Data Consciousness Symposium Part 1: Du Boisian Legacies
On the occasion of the exhibition Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print, https://www.printcenternewyork.org/da…, on view at Print Center New York, this symposium gathers multidisciplinary scholars and artists in the exhibition to bridge past, present, and future thinking on the complex interplay of race, identity, data, and technology. Using the artworks and themes in the exhibition as a jumping off point, the symposium considers how Du Boisian legacies of art, design, literature, and sociology inflect contemporary cultural production, and explores the urgency of cultivating data consciousness in our present moment.
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Data Consciousness Symposium Part 2: Artist Roundtable
Part 2 features artists from the exhibition, Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print at Print Center New York. Artist include Tahir Hemphill, Julia Mallory, Silas Munro, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and William Villalongo and Shraddha Ramani. Moderated by Tiffany E. Barber.
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The Black Studies Podcast
In this podcast conversation, John Drabinski and Dr. Tiffany E. Barber discuss the place of expressive culture in Black Studies, gender, race, and art historical research, and the importance of multidisciplinary work for the history and future of the field.
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An Afrofuturist’s Guide to the Galaxy with Tiffany E. Barber
Recorded on July 16, 2025 at the Des Moines Art Center.
This lecture features internationally recognized scholar, curator, and critic Tiffany E. Barber discussing the origins and aesthetics of Afrofuturism in relation to artist Firelei Báez’s exhibition, on view at the Des Moines Art Center through June 13 – September 21, 2025.
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Author: Dr. Tanisha C. Ford in conversation with Dr. Tiffany E. Barber
In this conversation, Dr. Tanisha Ford and Dr. Tiffany E. Barber discuss African-American fashion and its influence on the past, present, and future in the context of the exhibit, Toward a Black Aesthetic: Kenneth P. Green Sr.’s Photographs of the 1960s and 70s, which was on display in the Jewett Gallery and the African American Center until April 21, 2024 in San Francisco. Green’s images pay homage to Black women whose strength, intellect, and beauty highlight the fashion and politics of the era.
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Dis…Miss Gender? Artists and Writers on Gender Today
A panel discussion at 2024 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books featuring Dr. Tiffany E. Barber on Dis…Miss Gender? (edited by Anne Bray, MIT Press 2023)
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CEREBRAL WOMEN Art Talks Podcast
Ep.144 features Dr. Tiffany E. Barber is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized scholar, curator, and critic whose writing and expert commentary appears in top-tier academic journals, popular media outlets, and award-winning documentaries. Her work spans abstraction, dance, fashion, feminism, film, and the ethics of representation, focusing on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. Her latest curatorial project, a virtual, multimedia exhibition for Google Arts and Culture, examines the value of Afrofuturism in times of crisis.
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Black Futurity with Professor T. Barber
Studio Noize welcomes Dr. Tiffany E. Barber to the fam! (no relation to your boy JBarber) Tiffany is a scholar, curator, and critic that has done some great work around the ideas of Afrofuturism. We talk about the roles of Black artists, her work on and with Wangeshi Mutu, how studio visits help her with curating, and her love of dance. We’re always excited to have high-level conversations about art with the scholars that are thinking about Black art. Another great conversation just for you.
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Sanford Biggers & Dr. Tiffany E. Barber in conversation
Artist Sanford Biggers, whose sculpture Oracle (2021) inaugurates the Hammer’s new sculpture terrace on Wilshire Boulevard, is joined by UCLA assistant professor of African American art Dr. Tiffany E. Barber in conversation.
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A Conversation on Afrofuturism at the Met
On December 11, 2019, I moderated a panel featuring artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith, graphic novelist and comic artist John Jennings, and Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism. In conjunction with The NewOnes, will free us, artist Wangechi Mutu’s 2019 facade commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the panelists discussed the aesthetics and philosophy of Afrofuturism, a flourishing cultural movement that combines science fiction, history, and fantasy to explore Black diasporic experience.
25 Years of Afrofuturism & Black Speculative Thought
As part of the 2017 Black Speculative Arts Movement convention (#BSAMFUTURISMO2017) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, I moderated a panel discussion about the past, present, and future of Afrofuturism beyond its literary roots, the relationship between Blackness and Latinidad, and the critiques and revisions that Afrofuturism has undergone since its emergence as a term in the 1990s. Panel participants include Dr. Reynaldo Anderson who founded the Black Speculative Arts Movement, Mark Dery who coined the term Afrofuturism, and Sheree Renée Thomas who edited Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora.
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