Goings On | 06/18/2019

Goings On: posted week of June 18, 2019

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1. Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, Sable Elyse Smith, FF Alumns, at New Museum, Manhattan, June 18-October 6
2. Rashaad Newsome, FF Alumn, receives 2019 LACMA Art & Technology Grant
3. Eleanor Antin, Cassils, Nancy Chunn, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, June 19-July 26
4. Silvia Ziranek, FF Alumn, at Canary Wharf, London, UK, July 8-Aug. 16
5. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at Equity Gallery, Manhattan, thru July 13
6. Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, FF Alumns, at Le Petit Versailles, Manhattan, June 21
7. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA, June 21-July 10
8. Nancy Spero, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, June 14
9. Susan Martin, FF Alumn, at Howl! Manhattan, June 20, 27
10. Sherman Fleming, FF Alumn, now online at washingtoncitypaper.com
11. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at http://frankadelic.com
12. Iris Rose & Watchface, FF Alumns, at Pangea, Manhattan, June 21
13. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, July 17

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1. Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, Sable Elyse Smith, FF Alumns, at New Museum, Manhattan, June 18-October 6

Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, Sable Elyse Smith: Mirror/Echo/Tilt
June 18, 2019 – October 6, 2019
New Museum 235 Bowery 5th Floor NYC

Mirror/Echo/Tilt is a performance and pedagogical project created by artists Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, and Sable Elyse Smith to examine the language and gestures used to describe experiences of arrest and incarceration.

Culminating a four-year collaboration between the artists, the exhibition premieres a multichannel video installation that depicts performances they developed with participants in intensive workshops and filmed largely in decommissioned prisons, empty courthouses, and other psychically charged architectural spaces in New York City.

Drawing on principles from speculative fiction, somatic movement, cognitive psychology, and radical theater, the artists and participants use visual storytelling to reframe their experiences and open up new possibilities for resisting systems of control. Fragmented, doubled, and slowed movements defamiliarize mainstream narratives about carcerality. The project’s title, Mirror/Echo/Tilt, is inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’s famous novel Don Quixote (1605-15), which was written from prison. Much like Cervantes’s novel, Mirror/Echo/Tilt complicates the boundary between fiction and reality, and explores how radically shifting the way we tell stories can challenge dominant power structures.

The project also takes the form of a living curriculum practiced with court-involved youth, formerly incarcerated adults, and individuals otherwise vulnerable to the justice system. The curriculum focuses on undoing the language around culturally embedded conceptions of criminality and will serve as an open resource that lives beyond the artists and the exhibition.

Mirror/Echo/Tilt is the New Museum’s fourth annual Summer Art and Social Justice residency and exhibition. It features private workshops for community partners, public forums and readings, and a resource room with visions for justice contributed by visitors and facilitated by the New Museum Teen Apprentice Program, a summer youth employment program.

This exhibition is curated by Emily Mello, Associate Director of Education, and Sara O’Keeffe, Associate Curator.

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2. Rashaad Newsome, FF Alumn, receives 2019 LACMA Art & Technology Grant

Please visit this link:

https://unframed.lacma.org/2019/06/12/2019-art-technology-lab-grant-recipients?fbclid=IwAR2gToYvdUSlc9l3kyG0kgMZrtxTIWWpXCZFfuxU_O0cG1I1tlwpmE–NXQ

thank you.

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3. Eleanor Antin, Cassils, Nancy Chunn, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, June 19-July 26

Group Exhibition

Summer 2019

On view: June 19 – July 26, 2019

Ronald Feldman Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of works by twenty-one artists:

Eleanor Antin, Madeleine Hope Arthurs, Brandon Ballengée, Alexander Brodsky, Cassils, Nancy Chunn, Keith Cottingham, Eric Dyer, Yishay Garbasz, Rico Gatson, Kelly Heaton, Barbara McCarren/Jud Fine, Panamarenko, Thomas Ruff, Jason Salavon, Alan Scarritt, Andres Serrano, Todd Siler, Andy Warhol, Allan Wexler

The works in this exhibition span a variety of media and highlight several themes, which have no particular order of importance and often overlap.

The content of work by Eleanor Antin, Eric Dyer, Cassils and Rico Gatson could be characterized as having a dialogue with history.

Nancy Chunn, Eric Dyer, Barbara McCarren and Jud Fine, Jason Salavon, Andres Serrano and Todd Siler incorporate keen cultural observations and political insights.

Yishay Garbasz addresses the inheritance of traumatic memories, both in the body and in the landscape.

