Courtney J. Martin, assistant professor at Brown University’s History of Art & Architecture Department and Chris Rose, associate professor and Graduate Program Director in RISD’s Furniture Design Department, consider space and objects as they look closely at Martin Boyce’s work A Raft in the Roof part the new exhibition Martin Boyce: When Now is Night. […]
Stemming from enduring appropriation of Indigenous material culture, Dr. Jessica R. Metcalfe (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), will speak about how her blog Beyond Buckskin applied creative entrepreneurship as a platform to address local and global social issues. Dr. Metcalfe is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a Ph.D. in American Indian Studies from the University […]
Get ready for an extraordinary performance of Cloud Eye Control's "Half Life" by joining this engaging dialogue led by the artists themselves.
Set the stage for the East Coast premiere of Cloud Eye Control's Half Life. Join this dynamic L.A. group for a talk hosted by Professors Todd Winkler and Kim Moore.
In conjunction with Cloud Eye Control's performance of Half Life in November, FirstWorks and ecoRI News present a salon discussion with Terry E. Tullis (Brown University Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Terry E. Tullis, Chair of the National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council). While fracking has lowered current gas prices and made us less […]
Community and Social Justice: Panelists explore the complexities of policing, street- and court-level law enforcement, racial discrimination, and institutional biases. Moderated by film-maker and radio host Marc Levitt.
A lamentation of fierce urgency, the latest multimedia production from Cloud Eye Control is an imagistic, visceral work inspired by the nervous fear felt in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Speaker Arnold Weinstein, Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, argues that the phrase – the connection between effort and reward – defines the very nature of humanistic knowing, the kind of ‘experiential knowing’ that we get from literature and art, which is radically at odds with the ‘information-culture’ of our time.