Robert Sember

Robert Sember is a member of the international sound-art collective, Ultra-red, founded in 1994 by Los Angeles-based HIV/AIDS activists. In art circles, Ultra-red is known for studying, developing, and testing procedures for collective listening that contribute directly to anti-racist, housing justice, and migrant rights struggles in the U.S. and Europe. During a 2009-2011 Vera List Center for Art and Politics fellowship, Robert and fellow Ultra-red member, Michael Roberson, organized the Arbert Santana Ballroom Freedom and Free School, a political education initiative within the House and Ballroom community. Robert currently teaches at The New School’s Eugene Lang College where he helped run the Freedom Scholars Program, established the Lang Prison Education Initiative and co-chaired the 400 Years of Inequality Project. Robert also teaches with Artists Spaces’ Expanded Art Ideas program and recently worked with the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Program’s Higher Education in Prison initiative in Auburn, Alabama.