I Agree To The Terms is a new virtual performance developed by the OBIE Award-winning ensemble The Builders Association and presented by NYU Skirball. The interactive 30- minute online event is developed in collaboration with a community of Amazon “microworkers” who discretely train the algorithms that influence our online e-commerce experiences. Microworkers earn from $1 to $100 a day in a vast, unregulated industry. Their assignments are repetitive, boring, maddening, and sometimes disturbing. For I Agree to the Terms, audiences enter the Builders Marketplace, train with actual microworkers and compete for paying jobs, connecting with the invisible online labor force that shapes our everyday virtual lives.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged, but not required for entry.Parking is available in the Arts Lot #126. Purchase a permit or use ParkMobile.  Hesterian Musicism is the creative […]

Dance artist and equity activator Gerald Casel will present Not About Race Dance, a collaborative, choreographic response to the racial politics of U.S. postmodern dance. Despite postmodernism’s popularity, its racial dynamics have gone largely unacknowledged. In Not About Race Dance, Casel and his collaborators occupy a space that has been historically defined by white artists to present a contrasting vision of where Black and Brown bodies belong.

This event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester, choreographer Gerald Casel, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. For Surge, an extended program of music and dance performances, film screenings, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism.