Michael Smith: Dec 19

Wednesday, December 19, 6:30 PM
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St

Artist Michael Smith will discuss his practice with curator João Ribas. Smith is best known for his video and performance works made in the late 1970s starring, Mike, an everyman version of Smith himself and for his collaborations with artists William Wegman and Joshua White. Smith’s work is currently on view in Mike's World: Michael Smith and Joshua White (and other collaborators) at the Blanton Museum at the University of Texas, Austin. An artist's book of Smith's drawings Michael Smith: Drawings Simple, Obscure and Obtuse was published this spring by Regency Arts Press, New York.

Admission is free

http://www.drawingcenter.org/events_public_01.cfm

When Time Becomes Form: Dec 18-22

When Times Becomes Form
TBL (TallBlondLadies): Solidly Grounded
Curated by Marina Abramovic
December 18-22, 2007, 5-10pm*
Opening Reception: Tuesday, December 18th, 5pm
Artists Space
38 Greene St, 3rd Fl

Artists Space is pleased to present TBL (TallBlondLadies), a collaborative project between the artists Anna Berndtson (Sweden/Germany) and Irina Runge (Germany). This exhibition marks the third installment of the durational performance series When Time Becomes Form curated by Marina Abramovic. The duo will present Solidly Grounded, a collection of three works, performed over five days for five hours per day, in Artists Space’s main galleries.

TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, often incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations.

The three pieces to be included, Big Dip, Ascendant Landing, and Potential Fertility Rite, are distinct yet share the recurrent core elements of sound, rhythm, and form embodied through purposeful movement. The symbols of the Celtic knot, the line, and the Lemniscate (eternity sign) provide the foundation for each of their performances, allowing for a poetic exploration of female tropes through notions of timelessness and the everyday.

*PLEASE NOTE: During the run of the show, Artists Space will be open from 5-10pm.

http://www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/future.html

Performing Life: December 15

Panel Discussion
Saturday, December 15, 3-5 pm
Artists Space
38 Greene St, 3rd Fl

What is "real life" in performance art today? How many lives can a performance have? Are virtual experiences comparable to live performance? What is the future of performance art? Please join us for a panel discussion inspired by these questions and the ongoing performance series When Time Becomes Form curated by Marina Abramovic for Artists Space.

With panelists: Marina Abramovic, Emcee C.M., Master of None, and Ana Prvacki Moderated by: Jovana Stokic

Unmonumental: Dec 13

“Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century”
Thursday, Dec. 13, 7pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Free with Museum admission*

Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, and Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions, lead a conversation with three artists from “Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century”: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gedi Sibony, and Shinique Smith

*Tickets to this event are free with Museum admission. You must request a voucher for this event in person at the Visitor Desk the day of the event. Advance reservations are not available.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/3

Johanna Drucker: Dec 11

Tuesday, December 11, 7pm
SVA, Amphitheater, 209 East 23rd Street, 3rd floor

A pioneer in the study of artist books, artist and art historian Johanna Drucker is Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (University of Chicago, 2006) and The Century of Artists' Books (Granary, 2004). Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

Free and open to the public.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2002

Jim Hodges on Joseph Beuys: December 10

Monday, December 10
6:30 pm
Dia Art Foundation
548 West 22nd St

Born in Spokane, WA, in 1957, Jim Hodges lives and works in New York. His solo exhibitions include presentations at Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2005); the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, and touring (2003), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2003); and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (1995).

Several works by Joseph Beuys, including Arena—where would I have got if I had been intelligent! (1970–72), are on view at Dia:Beacon.

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/lectures/artists/index.html

I-Be AREA: Ryan Trecartin: Dec 8

I-Be AREA, 2007, Ryan Trecartin
Saturday, December 8
3pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery
$8 general public, $6 Members

Trecartin's first feature-length video I-Be AREA extends the artist's singular process and style into new territory. Fast-paced and dense with drama, I-Be AREA relates the intertwined stories of an exuberant ensemble, played by Trecartin and dozens of others, as they cope with themes such as cloning, adoption, self-mediation, lifestyle options, and virtual identities. The film centers around Jaime's Area (played by Lizzie Fitch), a space which functions, in the artist's words, as a kind of “bedroom/classroom/drama department/blog space/Internet-community site where the characters malfunction in the face of everything being everything and come to act on their own creative potential.”

Ryan Trecartin lives and works in Philadelphia. He has had solo exhibitions at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York; Crane Arts, Philadelphia; and QED, Los Angeles.

The artist will discuss his practice with Lauren Cornell, Director of Rhizome, on December 14. See that date for details.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/2

Lorna Simpson: Dec 5

Wednesday, December 5
Parsons, 65 Fifth Ave. Swayduck Auditorium
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Free and open to all

Lorna Simpson first became known in the mid-1980s, for confronting and challenging conventional views toward gender, identity, culture, history, and memory with her large-scale photograph and text works that are both formally elegant and subtly provocative. Simpson uses the African-American woman to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships and experiences of our lives in contemporary multi-racial America. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Miami Art Museum; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. She has participated in such important international exhibitions as the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany. She has been the subject of numerous articles, catalogue essays, and a monograph published by Phaidon Press.

http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=827

Dana Schutz: Dec 4

Tuesday, December 4, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21st Street, room 101c

Dana Schutz' provocatively-entitled pictures of cannibals, castaways, and primordial landscapes are in the collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and Art History Departments.

Free and open to the public.
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2001

Experimental Magazines, Circa 1986: Dec 3

Experimental Magazines, Circa 1986 featuring Jonathan Crary , Meyer Schapiro , Thomas Lawson , Susan Morgan and May Castleberry

Monday, December 3 at 6:30 PM
MoMA, Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, Cullman Education and Research Building

Following last fall season's panel discussion, Experimental Magazines and the International Avant-Gardes, 1945-1975, this program examines a particular moment in experimental journals and magazines. Focusing on publications established in the 1980s, scholars, artists and editors address the magazine as a platform for new ideas as well as original contributions by artists. Participants include: Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, founding editor of Zone Books; and Thomas Lawson, Dean of Cal Arts and Susan Morgan, former editors of REAL LIFE. The program is moderated by May Castleberry, Editor, Library Council Publications, The Museum of Modern Art.
$5.00 - $10.00

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=5687&ref=calendar

Glenn Ligon on Andy Warhol's Shadows: Dec 3

Monday, December 3
6:30pm
Dia Art Foundation
548 West 22nd St

Glenn Ligon was born in the Bronx and lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at the Power Plant, Toronto, and touring (2005–06); the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2001); and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2001). In 2003, Dia launched Ligon’s web project Annotations.

Andy Warhol’s Shadows (1978–79) is on view at Dia:Beacon.

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/lectures/artists/index.html

Lawrence Weiner: November 29

Lawrence Weiner and Donna De Salvo
Thursday, November 29, 7pm

Exhibition curator Donna De Salvo and Lawrence Weiner lead a special walk through Weiner's retrospective. This is a standing event in the gallery.

Admission: $8; senior citizens and students with valid ID $6.


http://whitney.org/www/programs/eventInformation.jsp?EventTypeID=1#ad-calendar

Readings on "Home": November 29

SVA MFA in Design Criticism Reading Night
Thursday, November 29, 7- 9pm
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, www.kgbbar.com
(Entrance is free)

On November 29 the SVA MFA Design Criticism department hosts its first reading night at KGB Bar in the East Village. Addressing the concept of home from different angles are: Metropolis magazine columnist Karrie Jacobs, design, technology and culture writer David Womack, and conceptual artist Elizabeth Demaray.

Jacobs reads an excerpt from her 2006 book, The Perfect $100,000 House, which chronicles the author's nationwide search for a place to call home; Womack recounts the virtues of lightweight living, a revelation received while backpacking in the Sierra Nevadas; and Demaray speaks about a project in which she created alternative plastic housing for homeless hermit crabs.

This event inaugurates a bi-monthly series of reading nights, organized in anticipation of the Design Criticism program’s launch at the School of Visual Arts in Fall 2008.

All are warmly invited to attend.

For more information, please contact the department at 212.592.2561.

Re-Take: A Panel on Art and Appropriation: Nov 27

featuring Michael Newman,
Judith Barry, Sarah Charlesworth, and others

Tuesday, November 27, 7pm
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th St
Organized by Afterall
Tickets: $7

This panel discussion examines the use of appropriation in contemporary art, considering the various approaches to appropriation adopted by three different generations of artists spanning the 1970s to today. The panel will be moderated by art historian and writer Michael Newman, the author of Richard Prince: Untitled (couple) recently published by Afterall Books, and he will be accompanied by artists Judith Barry, Sarah Charlesworth, and others.

Afterall is a non-profit research and publishing organization, supported by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London and California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, that publishes a contemporary art journal and a series of books. For more information, please visit www.afterall.org

John Kelsey, Reena Spaulings Fine Art & Bernadette Corporation: Nov 27

Tuesday, November 27,
6:30 PM
Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
Peter B. Lewis Theater
Sackler Center.
$10/ $7


John Kelsey is a member of the artist collective Bernadette Corporation and co-founder (with Emily Sunblad) of Reena Spaulings, a fictional artist/dealer who began operating on New York's Lower East Side in 2004. Bernadette Corporation embraces diverse modes of production while interrogating notions of identity and artistic agency. Spaulings collaborates with the artists she represents, undermining professional divisions of labor while addressing issues of authorship and the mechanisms of the art market.

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

PAWNSHOP: Ladies Night: November 26

a discussion with Julieta Aranda and Liz Linden on ethical consumerism and strategies of reverse-gentrification, with surprise special guests.

e-flux, 53 Ludlow street
Monday, November 26, 7pm

PAWNSHOP continues to accept new pawned works and to keep its regular business hours Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6 pm. It will remain in operation buying and selling artworks through early 2008.

PAWNSHOP's current inventory is comprised of the work of over 70 artists, including: Lucas Ajemian, James Angus, Julieta Aranda, Julie Ault, Fia Backström, Steven Baldi, Julien J. Bismuth, Bengala, Mike Bouchet, Ethan Breckenridge, Kadar Brock, AA Bronson, François Bucher, Paul Chan, Jan Christensen, Heman Chong, Keren Cytter, Marcelline Delbecq, Wilson Diaz, Nico Dockx, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jakup Ferri, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Claire Fontaine, Rene Gabri, Nikolas Gambaroff, Mario Garcia Torres, Andrea Geyer, Simryn Gill, Liam Gillick, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Diango Hernández, Ralf Homann, Karl Holmqvist, Sejla Kameric, Matt Keegan, Christoph Keller, Brandon Kennedy, Gabriel Kuri, Adriana Lara, Annika Larsson, Francine LeClercq, Gabriel Lester, Liz Linden, Esther Lu, Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Aleksandra Mir, Naeem Mohaiemen, Lucas Moran, Carlos Motta, neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere), Olaf Nicolai, Ernesto Neto, Ylva Ogland, Yoshua Okon, Joe Pflieger, Lisi Raskin, Fay Ray, Martha Rosler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Anri Sala, Eduardo Sarabia, Aaron Simonton, Matt Sheridan Smith, Michael Smith, Nedko Solakov, Kimsooja, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Costa Vece, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Florian Wüst, and Andrea Zittel.

