Border Pedagogies, Queer Kinships, and Archival Resonances: Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas

Border Pedagogies, Queer Kinships, and Archival Resonances: Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas in Conversation. Moderated by Laurel V. McLaughlin. Saturday, November 5th, 7-8:30p.m. (Doors open at 6:30p.m.) Dessert Reception to follow. RSVP required EVENTBRITE Location: Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116 Join Emerson Contemporary for a conversation between artists Tania Bruguera and...

EL Putnam: Artist Reception and Performance

Join us for a celebration and unveiling of the new spring exhibition EL Putnam: PseudoRandom. Artist will perform a newly created piece "Ghost Work" live at 6PM. Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri define ghost work as the hidden human labor that powers our digital systems. In the performance of this title, Putnam acts as the...

Live Performance: “Friction” by EL Putnam and David Stalling

Putnam acts as the human mediator between two generative animation systems, making visible the labor that responds to and produces data, as her body acts as the database of lived experience. A collaborative performance, Friction, created and performed with German sound artist David Stalling will debut in March. 

EL Putnam Artist Talk

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

Is This Too Much? Space, Place, Image, Sound (VM637)

Media Art Gallery, April 19- May 14, 2023. Reception, April 19, 5-7pm IS THIS TOO MUCH? The works in this exhibition were created by artists from the MFA Film and Media Arts and MA Media Design programs. This exhibition explores the complex relationships that entwine us and shape us as humans - mind-body, artificial and...

MFA Thesis Projects

Abigail Hendrix, Nimueh, 2023 (still, 16 mm HD video, color, stereo, 3-channel, synchronous loop). Media Art Gallery April 19- May 14, 2023. Reception, April 19, 5-7pm A two person exhibition, this year’s MFA thesis showcase features multi channel moving image works by Elise Cohen and Abigail Hendrix. Elise Cohen, Call Home, 16 mm film, 2023...