The environment and biology are major components of work by Brandon Ballengée and Kelly Heaton.

Alexander Brodsky, Panamarenko and Allan Wexler use architecture, invention and humor in their works.

Cassils and Rico Gatson celebrate their respective identities.

Keith Cottingham and Thomas Ruff use unusual depictions of what could be molecular space or deep outer space.

June hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 6.
July hours: Monday – Thursday 10 – 6, Friday 10-3.
Closed from July 4 to July 7.

For more information, contact Vince Ruvolo at (212) 226-3232 or vince@feldmangallery.com

Press link: https://ronaldfeldmanfinearts.box.com/s/sejb6x5kn8t6683t3ptk4c105qxfq6z7

Ronald Feldman Gallery
31 Mercer St New York, NY 10013
www.feldmangallery.com
212.226.3232

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4. Silvia Ziranek, FF Alumn, at Canary Wharf, London, UK, July 8-Aug. 16

Please visit this link:

https://canarywharf.com/arts-events/exhibitions/silvia-ziranek-jul-aug-2019/?instance_id=

thank you.

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5. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at Equity Gallery, Manhattan, thru July 13

A long-overdue exhibition of Huck’s Visual Art and Set Designs.

John Kelly co-curates Huck Snyder Exhibition that opens this Thursday!
View this email in your browser (https://mailchi.mp/johnkellyperformance/john-kelly-co-curates-huck-snyder-exhibition-that-opens-this-thursday-6-8pm?e=057bf50ceb)
I’m pleased to be co-curating this exhibition of the life works of New York based painter, stage designer, interior designer, and installation artist, Huck Snyder (1952-1992). Most active during the chaotic, eclectic era of the 1980’s East Village art scene, he crafted sets for prominent dancers and choreographers such as Bill T. Jones, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Bart Cook. Huck is also well known as my Set Design collaborator and partner during the heyday of the East Village gallery and performance scene. He worked closely with me on my early crucial works, including Go West Junger Mann 1984, Diary of a Somnambulist 1985-6, Find My Way Home 1988, Love of a Poet 1990, Maybe It’s Cold Outside 1991, and Akin: True But Dour 1992.

EQUITY GALLERY (http://www.nyartistsequity.org/huck-snyder-1984)
245 Broome Street
(between Orchard and Ludlow Streets)
NY, NY 10002
1 (931) 410-0020
Wednesday to Friday 1 – 7 PM
Saturday 12 – 6 PM Sunday by appointment
Exhibition Runs June 13th – July 13th, 2019 Huck Snyder was a facile painter, wielding a gestural expressiveness that flowed with bold certainty. He worked fast and loose, with an intensity that is evidenced in his brushwork and draftsmanship, renderings with a scribbled line quality, and busy patterns, often containing torn papers and found objects. He also used non-traditional methods of framing – taping the edges of his “glass pieces”, and painting on these borders with patterns, words, and symbols. His choice of subject matter varied widely, and was often inspired by fairy tales, the Tarot, magic, German expressionism, and absurdist humor. Though not specifically political, he deployed a gritty rebellious visual language that stylistically pushed back against the oppressive conservatism embodied by the Reagan era Zeigeist.

As an artist flourishing in a community that was being overrun by gentrification and decimated by the AIDS epidemic, and keenly aware of the fleeting nature of existence, most of his paintings are marked with the exact time and date of creation. Like a snapshot, each work is a peephole into his artistic impulse at a precise moment. Contemplating the hours and days hand-written on his pieces, 26 years after his death, makes for a poignant reflection: they speak from the past: “I was here. This was me in that moment.”

Like many of the artist’s involved East Village art scene during the 1980s, Huck Snyder’s career was tragically short. He died of complications resulting from AIDS pandemic in 1993, at age 39.

Co-curated by Hebe Joy, Beatricia Sagar, Wendy Copp, and John Kelly.

Donate (http://johnkellyperformance.org/wp2/donate/)
Donations to John Kelly Performance made through Fractured Atlas are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Follow the link to make a secure online donation or get information on how to donate by check.

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6. Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, FF Alumns, at Le Petit Versailles, Manhattan, June 21

SOLSITCE SONIC SOUNDSsssssssssss
NYOBS @ Le Petit Versailles for Make Music New York
Friday June 21st. at 8:00pm
346 East Houston /247 East 2nd St.
F train to 2nd Ave./ or J/M/F to Delancey- Essex St.

