Thesis Collections


Thesis Collections present material artifacts, research notes, visual essays, and audio records as products of study. This artistic and archival practice of sharing in study intends to know our histories, imagine our futures, and ground us in the present. Research Thesis are ongoing and collaborative to provide community the opportunity to deeply engage with a particular theory or idea.

Abundance Builders Cooperate [FA24]
Telepathic Rhythms [SS23]
Free People Time        
[FW22]

Visibility Enslaves - ORI SEES [FA21]
Memoryhaus Maintenance [SU21]
Before The Harvest [SP21]
Co-Operation Freedom [FA20]
Martin X Malcolm [SU20]
BLACK summer
[SU20]

Post-Colonialism [SS20]
Neighborhood Studios [FW19]





A contextualizing archive for ancestral, intuitive, and subjective memory-keeping. Consisting of material, written, visual, and sonic ephemera this archive is oriented by our intuitive pedagogy and interdependent research development. Thesis collections and exhibitions are regularly produced to concentrate the archive’s scope and engage in re-membering as a social practice.















Visibility Enslaves - ORI SEES


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Timeless tools designed to attune our beings, ancestral technology harmonizes our nature. Adornment of the ORI continues as sacred practice, an ancient invention that catalyzes our physical connection to our intuition. These technologies serve to liberate us from the death-dealing surveillance tactics of the western world. Our ancestors are calling us to mind our business and have archived blueprints to support our stillness.

Revisit the ORI Sees thesis exhibition



Material Artifacts
Browse Catalog


Physical objects designed to retain the findings from contemporary studies and inform continued conversation.

Earth Vision-Visor
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Night Vision-Visor
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Sky Vision-Visor
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Archive]
Technology Studies, Vol.1 Textbooklet
ITS-IN-SCOPE
[Available]
Black Gaze Triptych Print
Marvin James
[Archive]


Research Notes
Review Technology Journal


A collection of subjective research that provides context for contemporary studies — this mix of ancestral and intuitive documentation is curated communally in support of figuring it out together.

Ori Veneration: Liberation through Adornment
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
Technology
Abundance
Nature
The (Ori)gins of Technology
by Altagracia Alvarado
[Original Research]
Technology
Abundance
Nature
White Gaze / Black Guides
by Marvin James
[Original Research]
→ Abundance
→ Technology
The Surveillance of Blackness: From the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Contemporary Surveillance Technologies w/ Simone Browne by Claudia Garcia Rojas c/o Truthout
[Research Citation]
→ Abundance
→ Technology
Pineal Gland [Intuition] Unlocking
by Annalie Juan
[Original Research]
→ Nature
Safiya Noble on Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression c/o PDF 2016
[Research Citation]
→ Technology
→ Abundance


Visual Essay | Black Gaze


Starring Altagracia Alvarado, Alex Mercier, and Sara Luttrell. Direction by Marvin James. Cinematography and editing by Khris Virgil of Visually Audible. Photography by Marvin James. Styling by Marvin James. Production assistance by Arrington Fleming.





Audio Records | Tech Study : A1


31 tracks, 2 hours, 6 minutes, featuring rei harakami, Moodyman, Daft Punk, and Sons of Kemet. Curated by Chris Virgil and Marvin James c/o Visually Audible.






thesis
Visibility Enslaves - ORI SEES

seasons
Fall 2021

contributors
Altagracia Alvarado
Marvin James
Mary D
Alex Mercier
Sara Luttrell
Khris Virgil
Arrington Fleming

partners
Visually Audible
KAART