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Shenzhen, China
Join us December 16 - 20 in Shenzhen, where NCFR and our collaborators at FUTURE+ will present a series of public programs and exchanges featuring interdisciplinary design collaborative AGENCY and NCFR Artistic Director Gavin Kroeber, running concurrent to the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture.
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NCFR and ASU Gammage will host a two-day gathering of artists, designers, urbanists, and community activists exploring themes of indigenous urbanism and sprawl in a global context of rapid urbanization.
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Upcoming: November Convening & Collaboration in Shenzhen
Mark your calendars to join us for a convening at Arizona State University in November as we move into phase 2 of New Cities Future Ruins. Following those conversations, we will be on our way to Shenzhen in Hong Kong.
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A Re-Cap from Artistic Director Gavin Kroeber
Throughout the course of four days, more than nine months of planning and collaboration came together to create the first phase of New Cities Future Ruins. Artistic Director, Gavin Kroeber, recaps the November event offering a break down and coverage of the events and artists that help make NCFR successful.
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Video, Photos, and Press from the Dallas Convening
Peruse photos from the November convening on Flickr, watch a new video documenting NCFR's inaugural event, then check out all the press NCFR has received.
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A conversation between Sophia Al Maria and Gavin Kroeber
In anticipation of her exhibition at the convening of New Cities, Future Ruins, Hallucinations of the Global Future, Sophia Al-Maria chats with artistic director Gavin Kroeber about her work as an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Much of her work explores twenty-first-century life in the Gulf Arab nations. At NCFR, she exhibits alongside Cao Fei to engage with questions of futurism in China and the Persian Gulf.
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Get To Know UTEP's Rubin Center
The Rubin Center for the Visual Arts is located on the campus of The University of Texas at El Paso, a uniquely bilingual, binational and bicultural environment less than a quarter mile from the US-Mexico border.
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