Legacy Russell

BORN LEGACY. | Executive Director & Chief Curator @TheKitchen_NYC | #GlitchFeminism 👇🏾📘✨ | OUT NOW 📕 BLACK MEME | Becoming my avatar.

[Legacy Russell @LegacyRussell]

Find me elsewhere, on other platforms. 🌀

[burlingtoncontemporary @BurlContemp]

This week, we publish ‘Waiting for Pope.L’ by @LegacyRussell, an excerpt from ‘Pope.L: Hospital’ published by @SLG_artupdates and @distanzverlag.

The book documents the artist’s last solo exhibition before his death in December 2023.

https://t.co/wHu89NO5qL

[Legacy Russell @LegacyRussell]

Final weeks of Code Switch @SchomburgCenter with @TheKitchen_NYC, some reflections here in this thoughtful conversation: https://t.co/fOVl89fwpr 💻👾✨

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@EphemeralMedia @SchomburgCenter ⭐️

[Ephemeral Media | ephemeralmedia.bsky.social @EphemeralMedia]

Class field trip to Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art @SchomburgCenter in Harlem,exploring the contributions of Black cultural production to the sociopolitical & creative histories & pre-histories of computation. Organized by @LegacyRussell & team

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@DocDre @TheKitchen_NYC @SchomburgCenter ✨

[thot leedurr @DocDre]

When I tell you I am FLOORED:

“CODE SWITCH: DISTRIBUTING BLACKNESS, REPROGRAMMING INTERNET ART”

Schomburg Center Oct 15-Dec 19, 2024

“Drawing its title from André Brock’s groundbreaking text Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020), the exhibition explores the relationship between Black cultural production and the legacy of computation as a mode of machinic engagement and creative inspiration”

Shoutout to @zaritaylor_ and @LegacyRussell

[Legacy Russell @LegacyRussell]

@DocDre We honor you ⭐️

[Kyle Chayka @chaykak]

this Sunday at 1 PM for the Brooklyn Book Festival I'll be on this very cool panel with @LegacyRussell and @emilynussbaum — we will definitely figure out what reality is. Hope to see you there! https://t.co/4uR6J5QEIT

[London Review Bookshop @LRBbookshop]

24 Sep: @LegacyRussell, author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, joins us to discuss her latest book BLACK MEME, exploring the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present. She'll be in conversation with Rene Matić

Book here: https://t.co/sSIITVhAka

[Background Noise @bgnoiseuk]

At the end of next month, @LegacyRussell will join @CalebANelson in conversation to discuss hew new book BLACK MEME in this event at @_TheWhitechapel.

Find out more: https://t.co/FoUXV5GBw7

[Legacy Russell @LegacyRussell]

@deedottiedot @ucsc Wonderful

[Polyester @PolyesterZine]

@LegacyRussell wants you to think critically about Black Memes- https://t.co/nJ2yMibL4Y

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

"We must keep fighting for Breonna Taylor, and the authorship of her personhood as an individual with agency."

@LegacyRussell on the amplification of Breonna Taylor fandom, fetish, and visual commodification as it proliferated online internationally.

[Scarlett Harris same name 🟦☁️ @ScarlettEHarris]

"While on the one hand [the All Eyes on Rafah viral AI image] may broaden a consciousness, on the other it aestheticizes a struggle for liberation and makes for quippy viral material to be exchanged." @LegacyRussell https://t.co/HPFj5yuitQ via @nonlinearnotes @WIRED

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

The Internet Supercharged the Exploitation of Black Culture | @KailaPhilo | @newrepublic

@LegacyRussell traces America’s reliance on—and profit from—Black imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme
https://t.co/Mbuzp9Snte

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

"When you asked, what’s an early meme I remember, for me coming into awareness of lynching postcards was that nascent memory. The very idea that this was something that could exist as a material." -- @LegacyRussell

https://t.co/rLlSWxfFMI

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@digitalcoleman @JesseDamiani 🙏🏾⭐️

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

Writer and curator @LegacyRussell joins Kate Wolf on this week's #LARBRadioHour to discuss her new book, "Black Meme," which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in America from the dawn of the 20th century to the present. https://t.co/Ghjaar3ZBk

[Legacy Russell @LegacyRussell]

@Harmony_Holiday You are so held & so celebrated @TheKitchen_NYC & beyond 🖤🪩🙏🏾

[Legacy Russell @LegacyRussell]

@JITPedagogy go off ⭐️