Paintings/Photographs/Problems/Possibilities: Dec 15

Svetlana Alpers, James Hyde and Barney Kulok:
Paintings/Photographs/Problems/Possibilities
Tuesday, December 15, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Svetlana Alpers, James Hyde and Barney Kulok discuss their own work and a collective project entitled Painting Then For Now, a series of photographic prints. Alpers is an art historian, critic and artist whose books include The Vexations of Art: Velazquez and Others (Yale, 2005) and The Art of Describing (Chicago, 1983). Hyde is a multimedia artist whose work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Denver Art Museum. Kulok is a photographer whose recent solo exhibitions include Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC (2009) and Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris (2008). Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3189

Collier Schorr: Dec 11

Collier Schorr
Friday, December 11, 6:30 pm
A reception for Ms. Schorr will follow
Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street
Space is Limited. RSVP via email: ifa.events@nyu.edu
Please include “Schorr” in email subject

Collier Schorr combines aspects of documentary realism and staged fiction in order to explore the ambiguities of identity, whether sexual, national, or other. She is perhaps best known for her eighteen-year-long project, Forests & Fields, which offers an uncanny portrait of a small German town. Mainly, though not exclusively, acted out by adolescents, Schorr’s series rely on long lasting collaborations with her subjects in order to incorporate her own impressions of their history. More recently, Schorr has also turned her camera to objects and the landscape to explore notions of place and history, as well as more art historical concepts of arrangement and tableau. Although primarily associated with photography, Schorr has expanded into other mediums, including video, drawing, and installation.

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/index.htm

Bridge the Gap? 6: Dec 11

Bridge the Gap? 6
Friday, December 11 2009
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street

Participants
Ruben Coen Cagli / Neuroscience
Trisha Donnelly / Visual Art
Didier Fiuza Faustino / Architecture
Joan Jonas / Visual Art
Lisa Kaltenegger/ Astrophysics
Kazuo Okanoya / Cognitive Science
Damon Rich / Urban Design
Anri Sala / Visual Art
Kevin Slavin / Information Science

BRIDGE THE GAP? aims to create an ongoing forum between artists, scientists, designers and thinkers of the humanities in which ideas are exchanged and reciprocal stimulation and influence can occur. The first BTG?, held in 2001 in Kitakyushu (Japan) brought together 30 specialists from the arts, sciences and humanities (www.btgjapan.org); the second in took place in Milan, the third in Chiang Mai, the fourth in Kitakyushu/Shanghai and the fifth in Venice. Each event involved a profound change in scale and context of the BTG? format.

By making the coffee break a central forum and by enhancing the exchange between participants, BTG? poses the question concerning the necessity of actual and virtual salons now. BTG? proposes a non-linear, non-hierarchical approach to knowledge production – to go beyond the boundaries of disciplines and to overcome the fears of pooling knowledge. Classical conferences emphasized order and stability. In contrast, we now see fluctuations instability: the unpredictable. In non-equilibrium physics, you find various notions of unstable systems and the dynamics of unstable environments. Instead of certitudes, BTG? expresses connective possibilities. The field of reflection and discussion coming from the different perspective will begin to broaden, deepen and create the ground to work in collaboration.

http://www.storefrontnews.org/event_dete.php?eventID=109

The Projected Image: Dec 10

The Projected Image: Panel Discussion
Thursday, December 10, 7:00 pm
The New School Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
FREE

Aperture Foundation at The New School presents this panel discussion as part of the tenth season of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context. The Projected Image will explore the multiple ways in which contemporary artists have utilized projection and installation strategies to display still photographic images, creating immersive and cinema-like experiences in museum and gallery environments. Departing from the large-scale, tableau treatments of the photographic image printed and framed as wall-based objects, exemplified in works by Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, and Gregory Crewdson, in recent years contemporary artists have increasingly employed projection devices—ranging from analogue to digital high-definition—to display photographic images as immaterial light projections, often incorporating temporal and audiovisual elements that recall cinematic contexts yet retain distinctly photographic qualities.

Moderated by George Baker, associate professor of art history, UCLA; panelists include photographers Andrea Geyer, Paul Pfeiffer, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=613

Northern Light/Southern Light: Dec 11

Northern Light/Southern Light
Friday, December 11, 2009 7 PM
Whitney Museum

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s and Roni Horn’s explorations of natural light, Spencer Finch has organized this evening of demonstration and discussion, featuring architectural lighting designer Richard Renfro, artist Walead Beshty, and writer and critic Lytle Shaw, for a look at how artists and scientists play and experiment with light.

This event is free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6–9 pm. Advance reservations are recommended, as space is limited.

http://www2.whitney.org/Events/NorthernLightsSouthernLights

The Work of Stuart Sherman: Dec 8

Screening + Discussion
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 6:30 pm
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor

Please join EAI for a special evening devoted to the work of Stuart Sherman, featuring a conversation between playwright and director Richard Foreman and artist Paul Chan, moderated by Jay Sanders.The discussion will be preceded by a short screening program surveying Sherman's work in film, video, audio, and performance, introduced by Andrew Lampert of Anthology Film Archives.

http://www.eai.org/eai/publicProgramArtists.htm?id=133

Thinking in Type: Hoefler & Frere-Jones: Dec 8

Thinking in Type with Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Tuesday, December 8, 6:30pm
Cooper Hewitt

Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world’s foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography. Their body of work includes some of the world’s most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style. Hoefler and Frere-Jones will speak about their work and share some insight on the development of new fonts. Hoefler and Frere-Jones are 2009 National Design Award Finalists.

http://events.cooperhewitt.org/?date=2009-12

The Automobile in Silent Slapstick: Dec 9

Car Wreckers and Home Lovers: The Automobile in Silent Slapstick
A lecture by Karen Beckman
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 7:30pm
Light Industry
Tickets - $7, available at door.

