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Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

Art + Research Center

The Art + Research Center (A+RC) is the museum’s research department and graduate-level initiative dedicated to fostering a more robust and critical dialogue in the South Florida region and beyond.

Semesters

Summer 2026 Semester: From Oil to Electricity: Cultural Form and the Politics of Energy in Latin America

This summer's in-person seminar series explores how energy regimes, including petroleum, electrification, and emergent renewable infrastructures, have shaped cultural production and environmental imagination across the region and its diasporas.

Loop Art Critique

Feedback for Artists in the Metaverse

The program’s goal is to create an online space where artists share new and in-progress work, without the pressures of large social media platforms or the market.

Channel

Roberto Conduru: Afro-Brazilian Spaces of Reinvention

This lecture focuses on how Afro-Brazilian artists address the persistence of slavery-related oppression in Brazilian cities from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Podcast

Tomorrow is the Problem

Each season, join us as we explore the hidden meanings behind everyday phenomena in an effort to better understand the most urgent cultural issues of our time.