Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert’s intro and Aldon Morris’s first chapter in W.E.B. Du Bois Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America sets the stage for a fascinating reflection and group analysis of the Exposition des Nègres d’Amérique. I’ve always been fascinated by world fairs. In the past decade (or two) they…

There is so much to unpack in David Chalmers’ “The Virtual and the Real”(1), I am not quite sure where to begin! He does a fantastic job breaking down the elements of virtual reality, defining them in context to the idea that the virtual experience is not inferior to a…

While reading Bishop’s “Black Box, White Cube, Gray Zone: Dance Exhibitions and Audience Attention”(1) I found myself conflicted. In the past, I have found myself a willing audience member of performance art, but have also internalized this spectating as disconnected from the intended purpose. My exposure to the practice and…

Concept Details — why? situate us in the current state of the concept I wanted to situate my investigation in Rudolph hall because it is a space that has gained importance to me, particularly in the past year. Being cut off from the…