Join the opening and reception for a new collaboration with The Kitchen and its first traveling exhibition, Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art. In a moment where technology mediates and has transformed all parts of a visual culture, Code Switch provokes reconsiderations about what “Internet art” is altogether. Legacy Russell, exhibition organizer, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen will bring remarks. About the Exhibition Drawing its title from Andre L. Brock’s groundbreaking text Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020), Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art explores the relationship between Black cultural production and the legacy of computation as a mode of machinic engagement and creative inspiration. The first part of the exhibition explores the work of visual artists including Tom Lloyd, David Drake (otherwise known as “Dave the Potter”), Benjamin Patterson, Howardena Pindell, Candis Mosely Pettway, Mattie Ross, Ulysses Jenkins, Milford Graves, Faith Ringgold, Blondell Cummings, Lorraine O’Grady, Jack Whitten, and composer and scholar of experimental music George Lewis. It also recognizes the influence of Afrofuturist science fiction writers and thinkers such as Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler as well as guerrilla archivist, access television producer, and librarian Marion Stokes.
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