Black Sheep Talks with Mirzoeff

Black Sheep Talks, a production of Arts Administration @ Boston University and the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC), with Nicholas Mirzoeff in its third podcast.

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and Deputy Director of the International Association for Visual Culture. Currently, he is working on a project entitled The Visual Commons #BlackLivesMatter that looks at the formations of the visual commons from the Haitian Revolution to the Black Lives Matter movement.

In 2012, he undertook a durational writing project called Occupy 2012. Every day, he posted online about the Occupy movement and its implications. Open source anthologies of the project are available. In 2014, he launched After Occupy: What We Learned, an open writing project on the lessons of the social movement.

Mirzoeff will deliver the keynote address for the THE SOCIAL @ Boston University as a part of the section titled Revolutions, Free Speech, Radicalization and Social Media in September, 2016. This particular session of the conference will discuss and analyze “if contemporary social media have ushered in an era of engagement, participation and free speech or one of radicalization, revolution and censorship characterized by political division and confrontation. Is it possible for Visual Culture to argue for a transformational and democratizing role of contemporary social media and technologies as tools that can provide the framework for participation, democratic and civil engagement beyond radicalized politics and ideologies?”

The call for papers for THE SOCIAL is available here. The call for the Graduate Forum of THE SOCIAL can be found at this link.

Watch and listen as Mirzoeff reads a part of his essay Why I Occupy. Nicholas Mirzoeff’s recording was realized for Lanfranco Aceti‘s exhibition titled I Occupy in Istanbul. Lanfranco Aceti is an artist, curator, and director of Arts Administration @ Boston University. The interview is available on Vimeo at: https://vimeo.com/156288122
 

Black Sheep Talks: Nicholas Mirzoeff from Museum of Contemporary Cuts on Vimeo.

Black Sheep Talks is a series of podcast interviews with artists, academics, and activists across the globe who self-define with the concept of the black sheep. Conceived by Lanfranco Aceti and realized in collaboration with Sarah Bradshaw and Rosemary Bucher, students of Arts Administration – the interviews showcase conceptual innovators at the forefront of their respective fields, challenging and blurring the stereotypical notions of boundaries and success while enveloping elements of contemporary issues. Black Sheep Talks is a production of Arts Administration @ Boston University and the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC).

To listen to the full interviews, please visit MoCC’s Vimeo account at: https://vimeo.com/user29593212

The Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC) is a museum that focuses on the impact that the current economic crisis has on the arts, society and democracy. For more on MoCC, please visit MoCC’s website at http://museumofcontemporarycuts.org/

Arts Administration @ Boston University is committed to creating an environment for its students and the arts that parallels innovation through disruption. For more on Arts Administration @ Boston University’s graduate program, please visit the program website at: https://www.bu.edu/artsadmin/