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JAMISON EDGAR

LOS ANGELES, CA
CURATION &
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

04/2024 - 08/2024
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 ->->-> Director Dialogues: Cole Sternberg & The Free Republic of California 
03/2023-06/2023
Make Me Feel Mighty Real:
Drag/Tech and The Queer Avatar->->-> Derek Jarman: Double Screening ->->-> Evening of Hybrid Drag Performance
->->-> LA Drag Showcase w/ House of Avalon

09/2022-02/2023
Lucy McRae: Future Sensitive
->->-> Rituals of Reproduction ->->-> Summit for Future Sensitivity
->->-> Curator Walkthroughs

04/2022-06/2022
Surabi Saraf: Awoke and Awokened Alaap ->->-> Songs of Healing: Music & Artificial Emotional Intelligence
04/2022-06/2022
Yassi Mazandi: In Flight

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WRITING / HYPERTEXT / INTERVIEWS

“Spectacular Formations”,  The thing that happens when the thing that was supposed to happen does not happen. Miller ICA (Pittsburgh, PA)
“Propagated in Obscurity: Bermuda Grass and Rhizomatic Queerness,” Flor Fantastic. (Venice Biennale: Estonia Pavilion 2022)

“Make Me Feel Mighty Real’: 70 years of Drag Art and Tech,” Greater LA. NPR-KCRW (Los Angeles)
Contemporary Performance Reivews
ACTIVATED ARCHIVES

✰Drought Float
✰Plunge
✰Nearest Neighbors
✰Days End
✰A Diva is A
✰Perv
✰Dance Dance Romance
✰Acidity Works
✰Declarations Are Expected

I’M COMING UP 


10/2023
Queer/Tech Podcast  In partnership with ONE Archives Foundation 

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©2023 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.