BORN LEGACY. | Executive Director & Chief Curator @TheKitchen_NYC | #GlitchFeminism šŸ‘‡šŸ¾šŸ“˜āœØ | OUT NOW šŸ“• BLACK MEME | Becoming my avatar.

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This week, we publish ā€˜Waiting for Pope.L’ by @LegacyRussell, an excerpt from ā€˜Pope.L: Hospital’ published by @SLG_artupdates and @distanzverlag. The book documents the artist’s last solo exhibition before his death in December 2023. contemporary.burlington.org.…
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Final weeks of Code Switch @SchomburgCenter with @TheKitchen_NYC, some reflections here in this thoughtful conversation: kinoki.co/legacy-russell-cod… šŸ’»šŸ‘¾āœØ
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Class field trip to Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art @SchomburgCenter in Harlem,exploring the contributions of Black cultural production to the sociopolitical & creative histories & pre-histories of computation. Organized by @LegacyRussell & team
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15 Oct 2024
When I tell you I am FLOORED: ā€œCODE SWITCH: DISTRIBUTING BLACKNESS, REPROGRAMMING INTERNET ARTā€ Schomburg Center Oct 15-Dec 19, 2024 ā€œDrawing its title from AndrĆ© Brock’s groundbreaking text Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020), the exhibition explores the relationship between Black cultural production and the legacy of computation as a mode of machinic engagement and creative inspirationā€ Shoutout to @zaritaylor_ and @LegacyRussell
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26 Sep 2024
this Sunday at 1 PM for the Brooklyn Book Festival I'll be on this very cool panel with @LegacyRussell and @emilynussbaum — we will definitely figure out what reality is. Hope to see you there! brooklynbookfestival.org/eve…
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24 Sep: @LegacyRussell, author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, joins us to discuss her latest book BLACK MEME, exploring the ā€œmemeā€ as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present. She'll be in conversation with Rene Matić Book here: lrb.me/7n3
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At the end of next month, @LegacyRussell will join @CalebANelson in conversation to discuss hew new book BLACK MEME in this event at @_TheWhitechapel. Find out more: bit.ly/4d17NHe
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@LegacyRussell wants you to think critically about Black Memes- rb.gy/wgonie
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"We must keep fighting for Breonna Taylor, and the authorship of her personhood as an individual with agency." @LegacyRussell on the amplification of Breonna Taylor fandom, fetish, and visual commodification as it proliferated online internationally.
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"While on the one hand [the All Eyes on Rafah viral AI image] may broaden a consciousness, on the other it aestheticizes a struggle for liberation and makes for quippy viral material to be exchanged." @LegacyRussell wired.com/story/dial-up-lega… via @nonlinearnotes @WIRED
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The Internet Supercharged the Exploitation of Black Culture | @KailaPhilo | @newrepublic @LegacyRussell traces America’s reliance on—and profit from—Black imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme newrepublic.com/article/1782…
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"When you asked, what’s an early meme I remember, for me coming into awareness of lynching postcards was that nascent memory. The very idea that this was something that could exist as a material." -- @LegacyRussell wired.com/story/dial-up-lega…
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Writer and curator @LegacyRussell joins Kate Wolf on this week's #LARBRadioHour to discuss her new book, "Black Meme," which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in America from the dawn of the 20th century to the present. lareviewofbooks.org/av/legac…
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OUT TODAY! šŸ”„ BLACK MEME by @LegacyRussell, author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the ā€œmemeā€ as mapped to Black visual culture. "You will be galvanized by her analytic brilliance & visceral eloquence." - Margo Jefferson. Order here: versobooks.com/products/2751…
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šŸŽ§Spectators and WitnessesšŸŽ§ Throughout the evolution of the digital age, cultural production and dispossession have formed two sides of the same coin. @LegacyRussell and Fred Moten join @eleanorkpenny to discuss data, the middle passage, and blackness as transmission.
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Out May 7, BLACK MEME by Legacy Russell, author of groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the ā€œmemeā€ as mapped to Black visual culture. "You will be galvanized by @LegacyRussell's analytic brilliance & visceral eloquence." - Margo Jefferson. Pre-order: versobooks.com/products/2751…
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I am so so excited that @LegacyRussell's Black Meme is finally coming out! I've been waiting for that book for years now. I can't wait to read it, engage with it, cite it. God.
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On the literary side, this issue includes fiction by E. De Zulueta, Ɓngel Bonomini, and Diane Williams; poetry by Richard Siken and Bridget Talone; and an essay by @LegacyRussell from her forthcoming book BLACK MEME. Plus, a comic by Manon Debaye and a portfolio by Pacita Abad.
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I’m excited, filling the room with my favorite voices
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