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Art Basel Stories, 2025

Legacy Russell’s exhibition Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art traces an overlooked lineage of Black technological innovation in experimental art, from Tom Lloyd’s programmed light installations in 1968 to contemporary digital practices. Referencing Lorraine O’Grady’s 1983 performance Art Is..., the project challenges historical exclusions and highlights the deep connections between Black art, technology, and the avant-garde across generations.

Lorraine O’Grady and Juliana Huxtable, Part 2, 2016

Part two of a two-part discussion between artists Lorraine O’Grady and Juliana Huxtable. The dialogue took place by phone from O’Grady and Huxtable’s respective studios in New York City. This is part two of a two-part discussion and the first time the artists have spoken.

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