The Ruby Lounge at the Rubenstein Arts Center · August 25, 2018
Quran Karriem and Rebecca Uliasz, graduate students in Duke’s Computational Media, Arts & Cultures program, are interested in performative systems ecology, visualization and signification of structures, and the ways in which audio visual experimentation can highlight power dynamics. They work together to build custom hardware and software, and perform generative audio visual sets under the name GOVERNANCE.
They have had a residency in the Rubenstein Arts Center this summer to further the development of Synthball, a lucid digital instrument designed to easily interface with real time audio-visual software. It is meant to be played through user gesture.
Karriem and Uliasz will mark the end of their residency with an audio-visual performance.
https://artscenter.duke.edu/event/soma-a-noise-show/
von der Heyden Studio Theater · May 18, 2018
- May 19, 2018
I was the sound artist, technical director and creative consultant for a dance work that explored resonances from redlining to political gerrymandering. I designed custom wearable IoT devices the dancers wore to generate and influence the soundscape with their movements. Full description below:
How are neighborhoods designated to separate people? When did the Federal Government actually engage in unfair lending practices in order to keep African Americans out of quality neighborhoods and away from the best resources available to other Americans?
SLIPPAGE presents an exploration of redlining, gerrymandering, and asocial cartographies that produce and reinforce inequality. Deploying custom-designed live-feed sonification interfaces, wearable technologies, and AfroFuturist performance practices, this hour-long afrotechnopunk extravaganza brings DUKE faculty, graduate students, community activists, and SLIPPAGE artists together for a special MOOGFEST presentation.
https://artscenter.duke.edu/event/these-borders-that-keep-me-down/2018-05-18/
UC Riverside / CHASS Interdisciplinary Building · February 28, 2018
White Privilege
Is everyone always automatically expected to share the concerns of people of color? Do we all really have to pay attention to race, religion, sexuality, ethnicity? What constitutes “white privilege?” If I’m not interested in being part of some solution, am I really part of the problem? What if I’m a maker/audience/presenter who happens to be interested in love, or formal structure, or myth, or universal qualities of empathy? What am I to do now? This dialogic manifesto-lecture-performance offers strategies for constructing a shared, useful understanding of white privilege and its implacable effects in the world.
https://events.ucr.edu/event/christena_l_schlundt_lecture_in_dance_studies_by_thomas_defrantz#.W6jyIK2ZPGI
Gibney Dance / Manhattan, NY · January 15, 2018
I performed alongside Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz, creating a live soundscape incorporating custom gestural technologies I developed. Description below:
Is everyone always automatically expected to share the concerns of people of color? Do we all really have to pay attention to race, religion, sexuality, ethnicity? What constitutes “white privilege?” If I’m not interested in being part of some solution, am I really part of the problem? What if I’m a maker/audience/presenter who happens to be interested in love, or formal structure, or myth, or universal qualities of empathy? What am I to do now? This dialogic manifesto-lecture-performance offers strategies for constructing a shared, useful understanding of white privilege and its implacable effects in the world.
This performance is second in the series begun with i am black [you have to be willing to not know] at American Realness 2015. Sonicscape by Quran Karriem.
https://gibneydance.org/discourse-white-privilege/
Duke University; Smith Warehouse Installation Array, Bay 11 · September 27, 2017
- October 20, 2017
endings is a generative text and audiovisual work that engages with a dataset on fatal encounters with police in the U.S. since January I, 2015.
The dataset is actively maintained by the Washington Post, and each new entry is incorporated into the piece.
Quran Karriem is an experimental musician, game designer, former software executive, and new PhD student in the Computational Media, Arts & Cultures (CMAC) program.
https://aahvs.duke.edu/endings-quran-karriem
