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November 3, 2017

Intersections of gender and race with media technology are among the topics of public discussions this week: 

Julio Salgado
Julio Salgado

Wednesday, Nov. 8: “I am a Queer Artist of Color, and I am Still Alive” by Julio Salgado, of Dreamers Adrift and Culture Strike, followed by art-making workshop 

Wednesday, Nov. 8: Perlow Lecture: “Recalling Jewish Calcutta” by gender and culture scholar Jael Silliman, founder of the jewishcalcutta.in archives  

Friday, Nov. 10: Accelerator Series: “Technology, Visual Culture and the Politics of Representationwith journalist and educator Farai Chideya, artist Michael Joo, and new-media artist Amir Baradaran, moderated by the Tang Museum’s curator-at-large, Isolde Brielmaier

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