Join artist Vitória Cribb and writer/curator Legacy Russell for a conversation about how digital technology shapes identity and visibility.
Mar 12, 2026 4:30 PM, Film/Video Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts.
Online systems, algorithms, and constant observation influence the ways people are seen, judged, and understood. Cribb and Russell both explore this influence in their respective practices. Cribb uses animation and speculative storytelling in her work. Russell writes about digital culture and the collapsing boundary between life on- and offline. Her books Glitch Feminism and Black Meme provide important insights into the power of refusing fixed categories and connect closely to Cribb’s interest in the shifting boundaries between body, technology, and dream.
In their conversation, Cribb and Russell will consider how our bodies and identities appear in digital spaces and the influence those spaces have on our perceptions. They will discuss the ways artists navigate and challenge the systems that structure online life. They will also focus on strategies of resistance to these systems through transformation, distortion, and by choosing what is visible and what is not. These strategies are especially important for communities historically shaped by surveillance and misrepresentation.
A Q&A follows the talk.
This dialogue is part of the Arts, Technology and Social Change series, a micro-residency program sponsored by Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme. This series is an initiative conceived by Ohio State’s Department of History of Art, Department of Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Translational Data Analytics Institute. The residency program is a cross-department platform that involves public engagement on campus and around Columbus to explore questions on technology and social change in our contemporary moment.
More info and free ticket registration https://wexarts.org/talks-more/vitoria-cribb-and-legacy-russell