The Poetic Justice Group at MIT Media Lab is an art and social justice focused research group. Currently, we’re researching how art can address the scale of sociopolitical issues through producing artworks that are distributed, multisite, participatory and public. We’ve been developing a series of software-generated sound and video works composed of recordings from public audiences and archives that are remixed and live-streamed over the phone and online, 24/7. These works explore themes ranging from US Census and COVID-19 to Black music. Our works have been presented by contemporary art museums in the U.S. including CAM Houston and CAM St. Louis and featured in New York Times and NPR.

We are looking for 3 music researchers, music enthusiasts, musicians, and/or djs interested in researching and writing about multi-genre and multigenerational thought and expression in Black music starting with R&B, hip hop and jazz. We’ve created content curation tools and processes for finding and selecting genres, musicians, songs and lyrics based on the criteria of our artwork.

This is a 3-month full-time freelance role with flexibility to work remote within the US but preferably work in person in the Boston-Cambridge.