Join us at the very end of the longest day of the year at the garden Le Petit Versailles, as NYOBS immerses you in sonic solstice shenanigans for Make Music NY! From trance lyrics to primal screams, NYOBS pierces the restive soul with mind-blowing inducements of tonal & aural synth-esthesia. NYOBS is Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, John Swartz, and Mike Cacciatore.

Now entering its 13th year, Make Music New York, “the largest music event ever to grace Gotham” (Metro New York), is a unique festival of 1,000+ free concerts in public spaces throughout the five boroughs of New York City, all on June 21st, the first day of summer. MMNY takes place simultaneously with similar festivities in more than 750 cities around the world – a global celebration of music making.

Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. And many thanks to the NYC Regional Economic Development Council for Workforce Investment funds!

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7. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA, June 21-July 10

A feminist Re-Signing of the Mayflower Compact 2020. Commemorating the Pilgrims arrival in Provincetown Harbor and the signing of the Mayflower Compact in 1620. AMP Gallery, Provincetown, June 21-July 10, 2019.

http://www.jaycritchley.com/re-signing-of-the-mayflower-compact.html

How different would the world be if activist, American woman had signed the Compact? This re-imagined Compact is part of the Democracy of the Land project, which explores the effects of colonization on the Mashpee Wampanoag Nation and First Nation peoples of the Americas, and examines the intersection of environment, race, class and gender – past, present and future.

The cultural, political and environmental stakes are high in how we understand and regulate our relationship with the land, climate and culture. Like the layers of soil, we dig deep into layers of human occupation on the land to discover our history, and the filters we use when we view and experience its elements. The Pilgrims weren’t the first European visitors to the Cape tip, but they certainly created an uproar! In 2020, it will be 528 years since the arrival of a wave of invaders – precipitated by the notorious Christopher Columbus and company.

Next year we commemorate the historic and exalted Mayflower Compact, a democratic document signed in Provincetown Harbor in 1620 by forty-one bedraggled white, Christian men. Native Americans were not consulted. Neither were women. Now it’s time for women to hoist the sails of state and take command: the Re–signing of the Mayflower Compact 2020. We beseech you to reclaim and recreate a value-added Mayflower Compact – for now and for the future! Caesar said it with flair, as did the Pilgrims: Veni, vidi, vici. We came. We saw. We conquered. And now it’s their turn!

With so many activist women of importance in US history, the selection process for the forty-one re-signers of the Mayflower Compact 2020 was agonizing. Just how have women unburdened themselves from the thousands of years of oppression, run through the Christian grinder of western ideology and prosper on American soil?

These forty-one female signers are just the tip of the melting icebergs in my attempt to redress the treatment of women in our country’s narrative. Creative, activist women make up almost half of the signers, from Marion Anderson to Cher, from Audre Lorde to Rachel Carson, from Zora Neale Hurston to Gertrude Stein. And muckraker Ida Tarbell who brought down Rockefeller’s Standard Oil! Other signers include Lucille Ball, Rosa Parks, Whoopi Goldberg and Sojourner Truth. And two of Provincetown’s local exemplars, poet and activist Grace Gouveia and Mary Heaton Vorse, a radical journalist. We also honor the recently elected Congresswomen, two Native Americans – Debra Haaland and Sharice Davids, and two Muslims – Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.

Recalibrating our history and our vision for the future begins right here. Rise up and join the insurgency! (Please inquire about exhibiting this two-sided, free-standing banner at your “Get out the vote 2020” action.) Curriculum guides for middle and high school students based on the Re-signing The Mayflower Compact 2020 project are available. Inquire at www.jaycritchley.com/mayflowe

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8. Nancy Spero, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, June 14

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/arts/design/moma-ps1-nancy-spero.html

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9. Susan Martin, FF Alumn, at Howl! Manhattan, June 20, 27

Thursday, June 20, 2019 / 7 PM / Free
Gay Sex in the 70s: A Film by Joseph Lovett
Screening and Q&A

Sex had become the great equalizer. Young men of all financial strata and backgrounds met in New York to experience a freedom of sexual expression that hadn’t been known since ancient Rome.

Howl! Happening and Some Serious Business are pleased to present the groundbreaking documentary film Gay Sex in the 70s. Directed by Joseph Lovett, the film documents gay life in New York-from Greenwich Village to the Fire Island Pines-during the decade of liberation and sexual abandon following Stonewall and before the outbreak of AIDS. Gay men cruised the streets, frequented gay bars, and had loads and loads of sex. The film puts this outpouring of sexuality into perspective by looking at what gay life was like before 1969, what set the stage for the explosion, and how the political climate of the time influenced sexual expression. Lovett’s characters explore the experience that was ‘escaping to New York,’ the reasons they left the cities they had spent their entire lives in, and how things changed after the Sexual Revolution had begun.

