EMILY NOLA

Emily Nola (she/they) is a curator, writer, and researcher based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Working in research-based and cross-disciplinary methodologies, her work is interested in technology, mediation, and contemporary culture. She is deeply invested in alternative pedagogical strategies and collective practices.

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IN CONVERSATION WITH 0RPHAN DRIFT

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2026

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THE LIVENESS OF THINGS

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ON BECOMING WATER AND WATER

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6 THE LIVENESS OF THINGS SYMPOSIUM

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2026

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On the liveness of things
co-organized with Lila Gould, Bruna Grinsztejn, and Gladys Lou
with Molly Soda, Coleman Collins, Harley Spiller, and Fang-Yu Liu
Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY
May 2, 2026

How do archival platforms and practices shift in periods of technological transformation?

In collaboration with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard), Wendy’s Subway presents a one-day symposium exploring interactions with platforms for the production, distribution, and archiving of time-based artworks.

The program brings together artistic and institutional practices that engage in dialogue with these shifts, attentive to how they call into question categories of liveness, ownership, and performance. From Franklin Furnace’s pioneering experiments in Internet-based performance, to Molly Soda’s decades-long collaboration with social media platforms, to Coleman Collins’s latest examinations of the relationship between digital and physical worlds, the program asks: How can artistic practice engage with both the uncertainty and possibility of emergent technology? Across a workshop, screening, and panel discussion, the symposium tracks the ways in which these paradigm shifts reflect back into the work itself.

Find more on onthelivenessofthings.net