CODE Z has arrived!

Cinqué Hicks and Crew's project, Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now, which has emerged from the hiatus of Electric Skin is now up and running. Don't worry your old Electric Skin link will take you to Code Z. Featuring editors who are accomplished visual artists in their own right such as photographers Carla Williams and Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, along with peripatetic curator and writer Ingrid La Fleur, and writers George Kelly and Julia Chance, the Z offers the mercurial voices of artists from a range of visual mediums. The inaugural launch features Greg Tate's interview with "bio-morphic" artist Wangechi Mutu, a walking tour through the p.o.v. of "Chicago artist and scenester" Hebru Brantley, a review of Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda, J. P. Stassen's graphic novel "masterwork chronicling an impossible love story against the backdrop of the Rwandan genocide", as well as updates on "boundary pushing" black art-doings around the globe.

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