PAWNSHOP is a project by Julieta Aranda, Liz Linden and Anton Vidokle.

At the end of the project, all profits generated by PAWNSHOP will be donated to charity. For further information please write to pawnshop@e-flux.com or call 212 619 3356.

http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/4808

Gillian Laub: November 26

Monday, November 26, 6:30 p.m.
NYPL, Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue
Free Admission

Gillian Laub has worked in Israel and Palestine, producing portraits of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Ramallah, Nablus, and other locations in the region. Her first book, Testimony (Aperture, June 2007), contains fifty of her portraits of Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, displaced Lebanese families, and Palestinians. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-month.aspx?Month=11

From the Specific to the General: The Publication: Nov 26

Seth Siegelaub, Alexander Alberro, Robert Barry, Christophe Cheri, and Lawrence Weiner
Monday, November 26 6:30 - 8:15 PM

Beginning in the mid-1960s, former gallerist and publisher Seth Siegelaub supported the work of many artists, including Robert Barry and Lawrence Weiner. Exhibitions explored conceptual art, and books provided a new forum for artistic innovation outside of the museum or gallery. Alexander Alberro, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Florida, and Christophe Cherix, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, join Siegelaub, Barry, and Weiner in a roundtable discussion about their collaborations.

Afterwards, join us in the Museum Archives for a reception and viewing of Siegelaub's books in MoMA's collection.

$5.00 - $10.00

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=6477&ref=calendar

Reconsidering Feminism: Nov 20

Reconsidering Feminism: A Year in Review
Tuesday, November 20, 6 pm
MoMA, The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2, T2

Over the last year, a series of exhibitions and cultural initiatives in New York and elsewhere have sought to reconsider the feminist legacy in contemporary art and the new directions it has inspired in the work of emerging artists and collectives. This roundtable discussion with artists, critics, and historians will include a critical review and analysis of such events. It will also include an attempt to envision the steps to follow in the collective efforts to write recent feminist art history and implement the lessons learned from these initiatives. Participants include Janine Antoni, artist; Carol Armstrong, Professor, History of Art, Yale University; Aruna D’Souza, Assistant Professor of Art History and Women's Studies, Binghamton University; Sharon Hayes, artist; and Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History, Vassar College, contributing editor, Artforum, and (with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija) organizer of the ongoing project Utopia Stations.

Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk, at the Film desk, or online via Ticketweb.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=6475&ref=calendar

Seth Price and Nate Lowman: Nov 20

Tuesday, November 20,
6:30 PM
Guggenheim Museum,
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
Peter B. Lewis Theater, Sackler Center.
$10 /$7

Drawing from the vast reservoir of mass-media visual culture- from advertisements to bumper stickers to pirated images of old master paintings and Internet video downloads—artists Nate Lowman (b. 1979) and Seth Price (b. 1973) interrogate various systems of information dispersion while pointing to the social, economic, or political forces that drive them.
http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Ulla von Brandenburg: Nov 19

November 19th, 6:30 pm
FREE
To RSVP call Goethe Institute @ 212-439-8700

As part of PERFORMA 07, the Goethe-Institut New York presents Show/Tell 01, an artist talk between performance artist Ulla von Brandenburg and curator Anna-Catharina Gebbers.

PERFORMA 07 presents Ulla von Brandenburg's installation La Maison, a multi-room labyrinth delineated by large textile panels, from November 12-16. Using colors based on Bauhaus chromatics on the one hand, and the Luescher-Colour-Diagnostics spectrum on the other, a new color universe is established in each room. At the center of the labyrinth, a new 16mm film will be screened, which picks up where the viewer leaves off, driving slowly through the rooms of a baroque castle, populated by people in petrified poses.

Ulla von Brandenburg (b. Karlsruhe, Germany,1974) works in a variety of forms, including drawing, painting, film, video, installation, and performance, examining the ways in which meaning and significance can be articulated between the borders of media. She has had solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006), Kunsthalle, Zurich (2006), and Produzentengalerie, Hamburg (2007), among other venues, and her work has been included in numerous group shows and biennials including at Prague Biennial 3, Prague (2007), Arnolfini, London (2007), and the Tate Modern, London (2007).

