Web2.0 Activist Model Case Studies: Dec 17

Web2.0 Activist Model Case Studies
Wednesday, December 17, 7:30pm
The Change You Want To See Gallery
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

Over the past two years, Web 2.0 technologies have matured and so have the methods activists use to employ them. In 2008, activists from around the world used Web 2.0 to take command of the digital airwaves pioneering new forms of political mobilization. From Student's for a Free Tibet's live streamed protests in Beijing, to RNC protesters coordinating actions and monitoring police movements on Twitter to mass digital mobilizations for humanitarian relief and election protection, Web 2.0 is no longer just for social networking and fundraising.

This Wednesday, practitioners involved in the above campaigns will present case studies and highlight how they leveraged these tools to have broader reach and greater effectiveness. We’ll also delve into issues governing internal organization and communication among political actors, including: transparency vs. security; command and control vs. autonomous affinity groups, and the power of organizing without organizations vs. the tyranny of structurelessness.

This report back and skills share is intended to leave you with concrete ideas for how these models and tools could impact your work.

http://www.notanalternative.net/wordpress/wednesday-web-20-activism-case-studies

Also, live stream at 7:30pm EST at http://mogulus.com/notanalternative.

Martin Parr: Dec 16

Talk & Book Signing
Tuesday, December 16, 7:00 pm
Strand Bookstore , 828 Broadway

Martin Parr’s collections of photography books and postcards are world-renowned. Unbeknownst to many, he is also an obsessive collector of photographic and themed objects. Parr will discuss his luscious new two-volume set, Parrworld: Objects and Postcards (Aperture, 2008). While Objects is the first publication to document his twenty-five-plus years of such collecting, Postcards is the “last word” on an extraordinary collection of over twenty thousand cards. http://www.aperture.org

DIY Law-Breaking & Mischief Making: Dec 16

DIY Law-Breaking & Mischief Making
A Conversation about Rogue Artists, Pranksters and Other Trouble-Makers
Tuesday, December 16, 6:30 p.m.

Jeff Stark leads a conversation with Graffiti Research Lab's James
Powderly, the Mare Liberum collective, Jeanine Oleson, and Cḥen Tamir, exploring the rationale, responsibilities, risks and benefits of forms of artistic expression that occur outside of the boundaries of the conventional art world, and how these creative forms-such as interference, prank, and viral culture-serve to continually redefine those boundaries.

http://efa1.org/2008/12/04/diy-law-breaking/

Architecture in Contemporary Art: Dec 13

Representing Modernism: Architecture in Contemporary Art
Saturday, December 13th, 6:00 pm.
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, 6th floor

The panel will examine the role of modernist architecture in contemporary art, discussing ways in which artists use architectural modernism in their work and why such historical visual languages are relevant now. Is modernist architecture seen to provide examples of utopian experiments and politicized space, a catalogue of design references, or a way to examine issues of ideology, gender, and political aesthetics?

Representing Modernism: Architecture in Contemporary Art will bring together artists, architectural theorists, and practicing architects to discuss ways in which such strategies are pertinent for contemporary artists. The discussion's participants are Katarina Burin, Keller Easterling, Sarah Oppenheimer, Amie Siegel, and Thomas Tsang. Jess Atwood Gibson will moderate the discussion, which will be followed by a Q & A with the audience. More at www.adhocvox.com

Holiday Hackshop: Dec 13

Holiday Hackshop 2008
Saturday, December 13
1pm- 6pm
Eyebeam
540 West 21st St.

Calling all makers, residents, fellows, and friends … If you haven’t yet experienced everyone’s favorite holiday gift-making event, here’s the scoop: For one day and one day only, Eyebeam becomes an all-ages, mutl-workshop electronic craft-making fair, with entertainment, decorations and plenty of holiday spirit. Cost: Free.

http://www.eyebeam.org/about/about.php?page=calendar
http://theredproject.com/brightbike/

Documentary Photography and the Politics of Truth: Dec 12+13

What is Real: Documentary Photography and the Politics of Truth
Friday, December 12, 6:00–10:00 pm
Saturday, December 13, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
The Times Center, 242 West 41st Street

Join photographers, curators, historians, and journalists for a series of panels exploring contemporary trends in documentary practice. Participants include Ariella Azoulay, Geoffrey Batchen, Nayland Blake, Okwui Enwezor, Thomas Keenan, Thomas Y. Levin, Maria Lind, Susan Meiselas, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Brian Wallis, and others. $10/$5 for ICP members

For more information and to register, visit
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.886227/#real

Craft Hackers: Dec 12

Craft Hackers
Friday, Dec 12, 7:30 pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Craft Hackers is a panel discussion among artists who use crafting techniques to explore high-tech culture and the relationship between needlework and computer programming. Panelists include Cat Mazza, who translates moving images into stills knit in yarn; Christy Matson, who uses Jacquard Looms (some of the earliest computers) to knit landscape images from computer games; Ben Fino-Radin, whose witty needlepoint sculptures translate the World Wide Web into yarn and plastic, one pixel at a time; and Cody Trepte, whose embroidery of retired computer punch cards rekindles an old-fashioned love affair with the hand of the artist. $6 Members, $8 General Public

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/267

Dan Graham: Dec 11

Dan Graham, born in 1942, was a pioneer of performance and video art in the 70’s. He is a gallery owner, theorist, photographer, and installation artist. His work currently involves architecture designed for social interactions in public spaces. He is also a writer whose work ranges from conceptual art pieces inserted in mass-market magazines to pop culture analysis. He lives and works in New York.

http://events.nyu.edu/index.cgi?cmd=showevent&ncmd=list2week&cal=cal12,cal187&id=177645&ncals=&de=1&tf=0&sib=1&sb=0&sa=1&ws=1&stz=Default&sort=e,m,t&cat=&swe=1&cf=list&set=1&m=12&d=8&y=2008','500','500'

McKenzie Wark: Dec 11

50 Years of Recuperation: The Situationist International 1957-1972
Thursday, December 11, 7:15pm
16 Beaver Street

McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard UP 2004), Gamer Theory (Harvard 2007) and most recently 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International (Princeton Architectural 2008). He is th chair of Culture & Media Studies at Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Studies.

http://www.16beavergroup.org/monday/

WJT Mitchell: Dec 11

W.J.T. Mitchell: The Future of the Image
Thursday, December 11, 7pm
SVA, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

Scholar and theorist of media, art and literature W.J.T. Mitchell will discuss the work of Jacques Ranciere, a contemporary French philosopher whose writings on the relationship between contemporary art and politics have garnered much attention in the art world. Mitchell is a well-known figure in the fields of visual culture and iconology, a professor of English and art history at the University of Chicago and the editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry. 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=2671

Situated Technologies:The Colloquy of Things

Philip Beesley, Marc Böhlen, and Natalie Jeremijenko.
Moderated by Omar Khan
Thursday, December 11, 7pm
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue

A panel discussion organized in conjunction with the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series, the League's ongoing publication series exploring the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. The panel will explore the growing agency of natural and artificial "things," considering themes such as ambient intelligence, underspecification, responsiveness, and emergent ecologies. Free for League members; $10 non-members. To reserve or purchase tickets, or for more information, click here.

The third Situated Technologies pamphlet, Situated Advocacy, is currently available print-on-demand from Lulu.com. This special double issue features the essays "Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy," by Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey, and "Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces," by Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko. See website for more info: http://www.archleague.org/index-dynamic.php?show=828