This talk explores the function of the automobile gag through a close analysis of Harold Lloyd's Hot Water and Laurel and Hardy's Two Tars. As Beckman traces critical responses to these three very different comedians, she focuses in particular on Lloyd's (a.k.a. "Speedy"'s) association with the tempo of modernity in contrast to Laurel and Hardy's association with regression, slowness and retardation, qualities which in turn become associated by critics with misogyny and the specter of homosexuality. Revisiting these films and their reception, she explores the normative impulse of early film scholarship, and examines the queer potential of slow, stalled, crashing, and exploding cars.

http://lightindustry.org/wreckers

Charline von Heyl on Bruce Nauman

Charline von Heyl on Bruce Nauman
Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Dia:Chelsea
December 7,6:30pm

http://www.diaart.org/events/main/277

Elizabeth Diller: Nov 30

Elizabeth Diller: Pointless
November 30, 6:30pm
Columbia University GSAPP, Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

arch.columbia.edu/events

n+1: The Unfinished Work of Feminism Is Love: Nov 30

An evening with n+1: The Unfinished Work of Feminism Is Love
Monday, November 30th at 7:00pm
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street

Why can't feminists agree on love? We've gained equal rights and the right to "choose our choice," but what's left now for women? To be a women is to be conflicted. How do we reconcile sex and desire? Why is it that we can acknowledge the beauty and suffering caused by love, but to do so for sex only makes us seem vulnerable and less adventurous? What does love cost, in the most practical of terms, and can we afford it? Do we trade love for success? Children for ambition? What are the personal consequences of women leaving the workforce? Join Meghan O'Rourke, Carlene Bauer, Meghan Falvey, and Astra Taylor as they discuss what we can do for young women. n+1 editor-at-large Allison Lorentzen will moderate.

www.thekitchen.org
www.nplusonemag.com

Performing the Web: Nov 20 + 21

Performing the Web: JODI, Jeff Crouse, and Aaron Meyers
Friday, November 20, 8pm

Artist talk with JODI, Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers moderated by Marisa Olson
Saturday, November 21, 2pm

Both events take place at Eyebeam

As part of the citywide biennial performance art festival, PERFORMA 09, Eyebeam will present an event featuring media artists who "perform the web" - bringing together net art pioneers JODI with emerging artists from Eyebeam's studios, senior fellow Jeff Crouse and research associate Aaron Meyers. The event will highlight work that speaks to the speed of, and ruptures in, social media and user generated web platforms. The evening will feature Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers' high-energy, augmented reality game show, The World Series of 'Tubing; and JODI's The Folksomy Project, a performative audiovisual deconstruction of YouTube.

Installations of both group's work will also be on display November 19 - 21, 12-6PM. The installations will include sculptural objects and video projections that both describe and enhance the ideas behind the performances.

Learn more about the process behind the work in an artist talk with JODI, Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers moderated by Marisa Olson on Saturday, November 21 at 2PM.

http://eyebeam.org/events/performing-the-web-jodi-and-jeff-crouse-aaron-meyers

Philip Glass and Michio Kaku: Nov 20

Artist Talk with Philip Glass and Michio Kaku
Part of the 2009 Next Wave Festival
Friday, November 20, 6pm
BAM, Hillman Attic Studio

Minimalist pioneer composer Philip Glass turns to science with a new opera based on the life and work of Johannes Kepler, the founding father of modern astronomy. Science Channel presenter and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Beyond Einstein, joins in a conversation about superstrings and the sound of the cosmos. $10; $5 for Friends of BAM

http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1386

Roni Horn: Nov 18

Roni Horn in Conversation with Donna De Salvo
Wednesday, November 18, 7pm
Whitney Museum

For more than thirty years, Roni Horn has been developing work of concentrated visual power and intellectual rigor, often exploring issues of gender, identity, and androgyny. This evening, she speaks about her work and her mid-career survey with Donna De Salvo, Whitney chief curator and exhibition co-curator. Admission is $8 (free for Whitney members); $6 for senior citizens and students.

http://www.whitney.org/www/educational_programs/public_programs.jsp

Gutai and Transnationalism: Nov 18

Gutai: A “Concrete” Discussion of Transnationalism
Wednesday, November 18, 6:30 pm
Guggenheim Museum

Participants include Paul Jenkins, Alexandra Munroe, Ming Tiampo, Judith Rodenbeck, and Reiko Tomii.

