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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first of three events in which Bard Graduate Ce
 nter faculty member Drew Thompson explores the Polaroid as an object of Bl
 ack material culture. In this conversation\, Thompson is joined by Simone 
 Browne\, sociologist and author of Dark Matter: On the Surveillance of Bla
 ckness\, and the acclaimed contemporary artist American Artist.Simone Brow
 ne is associate professor of Black studies at the University of Texas at A
 ustin. She is currently writing her second book manuscript which examines 
 the interventions made by artists whose works grapple with the surveillanc
 e of Black life\, from policing\, privacy\, smart dust and the FBI’s COINT
 ELPRO\; to encryption\, electronic waste and artificial intelligence. Toge
 ther\, these essays explore the productive possibilities of creative innov
 ation when it comes to troubling surveillance and its various tactics and 
 imagining Black life beyond the surveillance state. Browne is the author o
 f Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Drew Thompson is associa
 te professor of Black studies and visual culture at Bard Graduate Center\,
  where he researches and teaches in the areas of African and Black diaspor
 a visual and material culture. Curating exhibitions is a fundamental part 
 of his teaching and scholarship. He recently co-curated Benjamin Wigfall a
 nd Communications Village\, the first posthumous survey of the Black Ameri
 can artist Benjamin Wigfall\, which opened in September 2022 at the Dorsky
  Museum before traveling to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He is also a
 t work on an exhibition about African metalwork that will open at the Bard
  Graduate Center Gallery in fall 2023. He authored Filtering Histories: Th
 e Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique\, 1960 to Recent Times (Universit
 y of Michigan Press\, 2021) and numerous publications about the history of
  photography and contemporary art in southern Africa.More on American Arti
 st here.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Photography and the Surveillance of Blackness
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