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=83
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/kue/en2729985.htm

Premiere of ERASE: November 19

Premiere of ERASE
Lovett/Codagnone & Tom Cole
Participant, Inc., 253 East Houston Street (at Norfolk Street)
November 19, 9 pm, $10

Additional performances:
November 28 at 8pm
November 29, 30 and December 1 & 2 at 10pm

ERASE is created collaboratively by playwright Tom Cole and the artistic team Lovett/Codagnone. Taking formal cues from Germany’s anti-theater of the ‘60s and ‘70s, ERASE will combine Cole’s hyper-verbal texts with Lovett/Codagnone’s austere installations and endurance performances. The gallery exhibition will become the play, and the play will be the gallery exhibition. Based loosely on a true story of a victim whose willing involvement in a violent murder and cannibalization garnered international headlines, ERASE will cross the line into territory where individuals transgress social norms so completely they vanish altogether. By exploiting the physical space of the gallery and multiple yet concurrent narratives, ERASE will draw comparisons to other sorts of transgression: terrorism, art-making, and extreme politics.

http://07.performa-arts.org/venues.php?id=63
http://www.participantinc.org/

John Kelsey & Christopher Williams: November 18

John Kelsey & Christopher Williams
Sunday, November 18, 9pm-midnight
WFMU, 91.1FM-NYC and www.wfmu.org

Specially commissioned by PERFORMA Radio, this live broadcast by artists John Kelsey and Christopher Williams continues their Radio Danièle project, an ongoing series of radio programs they created for broadcast in Bologna and Zurich. Joined by Emily Sunblad and a few additional surprise guests, the artists discuss and present selections from Radio Danièle contributors, including Seth Price, Rita Ackermann, Lawrence Weiner, David Grubbs, Dan Graham, Jack Smith, Martin Kippenberger, among many others.

PERFORMA Radio
Aiming at expanding the field of performance to include radio-space and encouraging artists to use radio as an artistic medium, PERFORMA Radio invites visual artists to present works specifically designed for radio broadcast.

Curated by Anthony Huberman.
Presented by Bethany Ryker on WFMU, 91.1FM-NYC and www.wfmu.org.

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=24

EAT ART: November 17

EAT ART
Monkey Town
58 N 3rd St, (btw. Kent & Wythe), Williamsburg
Saturday, November 17, 7:30 & 10pm

An immersive culinary experiment based on the neurological phenomenon of synesthesia (http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/) and inspired by Daniel Spoerri’s Eat Art—which encompassed sculpture, performance, and the actual opening (and closing) of several restaurants.

FEATURING:

An 11-course Tasting Menu with wine pairings prepared by Monkey Town Chef Ryan Jaronik inspired by 11 texts, to be read live — which range from deadly serious to shoot-wine-through-your-nose funny

11 never-before-seen videos by:
Perry Bard
Michelle Handelman
Sujin Lee
Abigail Simon
Charwei Tsai
Lance Wakeling
Treva Wurmfeld
Marina Zurkow

A live diegetic score by John Keith (who can play at least 11 instruments)

Admission: $50 Prix Fixe; $60 Day-of-Event
Showtimes: 7:30 & 10pm

For more info: http://monkeytownhq.com/eatArt.html

Mondays @ 16Beaver: November 12

Artificial Boundaries “reBREAKing the Wall”
video/performance/installation/presentation/discussion
Monday, November 12. 7 pm
16 Beaver St, 5th Fl
Free and Open to all

See website for more info:
http://www.16beavergroup.org/monday/

This year we considered producing, organizing, or hosting something for the current Performa biennial. We thought of several possible responses, potentially a series of questions about New York and conditions of possibility that extend out from the way that performance could be considered in light of real estate, present necessity of commodifiable cultural production, non-profit industrial complex, etc. Essentially why is it now necessary to commission and stimulate via biennial the type of activity that used to occur in self-organized and non-institutionally sanctioned venues? We thought of possibly using the opportunity to point to things outside performance which it intersects with. Although the idea made sense, we decided that if the desire existed for such an event to be organized we would do it without having to make it a part of the program.

It seems the desire was there, since somehow, through some chance, we are hosting such an event, but fortunately, instead of talking about why these kinds of works/performances are not taking place in self-organized venues today -- we have the great fortune of meeting Karen Hakobyan and Haroutioun Simonian and hosting an event that will be part discussion part performance part situation.

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read: 11/17

Pierre Bayard and Umberto Eco with Paul Holdengraber

Saturday, November 17, 2007, 6:00 PM

NYPL: Humanities and Social Sciences Library,
5th Ave and 42nd St.
South Court Auditorium

$15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students

Quoting Umberto Eco, Graham Greene, Montaigne, and a host of other literary giants on the art of being well read without reading well, Bayard reminds us all that there is no shame in asserting your pseudo-literacy. He describes the varieties of “non-reading”—from books that you’ve never heard of to books that you’ve read and forgotten—and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.

http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/eventdesc.cfm?id=3641

NOT FOR SALE: Conceptual Art and Dance in Visual Arts: Nov 17

NOT FOR SALE: Conceptual Art and Dance in Visual Arts
Saturday, November 17, 12-3pm
The Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South


This day-long symposia will explore the connections between dance and visual art, both historically and within the contemporary scene. Panelists will include artists Xavier Le Roy and Marten Spangberg, among others, and the day will feature several lively, artist-led physical activities for the audience.

See Performa website for details: http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=11

Snöfrid Performance Launch: Nov 16

Smith-Stewart Gallery
53 Stanton Street
Friday, November 16, 8-11pm

Snöfrid is an art magazine. Snöfrid (which means “peaceful snow” in Swedish) has developed from a vague idea to a persona, a Scandinavian woman, possessing both depth and glamour, who feels a close affinity to Chanel no 5. She thinks of herself as a mirror that shatters the world around her into a reflective image of herself and her readers. Snöfrid will tell you about phenomena and people that excite her most for the moment, discussing and performing the analysis with the help of different collaborators.