Only 12 years after Stonewall, AIDS brought this unprecedented era of sexual freedom to a close. The film combines archival footage and interviews with author and activist Larry Kramer, photographer Tom Bianchi, and others. The evening is introduced by Lovett with a Q&A following the screening. Howl! Happening is a member of the Stonewall 50 Consortium, and the screening is part of the Stonewall 50th anniversary celebrations.

About Joseph Lovett
Joseph Lovett is an award-winning filmmaker who produced the first investigations on AIDS for ABC’s 20/20 and worked with many major networks. As an independent producer and director, he has created various feature documentaries and over 35 hours of primetime specials. Lovett has been honored with the Peabody, the AIDS Leadership, the Christopher, the Kitty Carlisle Hart, and numerous other awards from advocacy organizations, including an Emmy nomination.

About Some Serious Business: The Artist Always Come First
Some Serious Business incubates emergent expression in the arts, germinates intrepid new works and ideas, and presents diverse projects that celebrate audacity, experimentation, and social and cultural innovation. SSB supports hybrids and chimeras that traverse performance, literature, theater, dance, visual art, moving image, music, architecture and design, social practice, and the intersection of art and social history.

About Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project
6 East First Street (between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
(917) 475-1294
contact@howlarts.org
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, 11-6 PM

For further information, interviews, and images contact: Susan Martin, Howl! Creative Consultant and Founding Director, Some Serious Business
susan@howlarts.org / 310 975 9970

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Thursday, June 27, 2019 / 7 PM / Free
AIDS in the News 1983-1986: Journalism, Medicine, Government, and Prejudice
A Screening with Television Producer Joseph Lovett
Q&A and Discussion with Susan Martin and Sally Morrison

In 1983, television producer and journalist Joseph Lovett successfully pleaded with ABC’s 20/20 executives to create the first investigative reports on AIDS for network TV. Howl! Happening and Some Serious Business are pleased to present the pioneering 20/20 segment he produced, and other selected video clips of his early reporting that highlight the responsibility and difficulties of reporting on the epidemic during a decade of discrimination. Joining Lovett for a discussion following the screening are Susan Martin and Sally Morrison, both of whom were on the frontlines with Dr. Mathilde Krim in the tumultuous early days of the AIDS crisis, helping to raise awareness and put a face to the human costs of the disease.

Clips include:
• AIDS 1983: (5/19/83) The first in a series of investigative reports on a new epidemic. First place, Lincoln University Unity Award in Media.
• AIDS in the Heartland: (9/26/85) As the epidemic takes hold, a young mother and her family deal with AIDS in Lafayette, Indiana. The first investigative piece on heterosexual AIDS, with Geraldo Rivera.
• When Blood Kills: Should We Have Known?: (12/4/86) Investigative report on how the AIDS threat to the nation’s blood supply was mishandled.

Howl Happening is a member of the Stonewall 50 Consortium, and the screening is part of the Stonewall 50th anniversary celebrations.

About Joseph Lovett
Joseph Lovett is an award-winning filmmaker who produced the first investigations on AIDS for ABC’s 20/20 and worked with many major networks. As an independent producer and director, he has created various feature documentaries and over 35 hours of primetime specials. Lovett has been honored with the Peabody, the AIDS Leadership, the Christopher, the Kitty Carlisle Hart, and numerous other awards from advocacy organizations, including an Emmy nomination.

About Susan Martin
Susan Martin is the founding director of Some Serious Business and creative consultant for Howl! Happening. She was the publicist for Dr. Mathilde Krim’s AIDS Medical Foundation and the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) from 1985 to 1990. On the frontlines of efforts to promote awareness, human rights, and raise funds for medical research, she was an architect of the multi-city Art Against AIDS campaign for AmFAR, launched in New York City in 1987 with Elizabeth Taylor as National Chairman.

About Sally Morrison
Sally Morrison leads marketing at Lightbox, an innovative company specializing in high quality, laboratory-grown diamond jewelry for consumers. One of the jewelry industry’s most seasoned marketers, she honed her skills through leadership positions at Miramax Films, where she served as senior vice president. She played a key role in the crucial early development of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) where she was vice president of external affairs, working closely with Elizabeth Taylor and Dr. Mathilde Krim.

