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
Seminar
Seminar 1: Paying Mind: On the Uses and Abuses of the Intellectual
Sep 29, 2025
Book Launch
As for Protocols x Convivialities Book Launch
Oct 3, 2025
Dinner
VLC Forum 2025: Community Dinner: Guts and Brains
Oct 17, 2025
Keynote, Lecture
VLC Forum 2025: Matteo Pasquinelli. AI and Madness: On the Disalienation of the General Intellect
Oct 17, 2025
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence
Oct 17–Oct 18, 2025
VLC Prize Announcement
VLC Forum 2025: Jane Lombard Prize Announcement and Reception
Oct 18, 2025
Conversation
VLC Forum 2025: Conversations with the 2025–2027 VLC Fellows and Special Guests
Oct 18, 2025
Performance
VLC Forum 2025: (question–repeat–failure–record)
Oct 18, 2025
Seminar
Seminar 2: Of Matter
Nov 10, 2025
AICA-USA Lecture, Lecture
Kellie Jones: Body / Knowledge
Dec 1, 2025
Seminar
Seminar 3: Cosmic Intelligence
Dec 6, 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
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
Oct 26, 2024
Conversation
VLC Forum 2024: Queer(ing) History
Oct 26, 2024
Dinner, Performance
VLC Forum 2024: Community Dinner
Oct 25, 2024
Keynote
VLC Forum 2024: Naeem Mohaiemen: Prisoners of Shothik Itihash
Oct 25, 2024
Conversation
VLC Forum 2024: Re-visioning Native Histories
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
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
Mar 8, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance
Feb 8, 2021