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Online panel discussions
Producing Knowledge with Indigenous Research Frameworks
Tuesday, February 24, at 7pm EST on Zoom. Jeffrey Gibson, Candice Hopkins, Kite, and Dare Turner. Moderated by Katherine Rochester. Register here.
For this panel discussion, four distinguished Indigenous artists and curators will speak about producing knowledge with Indigenous research frameworks. Jeffrey Gibson conceived and coedited the landmark volume An Indigenous Present (2023), which showcases diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms, and media, one year before becoming the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States at the 60th Venice Biennale Arte. Also in 2023, Candice Hopkins, Executive Director of Forge Project in Taghkanic, NY, curated the landmark exhibition Indian Theater: Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969, and in 2025 published its accompanying catalogue, Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance, which theorizes performance as a conceptual framework for understanding Indigenous arts practices. Kite founded the Wíhaŋble S’a Center for Indigenous AI in 2024 at Bard College, a media lab that explores how Indigenous AI protocols and ethical machine learning can be harnessed to generate new understandings of contemporary Lakȟóta ontology. Dare Turner began her tenure as the Brooklyn Museum’s first Curator of Indigenous Art in 2023. Editor, art historian, and MA Curatorial Practice faculty member Katherine Rochester invites these key figures to discuss how they have navigated the foundational work of establishing a relatively new field of study.
Orbiting Empathy: Speculative Encounters with Technological Others
Thursday, March 26, 9am EST on Zoom. Sougwen Chung and Xin Liu. Moderated by Noam Segal. Register here.
In our continuing series, The Algorithmic State, we are pleased to present world-renowned artists Sougwen Chung and Xin Liu, who will explore the charged terrain where technology becomes other, collaborator, and narrator. The discussion is organized by Noam Segal, the LG Electronics Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and a member of the faculty at large at MA Curatorial Practice. Chung's work binds machine and self through embodied co-creation, where robotic drawing systems operate as agents that mirror, extend, and unsettle human gesture. Liu's practice—situated at the intersection of art, engineering, and cosmic perspective—attunes audiences to the often-unacknowledged agencies embedded within technological systems. Together, they articulate a speculative narrative of co-becoming—one that shifts technological otherness from something alien and external to the realization of an embodied interlocutor. Guided by Segal, the conversation asks: Can machines reshape how we experience intimacy and distance? Can technological robotic systems carry affect, memory, or desire? In tracing these questions, the artists propose that meaning emerges not through mastery of technology, but through reciprocity, vulnerability, and imaginative alignment across human and machinic worlds.
The Curatorial Roundtable
On Wednesdays on Zoom at 9am EST/DST, Steven Henry Madoff hosts distinguished international curators and directors of art institutions to speak about the exhibitions they’ve made that have been transformative in their thinking and practice.
February 18: Aline Hernández, Artistic Director, Casco Art Institute, Utrecht. Register here. / February 25: Dare Turner, Curator of Indigenous Art, Brooklyn Museum. Register here. / March 11: Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, independent curators, Milan. Register here. / March 18: Lilou Vidal, Founder and Curator, Bureau des Réalités, Brussels. Register here. / March 25: Simon Kelly, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum. Register here. / April 1: Marie de Brugerolle, independent curator and professor, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Register here. / April 8: Frankie Su, Deputy Director, New Taipei City Art Museum, Taipei. Register here. / April 22: Astrid Peterle, Director, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna. Register here. / April 29: Kay Watson, Head of Arts Technologies, Serpentine, London. Register here.
MA Curatorial Practice is a two-year master’s degree program in New York City that focuses on professional curatorial training with a thorough grounding in the relevant study of history, research, and theory. We emphasize hands-on, practical work, learning from world-renowned curators and experts, and professional networking, with the foremost goal of our graduates being hired for curatorial positions in the field. Visit here to learn more about the program. Feel free to inquire here.
