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Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism: Nora Khan

Featuring Khan and Cole Swensen

Thursday, June 9, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Writer and critic Nora Khan joins poet Cole Swensen for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Ama Birch.

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Nora N. Khan

A photo of Nora N. Khan on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
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Curator, editor, and writer Nora N. Khan focuses on criticism on digital visual culture, the politics of software, and philosophy of emerging technology. She is the Executive Director of Project X for Art and Criticism, publishing X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal in Los Angeles. She is also a Curator for the next Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement in 2023, hosted by Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. Khan’s most recent short book is Seeing, Naming, Knowing (Brooklyn Rail), on the logic of machine vision. She frequently writes for publications like Artforum and Art in America, and has written commissioned essays for major exhibitions. Her writing has been honored by a Critical Writing Grant and a Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art.

Cole Swensen

A photo of Cole Swensen on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Anthony Hayward

Cole Swensen is the author of twenty volumes of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over twenty volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Award.

    The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

    Dao Strom

    A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

    We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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