Talk | On Techno and Art: Robert Hood, Arthur Jafa, and DeForrest Brown Jr.

Robert Hood, an acclaimed techno originator and founding member of Detroit’s Underground Resistance (UR) who created the commissioned soundtrack for artist Arthur Jafa’s APEX (2013), joins Jafa in conversation. They discuss the social, aesthetic, and technological relationships between techno and what Jafa refers to as a desire to create “a cinema capable of matching the power, beauty, and alienation of Black music.” The conversation is moderated by DeForrest Brown Jr., musician, representative of the campaign to Make Techno Black Again, and author of Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Primary Information, 2022), a comprehensive history of techno through a Black theoretical framework.

That evening, the MCA partners with smartbar to present a full DJ set by the legend himself: Robert Hood. Tickets are available through smartbar.

ASL interpretation and CART captioning in English and Spanish are provided for this talk.