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Just Divided

This week’s contributing blogger, Samyukta Mallick, is a senior at Northeastern University pursuing a BS in Biochemistry with a minor in Music.  VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Gloria Sutton’s Spring 2020 Honors Seminar, The Art of Visual Intelligence at Northeastern University. This interdisciplinary… Read more »

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Extracting Bias from Digital Access

This week’s contributing author, Sabra Sisler, is a student at Northeastern University studying neuroscience and data science. VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Gloria Sutton’s Spring 2020 Honors Seminar, The Art of Visual Intelligence at Northeastern University. This interdisciplinary course combines the powers of… Read more »

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Commissioning Hope, Curating Awareness

Anton Repnikov is a senior undergraduate student at Northeastern University, pursuing a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Physics. VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Gloria Sutton’s Spring 2020 Honors Seminar, The Art of Visual Intelligence at Northeastern University. This interdisciplinary course combines the powers… Read more »

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Beverly Pepper: Reframing the Narrative

This week’s contributing author, Devin Raynor, is a second-year undergraduate student at Northeastern University, pursuing a BFA in Design. VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Gloria Sutton’s Spring 2020 Honors Seminar, The Art of Visual Intelligence at Northeastern University. This interdisciplinary course combines the… Read more »

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Decaying Artwork Finds New Life

This week’s contributing author, Natalie Reeder, is an undergraduate student at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts pursuing a combined BA and MA in International Affairs & Spanish.  VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Gloria Sutton’s Spring 2020 Honors Seminar, The Art of Visual Intelligence… Read more »

Tony Cokes: How Presentational Variance Affects Viewers

This week’s contributing author, Tess MacCurdy, is a fourth year Northeastern University student, studying Communication Studies and Sociology. VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Gloria Sutton’s Spring 2020 Honors Seminar, The Art of Visual Intelligence at Northeastern University. This interdisciplinary course combines the powers… Read more »

NuMu: Artists Respond to their Environment

This week’s returning author, Charlotte Meyer, is an artist and writer focused on the preservation of artists ideas, currently focused an Oral History project on Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, NuMu. She is Lead Artist Guide and Educator at Judd Foundation, has been a Visiting Scholar at Dedalus Foundation, and a Visiting Critic at R.I.S.D…. Read more »

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An Evening with Barbara London: Video/Art the First Fifty Years, at MoMA

This week’s contributing author, Ehm West, is an artist, writer, and researcher based in New York with a focus in Black queer counter-narratives and the relationship between sound and moving image. They are the co-curator of Ellipsis, a roaming screening series based in New York and Spain. West has assisted in producing Barbara London’s upcoming… Read more »

Yayoi Kusama, Love is Calling

Kusama is Calling: A Reflection on Art in the Age of Social Media

This week’s contributing author, Alexa Portigal, is an undergraduate student at Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts pursuing a BA combined major in Cultural Anthropology & Art History with a Minor in Global Fashion Studies. VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Gloria Sutton’s Fall 2019… Read more »

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Uncamouflaged, Unconcealed

This week’s contributing writer, Becca Montante, is a third-year undergraduate student at Northeastern University, pursuing a BLA in Landscape Architecture. She loves making and looking at art. VoCA is pleased to present this blog post in conjunction with Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Gloria Sutton’s Fall 2019 upper-level seminar, Contemporary Art and its Publics…. Read more »

CALL/VoCA Talk: A Panel Discussion with Legacy Specialists, 2019

This week’s contributing author, Allison Spangler, is a Master of Arts student in the Museum Studies Program at New York University. Her current research involves museum programs that center around the inclusion of the living artist’s voice as an integral component to collection stewardship, documentation, and archiving. The discussion that unfolded on December 6, 2019… Read more »

Porto Master Class

This week’s returning author, Barcelona-based Will Shank, was trained at the Institute of Fine Arts of NYU and at the Harvard University Art Museums. He was head of conservation at SFMOMA (the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) for a decade, and has since 2000 worked independently in collections care, with a specialization in the… Read more »