Technology can be used to transform communities, empower people and create innovative works of art. This week long event series will explore how open source technology can be used to do that work within Detroit. This program features members of openFrameworks which is hosting their annual worldwide developers conference in Detroit.
openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation.
Technology can be used to transform communities, empower people and create innovative works of art. This week long event series will explore how open source technology can be used to do that work within Detroit. This program features members of openFrameworks which is hosting their annual worldwide developers conference in Detroit.
openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation.
INITIATE
Initiate will explore creative uses of primarily open source technology and open source approaches to creating art and social change. Join us for short presentations and open dialogue featuring local, national and international artists, technologists and community organizers.
Saturday, February 25th | 5pm - 9:30pm Museum of Contemporary Art 4454 Woodward Ave.
Featuring members of openFrameworks.
DISCOTECH
Discotech (Discovering Technology) is a multimedia mobile neighborhood workshop fair. Participants will learn more about the impact and possibilities of technology within our communities and take part in interactive, multimedia workshops. This will include a workshop introduction to openFrameworks, a cross-platform C++ library for creative coding. It will be a chance to experiment with building new systems for interaction that move away from the screen and into physical space.
Sunday, February 26th | 1:30pm - 4:30pm Mt. Elliot Makerspace Church of the Messiah 231 E. Grand Blvd.
Featuring openFrameworks in partnership with EMERGENCE Media, rootoftwo, Artserve Michigan, Allied Media Projects, Work Department, MOCAD, and the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.
For more info email info[at]emergencemedia[dot]org.
The Born in Flames Tour bridges the worlds of hip hop and rock, and spotlights women who represent the best of both worlds, bringing together two crucibles of creativity—Brooklyn and Detroit. Featured artists Invincible, Tamar-kali, and Jean Grae are all highly-respected in their individual scenes, and their ever-growing fan bases will continue to elevate them into cult status well into the future. The name of the tour, Born in Flames, speaks to the pressure these artists feel from from a world that’s often at odds with their very existence, be it black/woman/queer/punk, etc.
Friday, February 3rd
164 Boulevard Gallieni | Map Fontenay-sous-Bois, France 94120
The Born in Flames Tour bridges the worlds of hip hop and rock, and spotlights women who represent the best of both worlds, bringing together two crucibles of creativity—Brooklyn and Detroit. Featured artists Invincible, Tamar-kali, and Jean Grae are all highly-respected in their individual scenes, and their ever-growing fan bases will continue to elevate them into cult status well into the future. The name of the tour, Born in Flames, speaks to the pressure these artists feel from from a world that’s often at odds with their very existence, be it black/woman/queer/punk, etc.
Friday, February 3rd
164 Boulevard Gallieni | Map Fontenay-sous-Bois, France 94120
Post-Industrial Soundtrack: Exploring the Global Impact of Detroit’s Musical Landscape & Detroit Deluxxe
EMERGENCE presents this event as a culmination of the Detroit Summer exhibit at the Queens Museum, and the main exhibit, "Detroit Disassembled," with a performance by Detroit artists.
Sunday, January 15
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, NY 11368-3398
3:00pm - 9:00pm
Featuring:
Invincible
Waajeed
DJ Rimarkable
Beyond the automobile, one of Detroit’s greatest contribution to global culture is musical innovation. The unique and challenging social and political context of Detroit has produced artists with a high degree of integrity, musical perfectionism, and groundbreaking technique.
This event will explore how Detroit’s music innovations have evolved side-by-side with and advanced the city’s movements for social transformation. They will also present about Detroit DJs and their role in amplifying and preserving the city’s musical legacy, from Motown, to Rock, Funk, Techno, Hip-Hop and beyond.
Post-Industrial Soundtrack: Exploring the Global Impact of Detroit’s Musical Landscape & Detroit Deluxxe
EMERGENCE presents this event as a culmination of the Detroit Summer exhibit at the Queens Museum, and the main exhibit, "Detroit Disassembled," with a performance by Detroit artists.
Sunday, January 15
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, NY 11368-3398
3:00pm - 9:00pm
Featuring:
Invincible
Waajeed
DJ Rimarkable
Beyond the automobile, one of Detroit’s greatest contribution to global culture is musical innovation. The unique and challenging social and political context of Detroit has produced artists with a high degree of integrity, musical perfectionism, and groundbreaking technique.
This event will explore how Detroit’s music innovations have evolved side-by-side with and advanced the city’s movements for social transformation. They will also present about Detroit DJs and their role in amplifying and preserving the city’s musical legacy, from Motown, to Rock, Funk, Techno, Hip-Hop and beyond.
