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JAMISON EDGAR

LOS ANGELES, CA
CURATION &
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

09/2025 - 11/2025
FXLK PLAY
04/2025 - 01/2026
Not a Corn Field :
Meabolic Studio at 20 Years

03/2025 - 04/2025
Queering Digital
09/2024 - 12/2024
Concrete is Fluid 
04/2025 - 08/2025
Erotic Codex
06/2023 - 09/2023
We Are They:
Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now

->->-> A Night of Loving Devotion to the End of the World As We Know it
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Director Dialogues: Cole Sternberg & The Free Republic of California 

03/2023-06/2023
Make Me Feel Mighty Real:
Drag/Tech and The Queer Avatar
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Derek Jarman: Double Screening
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Evening of Hybrid Drag Performance
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LA Drag Showcase w/ House of Avalon

09/2022-02/2023
Lucy McRae: Future Sensitive

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Rituals of Reproduction
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Summit for Future Sensitivity
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Curator Walkthroughs

04/2022-06/2022
Surabi Saraf: Awoke and Awokened Alaap

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Songs of Healing: Music & Artificial Emotional Intelligence

04/2022-06/2022
Yassi Mazandi: In Flight

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DEPARTURE LOUNGE LOS ANGELES *CLICK ME* 

WRITING / HYPERTEXT / INTERVIEWS

Miller ICA (Pittsburgh, PA)
“Spectacular Formations”,  The thing that happens when the thing that was supposed to happen does not happen.

Venice Biennale: Estonia Pavilion
Propagated in Obscurity: Bermuda Grass and Rhizomatic Queerness,” Flor Fantastic.

NPR-KCRW
“Make Me Feel Mighty Real’: 70 years of Drag Art and Tech,” Greater LA.

Queer/Tech Podcast In partnership with ONE Archives Foundation

Contemporary Performance Reivews

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©2025 JAMISONEDGARSTUDIO

Jamison Edgar
Public Programming

SONGS OF HEALING:
MUSIC & ARTIFICIAL EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

MAY 21, 2022
HONOR FRASER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES
A screening of Alaap, the first chapter in Surabhi Saraf's experimental conceptual album”, Awoke and Awoken, followed by a conversation between the artist and K Allado-McDowell. Songs of Healing was hosted at Honor Fraser Gallery in conjunction with Awoke and Awokened: Alaap, a solo exhibition by Surabhi Saraf.

Honor Fraser 2022, Screening:North Gallery


Surabhi Saraf, Alaap 2022, 4k video w/ 3d sound
K Allado-McDowell, Pharmoko-AI 2020
K Allado-McDowell, Amor Cringe 2022



Surabhi Saraf (she/her) is a media artist, composer and founder of Centre for Emotional Materiality. Her practice explores our complex relationship with technology using embodiment as a tool and the body as a site for transformation. Surabhi is the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award by the Fleishhacker Foundation (2015), the Djerassi Resident Artist Award (2012) and the Artist + Process + Ideas Residency at Mills College Art Museum (2016). She was a 2019 Technology Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and 2020 resident at HarvestWorks, NY.



K Allado-McDowell (they/them) is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI, and are co-editor, with Ben Vickers, of The Atlas of Anomalous AI. They record and release music under the name Qenric. Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are a conference speaker, educator and consultant to think-tanks and institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding.