EMPAC at Rensselaer invites artists, academics, and arts enthusiasts to a talk from visiting scholar Ezekiel Dixon-Román, discussing examples of contemporary artworks that push AI away from mechanisms of control.

Ezekiel Dixon-Román’s research on computation is influenced by Black radical anti-colonial thought, as well as cybernetics and critical philosophies of technology. The visiting scholar’s talk in EMPAC Studio 2 will address some of his newest research, and will also consider examples of contemporary artworks that demonstrate the ghostly specters at work in colonial logics.

Ezekiel Dixon-Román is Professor of Critical Race, Media, & Educational Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he is the Director of the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education. His work re-reads ideas of the human that we inherit from the Enlightenment period and from the human’s formation within technology and science.