This year’s annual CalArts conference on digital culture, This Isn’t About the Future: Black Digital Culture Now, focuses on what it’s like to be black in a connected world where race is at once invisible and omnipresent. Curated by poet and faculty member Douglas Kearney, the two-day program begins Friday night at REDCAT with Alexander Weheliye’s keynote speech on R&B’s technological history. Programming continues through Saturday at the West Hollywood Library with panels on the “black cyber body,” Internet colonialism and the cloud with speakers like director Thomas Allen Harris.

Nov. 14-15, 2014
(Expired: 11/15/14)

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