Off the Clock: Oct 11

Off the Clock: Working with Flexible Labor, Social Networks and Everyday Life

Tuesday, October 11, 7pm

Art in General, 79 Walker St.

How do recent lateral, collaborative projects, ranging from artist-run spaces to curatorial initiatives to knowledge communities, counter the information/service-based economy and its elements of fluid social networks, entrepreneurial spirit, flexible labor management and interactions with daily life? Or do these art projects and communities utilize these factors and build upon them — in turn aligning with this mode rather than producing a disarming critique?

Presented by Silvershed at Art in General. Liam Gillick will moderate.

Panelists include:

Summer Guthery, The Chrysler Series

Rose Marcus, The Dependent Art Fair

Jackson Moore, The Public School New York

Lise Soskolne, W.A.G.E.

James Voorhies, Bureau for Open Culture

http://www.artingeneral.org/events/1085

Internet Economies: Porn, Labor, and Banking: Oct 7

Internet Economies: Porn, Labor, and Banking

Eyebeam

Thursday, October 7, 6pm

Eyebeam invites you to join us for a discussion on the future of internet economies. What might be strategies to explore and build alternate economies? Eyebeam Fellow Fran Ilich, alums Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeff Crouse, and Finnish researcher Susanna Paasonen will lead discussion to examine the worlds of online porn, digital labor, and alternative finance models. The conversation will be moderated by Amanda McDonald Crowley.

http://www.eyebeam.org/events/internet-economies-porn-labor-and-banking

Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel: Oct 6

A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus [1970]

and a screening of Who is Marvin Israel? [2005]

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

Thursday, October 6, 7:30 pm

Free Admission

A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus [1970]

and a screening of Who is Marvin Israel? [2005]

On the 40th anniversary of the artist’s death, SVA and Aperture present A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus, a rare screening of a historic 1970 slide presentation given by the legendary photographer Diane Arbus where she discusses her work and her motivations. The presentation will be accompanied by a screening of the short documentary Who is Marvin Israel? (2005), an examination of the life of designer Marvin Israel, a friend of Arbus and an influence in her work. Presented by the BFA Photography, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media and MPS Digital Photography departments at SVA in conjunction with the Aperture Foundation.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3942

Jeffrey Deitch + Jay Sanders: Oct 6

Jeffrey Deitch & Jay Sanders in Conversation

Thursday, October 6, 7pm

Artists Space

$5 Entrance Donation, Members Free

In 1975 Christopher D’Arcangelo participated in the group exhibition Lives: Artists Who Deal With Peoples’ Lives (Including Their Own) As The Subject And/Or The Medium of Their Work, curated by Jeffrey Deitch. After meeting at John Weber Gallery in New York where both were working at the time, their dialogue resulted in an essay by the curator that focused on the artist’s actions in New York museums. Jeffrey Deitch will be in conversation with curator Jay Sanders discussing D’Arcangelo’s work, its critical position in relation to the museum, and the particular cultural context of New York in the mid 1970s.

http://www.artistsspace.org/programs/jeffrey-deitch-jay-sanders-in-conversation/

Paola Pivi: Oct 5

Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

Wednesday, October 5, 6:30pm

Admission: $10; FREE to all students, New School faculty,

staff and alumni with valid ID.

The fall 2011 Public Art Fund Talks series examines the transformative potential of sculpture and its ability to transcend the material presence of an object's physical form. Italian artist Paola Pivi (now based in Alaska) creates installations, sculpture, performances, and photographs that convey astonishing and enigmatic associations and visual relationships. Her work extends our understanding of the experience of contemporary art. Presented by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_current.htm

Wafaa Bilal: Oct 5

AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Wafaa Bilal

October 5, 2011 6:15 p.m.

Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal is known for his on-line performance works intended to provoke dialogue about international politics. For his current project, 3rdi, Bilal had a camera surgically implanted on the back of his head that transmitted images to the Web 24 hours a day, a statement on surveillance, the mundane, and the things we leave behind. Bilal’s 2010 work, ...And Counting, similarly used his own body as a medium: his back was tattooed with a map of Iraq with dots representing Iraqi and U.S. casualties of occupation, the Iraqis in invisible ink, visible only under a black light. Bilal's 2007 installation, Domestic Tension, also addressed the Iraq war: he spent a month in a Chicago gallery with a paintball gun that Internet interactive viewers could shoot at him. Bilal's work is constantly informed by the experience of fleeing his homeland and existing simultaneously in two worlds, the “comfort zone” of his U.S. home and the “conflict zone” in Iraq.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=69783

Fluxus Redux: Oct 4

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South

Tuesday, October 4, 6:30 pm

Displaying objects intended to circumvent the institutional art system—and preserving performative and ephemeral works in perpetuity—raises fundamental questions for art museums. This panel will confront the challenges posed by exhibiting Fluxus works, addressing both theoretical issues and hands-on museum practice. Speakers include Christophe Cherix, Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art; Alison Knowles, Fluxus artist; Carlo McCormick, Senior Editor, Paper magazine; and Glenn Wharton, Time-Based Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art, and Research Scholar in Museum Studies, NYU. Moderated by Julia Robinson.

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/programs/programs.html

Transdisciplinary Seminar on Afrofuturism: Julie Mehretu: Oct 4

Transdisciplinary Seminar on Afrofuturism: Julie Mehretu

October 4, 2011 6:00 p.m.

Kellen Auditorium, Johnson Design Center

66 Fifth Avenue

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

The Transdisciplinary Seminar on Afrofuturism explores how representations of science, technology, and social engineering intersect with visual cultural expressions of the African Diaspora. Science fiction is the organizing theme that unites the guest presentations and works under consideration. Visiting artists and cultural theorists lecture on the role of futuristic speculations in African diasporic art, literature, film, and music. The ability of science fiction to function as both a fractured mirror of historical experience and a projection of the collective desires of a displaced people is discussed throughout the semester.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=69950

Penelope Umbrico + Cay Sophie Rabinowitz: Oct 4

Tuesday, October 4, 7pm

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd St, New York, NY

Free and open to the public.

Aperture and Dear Dave, Magazine present a conversation between artist Penelope Umbrico and Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, cofounder and editor of Fantom magazine. This event coincides with the recently released Aperture book Penelope Umbrico (photographs), which offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images.

http://public.sva.edu/dd/Umbrico/default.html

Index Festival Panel #3: Make Ready: Aug 17

Index Festival Panel #3: Make Ready

Wednesday, August 17th, 7pm

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center

596 Broadway, #602

This panel (or moreso a roundtable) brings together artists who engage in the breaking down of analogue and digital systems through practice. Issues surrounding, documentation, preserving experience, and media obsolescence with be raised along with changing roles of artists -as-inventor, place for artists who work “outside the box” and community.

Panelists: Byron Westbrook, Shelley Burgon, Future Archeology, Ed Bear and Lea Bertucci, MV Carbon, Bruce McClure, Carrie Gates

Moderated by Peter Kirn

http://indexfestival.com/events/panels/make-ready/

A full listing of Index Festival events can be found here:

http://indexfestival.com/schedule/