Fifty-five years have passed since the Gutai Art Association (Gutai) was founded in the city of Ashiya, west of Osaka, in 1954. The group’s aspiration to “present concrete (gutai-teki) proof that our spirit is free” resulted in an amazing body of work, ranging from gestural abstraction to performances, outdoor and indoor installations to Conceptualism. Already in the 1950s, Gutai’s work prefigured many of the newest and most important tendencies of 1960s art. Their radical experimentalism was enabled and disseminated by leader Yoshihara Jirō’s engagement with the international art world. Using his extensive library and connections, he kept the group in dialogue with artists internationally, even bringing the group’s journal Gutai to the library of Jackson Pollock, among others.

Today, as the contemporary art world becomes more globalized, Gutai’s transnationalism feels even more compelling and relevant than before. In the panel, art historians working at the forefront of Gutai scholarship in a “concrete” manner will explore Gutai’s transnationalism.

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/adult-and-academic-programs/public-programs?option=com_calendar&task=showevent&mt=1258520400&mh=+%40+6%3A30%26nbsp%3Bp.m.&aid=3014

Allan McCollum: Nov 11

Allan McCollum
Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 pm
NYU Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
A reception for Mr. McCollum will follow.

Since rising to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s with his "Surrogate Paintings" and "Plaster Surrogates," Allan McCollum has continued to explore the ways in which objects acquire meaning in the world. His installations over the last three decades engage issues of originality, authorship, and exchange value, reflecting on the very systems and institutions of collection and display on which they rely. At the same time, McCollum’s manipulation and blurring of such binaries as handicraft and mechanical production, original and facsimile, and uniqueness and repetition, carry broader resonances that extend well beyond the realm of art.

Space is Limited. RSVP via email: ifa.events@nyu.edu. Please include “McCollum” in the subject line. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/index.htm

Andrea Zittel: Nov 11

Andrea Zittel
Energetic Accumulators and Ideological Resonators

Wednesday, November 11, 6:30- 8:30pm
Columbia University

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

Entitled "Energetic Accumulators and Ideological Resonators," the lecture will focus on Andrea Zittel's recent investigations of living space, objects and routines. It will offer us an inside look at her negotiations of the line between emancipation and restriction, and the creativity emerging from a reaction to constraints, bridging these concerns in art and life and seeing how problem solving and planning can result in a complex visual language.

arch.columbia.edu/events

1984-2001: Science Fiction Panel: Nov 8

1984-2001: Science Fiction
Sunday, November 8, 3-5pm
Smack Mellon
92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn

In response to the utopic and dystopic elements in Smack Mellon’s current exhibitions, Ad Hoc Vox has gathered together practitioners, critics, and scholars who have studied science fiction’s role in literature, film, and architecture to discuss what possibilities science fiction offers contemporary artists. The panel's participants are Ed Halter, Carrie Hintz, Geoff Manaugh, Brian Francis Slattery, and Deborah Taylor. Matt Borruso will moderate the panel, which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

For more information on this and past events, see adhocvox.org.

Elizabeth Peyton: Nov 5

SVA Distinguished Alumnus Lecture: Elizabeth Peyton
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Thursday, November 5, 7pm

Elizabeth Peyton is known for stylized portraits of her close friends, pop icons and European royalty and is often credited with the resurgence of figurative painting in the contemporary art world. In 2008, the New Museum of Contemporary Art organized a mid-career retrospective of her work “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton,” which has since traveled to Minneapolis, London and the Netherlands. Presented by the The Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts.

Free and open to the public
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3144

Wayne Gonzales: Nov 4

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Wayne Gonzales
Wednesday, November 4, 6:30 pm
Guggenheim Museum

Wayne Gonzales culls images from mass media, painting ambiguous and sometimes sinister scenes from a web of meticulous, nearly abstract brushstrokes.$5, FREE to members, students, staff of other museums with ID and RSVP

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/adult-and-academic-programs/public-programs?option=com_calendar&task=showevent&mt=1257310800&mh=+%40+6%3A30%26nbsp%3Bp.m.&aid=3008

Collaborative Fashion Design: Nov 4

Networked Design #2
BurdaStyle.com: The Road to Collaborative Fashion Design
Wednesday, November 4, 6:30pm
Parsons School of Design
2 W. 13th St., Orientation room lobby

The second event in Parsons' Networked Design series, curated by Eyebeam honorary resident Mushon Zer-Aviv, is a talk by Nora Abousteit and Benedikta Karaisl, founders of Burdastyle.com. They will share their experience of the past three years building an active creative community based on open source sewing. The BurdaStyle community consisting of over 260,000 registered members that uploaded almost 25,000 designs. BurdaStyle is a collaborative DIY fashion platform inspired by the open source philosophy: the sharing of intellectual property and allowing the public to adapt it to their specific needs. BurdaStyle encourages its members to remove copyright restrictions from their designs. These open source sewing patterns are free to be used as the basis for a new design that can later be sewed and even sold by other community members. Nora and Benedikta will share their attempts to balance between open collaboration and authorship—maintaining the relations and connections of each work and its modifications to the members who created it. They will share their stories, successes and failures attempting to enable a true networked design process by building a platform for sharing instructions and techniques for a creative community.

http://eyebeam.org/this-week/09-10-28/november-4-networked-design-2-with-burdastylecom-the-road-to-collaborative

Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner + Matthew Ritchie: Oct 31

Artist Talk with Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, and Matthew Ritchie
October 31, 6pm
BAM: Hillman Attic Studio
$8; $4 for Friends of BAM

Brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner of international indie rock fame The National, and British-born visual artist Matthew Ritchie, known for his kaleidoscopic, cosmological projects, have come together to introduce The Long Count. Their new collaboration will lend itself to a discussion on music, art, and genesis.
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1264

The Long Count, Part of the 2009 Next Wave Festival, will be performed at BAM on October 28, 30 & 31 at 8pm. The stage has been designed by Matthew Ritchie and the show is a music / theater piece that merges the Mayan creation myth with Bryce and Aaron's experience growing up as twins in Cincinnati, OH during the era of the Cincinnati Reds Big Red Machine. The production consists of 70 minutes of music composed by Bryce and Aaron and played by an 11 piece ensemble as well as Bryce and Aaron. Guest vocalists Kim and Kelley Deal (The Breeders, The Pixies), Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), and Matt Berninger (The National) round out the line-up in this visionary collaboration between music and art. In addition, David Sheppard will be creating live audio loops and surround sound audio effects throughout the performance. http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1263

A bonus for Hot Art Action readers! The song "Bull Run" featuring vocals by Kelley Deal is available for free download here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ulk1bq

Sylvere Lotringer on Paul Virilio: Oct 29

Sylvere Lotringer: Paul Virilio: The Itinerary of Catastrophe
Thursday, October 29, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street

Writer and cultural theorist Sylvere Lotringer will give a talk on philosopher Paul Virilio’s proposition of speed and catastrophe as the generative principle of contemporary society, following a screening of The Itinerary of Catastrophe, a filmed conversation with Virilio. Lotringer is professor emeritus at Columbia University, where he founded the influential journal Semiotext(e). He is the co-author of Pure War (Semiotext(e), 1983) and Crepuscular Dawn (Semiotext(e), 2002) and the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007). 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=3120

The Institute for Aesthetic Research: Oct 28+ Nov 4, 11, 18

The Institute for Aesthetic Research
Wednesdays, 6-8pm
October 21, 28 and November 4, 11, 18
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave

As part of America for Sale, artists Daniel Lichtman and David Baumflek will host The Institute for Aesthetic Research (IAR) - a program of public events, talks and discussions focused on Art, Economics and Institutional Critique. They will attempt to translate the traditional role of the “think tank” into the sphere of cultural production and visual art. As the traditional think tank situates itself between the academy, special interests and government, the IAR will consider how to place itself critically within the circuits of distribution and legitimization of aesthetic objects and ideas. The IAR will itself be an experiment in the dynamics of cultural-political discourse. These five weekly meetings will culminate in a collectively-produced publication that explores the possibilities of cultural production in contestation, or outside the realm of Neoliberalism. Organized by David Baumflek and Daniel Lichtman

October 28: Timothy Murray and Renate Ferro will discuss how politically-minded new media of the 1990s and early 2000s have been co-opted by advanced strategies of viral marketing on the web.

November 4: John Baldachinno will discuss art, pedagogy and politics in contemporary art practice.

November 11: Ethan Spigland will screen SHALLOW, a film he and collaborator Malcom McLaren produced. A discussion will follow.

November 18: Organizers David Baumflek and Daniel Lichtman will lead a discussion on the entries submitted by local and internet-based participants for the IAR publication. Audience members will contribute to a discussion in editing and finalizing the publication. Adam Simon will facilitate the discussion.

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

Emre Huner and Lauren Cornell: Oct 28

Emre Huner and Lauren Cornell
Wednesday, October 28, 6:30 pm
apexart, 291 Church Street

Emre Huner, current apexart resident, and Lauren Cornell, Executive Director Rhizome, will discuss utopian constructs, speculative fiction, and the juggernaut of modernism. In their conversation they will touch upon the inspirations for Huner's latest work from the New York World's Fair, to the NASA Space Program, and Walt Disney.

http://www.apexart.org/events/huner.htm

Lorna Simpson: Oct 27

Lorna Simpson
Tuesday, October 27, 7pm
Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Fl

Simpson was first known in the mid-eighties for confronting and challenging conventional views toward gender, identity, culture, history, and memory with her large-scale, formally elegant, and subtly provocative photographic and textual works. Simpson uses the image of 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. Recently, she has turned her attention to moving images; in film and video works such as Call Waiting, Simpson presents individuals engaged in intimate and enigmatic elliptical conversations that elude easy interpretation while addressing the mysteries of both identity and desire. Her newest works include figurative drawings of characters from her video works and a collection of drawings of women's heads, turned in profile to reveal their various hairstyles. Simpson is currently creating installations involving found vintage photographs accompanied by her own drawings and new photography.

