Black Quantum Futurism: CPT Symmetry and Violations

Rasheedah Phillips
Black Quantum Futurism's Artist residency with CERN seeks to understand the ways in which quantum physics can influence how people think about, experience, and measure time in everyday reality, exploring the possibilities that quantum physics offers beyond the limitations of traditional, linear notions of time.

Live Ideas Symposium
Altered-Worlds: Black Utopia and the Age of Acceleration
Presented by New York Live Arts' Live Ideas 2021 in partnership with the Black Speculative Arts Movement.

“To create high art—work that is functional and aesthetically “cool” or pleasing—in the face of those who would deny its very existence, declaim it as “primitive,”... is itself an act of resistance that subverts the master narrative that suggests our work is imitative or inconsequential, incapable of rising to the level of “the universal” or incapable of being seen unless they frame it so”.- Sheree Renée Thomas

Organized by co-curator Reynaldo Anderson and New York Live Arts, the symposium seeks to create a temporal space to celebrate Black Speculative Art at the intersection of accelerating technological innovation, a rising tide of neo-fascism, Jim Crow 2.0, and a world ravaged by the pandemic. New York Live Arts and the Black Speculative Arts Movement are rushing into the future to explore and imagine a world of alternative possibilities.