Learn tips and tricks to clear pain points in the creative process while enjoying specialty drinks and food in the Atlanta Contemporary courtyard.

A web seminar conducted by julia elizabeth neal of edification, creative collaboration, and community that celebrates both the revolutionary work of Benjamin Patterson but also the creativity we have within us all.

This installment of Discrit features Anthony Francis and Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay, sharing their lecture Subaltern Voice in Photography.

This installment of Discrit features Nathan Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University. Lee will share his lecture “Theory is Cancelled: Donald Trump and the trolling of critique.”

Daniela Rodriguez is a Colombian American animation filmmaker based in Atlanta, Georgia. Their latest work, Pan de Cada Día [Daily Bread] (2020) is a short documentary film created with footage captured in Bogota, Colombia. There they visited several food and service locales to bring attention to the business model that many close knit countries such as Colombia ascribe to, removed from a corporate lifestyle.

Curator, writer, artist Legacy Russell presents a lecture and discussion on the construct, culture, and material of the “meme” as mapped to black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Using archival media Russell will explore the impact of blackness, black life, and black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality borne in the age of the Internet. Before the lecture, Russell will screen her video essay BLACK MEME (2020).

manuel arturo abreu presents their latest lecture, An Alternative History of Abstraction

Using The Trend Forecaster’s Handbook (2010) as our guide, Discrit co-founder Chris Fernald takes participants behind the curtain of one of contemporary culture’s most mysterious, misunderstood, and maligned professions: trend forecasting.

Discrit presents “Hunger: A New Vision of the Spiral Jetty,” a free digital lecture and discussion by Discrit co-founder Chris Fernald.

A lecture by artist Yanique Norman features her own extensive research into how blackness is both expressed and produced.

Anicka Austin leads Archiving the Personal, a discussion and workshop focused on artists’ use and creation of archival collections.

Artist Emma McMillan and Discrit discuss her new show ‘Project X.’

What are the emerging modernisms of meme-craft? And how has the ascendent meme reshaped our larger cultural economy? A cross-section of prominent meme artists working in Atlanta and New York reflect upon their practices and the meme’s role in contemporary culture. Featuring André Brock, Fatima Khan, Cindie Fang, Jensen Leonard, and John Truly.

Curators Anna Akpele, Sarah Higgins, Erin Jane Nelson, and Iman Person discuss the state of the curatorial gesture in 2019. Panel moderated by Discrit. Discussion to follow.

What happens when humans form complex attachments to non-human actors? In Excess: An Examination of Love in Three Acts consists of an interactive presentation by Joey Molina, a talk by Chris Fernald, and a performance by Nathaniel Mondragon, with a Q+A with the artist to follow.

Joey Molina’s talk both expands and complicates our received notions of “surface,” a rhetorical transformation that Molina contends has the potential to upend institutional hierarchies between artist, gallery, and museum.

In his talk, “Painting in Present Tense,” Chris Fernald examines the ways in which contemporary painting reflects our fraught relationship to time.

Discrit presents a screening and discussion of the film “What the Heart Wants” by Cécile B. Evans.

In this community discussion led by scholar Mariam Assad, we ask, “Where are our promised techno-utopias?”

The online, open-source text, “Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation”, forms the cornerstone of this community discussion.

This free seminar continues our exploration of bodies online as we examine representations of race, gender, and sexuality in digital culture.

The practical applications of cyberfeminist and technofeminist theories form the twin spines of this community conversation.

In this discussion, we examine how materials ranging from capital to chemicals both traverse and inhabit environmental, economic, and corporeal ecologies.

In Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and the Haunting of Machines, we form questions about what constitutes ‘the human’ in the 21st century, a time when the line between human, animal, corporation, technology, and environment is becoming increasingly uncertain.

Art and Agency in the Internet Age is a community discussion that takes a broad, introductory look at the digitally-mediated moment we find ourselves in.