Our Events are our generative core. They are always free and accessible via live streaming and video documentation.

Current

Seminar Overview

Matter of Intelligence Seminar Series

Sep 29, 2025–May 29, 2026

Upcoming

Seminar

Seminar 2: Of Matter

Nov 10, 2025

AICA-USA Lecture

Kellie Jones: Body / Knowledge

Dec 1, 2025

Seminar

Seminar 3: Cosmic Intelligence

Dec 6, 2025

Recent

VLC Prize Announcement

VLC Forum 2025: Jane Lombard Prize Announcement and Reception

Oct 18, 2025

Conversation

VLC Forum 2025: Conversations with the 2025–2027 VLC Fellows and Special Guests

Oct 18, 2025

Performance

VLC Forum 2025: (question–repeat–failure–record)

Oct 18, 2025

Dinner

VLC Forum 2025: Community Dinner: Guts and Brains

Oct 17, 2025

Keynote, Lecture

VLC Forum 2025: Matteo Pasquinelli. AI and Madness: On the Disalienation of the General Intellect

Oct 17, 2025

Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence

Oct 17–Oct 18, 2025

Book Launch

As for Protocols x Convivialities Book Launch

Oct 3, 2025

Seminar

Seminar 1: Paying Mind: On the Uses and Abuses of the Intellectual

Sep 29, 2025

Panel, Screening

Earth and Cosmos: Panel Conversation and Video Screening with Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza

May 6, 2025

Conversation, Reading

Post/doc Spring 2025 Celebration and Launch with Momus

May 5, 2025

Lorraine O’Grady (1934 – 2024): A Celebration of Life

black and white image of woman in black jacket, facing left against a grey background.

Mar 30, 2025

Book Launch

As for Protocols Book Launch

Mar 21, 2025

Reading

New School New Books 2025

Mar 20, 2025

Screening

A Frown Gone Mad

Mar 17, 2025

Book Launch

Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time

Feb 24, 2025

Book Launch

Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror. Book Launch and Exhibition Closing with Yasmina Price

Feb 8, 2025

As for Protocols Seminar

Performance, Seminar

Seminar 12: Breaking Protocols: Desire Lines

May 16, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 11: Forces of Art: Protocols of Evaluation

Apr 4, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 10: School of Tomorrow: From the Open Plan to the Tele-classroom

Empty classroom with changing screen at the front

Mar 14, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 9: Bridge: Protocols of Jazz and Modernism

Dec 6, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 8: Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: Cooperatives

Nov 8, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View

Sep 20, 2021

Symposium

As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together

May 20–May 21, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 6: Lab Work – Art of the Experiment

Apr 5, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World

Woman holding young boy in kitchen

Mar 8, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance

Feb 8, 2021