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ALT A group of artists stands together smiling in the gallery against a black wall, from left to right, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Kira Xonorika, Niama Safia Sandy, Mandy Harris Williams, Astria Suparak, Aroussiak Gabrielian and Andrew Demirjian. Above and behind them on the wall monitors display two figures with purple and green skin, dressed in colorful outfits and headpieces with asymmetrical, colorful bulbous shapes in front of a green plant and a black background.
ALT In a gallery space with a gold-patterned floor and back wall, curator Meldia Yesayan and artist Dahlia Elsayed stand against a wall patterned with alternating quadrants with green circles in their centers. Curator Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and artist Andrew Demirjian sit on round yellow stools in front of tiered striped pedestals with glass spheres on their tops. In a geometric image on the wall behind them two black and white striped columnar figures rise on either side of an orange circle.
ALT Digital image on a black background with a circular headshot of Dr. Joy Buolamwini surrounded by a border of colorful light rays.There is captioning at the bottom of the screen which reads “VOICING ERASURE”
ALT Professor Ruha Benjamin and interviewer Paul Holdengräber stand together with curators Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Meldia Yesayan in front of a window looking over a night sky.
ALT Ruha Benjamin and Paul Holdengräber seated on stage in conversation on a platform in front of a large window, a seated audience in front of them, a TV monitor to the left.
ALT A group of attendees speaks with Ruha Benjamin, beside a monitor that reads “In Conversation: Ruha Benjamin and Paul Holdengräber.”
ALT Ruha Benjamin gestures while speaking with Paul Holdengräber, both of them seated on a platform in front of a window, an audience watching them in the foreground.
ALT Artist Niama Safia Sandy stands wearing a black-and-white patterned outfit in front of a wall with four black-and-white prints with text on them.The print to her left reads “Black Life Thrives Beyond Your Accounts and Algorithms.”
ALT Four luminous-looking black-and-white prints with text on them on a dark wall in the gallery.
ALT An illuminated desk within a darkened space holds a computer monitor and CPU, the screen on the desk showing an image of a desk and a chair.
ALT Artist Maya Indira Ganesh stands smiling against a wall beside a monitor displaying a data visualization composed of overlapping yellow and blue orbs against a black background.
ALT Yellow and blue orbs merge and overlap on a screen with a black background.
ALT A gallery visitor with long brown hair sits writing on a page at a table that holds trays of worksheets and containers of pens; text on the wall above the table reads, “How to Make, Collect or Archive Feminist Data” with text in a chart below it.
ALT Paul Holdengräber speaking at a lectern, gesturing as he speaks, a blue screen behind him.
ALT Paul Holdengräber seated at a table with artist Laurie Anderson, listening with a hand to his chin as Anderson speaks into a microphone, a blue screen behind them.
ALT Paul Holdengräber sits with Jay-Z during an interview, Jay-Z looking at Holdengräber as the interviewer reads from a book he holds.
ALT Artist Aroussiak Gabrielian stands smiling in the gallery behind a white table holding books with leafy plants growing from their open pages, with visitors standing talking in the background.
ALT Bathed in violet light, three books lie open on a shelf with plants growing out of their pages, a magnifying glass in front of each and a small spray bottle beside them.
ALT A white shelf hangs suspended in a corner, holding books lying open with plants growing from them, illuminated by violet light.
ALT A stack of books displayed on a patterned shelf in Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Demirjian’s reading room, “The Center for No Center,” including, in the front, “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code” and “Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want” by Professor Ruha Benjamin.
ALT Salome Asega, Mimi Ọnụọha and Stephanie Dinkins in conversation, seated in chairs on a raised platform, a large window behind them, and a seated audience in front of them; Dinkins gestures, speaking, as the other two listen.
ALT Salome Asega listening as Mimi Ọnụọha speaks, gesturing and smiling, with seated audience members shown from behind in the foreground.
ALT Salome Asega, Mimi Ọnụọha and Stephanie Dinkins in conversation, a large window behind them, with the audience watching, the shot from their POV.
ALT Salome Asega, Mimi Ọnụọha and Stephanie Dinkins standing smiling in front of a window.
ALT Artist Mandy Harris Williams stands smiling and wearing a pair of headphones against a yellow wall with gray lettering on it.
ALT A pair of photographs, one of speaker Ruha Benjamin and the other of moderator Paul Holdengräber. They are speaking and listening respectively, Benjamin with hands raised in gesture, and Holdengräber with an expression of intent listening, from left to right against black backgrounds.
ALT A white filing cabinet with its drawer open to reveal tabbed and labeled file folders.
ALT Artist Mimi Ọnụọha stands in the gallery wearing white, beside the white open-drawered cabinet, “Library of Missing Datasets,” Version 1.0.
ALT Monitors in a stacking formation show rectangular segments of an image of two figures with purple and green skin, dressed in colorful outfits and headpieces with asymmetrical, colorful bulbous and puff-like shapes in front of a green moss-like plant and a black background.
ALT Artist Kira Xonorika stands in front of “Teleport us to Mars” wearing a wide-sleeved, collared red robe.
ALT A screen showing the avatar of an AI modeled as a black woman with long gray hair fanning out against a black background.
ALT A group of guests in the gallery look at “Sympathetic White Robots (White Robot Tears version),” a large wall-mounted vinyl collage of overlapping still images from film against a purple background, with a video monitor embedded in the center of the collage.
ALT Artist Astria Suparak stands with hand on hip facing forward in front of “Sympathetic White Robots (White Robot Tears version)” wearing a yellow and gold collared top and a gold skirt.
ALT The installation “Sympathetic White Robots (White Robot Tears version)” on the wall in the gallery, a collage of layered film stills and an embedded video monitor.