Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese: Oct 30

Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese
Thursday, October 30, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
MoMA
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2)

With every presidential election beginning in 1984, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese have compiled and edited Political Advertisement, a historical survey of television campaign spots from 1952 to the present. This anthology, updated to include advertisements from the 2008 presidential campaign, documents the selling of the American presidency since the 1950s. As Muntadas and Reese trace the development of the TV "spot," a social and media history emerges revealing how campaign spots have become a political strategy and manipulative marketing technique. This evening, the artists debut the latest version of Political Advertisement in a premiere presentation followed by commentary by Laura Flanders, journalist, Air America host of Radio Nation, and author of Blue Grit. $10/$8/5
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9757&ref=calendar

Anthony Goicolea: Oct 30

Anthony Goicolea
Thursday, October 30, 6:30pm
SVA: 133/141 West 21st Street, room 101c.

Anthony Goicolea is interested in self-portraiture, vanity and narcissism as well as issues dealing with the body, beauty, chaos, the grotesque and the perverse. In his recent work--whether it is photography, video, or drawing--he focuses on how people shed their sense of individuality to become part of a larger homogenized group, or conversely, how they rebel against the larger whole and assert their individuality. His latest public art project, a large street-poster installation organized by More Art, is currently on view on Tenth Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets.

On Criticism: Oct 30

Thursday, October 30th, 7:00pm.
Guild & Greyshkul
28 Wooster St

Questioning the relevancy of criticism is hardly the exclusive sport of a contemporary audience. The roles, values, and goals of criticism have been as contested as any individual critic's pronouncements. What factors, then, uniquely beset art criticism now? What basis is there for the widely espoused claim that we are in a "post critical" age? In a highly diversified and cross-disciplinary art world, what constitutes a conflict of interest for a critic? How have blogging and self-publishing through the Internet affected art writing? On Criticism will bring together critics writing for print and online publications, editors, and artists writing criticism to discuss such questions. The discussion's participants are Jan Avgikos, Ben Davis, John Miller, Joao Ribas, Martha Schwendener, and Roger White. Colleen Asper will moderate the discussion, which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. Organized by Colleen Asper and Jennifer Dudley, Ad Hoc Vox is an ongoing series of discussions and lectures without a fixed location that addresses a wide range of issues in contemporary art. More at

Ken Jacobs: Oct 29

Ken Jacobs Artist Talk and Premiere of New Work
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:30 pm
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor

EAI is pleased to present the premiere screening of a new feature-length, 3-D video by legendary experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, titled ANAGLYPH TOM (Tom With Puffy Cheeks). Jacobs will be present to introduce and discuss his work and will also screen three of his recent digital shorts: His Favorite Wife Improved (2008), Nymph (2007), and Capitalism: Slavery (2006). In these works, Jacob reanimates through digital manipulation sources ranging from a 19th century stereograph to a 20th-century televised movie. Throbbing and flickering, pulsing and stuttering, these works plunge the viewer into haunted scenes that come alive with illusory depth and movement. Whether undertaking archaeological journeys to the birth of cinema, or reactivating vintage stereographs through digital interventions, Jacobs investigates, provokes and draws power from the mysteries of the nature of vision. *NOTE: The works being screened should not be viewed by individuals with epilepsy or seizure disorders.

http://www.eai.org/eai/publicProgramArtists.htm?id=111

Street Art: Oct 28

Honors Program Annual Lecture: Street Art
SVA: 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Tuesday, October 28, 7pm

A panel will discuss the history and potential of street art, including its role as inspiration for artists. The panelists include: Marc and Sara Schiller, Wooster Collective; Thomas Beale, Honey Space; Frank Anselmo, art director, BBDO New York and SVA faculty member; and ELBOW-TOE, street artist. Artist and SVA faculty member Amy Wilson will moderate. Presented by the Honors Program. Free and open to the public.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2578

Joachim Koester: Oct 28

Tuesday, October 28, 6:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum

Hugo Boss Prize 2008 finalist, Koester draws on archival methods through films and photographic installations which explore an array of enigmatic, historical narratives through their material remains, ultimately challenging the viewer's understanding of the construction and degradation of history. $10/7 http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Democracy and Bureaucracy: Oct 24