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

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=36458

Blind Handshake: Oct 27

Tuesday, October 27, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public

In a panel moderated by Gloria Kury, David Humphrey, Geoff Kaplan and Molly Nesbit will discuss their collaboration on two 2009 books about contemporary art--Humphrey’s Blind Handshake and Nesbit’s Midnight, The Tempest Essays. Kury is an art historian who has taught at Yale and SVA, and is the founder and director of Periscope Publications; Humphrey is a writer and visual artist who is a recipient of the Rome Prize and a senior critic at the Yale School of Art; Kaplan is a graphic designer at the General Working Group and teaches at California College of the Arts; and Nesbit is a professor of art at Vassar College and the J. Kirk T. Varnedoe Visiting Professor of 2007 at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Presented by the BFA Visual and Critical Studies and MFA Design Criticism Departments.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3118

Contemporary African Art Since 1980: Oct 27

Tuesday, October 27, 6pm
NYPL: Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Room 227)
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street

Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu's Contemporary African Art Since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of contemporary African artists, working either in or outside of Africa. Its focus is on historical transitions: from the end of the 1960s postcolonial utopias during the 1980s to the geopolitical, economic, technological, and cultural shifts incited by globalization. Enwezor, a leading curator and scholar of contemporary art, and Okeke-Agulu, Assistant Professor of Art and Archeology and African American Studies at Princeton University, are editors of NKa Journal of Contemporary African Art.

http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/eventdesc.cfm?id=5836

Bill Viola: Oct 27

Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture: Bill Viola
Tuesday, October 27 7 pm
Whitney Museum

A pioneer in the medium of video art, Bill Viola has been instrumental in establishing video as a vital form of contemporary art. Often drawing on religious iconography and historical narratives, Viola’s work exhibits a simple and elegant beauty that exceeds the complex technology of its presentation. As he states, “It only takes an instant for an impression to become a vision.” In this fifth Annenberg Lecture, Viola will speak about his work in conversation with Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director.

Admission is free, but registration is required. Seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

http://www.whitney.org/www/educational_programs/public_programs.jsp

Creative Survival Skills: Oct 27

Artist at the Helm: Creative Survival Skills for Navigation
Tuesday, October 27th, 6:30 – 8pm
CUE Art Foundation, 511 West 25th Street

As the art world transforms itself, artists find they must adapt to societal changes in order to persevere. Once upon a time, one could network by walking into a gallery with a portfolio in hand or by attending exhibition openings– but today, the story is much more complex. For that reason, a guided roundtable discussion bringing together emerging and established artists and art organizers (i.e curators and media professionals) will provide a platform for sharing anecdotes and advice on surviving in this ever-changing system. While the more seasoned speakers may bring forth traditional methods, the younger participants can offer their understanding of cutting edge practice. Artists at all stages in their careers serve to benefit from first hand accounts and insights into how to promote oneself today through creative and timely means of networking and audience development. Focus will be placed on methods for resource sharing, the effectiveness of web verses “real world” strategies, and the importance of community building for the endurance of an artist’s livelihood.

Speakers include Gema Alava, Colleen Asper, Jennifer Dudley, Pablo Helguera, Paddy Johnson, Paul Laster, Trong Nguyen, Christina Ray, and Joshua Selman.

http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/26/art-fag-city-at-cue-foundation-tomorrow/

Branding the New Deal: Oct 26

Branding the New Deal
Monday, October 26, 7:30pm (free /by donation)
The Change You Want To See Gallery
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn
and live-streamed at http://livestream.com/notanalternative

The Change You Want To See Gallery continues its series on Symbols, Branding and Persuasion with an exploration of branding in the context of electoral and legislative politics. The evening will start with a presentation by media theorist Stephen Duncombe, author of Dream: Reimagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy and the forthcoming Branding the New Deal. Afterward Jessica Teal, design manager for the Obama 2008 presidential campaign will join Duncombe for a conversation via video skype.

Like it or not, propaganda and mass persuasion are part of modern democratic politics. Many progressives today have an adverse reaction to propaganda: ours is a politics based in reason and rationality, not symbols and fantasy. Given our last administration’s fondness for selling fantasies as reality, this aversion to branding, marketing and propaganda is understandable. But it is also naïve. Mass persuasion is a necessary part of democratic politics, the real issue is what ethics it embodies and which values it expresses.

Looking critically at how the Roosevelt Administration tried to “brand” the New Deal and how the Obama campaign leveraged principles of marketing and advertising gives us an opportunity to think about different models of political persuasion.

Upcoming in this series:
Monday, Nov 2, 7:30pm–9:30pm: author Carrie McLaren and artist Steve Lambert
Thursday, Nov 5, 7:30-9:30pm: consultant Loid Der workshop on branding

http://thechangeyouwanttosee.com/blog/symbols-branding-and-persuasion-an-art-politics-presentation-series

An Evening with Bidoun: Oct 26

An Evening with Bidoun
Monday, October 26, 7pm
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th St
Free

This evening of texts and images, evocations and echoes draws from Bidoun's recent INTERVIEWS issue and its forthcoming NOISE issue. Created in 2004, Bidoun is dedicated to commissioning original writing on the visual arts, architecture, film, and music, as well as producing artist projects from, in, and around the Middle East region. The magazine is published in New York; edited in Dubai, Cairo, and New York; and distributed worldwide. For more information, visit www.bidoun.com.

http://www.thekitchen.org/

Artist-Led Tours of Kandinsky

Eye to Eye: Artist-Led Tours of Kandinsky
Guggenheim Museum
$25, $20 members, students

Monday, October 19 @ 6:30pm: R. Luke DuBois
Monday, November 9 @ 6:30pm: R. Luke DuBois
Monday, December 7 @ 6:30pm: Julie Mehretu
Tuesday, December 8 @ 6:30pm: assume vivid astro focus
Wednesday, December 9 @ 6:30pm: assume vivid astro focus

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. His recent work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. A practitioner of synesthesia, DuBois will relay the correspondence between painter Vasily Kandinsky and composers Arnold Schoenberg and Alexander Scriabin while inviting the audience to experience an interpretive landscape of sound. A reception follows the tour.

