Alexandra M Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra M Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra M |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
African Arts — Global Conversations
How does a late nineteenth or early twentieth century Kuba mask from the Democratic Republic of the Congo relate to Gilbert Stuart's 1796 portrait of George Washington? What ensues when we place vessels from twentieth and twenty-first century ceramicists working in Seoul, Nairobi, and Lagos in dialogue? African Arts—Global Conversations endeavored to answer these innovative queries. The exhibition cultivated a deeper understanding of African art …
Bloodflowers
May 03 2021 Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s by W. IanBourlandDurham: Duke University Press, 2019; 336 pp., 92 b/w ill. $27.95 paper Alexandra M. Thomas Alexandra M. Thomas alexandra m. thomas is a History of Art and African-American Studies PhD student at Yale University, where she researches African and African diasporic visual and expressive cultures, glob…
Coding, braiding, transmission
Coding, Braiding, Transmission: On the Aesthetic Life of Dark Sousveillance” is a critical analysis of Tamar Clarke-Brown and Isaac Kariuki's 2017 digital startup and collaborative performance installation entitled Coding: Braiding: Transmission. In this speculative work of art, the gesture of braiding hair codes encrypted messages, staging the possibility of black women's furtive communication in the wake of mass surveillance. The argument empha…
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Coding, braiding, transmission
Coding, Braiding, Transmission: On the Aesthetic Life of Dark Sousveillance” is a critical analysis of Tamar Clarke-Brown and Isaac Kariuki's 2017 digital startup and collaborative performance installation entitled Coding: Braiding: Transmission. In this speculative work of art, the gesture of braiding hair codes encrypted messages, staging the possibility of black women's furtive communication in the wake of mass surveillance. The argument empha…
Bloodflowers
May 03 2021 Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s by W. IanBourlandDurham: Duke University Press, 2019; 336 pp., 92 b/w ill. $27.95 paper Alexandra M. Thomas Alexandra M. Thomas alexandra m. thomas is a History of Art and African-American Studies PhD student at Yale University, where she researches African and African diasporic visual and expressive cultures, glob…
African Arts — Global Conversations
How does a late nineteenth or early twentieth century Kuba mask from the Democratic Republic of the Congo relate to Gilbert Stuart's 1796 portrait of George Washington? What ensues when we place vessels from twentieth and twenty-first century ceramicists working in Seoul, Nairobi, and Lagos in dialogue? African Arts—Global Conversations endeavored to answer these innovative queries. The exhibition cultivated a deeper understanding of African art …
Art (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · The arts (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work)