Rashaad Newsome

Rashaad Newsome’s work blends several practices, including filmmaking, animation, collage, sculpture, photography, music, writing, artificial intelligence, community organizing, and performance, to explore the intersections of these mediums and challenge traditional narratives and techniques. Drawing from diasporic traditions of improvisation, Newsome incorporates elements from advertising, the internet, art history, and Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic works that oscillate between social practice and abstraction. Collage serves as both a conceptual and technical method, enabling the construction of new visual, performance, sonic, machine learning, and literary languages that underscore the immaterial and material expressivity inherent in Black American life. Through this multifaceted approach, Newsome not only reflects contemporary cultural dialogues but also pushes the boundaries of artistic expression.

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