Legacy Russell

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This week, we publish ‘Waiting for Pope.L’ by @LegacyRussell, an excerpt from ‘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.uk/articles/artic…

Final weeks of Code Switch @SchomburgCenter with @TheKitchen_NYC, some reflections here in this thoughtful conversation: kinoki.co/legacy-russell… 💻👾✨

@EphemeralMedia @SchomburgCenter ⭐️

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

@DocDre @TheKitchen_NYC @SchomburgCenter ✨

When I tell you I am FLOORED: “CODE SWITCH: DISTRIBUTING BLACKNESS, REPROGRAMMING INTERNET ART” Schomburg Center Oct 15-Dec 19, 2024 “Drawing its title from André 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 inspiration” Shoutout to @zaritaylor_ and @LegacyRussell

@DocDre We honor you ⭐️

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/event/what-is-…

24 Sep: @LegacyRussell, author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, joins us to discuss her latest book BLACK MEME, exploring the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present. She'll be in conversation with Rene Matić Book here: lrb.me/7n3

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

@deedottiedot @ucsc Wonderful

Grateful to share that I will be an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Art department and serving as principal faculty for the Creative Technologies program at @ucsc this upcoming academic year! creative.ucsc.edu

@LegacyRussell wants you to think critically about Black Memes- rb.gy/wgonie

"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.

"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-… via @nonlinearnotes @WIRED

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/178203…

"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-…

@digitalcoleman @JesseDamiani 🙏🏾⭐️

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/legacy-russ…

@Harmony_Holiday You are so held & so celebrated @TheKitchen_NYC & beyond 🖤🪩🙏🏾

A couple more for the culture including Ming and Legacy

With Kitchen curator and writer Angelique Rosales Salgado who along with Legacy and their amazing prodution team and staff makes creative freedom feel like less of a rare condition for we who believe in freedom

@JITPedagogy go off ⭐️

In the first essay, Jasmine Banks brings together hooks's engaged pedagogy with @LegacyRussell's "glitch feminism," reflecting on her own educational practices as an instructor of an undergraduate Psychology of the Black Digital Experience course. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/the-error…