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Martine Syms is a conceptual entrepreneur based in Los Angeles who uses publishing, video, and performance to look at the making and reception of meaning in contemporary America. In 2012 she founded Dominica, an imprint dedicated to exploring blackness as a topic, reference, marker, and audience in visual culture. In 2007–11, Syms directed Golden Age a project space focused on printed matter. She has lectured at Project Row Houses, the Houston Museum of African American Art, California Institute of the Arts, University of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Institute College of Art, and MoMA P.S.1, among other venues. Her artwork has been exhibited and screened extensively, including presentations at the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, MCA Chicago, Green Gallery (Milwaukee), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), White Flag Projects (St. Louis), and Bridget Donahue (New York). More about the series.