Our Events are our generative core. They are always free and accessible via live streaming and video documentation.

Upcoming

Seminar Overview

Matter of Intelligence Seminar Series

Sep 29, 2025–May 29, 2026

Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence

Oct 17–Oct 18, 2025

Recent

Panel, Screening

Earth and Cosmos: Panel Conversation and Video Screening with Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza

May 6, 2025

Conversation, Reading

Post/doc Spring 2025 Celebration and Launch with Momus

May 5, 2025

Lorraine O’Grady (1934 – 2024): A Celebration of Life

black and white image of woman in black jacket, facing left against a grey background.

Mar 30, 2025

Book Launch

As for Protocols Book Launch

Mar 21, 2025

Reading

New School New Books 2025

Mar 20, 2025

Screening

A Frown Gone Mad

Mar 17, 2025

Book Launch

Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time

Feb 24, 2025

Book Launch

Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror. Book Launch and Exhibition Closing with Yasmina Price

Feb 8, 2025

Screening

Carmen Amengual’s A Non-Coincidental Mirror: Screening and Discussion

Jan 14, 2025

Performance

Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts

Nov 22–Nov 23, 2024

Lecture, Performance

VLC Forum 2024: Tactics of Transmission

Oct 26, 2024

Conversation

VLC Forum 2024: Relative Histories

Brown and green graphic saying: Relative Histories, Saturday Oct. 26, 1:15 to 2:30 pm. Zoé Samudzi and Mahdi Sabbagh.

Oct 26, 2024

Conversation

VLC Forum 2024: Queer(ing) History

Brown and green graphic saying: Queer(ing) history. Saturday, Oct. 25 11 am to 12:30 pm. Andrea Geyer, Adam HajYahia, Carlos Motta.

Oct 26, 2024

Dinner, Performance

VLC Forum 2024: Community Dinner

Brown and green graphic saying: Community dinner and party, free for all! Friday Oct 25, 8 to 10 pm.

Oct 25, 2024

Keynote

VLC Forum 2024: Naeem Mohaiemen: Prisoners of Shothik Itihash

Brown and green graphic that says: Keynote: Naeem Mohaiemen, Prisoners of Shothik Itihash. Friday, Oct. 25 6:30 to 8 pm

Oct 25, 2024

Conversation

VLC Forum 2024: Re-visioning Native Histories

Brown and green graphic that says: Re-visioning Native Histories. Thurs Oct 24, 6:30-8:30 pm, Kent Monkman, Nathan Young, and Larissa Nez.

Oct 24, 2024

As for Protocols Seminar

Performance, Seminar

Seminar 12: Breaking Protocols: Desire Lines

May 16, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 11: Forces of Art: Protocols of Evaluation

Apr 4, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 10: School of Tomorrow: From the Open Plan to the Tele-classroom

Empty classroom with changing screen at the front

Mar 14, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 9: Bridge: Protocols of Jazz and Modernism

Dec 6, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 8: Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: Cooperatives

Nov 8, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View

Sep 20, 2021

Symposium

As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together

May 20–May 21, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 6: Lab Work – Art of the Experiment

Apr 5, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World

Woman holding young boy in kitchen

Mar 8, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance

Feb 8, 2021