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=61

This is DIY: November 15

This is DIY: A Do-It-Yourself Panel Discussion
Thursday, November 15, 7pm
School of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street, 3rd floor, Amphitheater
Free and open to the public.

YouTube and Flickr are just two of the latest incarnations of the Do-It-Yourself ethic, which has shaken up markets and created new communities. Arts and media leaders at the forefront offer some perspective: Vanessa Bertozzi, editor in chief and director of communications, Etsy, the online retailer of handmade goods; Steve Englander, director, ABC No Rio community-based arts center; David Reinfurt/Stuart Bailey of Dexter Sinister: Just-in-Time Workshop & Occasional Bookstore; and John Strausbaugh, a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post and Cabinet. Moderated by SVA students Michaela Murphy and Tarah Rhoda; organized by faculty member Amy Wilson.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2000

Umberto Eco: November 15 (SOLD OUT)

Umberto Eco in conversation with Paul Holdengräber:
On Ugliness, Hot Wars & Media Populism

Thursday, November 15, 7pm

NYPL: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Celeste Bartos Forum
5th Ave & 42nd Street

SOLD OUT but tickets may be available at the door.

http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/eventdesc.cfm?id=3435

Photography, Performance, and Contemporary Art: Nov 14

The New School
Auditorium, 66 W 12th St
Wednesday, Nov 14th, 7PM
Free Admission

In this panel discussion artists and critics, including Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft, and Babette Mangolte will explore the significance of photography in the history of performance since the 1960s and the influence of performance on contemporary photography. Performa Director RoseLee Goldberg will moderate and offer introductory remarks.

http://www.aperture.org/
http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=45

Synthetic Performances: November 14

Synthetic Performances
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG
Artists Space, 38 Greene Street
Tuesday, November 13
6:30 - 8 pm, Performance starts at 7pm
Please note:The location is Odyssey at 4pm Second Life time.
FREE

Eva and Franco Mattes will reenact three historical performances through their avatars, which were constructed out of the shape and surface of their bodies, in the online world, Second Life. Synthetic Performance is part of a series of performances that have taken place in synthetic worlds and videogames. People are invited to attend the live performances at Artist Space and interact with the videogame from within the gallery or from anywhere in the world by logging on to Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/35/41/24/?title=Odyssey

http://07.performa-arts.org/venues.php?id=16

Deconstruction in Argentine Art: Nov 14

"Destruction in Argentine Art from the 1960s and 1970s"
Wednesday, November 14, 6 pm
Free Admission. Reservation required.
culture@americas-society.org or (212) 277 8359.

Alexander Alberro and Ana Longoni will discuss the concept of destruction in 1960s and 1970s Argentine experimental Art.

Alberro's paper entitled "Invention, Destruction, and the Legacy of Concrete Art in 1960s Argentina" will focus on the impact, the legacy that Concrete art had on the Argentinean art scene of the 1960s. Alexander Alberro received a Bachelor's Degree in1986, a Master's Degree in Art History in 1990 from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in 1996 from Northwestern University. He is co-editor of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (MIT Press, 2000).

Longoni's presentation will discuss the crucial scenes of the Argentine avant-garde in the 1960s and 1970s. Ana Longoni received a B.A. in Literature, and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She collaborated in the publication Listen, Here, Now! Argentine Art of the 1960s: Writings of the Avant-Garde (MoMA, NY 2004).

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=117

John Maeda: November 14

John Maeda:
The Complexity of Simplicity
Parsons, 55 W. 13th St.
Weds, Nov 14, 6:30 - 8pm

A world-renowned graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist at the MIT Media Lab, John Maeda is a leading advocate for simplicity in the digital age. In his lecture, Maeda discusses ways to balance simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design, offering guidelines for needing less and actually getting more.

Free and Open to the Public. RSVP Recommended. (RSVP List Currently Full)
Contact: Irish Malig , 212.229.5391

http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=837

Ryan Gander: November 13

Ryan Gander
Loose Associations Lecture (Version 1.1)
The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street
November 13th, 6 pm
$5 , Free for PERFORMA & Drawing Center Members with required RSVP: 212-219-2166

A touring lecture-performance on cultural phenomena and disparate subjects ranging from architecture and design to James Bond. Curated by Joao Ribas.

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=103

Waltercio Caldas: November 13

Waltercio Caldas and Kaira Cabañas
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue
Tuesday, November 13, 6:30 PM
Reception to follow.
Free Admission Reservation required
Please email: culture@americas-society.org or call (212) 277 8359.

A conversation with Brazil's leading artist, Waltercio Caldas and Kaira Cabañas, a Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University.

Waltercio Caldas is a Rio de Janeiro-based conceptual artist, whose works respond to Neo-Concretism and phenomenology. Caldas has produced an substantial array of sculptures, photographs, drawings and installations that have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, and the São Paulo Bienal among
other venues.

