n\n\n\nExhibition catalogue featuring essays by Shana Dumont Garr\, Doctoral Candidate\, and Martina Tanga\, Ph.D. \n\n\n\nSentientLand-Guide-webDownload
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sentient-land-aesthetic-alliances-with-forests-beetles-salt-and-air/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Artist Reception\, A Sentient Land: Artistic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 21\, 5:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nMedia Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston MA \n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrate the opening of this groundbreaking four-person exhibition featuring artists Margaux Crump\, Julia Krupa\, Eileen Ryan\, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte\, who blur the boundaries between creator and material\, science and art\, human and more-than-human. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExperience immersive installations that invite direct dialogue with the natural world. Through innovative methods including bio-sonification\, cloud chambers\, LIDAR scanning\, and ancient practices like fumage and saining\, these artists share authorship with trees\, stones\, salt\, and air itself. \n\n\n\nThis is your first opportunity to encounter works that challenge traditional notions of artistic agency and forge new pathways for interspecies connection. Witness how forests communicate at 220 hertz\, how materials become collaborators\, and how art can shift our relationship with the living world. \n\n\n\nMeet the artists and the curator\, Shana Dumont Garr\, and explore questions that bridge aesthetics\, ecology\, and empathy: What happens when materials inform their own representation? How do we translate on behalf of the more-than-human? \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\nExhibition runs January 21 – March 28\, 2026Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday\, 12–6 PM \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public \n\n\n\nimage: Eileen Ryan
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-reception-a-sentient-land-artistic-alliances-with-forests-beetles-salt-and-air/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Public Program,Reception
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ORGANIZER;CN="Emerson Contemporary":MAILTO:contemporary@emerson.edu
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