EventsThe New Social Environment#704

Art + Tech: Technology in Contemporary Protest

Featuring Aaron Huey, Nancy Spector, and Charlotte Kent, with Rhony Bhopla

Friday, December 2, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Photographer Aaron Huey and curator Nancy Spector join Rail Editor-at-Large Charlotte Kent for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Rhony Bhopla.

In this Talk

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Aaron Huey

New media artist Aaron Huey has worked across multiple media with an emphasis on traditional and post-lens photography. He has worked with many non-profits on important causes of our day and as a National Geographic photographer has created over 30 stories for the publication about people and places around the world. His practice brings a conceptual and critical lens on the edges of our world.

Nancy Spector

Widely recognized as a leading curator of her generation, Nancy Spector is an expert in contemporary art. As the Guggenheim Museum’s first Artistic Director and Chief Curator, a position created for her in 2017, Spector conceptualized and oversaw creative programming for the institution and its affiliates around the world. Spector is a recipient of many awards, including five International Art Critics Association Awards. She currently serves as a Fellow at the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation and is an International Artistic Advisor for the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

Charlotte Kent

Associate professor of visual culture at Montclair State University Charlotte Kent, PhD, is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail, and a contributor to assorted books on art and technology, including as co-editor of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect Books, 2024), co-author of Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square (Monacelli Press, 2024), and editor of Generation to Generation (Vetro, 2026). She is the recipient of grants from NEH and Google Art + Machine Intelligence, with a forthcoming book on contemporary art and technoabsurdity. She is a member of the College Art Association’s Committee on Intellectual Property.

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

Dao Strom

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.

https://www.daostrom.com/

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 🌈✨