Exhibition Details
Drawing its title from André L. Brock’s groundbreaking text Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020), Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art presented by The Kitchen, explores the relationship between Black cultural production and the legacy of computation as a mode of machinic engagement and creative inspiration.
Additional Details
The archival exhibition at the Schomburg gathers and considers histories pre-and-post 1960, first carrying us from how data was collected and visualized before the presence of the computer as we know it today, to the invention of the first computing machines that set the stage for digital computers as we now know them.
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
(135th St and Malcolm X Blvd)
New York, NY
Image: Tom Lloyd and apprentices in the artist’s studio in Jamaica, Queens, c. 1968. Photo by Reginald McGhee / courtesy of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture