Event details
Saturday, February 3, 2024
2–3 pm

Dia Beacon
3 Beekman Street
Beacon, New York

Included with museum admission, registration is recommended.

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Question: 

[ what { is ( inside 

                   known

                   centered ) what } is ] outside

                                                     unknown

                                                     peripheral?

Facilitated by Salome Asega

Salome Asega is an artist and Director of NEW INC at the New Museum, New York. Her work invites the playful and absurd to critique the speed at which technology develops and poses new consentful tech futures that leverage the power of collective imagination. She is a co-founder of POWRPLNT, a Brooklyn digital-arts lab for teens, which was incubated at NEW INC in 2016–17. Asega is  a 2021 inaugural-cohort member of the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab developed by Theaster Gates, the Prada Group, and Rebuild Foundation, and a 2022 United States Artists Fellow. Asega has participated in residencies and fellowships at Eyebeam, the Laundromat Project, and Recess, all in Brooklyn. She has also exhibited at the August Wilson Center, Pittsburg; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Knockdown Center, Queens; Munchmuseet, Oslo; Museum of Modern Art, New York; 11th Shanghai Biennale, and more. Asega is on the boards of Eyebeam the School for Poetic Computation in New York, as well as a member of the Advisory Board for Social Science Research Council's Just Tech initiative.

About the program series

Blind Dates Recursive is a series of participatory public conversations held at Dia Beacon in conjunction with Rita McBride: Arena Momentum (on view through January 2025). These engagements take place on McBride’s Arena (1997), a modularly structured tribune that is activated by the presence of audiences and performers alike.

Inspired by the artist’s decision to make the digital design files of Arena freely available through a copyleft license, which allows for the public to access and reinterpret the work, Blind Dates Recursive provides an ongoing, open forum to consider and enact the shifting nature of authorship.

Each month, an invited facilitator poses a question and draws on their unique field of expertise to act as an instigator, listener, and moderator of the responses and conversation. Participants are encouraged to think out loud and in dialogue with each other during the hour-long session, at the end of which the facilitator will guide the group to collectively form a new question. The new question will be posed at the next session by a new facilitator. In this way, like a game of Telephone, Blind Dates Recursive generates iterative gatherings and an evolving public dialogue over the course of the exhibition.

The public is encouraged to participate on a recurring basis.

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Saturday, March 9, 2024, 2–3 pm

Blind Dates Recursive 05
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 2–3 pm

More information on the full program series is available here.