Agency + Surveillance: March 31

Monday, March 31, 6:30pm
New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

A roundtable discussion of agency in surveilled space: who is watching, who is being watched, who decides which spaces are visible to the camera and which are effectively invisible, off-limits to authorities. The panelists will examine how engineers, artists, and activists intervene in surveillance systems to subvert, invert, and redefine these relationships, and how the principle of “sousveillance”—meaning surveillance from “below,” or watching the watchers—applies. It features artists and engineers who collaborate to produce software and hardware applications that access and visualize data usually obscured from public view; artists whose projects have questioned the rhetoric of surveillance by intervening more playfully in the expected aesthetics or power dynamics; and activists who monitor post-9/11 surveillance by intelligence agencies and its effects on immigrant and dissenting communities.

Panelists:
Tad Hirsch, researcher and member of the artist collective Institute for Applied Autonomy
Anjana Malhotra, human rights lawyer and former fellow with Human Rights Watch
Jenny Marketou, video and installation artist
Trevor Paglen, artist, writer, and experimental geographer, Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley
Brooke Singer, digital media artist, Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and cofounder of the art, technology, and activist group Preemptive Media.

Moderator:
Lex Bhagat, co-editor of Atlas of Radical Cartography

More info available here

DJ Spooky & Others: March 28

Friday, March 28, 6pm
19 University Place, Room 102

Conceptual artist, writer and musician Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid moderates an all-star panel discussion on African hip hop and music videos. Professors Jesse Shipley (Bard College) and Michael Ralph (New York University) join Shaheen Ariefdien of the pioneering South African rap group Prophets of da City and filmaker Ben Herson to discuss the emergence and current state of hip hop in African nations.

http://www.africanart.org/programs/11/TIME+LINES+-+Hip+Hop+Africa:+Global+Currents,+New+Media

Ry Rocklen: March 28

Friday, March 28, 7pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave

Rocklen doctors and assembles society's leftovers from streets, dumps, and thrift stores into playful readymades with calculated cultural connotations.

Seminars with Artists, Multiple Edition
Multiple Edition is conceived as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Each emerging artist in the series is commissioned to create 200 multiples that will be given away to the public-free of charge-at the event.

This program is free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays from 6 p.m. to 9 pm. Space is limited. Tickets may be reserved at the Museum Admissions desk or online.

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

Michael Smith: March 28

Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Michael Smith
Friday, March 28, 2pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave

As part of the Whitney Biennial 2008, Open Studio events invite the public to engage with Biennial artists and their work in the galleries through performance and participation.

In live and on-screen portrayals of his alter ego, "Mike," Smith highlights the plight of the stereotypical American man in a world complicated by technology, aging, and pop culture.

Open Studio programs are free with Museum admission and are on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets may be reserved at the Museum Admissions desk or online

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

Night School: Seminar 3: March 27-29

Night School, Public Seminar 3: Liam Gillick:

Three Short Texts on the Necessity of Creating an Economy of Equivalence

Three one-hour lectures. The outline of a possible text. Five parts will be tested and developed quickly.

Thu March 27, 7:30 p.m.:
The night before closure of an experimental factory.

Fri March 28, 7:30 p.m.:
Redundancy following the promise of infinite flexibility.

Sat March 29, 3 p.m.:
Reoccupation, recuperation and pointless renovation.

More info here.

Marilyn Minter: March 26

Wednesday, March 26, 3:15 pm
New School, Swayduck Auditorium
Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue

Painter Marilyn Minter’s work examines the relationships between the body, photography, and painting, tapping into cultural anxieties about sexuality and desire. Recent solo shows of her work have been at Salon 94, New York (2006), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005), and Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York (2003).

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=13702

Human/Nature: March 26

Wednesday, March 26, 7pm
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street

Panel discussion with: Eve Mosher, artist, David Van Luven, climate change scientist and Hudson River program director at The Nature Conservancy. Moderator: Patricia Watts, founder and co-curator of ecoartspace

Human/Nature’s fifth installment is presented in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy and features the artist Eve Mosher in discussion with climate change scientist David Van Luven and Patricia Watts. Mosher’s yearlong public art project HighWaterLine involved the artist marking ten-feet above sea level along the New York waterfront with a chalk line to bring attention to the dangers of flooding brought on by climate change. Join us as we discuss the implications of climate change on New York City’s landscape and community – and explore how art can connect human beings with the awareness of larger environmental issues. A reception will follow the panel discussion. Presented in collaboration with ecoartspace and The Nature Conservancy.

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/SEA/EPA.html#events

Matt Mullican: March 25

Tuesday, March 25, 7pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave

Moving among performance art, drawing, sculpture, and electronic media, Mullican focuses on the intersection of personal cosmologies and public systems of communication.

Admission is FREE for members; $6 for senior citizens and students; $8 for general admission.

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

Beth B: March 25

Tuesday, March 25, 7pm
School of Visual Arts
133/141 West 21st Street, room 101C

Working in a variety of artforms and media, including video, feature film and installation, Beth B creates provocative narratives that mine the violence below the surface of contemporary life. Her video, Positive ID: From the Case Files of Anthony Falsetti, was featured on Court TV’s series Rapid Fire. The work portrays chilling crime stories through the eyes of a forensic anthropologist. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department, in conjunction with NYC’s Brainwave Festival.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70

Women In Art Photography: March 22

Humble Arts Foundation and 3rd Ward present:

Women in Art Photography
Saturday, March 22, 6 - 8 pm
@ 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Moderator: Amy Stein
Panelists: Rachael Dunville, Tema Stauffer, Cara Phillips, Mary Mattingly, Sarah Small, and Dina Kantor

In his 2006 article entitled "Where the Girls Aren't," Jerry Saltz writes: "Of all the artists in [MOMA's] collection with work completed before 1970, fewer than 1 percent are women."