This program will be the opening event for PINTA- the first art fair focused on contemporary Latin American art that will take place in New York City at the Metropolitan Pavilion. PINTA will present a full schedule of special events, performances and screenings, alongside museum-quality programming. The Americas Society will collaborate in the organization of the art fair's public program series, for a complete schedule please visit http://www.pinta-art.com

Sanford Biggers: The Somethin' Suite: Nov 12

The Somethin’ Suite
Monday, Nov 12, 10pm
The Box
186 Chrystie St
$25, $20












Multimedia artist Sanford Biggers presents The Somethin’ Suite, a conceptual exploration of the “Negro variety show” popular at the turn of the 20th century. Presented in speakeasies and small variety theaters across the country, with performers (both black and white) typically appearing in blackface for white audiences, they were deeply problematic, but also catapulted some of America’s most inventive musicians, including Ma Rainey, Scott Joplin, and Al Jolson, to stardom. Arguably the first distinctively American theatrical form, the oppressive system behind blackface entertainment has evolved into today’s popular music industry, Biggers suggests. The Somethin’ Suite, following minstrelsy's traditional 3-act structure, is performed by spoken-word artist Saul Williams, singers Esthero, Shae Fiol, Imami Uzuri, and Martin Luther, and DJs CX KiDTRONiX and Jahi Sundance, whose talents combine to provide a sonic history of contemporary music as well as a clear-eyed examination of today’s popular music industry. A PERFORMA Commission.

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=35

Ryan Gander & Dexter Sinister: Nov 11

Ryan Gander & Dexter Sinister
Sunday, November 11, 9pm-midnight
WFMU, 91.1FM-NYC and www.wfmu.org.

Specially commissioned by PERFORMA Radio, this collaborative radio work by British artist Ryan Gander and New York-based collective Dexter Sinister merges the script of a TV pilot with the form of a radio play. Interspersed with musical elements, 8 voices read from a script for a TV pilot written by the artists (and recently published as the book "Appendix Appendix"). A selection of Gander's earlier sound works are also incorporated within the script to become part of the radio play. Continuing the path of one medium wandering into another -- a TV pilot into a radio play -- radio merges with physical space, and the live broadcast is complemented by a performative presentation with a live audience in real space, filled with old radios all tuned to WFMU.

Curated by Anthony Huberman.
Presented by Bethany Ryker on WFMU, 91.1FM-NYC and www.wfmu.org.

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=23&PHPSESSID=4391f060fa80354ba71cc9728fd67dd9

Epic Journeys: November 10

BAMtalk: Epic Journeys
Isaac Julien, Russell Maliphant, Shirin Neshat and Ralph Lemon. Moderated by RoseLee Goldberg.

BAM Hillman Attic Studio
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Ave, 4th Floor, Brooklyn
Saturday, November 10th, 5 pm
$10 , $5 Friends of BAM

Inspired by the themes of Cast No Shadow--geographic exploration and individual identity within a globalized world culture--this panel will discuss art's ability to convey complex narratives as well as social and political shifts within an entirely seductive aesthetic milieu.

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=86

Haircuts by Children: November 10

Saturday, November 10, 11am-6pm
Hair 2 Stay, 121-A Baxter Street, between Canal and Hester

Art in General has invited artist, playwrite and theatre director, Darren O’Donnell to develop Haircuts by Children in New York. Working with a number of children between the ages of eight and twelve and in popular hair salons in Art in General’s neighborhood of Chinatown and Tribeca, this project offers the public free haircuts by children on two Saturdays:

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=48

Performance on Demand: Nov 2-17

Performance on Demand
EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery
323 West 39th Street 11th Floor
November 2- 17
Gallery Hours: Weds- Sat, 12-6pm


EFA Gallery is pleased to offer, during the Performa07 performance biennial, Performance on Demand: EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery. EFA Gallery will be transformed into a video lounge to host Electronic Arts Intermix's Viewing Room, a program that provides free public access to one of the foremost collections of video art in the world. Visitors to EFA Gallery will be able to choose from a curated selection of major performance-based video works by over 30 artists from the EAI Collection. Viewers may watch these seminal performances and contemporary classics at their own pace in a comfortable viewing environment.

The works available for viewing at EFA Gallery will include rarely-seen video documentation of ground-breaking performances by artists including Chris Burden, Dan Graham, and Carolee Schneemann; extraordinary videos in which performance was carefully crafted for the camera by artists such as Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Joan Jonas, Martha Rosler and William Wegman; conceptual masterpieces by John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, and Lawrence Weiner; as well as important works by many other key artists who have explored the profound consequences of combining performance and video.

http://efa1.org/2007/11/01/performance-on-demand/

Developing New Work: November 9

Making History: Developing New Work
The Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
November 9th, 11 am
FREE

A conversation between artists Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer and Laurie Simmons with moderator PERFORMA Director RoseLee Goldberg will be featured as the keynote panel for PSi 13 conference. This November the Performance Studies International academic conference, PSI 13:Happening/Performance/Event, is being held at New York University to coincide with PERFORMA 07 offering an exciting opportunity to provide a critical and historical context for the new work presented during PERFORMA 07. The conference’s keynote panel, “Making History: Developing New Work,” allows for a full discussion of the relationship between artists developing new commissioned work and the curatorial process. Both Isaac Julien and Yvonne Rainer will present new commissions during PERFORMA 07 and Laurie Simmons was presented in PERFORMA 05.

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=46

More information on the Performance Studies International Conference can be found at:
http://www.psi-web.org/psi13/main.html

On Allan Kaprow: November 8

Allan Kaprow: Art & Life
Thursday, November 8th, 6pm
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street


American artist Allan Kaprow is credited with inventing the term “happenings” to describe performance art pieces that involved public participation. This unique program, will further explore Kaprow’s innovative artistic practices and legacy. The evening will include original film and video and a discussion with artist Paul McCarthy, art historian Irving Sandler, and Stephanie Rosenthal, the Haus der Kunst curator who recently organized the historic reconstruction of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts as part of a major Kaprow retrospective that will be also be featured during PERFORMA07. Additional panelists to be announced. See Performa calendar for details of the re-doing of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts.

