Documentation from Open Score: The State of Art & Technology, a day-long conference organized by the New Museum and Rhizome, December 10, 2016. Remarks by Lauren Cornell, Curator and Associate Director, Technology Initiatives, New Museum, and Michael Connor, Artistic Director, Rhizome Session 1: Blackness in Circulation What is the relationship between memes and blackness? As the meme has migrated from the fringes of internet culture to—some might argue—its epicenter, so too has blackness taken center stage, often through the circulation of cultural and political events that travel virally. This panel sees discussing the meme as an opportunity to take stock of how blackness circulates in 2016, aiming to renew and build upon existing conversations around the increasing hypervisibility of blackness online, and the widespread appropriation that comes with it. Bringing together artists and thinkers whose work explores blackness, its representation, and its circulation historically and in the contemporary social media sphere, the panel will ask: what are new approaches or frameworks, in 2016 and into the future, through which we might escape the regime of visibility? Does something exist beyond the binary of representation, or the withdrawal from it that has dominated conversations in the past? Speakers: Manuel Arturo Abreu, artist and writer; Hannah Black, artist and writer; Devin Kenny, artist; and Mendi and Keith Obadike, artists Moderator: Aria Dean