Celebrated for her large-scale paintings and abstract drawings, Julie Mehretu’s recent work explores the intersections of power, history, and the built environment and their impact on the formation of personal and transcommunal identities.

An evolving artist collective of nomads born anytime between the 20th and 21st centuries in various parts of the world, assume vivid astro focus (avaf) is known for creating ambitious and immersive installations that engage the architecture, culture, and history of their exhibition venues to create an enjoyably interactive art experience. Their work includes both two-dimensional and sculptural elements that often feature performance, music, dance, and video.

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/adult-and-academic-programs/public-programs

What is the Good of Work?: Oct 17

Talk with Marysia Lewandowska and Peter Fleming
Saturday, October 17, 4pm
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery)

What is the good of work? How and why did the future change from the sixties and seventies vision of a leisure society to an exhausting life of increasingly purposeless work? What are the implications of the shift from a Fordist model of production to a post-Fordist one? Why is work valorized in contemporary society? What happened to the critique of labor and its radical potential from the Middle Ages up through the strategies of the Situationists and others? As unemployment becomes an increasing reality, how might we think of unemployment as an artistic and philosophical category?

These questions will be examined during four events at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building in the East Village. Each event will involve two guests–one artist and one cultural producer of another kind. Marysia Lewandowska and Peter Fleming will be the guests at the first event on October 17. Wyoming Evenings is organized by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and curated by Maria Lind and Simon Critchley.

Events to follow in this series:
Saturday, December 5 (2009): Marion von Osten and Tom McCarthy
Saturday, January 30 (2010): Liam Gillick and Gianni Vattimo
Saturday, March 13 (2010): Carles Guerra and Michael Hardt

Tickets ($10) for this event can be purchased at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82568 Series tickets ($35) for all four events can be purchased at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82573

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/kue/bku/en5032925v.htm

Amphibious Architecture: Oct 16

David Benjamin, Soo-in Yang, and Natalie Jeremijenko
Friday, October 16, 7pm
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue

Presented as part of the public program series organized in conjunction with the Architectural League’s fall 2009 exhibition Toward the Sentient City.

David Benjamin, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Soo-in Yang will talk about the interconnected ecosystems of land and water, and the potential overlap between social networks of fish, people, and buildings. “Amphibious Architecture,” their project for the League’s exhibition Toward the Sentient City, creates a public interface to water quality and aquatic life of urban rivers, and our interest therein. For more information about Amphibious Architecture and the exhibition, visit the exhibition website.

Tickets are required for admission to League programs. Tickets are free for League members; $10 for non-members.

http://archleague.org/2009/10/amphibious-architecture/

Iannis Xenakis: Interdisciplinary Connections: Oct 16

Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Friday, October 16, 7pm

In conjunction with Miller Theatre's "Composer Portrait" of Iannis Xenakis on October 17, a consortium of artists and experts join together for a panel discussion focusing on the interdisciplinary connections between Xenakis's music and related work as a mathematician, architect, physicist, and political activist. Panelists include composer David Lang; musicologist and Xenakis biographer Sharon Kanach; Mark Wigley, Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; and Steven Schick, percussionist and conductor. Program is subject to change.

http://www.drawingcenter.org/events_public_01.cfm
http://www.millertheatre.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?nid=1346

Toward "Anarchitecture": Oct 16

Toward "Anarchitecture":
A Conversation between Architects and Artists
Friday, October 16, 6-8pm
The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place
Free for members; $10 for non-members

Moderator: Farnaz Mansuri, AIA, De-Spec
Speakers: David Ruy (Architect), Ferda Kolatan (Architect), Oscar Tuazon (Artist), Bill Menking (Editor, The Architect's Newspaper)
This is the second lecture in a multi-part fall series organized by the AIA NY New Practices Committee.

http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=1110

Robert Frank: Oct 9

An Evening with Robert Frank
Friday, October 9, 6pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Robert Frank, born in Switzerland in 1924, is one of the great living masters of photography. In a rare New York City appearance, he will discuss with curators Jeff L. Rosenheim and Sarah Greenough his career in photography and film and the conception, execution, and response to his ground-breaking book of photographs, The Americans, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. STANDING ROOM TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE AT THE BOX OFFICE BEGINNING ONE HOUR PRIOR TO THE EVENT. ($23.00)

http://www.metmuseum.org/tickets/calendar/view.asp?id=2894

Allan McCollum + Josiah McElheny: Oct 6

Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny
art:21 Artists in Conversation
Tuesday, October 6, 6pm
New York Public Library
South Court Auditorium, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street