$15 , $12 , $10

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=6

Vito Acconci: November 7

Vito Acconci: A Live Reading
November 7, 6 pm
Swiss Institute
495 Broadway 3rd Floor
FREE

Vito Acconci offers, for the exhibition, the description of an unrealised building for Antartica, a building that only exist in the mind of who gets to hear its description, a piece where the listener generates in his or hers private mental space the feeling of an architecture.

This event is part of Performa07.

http://07.performa-arts.org/artists.php?id=85&detail=true

Carolee Schneeman: November 7

Carolee Schneeman
New & Restored Films & Videos
Screening & Artist Talk
Wednesday, November 7, 6:30 pm
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor

EAI celebrates the extraordinary work of Carolee Schneemann with a screening of newly-restored, seminal films from the 1960s, as well as recent videos. Schneemann will be present to speak about her works and answer questions from the audience. Admission free.

http://www.eai.org/eai/11_07_cs_pr.html

Hans Eijkelboom: November 6

Hans Eijkelboom
Talk and Book Signing
Tuesday, November 6
6:30 p.m.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor

Free Admission

In his new Aperture book, Paris—New York—Shanghai (November, 2007), Dutch artist Hans Eijkelboom creates a comparative study of these three major contemporary metropolises, each selected for its role as a center of modernism. Paris stands in for the nineteenth century; New York, the twentieth; and Shanghai, the twenty-first. Eijkelboom will discuss his inspiration for this project and the related exhibition, which opens at Aperture Gallery on Thursday, November 8, 2007.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-month.aspx?Month=11

Isaac Julien & Russell Maliphant: November 6-10

Isaac Julien & Russell Maliphant,
Cast No Shadow, 2007
A PERFORMA Commission

Multiple events. See Performa website for details.

Artist Talk to follow November 8 show only.

BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
Nov 8 - Nov 10, 2007
7:30 pm
$20, 30, 35, 45

BAMDialogue: 9pm November 8
A post-show discussion with the artists, moderated by Jose Munoz, Chair of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Co-presented by PERFORMA.

Visual artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien’s first evening length production, Cast No Shadow, brings to life Julien’s extraordinary triptych of films–True North, Fantôme Afrique, and Small Boats–in a remarkable work for the stage. In collaboration with acclaimed British choreographer Russell Maliphant, Cast No Shadow uses shifting geographical landscapes–from the North Pole, to Burkina Faso, to Sicily–and bodies in motion that at times seem to spill directly from the film onto the dance floor, to reveal deeply poignant stories of expedition and migration. Cast No Shadow, a PERFORMA Commission with Sadler’s Wells (London) is co-commissioned by Dance Umbrella and co-produced by Espace Des Arts, Scène Nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône. It will premiere at Sadler’s Wells in October and make its US premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of PERFORMA07 and BAM’s 25th Next Wave Festival.

Cast No Shadow was first conceived by Isaac Julien over three years ago, when PERFORMA Director RoseLee Goldberg suggested to him that he create a live performance out of his films. In 2005, Sadler’s Wells joined PERFORMA as a Co-Commissioner and Producer of Cast No Shadow, and brought Russell Maliphant on board to collaborate with Julien on the project.

http://07.performa-arts.org/artists.php?id=5&detail=true

David Adjaye: November 7

Wednesday, Nov 7
6:30 pm

Columbia University GSAPP
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall (lower level)

Respondent: Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem




David Adjaye of Adjaye/Associates, architect of the Idea Store, was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Ghanaian diplomats. Since completing his studies at the Royal College of Art in 1993, the London-based architect and theorist has built or won ten public commissions, at an age before many architects have built a single structure. His projects range from private residences in London and Nanjing, China, to public commissions, such as the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. Each building exhibits a myriad of global influences, such as west African sculptural forms and electronic music. Though celebrated internationally by architecture critics for his conceptual approach to building design, Adjaye is relatively unknown in the United States.

http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions_new.html
http://www.studiomuseum.org/education_schedule.html

On Richard Prince: Nov 6

"Same Man Looking in Different Directions:
On the Art and Attitude of Richard Prince"

Tuesday, November 6, 6:30 PM
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Sackler Center.
$10 ($7 for members, students, and seniors).

Richard Meyer, author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art, examines Richard Prince's far-flung source materials—from biker porn and Borscht Belt jokes to Hollywood publicity photographs and pulp-fiction covers. Meyer links these materials to Prince's extensive collection of books and printed memorabilia, to the artist's writings, and to an early window display in a Greenwich Village bookstore. The talk also grapples with the surprisingly strong feelings that Prince’s art has aroused in critics, curators, even the artist himself. Moments of aggression and interpretive conflict are (delicately) touched upon.

This event is part of the programming organized in coordination with the exhibition Richard Prince: Spiritual America.