Panel Discussion: Democracy and Bureaucracy
Friday, October 24, 2008, 6:30-8:30pmArt in General, 79 Walker St

Artists Carla Herrera-Prats and Carlos Motta discuss ideas about democracy and access, archives and standardization, with Tim Rollins, artist and co-founder of Group Material, Nato Thompson, curator of the Creative Time exhibition Democracy in America: The National Campaign, and Art in General curator Eva Díaz.

http://www.artingeneral.org/articles/234

Contemporary Artists' Books: Oct 24

Contemporary Artists' Books Conference: Keynote Session
MoMA, Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
Friday, October 24, 2008, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

In conjunction with the Contemporary Artists' Books Conference, a collaboration between the Art Libraries Society of New York and Printed Matter, Inc., numerous institutions in New York City are offering panels, artists' presentations, and tours. MoMA hosts the keynote session, which features curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with artists Joseph Grigely and Rirkrit Tiravanija about new developments in the dynamic genre of artists' books and artworks that relate to the codex form. $10/$8/$5

For more information, please visit www.arlisny.org/cabc
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9751&ref=calendar

The Art of the 1990s: Oct 24

Catalysts and Critics: The Art of the 1990s
Friday, October 24, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Columbia University
Havemeyer Hall, Room 309 (Broadway at 116th Street)

An international roster of academics, critics, curators, gallerists, and collectors participate in this day-long session dedicated to the critical debate surrounding "relational aesthetics" as well as to the shared history of the artists featured in theanyspacewhatever. Organized by the Guggenheim Museum and presented with Columbia University School of the Arts.

Participants include: Alex Alberro, Claire Bishop, Ina Blom, Nicolas Bourriaud, Massimo de Carlo, Jose Falconi, Massimiliano Gioni, Nancy Spector, and Andy Stillpass

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

Night School Seminar 9: Natascha Sadr Haghighian

Night School Public Seminar 9: Natascha Sadr Haghighian
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Thursday, October 23, 2008, 7:30pm
Friday, October 24, 7:30pm
Saturday, October 25, 3pm

Natascha Sadr Haghighian works in the fields of video, performance, computer, and sound, and is primarily concerned with the sociopolitical implications of constructions of vision from a central perspective and with abstract events within the structure of industrial society, as well as with the strategies and returning circulations that become apparent in them.

Instead of a CV, Natascha Sadr Haghighian started bioswop.net, an Internet platform for CV-exchange where artists and other cultural practitioners can borrow and lend CVs for various purposes. The aim is to have more and more people exchanging their CVs for representational purposes. For more information go to bioswop.net

Copyright and the Digital Age: Oct 15

Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street


Aperture and The New School are pleased to present an important and timely discussion on essential issues of photography and copyright in a digital age. A current and burning issue since the Senate just passed a few days ago, The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Bill of 2008, designed to free up creative works for which no copyright holder can be located. The discussion will focus on what every working photographer today needs to know, engaging prominent experts to share their knowledge and different points of view. Panelists to include Nancy E. Wolff, lawyer and partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, who specializes in intellectual property and digital media law; Eileen Flanagan, licensing director of Magnum Photos and former national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals, with longstanding experience in the photo licensing business including Corbis, Getty Images, and the Chicago Historical Society; as well as photographer-turned-industry-advocate Lou Lesko. Moderated by Michelle Bogre, Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design.

This event is part of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography In Context.

www.newschool.edu/publicprograms

Carlos Motta: Oct 15

Wednesday, Oct 15, 3:15 pm - 5pm
Parsons, The New School for Design
6 Fifth Ave. Kellen Auditorium


Carlos Motta is a New York based artist whose work has been individually presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art,Philadelphia; Art in General, NY; and Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden. His was included in recent group exhibitions such as Convergence Center, Democracy in America, Creative Time at Park Avenue Armory, NY; The Greenroom, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Ours: Democracy in the Time of Branding, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, NY; and Soft Manipulation, Casino Luxemburg, Luxemburg. Motta is adjunct faculty in the MFA and BFA Photography department at Parsons. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2008.
www.carlosmotta.com; www.la-buena-vida.info
http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=1013

Perceptual Transformations: Oct 14

Perceptual Transformations
Tuesday October 14, 6:30 p.m.
The King Juan Carlos of Spain Center-NYU
53 Washington Square South

This multidisciplinary panel will focus on theories of perception, phenomenology, and the development of spectator participation in artworks such as Carlos Cruz-Diez' Cromosaturación and Pedro Reyes' Leverage.

