Code Switch: MOCAD 2025
Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art is organized by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator, and Angelique Rosales Salgado, Curatorial Assistant, with contributed research by Tsige Tafesse, 2023-2024 Curatorial Fellow, and Kyla Gordon, 2024-2025 Curatorial Fellow, The Kitchen. The third domain as presented here at MOCAD is co-organized in collaboration with Jova Lynne, Co-Director and Artistic Director, and Isabella Nimmo, Associate Curator, MOCAD.
Code Switch: MOCAD 2025
Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art is a multi-sited exhibition exploring and redefining the history of “Black data,” centering and celebrating contributions by artists of African descent to the rapidly advancing field of new media art and digital practice. Drawing its title from André L. Brock’s groundbreaking text Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020), this exhibition explores the relationship between Black cultural production and the legacy of computation as a mode of machinic engagement and creative inspiration.