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SUMMARY:The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
DESCRIPTION:Join Visual and Performing Arts Professor Gino DiIorio for a conversation with Coleman Hughes.  \n\n\n\nColeman Hughes is an author\, podcaster\, and opinion columnist who specializes in issues related to race\, public policy\, and applied ethics. He has appeared on prominent TV shows and podcasts\, including The View\, Real Time with Bill Maher\, The Joe Rogan Experience\, and Making Sense with Harris. Hughes is a columnist at the Free Press and a contributor to CNN.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-end-of-race-politics-arguments-for-a-color-blind-america/
LOCATION:Dana Commons – Higgins Lounge
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SUMMARY:Animating Sculpture: AR\, Iteration\, and Public Art
DESCRIPTION:Moving Memory AR at SXSW 2026\n\n\n\nHow does Augmented Reality (AR) design evolve through iteration\, also known as repeated versioning? In this talk\, Dr. Lori Landay from Berklee College of Music discusses how she developed two AR experiences layered onto existing public sculptures—and what she learned by iterating between them. \n\n\n\nIn the first project\, Moving Memory AR\, Landay debuted playful\, motion-captured bots performing choreography around Jaume Plensa’s sculpture Alchemist at MIT in February 2025. Users responded enthusiastically\, but Landay identified several limitations she wanted to address. Her second project will bring Moving Memory AR to SXSW’s Kempelen’s Owls sculpture in Austin in March 2026\, evolving the design across four dimensions: emotional\, spatial\, technical\, and representational. Through iteration\, she expanded the bots’ emotional range and movement vocabulary\, reduced their exaggerated gender coding\, incorporated discovery-based movement requiring exploration across the sculpture’s site\, and deployed advanced Hoverlay sequences to deepen the experience. As Landay describes it\, this latest version “makes a place to bridge contradictory themes of nature and technology\, geometric and organic\, clandestine and open\, seen and hidden.” \n\n\n\nJoin us as Landay reflects on what changed between these two projects and why. She will discuss ethnographic observation methods for AR sites\, Laban Movement Analysis for expressive choreography\, advanced sequence-based authoring\, strategies for creating modular content that adapts across contexts\, and an honest assessment of what designers can and cannot anticipate without direct site experience. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Interactive Arts Collaborative through the Arts + Technology Program at Clark University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLori Landay\, Ph.D.\, Professor of Cultural Studies\, Visual Culture\, and New Media in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Berklee College of Music in Boston\, is an interdisciplinary new media artist\, educator\, and scholar whose work explores the making of meaning in twentieth- and twenty-first century culture. Her award-winning creative and critical work bridges multiple media forms. She collaborates with composers\, musicians\, and dancers to investigate movement and sound in live performance\, video\, and extended reality (XR) environments. Lori was a Research Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab (2022-24)\, working on Moving Realities\, an experimental project exploring connections between motion and emotion in XR. Moving Memory\, her AR installation in MIT’s Artfinity Festival (2025) and South by Southwest (2026) is part of the MIT OpenDocLab’s AR and Public Space Artist Collective Layers of Place. For more information\, visit https://www.lorilanday.com.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/animating-sculpture-ar-iteration-and-public-art/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T163000
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SUMMARY:Feeling and Knowing: An Uprooting of Things
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to feel things we know? How do we know what we feel? When do our emotions capture the truth\, and when do they deceive us? This Clark faculty roundtable will showcase lightning talks on the early modern roots of how we think about emotions today. It will examine how we can look to the past\, not for answers to our present realities but to offer new insights on who we have always been. Faculty will share snippets from their research about the ways emotions manifest to determine how we know ourselves and engage with each other.  \n\n\n\nFeatured speakers will include Lisa Kasmer (English)\, Justin Shaw (English)\, and Wiebke Deimling (Philosophy). Kathleen Palm Reed (Psychology) will offer commentary. Benjamin Korstvedt (Visual and Performing Arts) will moderate. \n\n\n\nThis event continues the Roots of Everything\, a lecture series sponsored by Early Modernists Unite (EMU)—a faculty collaborative bringing together scholars of medieval and early modern Europe and America—in conjunction with the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities. The series highlights various aspects of modern existence originating in the early modern world by connecting past and present knowledge. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/feeling-and-knowing-an-uprooting-of-things/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Health/Wellness,Humanities
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SUMMARY:Lone Star Screening and Q+A
DESCRIPTION:Please join Clark University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts as we welcome director\, screenwriter\, editor\, actor\, and novelist John Sayles to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his Oscar-nominated film\, Lone Star!     \n\n\n\nLone Star premiered on March 16\, 1996 at South by Southwest (SXSW). Sayles’s original screenplay for the film was nominated for an Academy Award\, BAFTA award\, and Golden Globe Award.    \n\n\n\nFrom Criterion.com: \n\n\n\n“A keen observer of America’s social fabric\, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert\, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper)\, son of a legendary local sheriff\, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County\, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast\, including Joe Morton\, Elizabeth Peña\, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.”
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/lone-star-screening-and-qa/
LOCATION:Razzo Hall\, Traina Center for the Arts\, 92 Downing St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Music/Film
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