Speakers includeNuit Banai (Art Historian), Marisa Carrasco (Chair of Psychology, New York University), Pedro Reyes (Artist) and Edward Sullivan, Moderator (Dean of Humanities, New York University)

This fall, Americas Society presents Carlos Cruz-Diez’s first solo show in a major U.S. cultural institution: Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color. Focusing on the relationship between color and perception, the exhibition will increase Cruz-Diez's visibility and appreciation in the United States, one of Latin America’s Kinetic Art masters.

Organized by the Americas Society in conjunction with the exhibition "Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color" and with the collaboration of the King Juan Carlos Center, New York University, and The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. This event is free and open to the public. Full listing details here

Susan Meiselas and Alfredo Jaar: Oct 8

Wednesday, October 8, 6:30 p.m.
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor

Coinciding with the long awaited reissue of Nicaragua, and the accompanying exhibition on view at the International Center of Photography, Aperture presents a special evening of conversation between internationally acclaimed photojournalist Susan Meiselas and artist and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar. Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and is renowned for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her widely-published documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Jaar emigrated from Chile at the height of Pinochet’s military dictatorship in 1981. His installations, photographs, films, and community-based projects bear powerful witness to military con­flicts, imbalances of power, and political corruption.

Note: This event also launches "Aperture Live", a new initiative to webcast and archive Aperture artist talks. http://www.aperture.org/live

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-single.aspx?id=441

Leslie Hewitt: Oct 8

The New School
66 Fifth Ave. Kellen Auditorium
Wednesday, Oct 8, 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Leslie Hewitt uses photography, sculpture and film to challenge the representation and organization of social meaning. Hewitt uses the camera as a tool to reposition ones view, subtly disrupting the window effect and expectations of a photographic document. She engages architectural space and the fragmentation of time through photographic and sculptural means. In exploring the “revolution embedded” in photography and film, her work addresses how cultural material is documented, classified and preserved.Hewitt was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions also include The High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX; Artists Space, New York; Sculpture Center, New York; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, D’Amelio Terras, New York; Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland and Thomas Dane, London, United Kingdom. (Ticket Price: free)

http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=1012

Bondell Cummings: Oct 7

Blondell Cummings
Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 5pm
The New School
Skybridge Art Space, Eugene Lang Building,
65 West 11th Street, 3rd floor

Blondell Cummings will lead a three-week workshop series titled ‘Meditations of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.’ The series will explore The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in a series of interdisciplinary workshops. Using observation and research materials from personal, local and global perspectives, human rights issues are explored through traditional and non-traditional approaches, partnerships and collaborations. Artists in all media and non-artists are invited to contribute and realize their ideas and points of view. The workshop concludes with a final meditative workshop open to the entire New School community. The residency will also include an exhibit on Blondell and her work in the Skybridge Gallery. Blondell Cummings is founder and artistic director of the Cycle Arts Foundation, a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural arts collaborative that focus on contemporary issues- social, political and personal, to bring the artist and audience to the poetics of the human condition and build community.

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=21750

David Ross: Oct 7

David Ross: In Real Time
Tuesday, October 7, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C

A conversation with David Ross and Suzanne Anker, chair, SVA BFA Fine Arts Department, on the function of the museum in the 21st century and what some consider the disconnect between what is happening in “real life” and the kinds of persuasions found in the art world. David Ross has played a prominent role in the museum world since 1971, serving as the director of both the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He recently opened a commercial gallery, Albion New York, an expansion of Albion London. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments.

Free and open to the public.
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2566