Join Season 5 artist Allan McCollum and Season 3 artist Josiah McElheny, in conversation as they explore ideas central to their work and art practice. Premiering Allan McCollum’s segment from the upcoming Art:21 episode Systems, the conversation begins with an investigation of the artist’s past work and continues with a presentation of some of McElheny’s recent projects as well as consider themes such as memory, systems, language, production, and installation.The event is free and open to the public. Seating is provided on a first come, first serve basis.

http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=4729

Unmarketable and the Unlympics: Oct 6

Anne Elizabeth Moore
Unmarketable and the Unlympics
Tuesday, October 6, 7-10pm
Bluestockings Radical Books
172 Allen Street

Unmarketable (The New Press, 2007) is a powerful critique of corporate marketing's appropriations of and alliances with the cultural underground. Author Anne Elizabeth Moore interviews the perpetrators, victims, and not-so-innocent bystanders of phenomena both hilarious and troubling to examine the underground's changing relationship to the commercialized world and its impact on activism and integrity.

Presentation begins with short documentary on the Unlympics, a recent series of creative sporting events held in resistance to Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid, backed by infamous PR firm Hill & Knowlton.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=829069488#/event.php?eid=153219827632&index=1

James Welling and Jan Dibbets: Oct 5

Conceptual Art and Photography: James Welling in Conversation with Jan Dibbets
Monday, October 5, 2009, 6:30pm
MoMA, Theater 3
Cullman Education and Research Building
$10/8/5

Many artists include photography in their work, but they very often do so using a non-traditional approach. Dutch artist Jan Dibbets does not consider himself a photographer, although he has used the process extensively in his conceptually based work since the 1960s. James Welling, on the contrary, manipulates many of the technical elements of the medium, like light filters, and turns others, such as screens and gelatin, into the subjects of his work. Following an introduction by Anne Rorimer, independent scholar and curator, the artists discuss their varying approaches to conceptual art and photography with Christophe Cherix, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/7160

Greenpoint’s Rooftop Farms: Oct 5

Pie in the Sky: All About Greenpoint’s Rooftop Farms
Annie Novak
Monday, October 5, 7:30pm
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn

New York City is a Farmer's Paradise! Just as Annie Novak, one of the masterminds behind Greenpoint's Rooftop Farms, a 6,000 square foot organic farm picture-esquely plopped on top of a warehouse overlooking Midtown Manhattan. Her operation--founded in partnership with Ben Flanner, a neophyte to farming, and Goode Green, a green-roofing specialist--currently produces produce for a host of Brooklyn gourmandizers, including Anella and Marlow and Sons. They even run a farm stand featuring fresh picked produce every Sunday! Come hear how this urban Agronomist tells us the unlikely story of how she did it--and learn how you can too!

http://www.petescandystore.com/open%20city%20dialogue/ocd.html

Dan Graham Roundtable: Oct 1

Dan Graham: Beyond
Thursday, October 1 at 7 pm
Whitney Museum

Scholars, critics, and artists join Dan Graham for a roundtable conversation about his inimitable contributions to performance, music, and architecture.

Admission is $8 (free for Whitney members); $6 for senior citizens and students. Tickets available online here: http://www.whitney.org/www/educational_programs/public_programs.jsp

Robin Winters: Oct 1

Robin Winters
Thursday, October 1, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public

Multimedia artist Robin Winters works in painting, printmaking, performance, glass and installation and is the co-founder of the artist cooperative Colab. His artwork can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Stedelijk and Boymans museums in the Netherlands, and he has collaborated with artists including Kathy Acker, Gregory Corso, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin and Kiki Smith.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3103

Between Accuracy and Aesthetic: Oct 1

Between Accuracy and Aesthetic:
Documentary Photography, Photojournalism and Social Photographic Practices in the 1970s and 1980s
Thursday, October 1, 6:30pm
NYU: King Juan Carlos of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South

Speakers: Sagrario Berti (Photography Historian), Susan Meiselas (Photographer), and Luis Roldán (Visual Artist).Moderator: Gabriela Rangel (Director and Curator, Visual Arts Department Americas Society).

Like many important photographers in Latin America included in the landmark exhibition Image and Memory, Fernell Franco (Cali, 1942-2006) made a living as a photojournalist. Franco developed an outstanding body of work, among them notably the Amarrados series, in which a lyrical composition of the image suspends the objectivity of the medium. Members of this panel are invited to discuss documentary photo practices in the 1970s and 1980s which eroded distinctions between truth and fiction, drama and objectivity. Open to the public and free of charge. To reserve for this program, visit http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=637

Stuart Ewen: Mind Games & Activism: Oct 1

Mind Games & Activism:
Marketing, Persuasion and the Myth of the Hardwired Public
Stuart Ewen
Thursday, October 1, 7:30pm
The Change You Want To See Gallery
84 Havemeyer St, @ Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn
And live-streamed at http://livestream.com/notanalternative

The intersection of semiotics and psychoanalysis has proven fruitful terrain for PR professionals, advertisers, politicians, and other types of leaders. Over the course of a century those whose job it is to persuade the public have increasingly abandoned appeals to rationale in favor of appeals to emotion. Instead of trying to persuade with text and reason, they use imagery and symbols to appeal to instinct and emotion. Ewen will tour us through the history of "spin", propaganda, and the role of images in consumerism, mass psychology, politics, social movements, cultural attitudes, and consumption. PR is a battle to define reality, and how people see and understand that reality. In this presentation, we will explore what it means to do battle armed with the tools of persuasion.

