February 2012
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Beauty in Black
BEAUTY IN BLACK Beauty in Black is a photo essay book depicting the Beauty and diversity of the African American Women. All shades, shapes and sizes.
January 2012
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Brittney Dorn
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Elizabeth Axtman
Elizabeth Axtman is an American photographer and video artist whose work explores race in American culture.
Elizabeth Axtman is a performance artist who works collaboratively with The Love Renegade in themes of love and forgiveness. She received her BA from San Francisco State University in 2004 and completed her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in...
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Watch8 Women • Developed by Joy Conway
8 Women is collective performance piece and exploratory sister circle for woman of diverse backgrounds including ethnicity, religion, class, gender expression, sexual orientation, politics and other identities. It is an eight week process culminating in a community presentation of our stories as women through body movement, song/chant, ...
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WatchAstro Black (2007 - ongoing) is an episodic video cycle informed by Afrofuturism – a field of theory that examines the intersection of science fiction and social politics in Black Atlantic culture. Taking the cosmic musician Sun Ra as a point of departure, Astro Black seeks to draw out the conceptual implications of Sun Ra’s intergalactic.
Video Description: This is an excerpt from...
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Movement: Journey of the Beat
Music helps to provide an appropriate framework through which people may relate to each other … Africans use music to mediate their involvement with the community. [ J. Miller Chernoff, African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1979) p.154 ] Technology provided significant solutions to capturing and...
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Afrofuturism: An Aesthetic and Exploration of Identity
In essence, many Afrofuturists aim to challenge society’s limits to the imagination and this limitation includes a very narrow reflection on race, culture and ethnicity in fictional and artistic works on the future. Afrofuturism celebrates new takes on modernization and the histories that have facilitated social change. Although some...
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WatchSOUL! Promo
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness centers on three large-scale installations by artists Kai Althoff, Ellen Gallagher and Thomas Hirschhorn. Working with fairy tales, science fiction and sensational imagery, these artists invite us to enter an uncanny world of their own creation, where darkness is not just a representation of chaos, madness and dystopia, but an artistic strategy in the search for clarity and...
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Alien Nation
Alien Nation
Alien Nation is an ambitious and thought- provoking touring exhibition that explores the complex relationship between science fiction, race and contemporary art.
Much has been written about the connection between sci-fi cinema of the 1950s and 60s and the Cold War, where fear of invasion, communism and nuclear war was played out in films that projected the anxieties of the...
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IRVING NORMAN x KANYE WEST x MARCO BRAMBILLA →
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Art: Jefferson Pinder - Afro-Futurist
Jefferson Pinder Afro Cosmonaut/Alien #1 2008 c-print 28 x 32 inches
Jefferson Pinder, a Washington based video artist, seeks to find black identity through the most dynamic circumstances. His experimental videos and films feature minimal performances that reference music videos and physical theatre. Pinder’s work provides personal and social commentary in accessible and familiar format....
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