UTS Assembly (Online) Talk Series- Nato Thompson on 'Cities'

UTS Assembly is a live lecture series that invites leading creative minds to reflect on the conditions that shape our everyday lives.

Join UTS Assembly online on 27 May to hear author and curator Nato Thompson on how culture can shape contemporary CITIES.

Nato Thompson is a curator, self-described “cultural infrastructure builder” and author of Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life and Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century.

As the previous Chief Curator and then Artistic Director at Creative Time in New York, his exhibitions and projects included Paul Chan’s production of “Waiting for Godot” in post-Katrina New Orleans, Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, and the itinerant Creative Time Summits, among many others. He has worked as Artistic Director at Philadelphia Contemporary and MASS MoCA.

Nato Thompson is the founder of the Alternative Art School and a co-founder of the blockchain platform, Artwrld alongside artist Walid Raad, and designer Josh Goldblum.

Our online event will include time to pose questions.