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We’re delighted to announce that Elissa Auther, Ph.D. and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design – AND last year’s keynote speaker for LATM – has agreed to return for another talk. This year she brings with her the phenomenal and beyond words costume designer, artist, and cultural provocateur Machine Dazzle.

ABOUT MACHINE DAZZLE

MACHINE DAZZLE has been dazzling stages via costumes, sets, and performances since his arrival in New York in 1994. Credits include Julie Atlas Muz’s I Am The Moon And and You Are The Man On Me (2004), Big Art Group’s House Of No More (2006), Justin Vivian Bond’s Lustre (2008) and Re:Galli Blonde (2011), Chris Tanner’s Football Head (2014), Soomi Kim’s Change (2015), Pig Iron Theater’s I Promised Myself To Live Faster (2015), Bombay Ricky (Prototype Festival 2016), Opera Philadelphia’s Dito and Aeneus (2017) and Spiegleworld’s Opium (Las Vegas 2018). With Taylor Mac, Machine has collaborated on several projects including The Lily’s Revenge (2009), Walk Across America For Mother Earth (2012) and the Pulitzer Prize-Nominated A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2016-Present). Conceptualist-as-artist meets DIY meets “glitter rhymes with litter,” Machine was a co-recipient the 2017Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design and the winner of a 2017 Henry Hewes Design Award.

ABOUT ELISSA AUTHER

I am the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design. In a previous life, I was Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado and subsequently a visiting associate professor at Bard Graduate Center. Alongside my scholarly and curatorial work, I co-directed the groundbreaking public program Feminism & Co.: Art, Sex, Politics from 2007-2017. Most of my publications are available for download from Academia.edu.