Please join Humble Arts Foundation and 3rd Ward in welcoming Amy Stein to moderate our first panel discussion on Saturday, March 22 at 6 pm. The discussion will encompass what it means to be an emerging photographer in New York City right now and how gender may or may not influence the artist's work in terms of process, subject matter, impact and career path. The panelists, Rachael Dunville, Tema Stauffer, Cara Phillips, Mary Mattingly and Sarah Small, will field questions, give advice and speak about their personal experiences as women photographers.

Reception will follow. Space is limited.
http://humbleartsfoundation.org/wiap_panel.html

Martin Creed: March 21

Friday, March 21, 6:30pm
MoMA, Celeste Bartos Theater, Education and Research Building

Like many modern artists that have preceded him, Martin Creed makes installations, music, film, writings, and performances that question the value of objects and ideas commonly considered mundane. With modest materials he often takes a witty and subversive, minimalist approach. Creed, who attended the Slade School of Art in London, has exhibited his work internationally and was the recipient of the 2001 Turner Prize. This conversation is moderated by Pablo Helguera, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of Modern Art.

Tickets ($5; members, students, seniors, and staff of other museums $3) are available online, or at the Museum at the lobby information desk, at the Film desk, or in the Cullman Building lobby.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/adult_programs.php#adult_programs

The Evolving Artwork: March 20

Thursday, March 20, 6:30pm
MoMA, Celeste Bartos Theater, Education and Research Building

An artwork often has a life that extends beyond the original intentions of its maker, as its materials enter into a process of slight transformations and interpretive perceptions change. This discussion, which includes experts in the conservation, curatorial, and education fields, analyzes artworks' evolutions throughout history. Participants include Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator, Department of Conservation, Susan Kismaric, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, and Edward Powers, Lecturer, The Museum of Modern Art, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute. This program is moderated by Leonard Lopate, host of The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC.

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

http://www.moma.org/calendar/adult_programs.php#adult_programs

Mika Tajima/New Humans: March 19

Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Mika Tajima/New Humans
March 19, 2pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave

As part of the Whitney Biennial 2008, Open Studio events invite the public to engage with Biennial artists and their work in the galleries through performance and participation.
New Humans, a collaborative founded by Tajima with Howie Chen, functions as an extension of Tajima's visual art practice into installations, video, and sound recordings. Open Studio programs are free with Museum admission and are on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets may be reserved at the Museum Admissions desk or online

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

Reimagining the Cultural Revolution: March 19

Wednesday, March 19, 6:30pm
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue

Cai Guo-Qiang’s recuperation and interrogation of Maoist revolutionary tactics as acts of a socialist utopianism are key to the context of his work. The panel, which includes major figures in Chinese contemporary art, scholarship, and the avant-garde, examines the history of these subjects as well as communitarian approaches to art making including a reliance on agit-prop and spectacle.

Moderator: Carma Hinton, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University

Participants: Zhang Hongtu, artist, New York; Gao Minglu, art historian, curator, critic, Pittsburgh; Wang Mingxian, independent scholar/curator, Beijing

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

Sebastian Lemm: March 18

Tuesday, March 18, 7pm
Goethe-Institut New York
1014 Fifth Avenue at 83rd St

In the context of Sebastian Lemm’s exhibition subtraction, which opens to the public March 20th at Peer Gallery, the Goethe-Institut New York presents a conversation with the German artist as part of its Show/Tell series. Sebastian Lemm will be joined by the critic and curator Gregory Volk. Free admission. No reservations required.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/kue/en2970387.htm

Ghada Amer: March 15

Saturday, March 15, 1pm
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn

Contemporary Egyptian-born American artist Ghada Amer discusses her work and her new exhibition, Love Has No End in a dialogue with Maura Reilly, Ph.D., curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/index.php?event_type=Talks%20and%20Tours

Tom Burr: March 8

Tom Burr Presents: sculpture in a constricted space & other stories
Sculpture Center, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City
Saturday, March 8, 6pm

Tom Burr reads sculpture in a constricted space and combines his 2006 text Ode to A Chair with improvised music by two highly regarded jazz musicians, Gaël Horellou on alto saxophone and Ari Hoenig on drums, accompanied by twelve-year-old Isaac Preiss on cello.

The artists mirror each other's moods in humorous, tragic-comic swirls of responses, taking Burr's Ode to A Chair as a point of departure and incorporating the musical energies of Kurt Weill, Rimsky-Korsakov, and various lineages of jazz.

Organized as a musical reading and cocktail party, the evening also emulates and renders homage to the environments of Chick Austin, Frank O'Hara, Kurt Weill, and Gertrude Stein.

Placed within the context of Tom Burr's current exhibition Addict-Love, sculpture in a constricted space and other stories further explores how modernism can be perceived as a script meant to be endlessly repeated.

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

Sanford Biggers: March 3

Monday, March 3, 6:30pm
Theresa Lang Center at The New School
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor, New York City
$5 General Admission, SculptureCenter Members and Students Free
For tickets call 212.229.5488 or write to boxoffice@newschool.edu

SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, presents a series of three lectures that explore how contemporary artists think about sculpture—its history, conventions, and legacy. Three artists at various stages of their careers have been invited to present their own take on art history: New York-based artist Sanford Biggers was born in Los Angeles in 1970. Influenced by a two-year stay in Nagoya, Japan and a multitude of cross-cultural references, Biggers’ installations incorporate performance, popular icons, Dadaist strategies, and the study of ethnological objects. He has won several awards including the New York Percent for the Arts Commission (2007) and the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship Award in 2005

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=13840