Nsumi Collective
Nsumi spawns art collectives and experimental groups through a gift economy consulting project,
workshops, art exhibitions and performances, zines, academic research, and public interventions.
Upcoming Events
Visionary Design and Nonviolent Civil Protest
"Special Effects Nightmare" Panel Destruction
Civic Action: Natalie Jeremijenko's team
Flint Public Art Project
"Emerging Collective Types" Vis-a-vis Festival
DIY Disaster Relief
Past Events
Swarm Intelligence Workshop
Bugfest/Brandon Ballengée
Animamus Art Salon
The First International Speed Metal
Drumming and Arts Education Symposium
Institute for Wishful Thinking
Spawning Student Networks
Bioart101 with Brandon Ballengée
School of the Future, NY
SEVEN/Miami, FL
TRADE SCHOOL 2010, NY
Space Puppets
Parson's School of Design, presentation, April 2011
Ecoart Unconference: "Emerging Systems", March 2011
Mutant Student Groups Think Tank, School of the Future, with Teaching Artists Union, NYC, 2010
Noise! , with Brooklyn Grange, Ontological Theater, NYC, June 2010
Zero Day Exploits, St. Cecilia’s, NYC, 2010
FEAST, with Teaching Artists Union, NYC, 2010
ABC No Rio, Ides of March group show, NYC, 2010
Dokfest, with Artists Meeting, Kassel Germany, 2009
Pulse Miami, Ice Palace Studios, with Artist Meeting, Miami, 2009
The Maze/You Are Here music festival, Death by Audio, NYC, 2009
Aunts/Market, Movement Research Festival, NYC, 2009
Postmasters Gallery, Video Triptych Event ll, NYC, 2009
Soapbox Opera Workshop, OTO Gallery, NYC, 2009
Petri Space, group show, NYC, 2009
Pace Digital, with Artists Meeting, NYC, 2009
Postmasters Gallery, Video Triptych Event l, NYC, 2009
The Center for Architecture/Conflux Festival, with Artists Meeting, NYC, 2008
Dumbo Arts Festival, with Artists Meeting, NYC, 2007
Institute of Contemporary Art (with Basekamp), Philadelphia PA, 2007
Collective Incubator, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Residency; including contributions from Peter Fend (Guggenheim Fellow Presentation), Noritoshi Hirakawa, (Deitch Projects), and Mercurial Productions, NYC, 2006
SAVI (Mt Sinai Hospital) benefit exhibition, NYC, 2006
Recording Carceral Landscapes, (with Trevor Paglen), The Lab Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2005
Art, Circuitry, and Ecology conference, Event Production and Emerging Art Worlds, presentation, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, 2004
Presentation at Harrison White’s Careers and Creativity: Sociology of the Arts class, Columbia University, NYC, 2004
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Exhibition (with 16 beaver Group), NYC, 2004
Green Home, curated by Alan Moore from Collaborative Projects, NYC, 2004
Nsumiscope programs and presentations (Rainer Ganahl, slide lecture, Ester Partegas, slide lecture, Center for Tactical Magic, demonstration) New School University, NYC, 2001-2004
Deitch Projects, NYC, 2003
Participant Inc., NYC, 2003
Three Collaboration Models in Development at The New School, New School University, (with Paul Ryan), NYC 2003
Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, with Flux Factory, NYC, 2002
Brooklyn Front Gallery, (with Blair Thurman) NYC, 2002
Thing.net auction, NYC, 2002
Artists Space auction, NYC, 2002
White Box Gallery auction, NYC, 2002
(Prior to official formation) Roger Smith Gallery, with Peter Fend, NYC, 1999