Mono Talk

Jace Clayton on Modulation

5 March 2026
6pm

  • Location:
    Ground Floor Gallery
  • Event Cost:
    Free
  • Registration:

Join us at the IMA for a Mono Talk with New York-based writer and artist Jace Clayton, a.k.a. DJ /rupture. In this talk, Jace Clayton will explore modulation as a framework—interpenetration instead of identity.

Whether it’s analog synthesisers, trainwreak DJ performances, internet memes, or customised AI tools, this talk looks at how blending and mixing can help us move beyond either/or thinking and create space for collaboration.

Interested in watching DJ/ rupture and Lyra Pramuk perform? Register for Mono 58.

Guest Info
  • Jace Clayton is an artist and writer based in New York, also known for his work as DJ /rupture. He is the author of Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) and is Director of Graduate Studies at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Assistant Professor of Studio Arts at Bard College.

Jace Clayton, The Great Salt (detail), 2018. Photo: R. Leopoldina Torres; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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