About Some Serious Business: The Artist Always Come First
Some Serious Business incubates emergent expression in the arts, germinates intrepid new works and ideas, and presents diverse projects that celebrate audacity, experimentation, and social and cultural innovation. SSB supports hybrids and chimeras that traverse performance, literature, theater, dance, visual art, moving image, music, architecture and design, social practice, and the intersection of art and social history.

About Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project
6 East First Street (between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
(917) 475-1294
contact@howlarts.org
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, 11-6 PM

For further information, interviews, and images contact: Susan Martin, Howl! Creative Consultant and Founding Director, Some Serious Business
susan@howlarts.org / 310 975 9970

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10. Sherman Fleming, FF Alumn, now online at washingtoncitypaper.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/performance-dance/article/21073013/the-black-overlay-reviewed

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11. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at http://frankadelic.com

Frank Moore, FF Alumn, featured in a new episode of the web video series about his life and art, LET ME BE FRANK

Let Me Be Frank
Episode 13 – The Plot of Fame and Good Taste

In Episode 13 of the LET ME BE FRANK web documentary series, Frank
explores the power and effect of art rooted in private rituals/private
performances, how this “Shamanistic Art” is needed to expand limited
frames around art and creativity, and how art rooted in private channels
is better able to resist the need for audience acceptance and societal
pressures to tame the art down. Frank also explains his resistance to
using the limiting label of “Sexual” to describe his art. This episode
features footage from The Outrageous Beauty Revue, one of the major
public performances created by Frank Moore that ran for 3 1/2 years at the
punk venue, the Mabuhay Gardens, in San Francisco in the late 1970s.

The reading is by Lob, artist, musician and founder of the Instagon
project.

“The Plot of Fame and Good Taste” opens with a segment of Frank’s 1995
interview with the Pope of Punk, Dirk Dirksen, and closes with Frank’s
interview with San Francisco performance artist/musician Michael Peppe.

Music by Sander Roscoe Wolff, Instagon, and Winston Tong.

Let Me Be Frank is a video series based on the life and art of shaman,
performance artist, writer, poet, painter, rock singer, director, TV
show host, teacher and bon vivant, Frank Moore.

The series is partly a biography, but also a presentation of Frank’s
philosophy on life and on art. Twenty-plus episodes have been planned
based on Frank’s book, Art of a Shaman, which was originally delivered
as a lecture at New York University in 1990 as part of the conference
“New Pathways in Performance”. Each episode will feature readings by
people who played an important part in Frank’s life, either as friends,
lovers, students, artistic collaborators or supporters of his art.

Let Me Be Frank presents Frank’s exploration of performance and art as
being a magical way to effect change in the world … performance as an
art of melting action, of ritualistic shamanistic doings/playings. Using
Frank’s career and life as a “baseline”, it explores this dynamic
playing within the context of reality shaping.

The series is available on Frank’s website at http://frankadelic.com and
on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/channels/letmebefrank .

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12. Iris Rose & Watchface, FF Alumns, at Pangea, Manhattan, June 21

They’re back! Thirty years ago, Kurt Fulton and Chazz Dean of Watchface created the passionate and personal Sodomite Warriors. Now Pangea Pride and TWEED present a screening of the complete original performance plus a brand new live section by Chazz and Kurt from the perspective of 30 years later. Iris Rose opens the evening with a few tunes and Chris Berg on piano. Please join us! Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4268490

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13. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, July 17

Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, “The Sentient Thespian,” New Filmmakers NY at Anthology Film Archives, screening July 17, 6 pm.

Newfilmmakers NY has announced the upcoming screening of “The Sentient Thespian”, a new short film by Adrianne Wortzel. At Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave, New York, New York. “The Sentient Thespian” is Inspired by Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, portraying Puck, a highly articulated, non-humanoid, “sentient” robot, capable of expressing and comprehending human emotions through gesture, sans speech. The film is recalls original silent, black and white films, where man and machine enacted the pros and cons of the leap from an agricultural to a mechanical age. THE SENTIENT THESPIAN interpolates that struggle to the current dawn of a new post-industrial age where humans must interact, and communicate with increasingly intelligent AI.

The project was made possible by a THOUGHTWORKS ARTS RESIDENCY, Directors: Andy McWilliams and Ellen Pearlman, sponsorship from the CONSORTIUM FOR RESEARCH AND ROBOTICS, A Research Institute of Pratt Institute, Mark Parsons, Executive Director and support from REACH ROBOTICS, Silas Adekunle, President.

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