Dan Charnas Colloquium Talk: "Misusing The Equipment: Hip-Hop, Dilla, and The Tradition of Subverting Technology" (10/02/2023)

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Misusing The Equipment: Hip-Hop, Dilla, and The Tradition of Subverting Technology
Monday, October 2, 4:15-5:45pm
Oliva Hall, Cummings Art Center

Much of popular culture is an outgrowth of our use of technology. But in the American context, perhaps just as much of that culture arises from the deliberate misuse of technology. Using hip-hop as a lens, the work of producer/beatmaker J Dilla as a focal point, and rooting it all in the African-American encounter with European-derived systems, we will look at the long tradition of subverting, bending, and misusing machines, drawing on concepts and examples from music, film, dance, and literature, as a way to understand our ongoing relationship with our changing tools, and the forces that create and/or control them. This will be an interactive discussion, and audience participation is encouraged.

The Ammerman Center at Connecticut College in New London, CT, announces its Colloquia dates and guest speakers. The aim of these public events is to create an inclusive forum for multidisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of arts, technology, and contemporary culture in a variety of formats. This year’s theme is Material/Culture: Our relationships with art, culture, and everyday living have radically shifted in a digital age. Both in conversation with and defiance of technology as invisible or ineffable, this year’s theme seeks to reframe materiality, and ground us with stakes that art and technology pose—culturally, environmentally, politically, and representationally. What does it mean to be a creator, producer, or maker in the 21 st century? What are the ways in which we should (re)consider art and technology’s impact?

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