Testing, testing

Screening and Discussion

Join us at e-flux Screening room on Thursday, April 9 at 7pm for Testing, testing, co-presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. The program brings together artistic and filmic examinations of intelligence testing from historical and archival perspectives, attentive to their ongoing effects in the present and their entanglement with artificial intelligence. Across the program, intelligence emerges as a performative system—one that measures minds, choreographs bodies, and dictates their position in space and in relation to one another. Historical documents, diagnostic forms, and built environments are treated as mutable scores, revealing how intelligence has been measured, rehearsed, and encoded over time, from racial and bureaucratic regimes to contemporary computational logics.

With Coleman Collins, Sandra Erbacher, and Ruth Estévez. More to be announced.

Testing, testing is curated by Eriola Pira in collaboration with Abirami Logendran as part of Vera List Center’s 2025–2027 Focus Theme, Matter of Intelligence. This screening is co-presented with e-flux Screening Room and supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Accessibility
– Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
– For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator nearest to 180 Classon Ave (garage door) leading into the e-flux office space. A ramp is available for steps within the space.
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom with no steps between the event space and this bathroom.