REFLECT on the ways we approach the work of transforming ourselves, Detroit, and the world
ENGAGE in conversation about networks, webs new forms of organization and leadership, drawing lessons from quantum physics, emergence, and other complex science theories
REDEFINE change from critical mass to critical connections,from growing our economy to growing our souls, from representative democracy to participatory self-governing communities
CONNECT communities working for change within Detroit to one another, and to communities around the world
Grace Lee Boggs (author of The Next American Revolution) Meg Wheatley (author of Leadership and the New Science and Walk Out Walk On) Invincible (Emergence Media, Detroit Future Youth) Jenny Lee (Allied Media Projects)
Followed by a community dialogue facilitated by Adrienne Maree Brown
Detroit Future Youth Gathering
Furniture Factory 4126 Third 5-9pm
Featuring: Detroit Future Youth members
RSVP required to youth[at]detroitfuture[dot]org
Complex Movements (excerpts from the work in progress)
Featuring: Invincible + Waajeed Wesley Taylor Adrienne Maree Brown Diana Nucera
At the Cass Community Commons/UU church 4605 Cass Avenue. Youth and youth organizers - please RSVP to youth@DetroitFutureMedia.org
To celebrate the opening of Cranbrook Art Museum's No Object is an Island exhibit, a collection of Detroit musicians and performance artists took to the stage. Over the course of two weekends, Invincible, Monica Blaire, The Rarities, DJ Mike Medow, jessica care moore, DJ Mel Wonder, The Foundation All Stars, 14KT, Miz Korona and Tunde Olariran electrified the audience with their art, music, and voices. Check out some footage and photographs from the last weekend of the event and be sure to visit Cranbrook Art Museum and all it has to offer.
The Foundation, DJ Mel Wonder, & jessica care moore
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Tunde Olaniran
To celebrate the opening of Cranbrook Art Museum's No Object is an Island exhibit, a collection of Detroit musicians and performance artists took to the stage. Over the course of two weekends, Invincible, Monica Blaire, The Rarities, DJ Mike Medow, jessica care moore, DJ Mel Wonder, The Foundation All Stars, 14KT, Miz Korona and Tunde Olariran electrified the audience with their art, music, and voices. Check out some footage and photographs from the last weekend of the event and be sure to visit Cranbrook Art Museum and all it has to offer.
The Foundation, DJ Mel Wonder, & jessica care moore
A screening & discussion of youth activism past, present & future
Saturday, December 3 International House | Map 1414 E. 59th St. | Doors 1:00pm Free | Open to the public
Featuring The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975 Discussions with former Illinois Black Panther Party members, current youth activists, and artists
Concert featuring: Invincible BBU Dayna Lynn Jasiri X Rhymefest DJ RTC
Co-sponsored by Black Panther Party Illinois Chapter History Project, Black Youth Project, Chicago Freedom School, International House Global Voices Series, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Project NIA
Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, contact Jessica Sparks at CSRPC in advance at (773) 702-8063
Reclaim the Power!
A screening & discussion of youth activism past, present & future
Saturday, December 3 International House | Map 1414 E. 59th St. | Doors 1:00pm Free | Open to the public
Featuring The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975 Discussions with former Illinois Black Panther Party members, current youth activists, and artists
Concert featuring: Invincible BBU Dayna Lynn Jasiri X Rhymefest DJ RTC
Co-sponsored by Black Panther Party Illinois Chapter History Project, Black Youth Project, Chicago Freedom School, International House Global Voices Series, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Project NIA
Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, contact Jessica Sparks at CSRPC in advance at (773) 702-8063
Friday. November 11 | 8-11pm Monica Blaire Invincible The Rarities DJ Mike Medow
Friday, November 18 | 8-11pm jessica care moore DJ Mel Wonder The Foundation All Stars
Saturday, November 19 | 8-11pm 14KT Miz Korona Tunde Olariran
No Object is an Island will open on 11/11/11. It is the first of many exhibitions that will build on Cranbrook Art Museum's mission to bridge visual art and design, scholarship and accessibility, tradition and innovation in its prorgrams.
Cranbrook Art Museum 39221 Woodward Avenue, Box 801 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48303
All events are free and all ages
Friday. November 11 | 8-11pm Monica Blaire Invincible The Rarities DJ Mike Medow
Friday, November 18 | 8-11pm jessica care moore DJ Mel Wonder The Foundation All Stars
Saturday, November 19 | 8-11pm 14KT Miz Korona Tunde Olariran
No Object is an Island will open on 11/11/11. It is the first of many exhibitions that will build on Cranbrook Art Museum's mission to bridge visual art and design, scholarship and accessibility, tradition and innovation in its prorgrams.
Cranbrook Art Museum 39221 Woodward Avenue, Box 801 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48303
Kresge Arts in Detroit Director Michelle Perron and Invincible joined Craig to talk about the foundation's artist fellowship. Invincible gives WDET a special live, on-air performance of "Cass Corridor," produced by Waajeed.
Click here for the full interview and performance.
Kresge Arts in Detroit Director Michelle Perron and Invincible joined Craig to talk about the foundation's artist fellowship. Invincible gives WDET a special live, on-air performance of "Cass Corridor," produced by Waajeed.
Click here for the full interview and performance.
"Fire Mic/Hammer" t-shirt
"I Don't Write Rhymes I Write Ransom Notes" t-shirt
"Black & Red Mic/Hammer" t-shirt
"Black & Green Mic/Hammer" t-shirt
INVINCIBLE - ShapeShifters CD digipak
INVINCIBLE - ShapeShifters 12"
DETROIT SUMMER LIVE ARTS MEDIA PROJECT - Rising Up From the Ashes CD
SLINGSHOT HIP HOP - DVD
THE NARCICYST - S/T CD
FINALE - A Pipe Dream And A Promise CD
