“Black Atlas” Screening with Edward George & Fred Moten

@ as part of EMPAC’s TOPOS Festival Join Black Audio Film Collective founding member Edward George for a screening of Black Atlas which explores the “Image of the Black” archive—a collection of over 30,000 images documenting representations of people of African descent from antiquity through the civil rights era. After the screening, George will be joined in conversation with Fred Moten, a Black Culture Studies professor at NYU Tisch. This event is a collaboration with EMPAC & iEar Presents! REGISTER HERE *This event is included in the TOPOS Festival Pass Commissioned by The Warburg Institute in London, filmmaker, writer, broadcaster, and musician Edward George’s Black Atlas explores the “Image of the Black” archive—a collection of over 30,000 images documenting representations of people of African descent from antiquity through the civil rights era. The American premiere of Black Atlas is presented in partnership with The Sanctuary for Independent Media (Troy, NY) and RPI Arts Department’s iEAR Presents! Drawing from the archive, George creates a new film that reanimates historical imagery through narration, sound, and montage. Accompanied by an evocative score by Seymour Wright and Crystabel Efemena Riley, Black Atlas unfolds as a meditation on time, place, and presence— considering art as a medium of transcendence, a technology of power, and an affirmation of a humanist, anti-racist project. 5pm: Be The Media! workshop with Edward George Guest Bios: Edward George- writer, broadcaster, and founder of Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), the multimedia duo Flow Motion (1996-present), and the electronic music group Hallucinator (1998-present). George wrote and presented the ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History (1996), and he hosts Sound of Music (Threads Radio), Kuduro – Electronic Music of Angola (Counterflows). George’s series The Strangeness of Dub (Morley Radio) dives into reggae, dub, versions and versioning, drawing on critical theory, social history, and a deep, wide cross-genre musical selection. Fred Moten is a professor in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University, where he teaches courses in black studies, poetics, and critical theory. He works with lots of social and aesthetic study groups including Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, the Black Arts Movement School Modality, Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective, the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, Moved by the Motion, the Institute of Physical Sociality and the Harris/Moten Quartet. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E-mail Google Calendar iCalendar