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Diller + Scofidio, James Corner: Nov 8

"The Old Becomes New: Urban Revitalization in New York"
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6pm
MoMA, Celeste Bartos Theater, Cullman Education Building
4 West 54th Street

From the Atlantic Yards to Red Hook in Brooklyn, from the High Line and Fresh Kills lifescape to the new Second Avenue subway, New York City is re-inventing itself through public projects and parks, greater accessibility and new technologies. James Corner of field operations and Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro address issues surrounding urban transformation.

Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk, the Film desk, or online at www.ticketweb.com.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=5689&ref=calendar

Roxy Paine: November 6

Thursday, November 6, 6:30pm
School of Visual Arts, 133/141 West 21st Street, room 101c
Event is free and open to the public.

A 2006 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roxy Paine was born in 1966 in New York and studied at both the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York. Since 1990, his work has been internationally exhibited and is included in major collections such as De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. His tree sculptures can be found at various museums and foundations including the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA; Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden; Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo NMAC, Cadiz, Spain; and the St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO. Roxy Paine lives and works in Brooklyn and Treadwell, NY.

Tamy Ben-Tor: Judensau: Nov 3-5

Nov 3 - Nov 5, 2007
6 pm
FREE
Email info at salon94.com to make a reservation

“It is not a specific individual which I portray, it is a mimicking of public opinion, of cultural phenomena. The notion of normality is a perfect ground for obscenity and it is exactly that which I wish to take apart, defuse, put in disorder."

This event is part of the Performa07:The second visual art performance biennial

http://07.performa-arts.org/

Stan Douglas: November 7

Stan Douglas
Wednesday, November 7
6:30pm
The New School,
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street

Stan Douglas creates lush photographic series and technically sophisticated film and video installations that are the foundation for nuanced political criticisms and cultural investigations. Over the course of his 25-year career, this Canadian artist has addressed such timely issues as information overload, cultural difference and the impact of technology on perception. He also has used a computer program to recombine visuals, music and dialogue in complex arrangements, resulting in lengthy and intricate narratives. Among his most ambitious and acclaimed projects are Klatsassin (2006), a "Western" that tells a murder mystery from multiple viewpoints and includes aspects of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950); Inconsolable Memories (2005), a dual 16mm projection loosely based on Thomàs Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 film Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment) about the dilemmas of a bourgeois intellectual in Havana during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962; and his latest project, Vidéo (2006), a video based on Samuel Beckett's Film and Orson Welles' The Trial.

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

$5 General Admission, $3 for seniors, FREE to students with valid ID
To purchase tickets call (212) 980-3942 or visit http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_indexFall07.htm

On Kara Walker: November 1

Spotlight: On Kara Walker
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th St

This special day of gallery tours, talks, and roundtable conversations brings expert eyes to an exhibition's artists, objects, and concerns.

1pm
"The Legacy of Dred Scott"
Amy Dru Stanley

Kara Walker's narratives mine and manipulate imagery of nineteenth-century plantation life in the American south. Tracing the historical shifts that accompanied the end of slavery to place Walker's work in context, American legal historian Amy Dru Stanley (From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation) considers individual liberties, African-American rights, and the definition of personhood in the wake of the 14th Amendment.

2pm
"Strategies of Representation"
Greg Tate

Art critic Greg Tate tours the Kara Walker exhibition to explore the multifaceted ways Walker subverts and invents visual tales of antebellum life.

3pm
"Art and the Colonial Mind"
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Of the deep vein of racial stereotypes that her work taps, Kara Walker has said, "Blackness [is] a very loaded subject, a very loaded thing to be--all about forbidden passions and desires, and all about a history that's still living, very present." Art historian Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby takes a global view of art produced in a colonial frame of mind and addresses the relationship between latent racism and artistic content.

7pm
"The Shadows of Kara Walker's Art"
Darby English, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, and Simon Schama

Fellow artist Barbara Kruger has described the unflinching character of Walker's work by stating, "She revels in cruelty and laughter...Her silhouettes throw themselves against the wall and don't blink." Art historians Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker, 2004), Darby English (Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, 2003) and Simon Schama (Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, 2006) consider Walker's formal and aesthetic choices with an eye toward the legacy of American modernism and the specters of slavery that haunt her images.


Daytime events are free with Museum admission; however, advance registration is required to secure a seat. Tickets may be reserved by clicking on http://www.whitney.org/www/programs/eventInfo.jsp

Admission to evening roundtable: $8; senior citizens and students with valid ID $6. Tickets may be purchased by clicking: http://www.whitney.org/www/programs/eventInfo.jsp or by visiting the Museum Admissions Desk.

All programs are free for members. For Member reservations, please contact memberinfo@whitney.org. Inquiries: Email public_programs@whitney.org or call (212) 570-7715.

http://www.whitney.org/www/programs/eventcalendar.jsp?cat=1

BOMBLive/ Krystof Wodiczko: October 29

BOMBLive! Presents: "In the Open: Art in Public Spaces"

Monday, October 29
7pm
Sculpture Center, 44-19 Purves St, Long Island City





Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno
Join BOMB Magazine for the first in a series of staged interviews between architects, urban theoreticians, and artists working in the public realm.

Known for his projections of images onto architecture and public monuments, Krzysztof Wodiczko highlights the disparity between the history and the object itself. Wodiczko's work creates a space to highlight socially significant issues while simultaneously illuminating contradictions of spatial politics and the surrounding architecture.

Wodiczko is Director of the Center for Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT. Giuliana Bruno is an author, cultural theorist, and professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard.

http://www.sculpture-center.org/pe_ca_oct.html