Ewen will build on ideas from his book, PR! A Social History of Spin, and from Adam Curtis’s BBC series, “Century of the Self,” which was loosely based on that book. Ewen will also draw on ideas from his current research for a book to be entitled The Phantom of Certitude: The Folklore of Science in Con temporary Culture. This new work is a critical exploration of the powerful influence of scientific fundamentalism that has been expanding for more than a century and has become a growing fixation in the wake of new genetic and neuroscientific research into the molecular biological mechanisms that allegedly shape and drive all human thought and behavior.

Free/ by donation
http://thechangeyouwanttosee.org

"Strategic Reality Dictionary": Sept 29

Strategic Reality Dictionary
Konrad Becker
Book launch, lecture and reception
Tuesday, September 29, 7pm
Eyebeam

Join Eyebeam for the release of Konrad Becker's Strategic Reality Dictionary. Becker will present a compelling slideshow that seeks to define the terms by which hacktivists and tactical media practitioners like Critical Art Ensemble and the Yes Men infiltrate and subvert the global information system.

"Strategic Reality Dictionary (Autonomedia, 2009) offers seventy-two keys to the construction, imposition and maintenance of contemporary systems of inclusion and exclusion, which only function for two principle reasons: because of stealth, and because they are able to engineer our own unconscious beliefs." (Brian Holmes)

http://eyebeam.org/events/strategic-reality-dictionary-book-launch-and-presentation

Joel Meyerowitz: Sept 29

Joel Meyerowitz
Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks
Artist's Talk and Book Signing
Tuesday, September 29, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor

This body of work is the result of a unique commission Meyerowitz received from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document, interpret, and celebrate one of the city's greatest legacies: nearly nine thousand acres of parks in the five boroughs. Meyerowitz is the first photographer to document New York City's parks since the 1930s, when they were photographed as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's WPA program. An exhibition of this series will open this fall at the Museum of the City of New York.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=580

David Salle: Sept 29

David Salle in Conversation with Karen Lang
Tuesday, September 29, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Artist David Salle is a figurative painter whose works are in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as many other institutions around the world. He will be in conversation with educator and art historian Karen Lang, who is an associate professor of art history at the University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and the author of Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History (Cornell University Press, 2005). Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3045

Kara Walker: Sept 25+26

A Proposition by Kara Walker:
The object of Painting is the subjugated Body. The Painter is the colonizing entity. How do Paintings understand the concept of liberty? And who will teach them?
Friday, September 25, 7pm
Saturday, September 26, noon
New Museum theater

Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Inspired by the scientific method of hypothesis, research, and synthesis, each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a seminar session, these developing ideas are presented to the public, responded to, “researched,” and discussed to propel the ideas forward in unique ways.

The structure of Propositions is as follows:
Friday, 7:00 PM – Initial proposition and lecture
Saturday, 12:00 PM – Guest speaker responds, followed by a lunch break
Saturday, 3:00 PM – Discussion

Photo by Jaya Howey
http://www.newmuseum.org/events/368

Goodbye Waterpod: Sept 26+27

Waterpod's Final Weekend
World's Fair Marina
Flushing, Queens
http://www.thewaterpod.org/

Saturday, September 26
1pm: Christopher Robbins & Douglas Paulson: Jerry-Rigging 101: Build your own boat from urban detritus / Knot tying
(bring stuff that might float)
2pm-5pm: Artist Hector Canonge's Latitude S. public workshop.
7pm: Latitude S. media projections
3pm: Secret School and the K.I.D.S. host a "Wild Tea Party": A workshop on making jam and tea from foraged wild edible fruit
4pm: Lecture with Terreform founders Maria Aiolova and Mitchell Joachim discusing The Future of the Carborexic City
6pm-8pm: Jérémie Gindre and Frédéric Post, special art ceremony in-progress sculpture with sound performance, co-curated by Espace Kugler

Sunday, September 27: Goodbye Waterpod
11am-11pm: "I Remember Future": All day Goodbye Waterpod™ Party in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art (Trolley Service from QMA to Waterpod™)
12pm: Barbara Flanagan talks about the future of water and her new book Flanagan’s Smart Home: 98 Essentials for Starting Out, Starting Over, or Scaling Back. (Workman, 2009) lecture and book signing
1pm: Christopher Robbins & Ian Warren: Making portable gardens, cereal banks (D.I.Y. protectionism) and food preservation
3pm: Cassie Thornton presents Barter System Beauty Salon: Get your palm read and your nails did
4pm: Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Response Systems
6pm-8pm: Lauren Rosati organizes an evening of sound and sea vessels with artist Dylan Gauthier and artist David Gatten
4pm-11pm: James Case Leal's Ascend Planetarium video installation in the great dome and broadcast installation at the Queens Museum of Art
8pm- Midnight: Live Performances by Black Swan Green and MNDR and DJ Trent of WFMU

Birth and Rebirth of a Nation: Sept 26

Birth and Rebirth of a Nation
Saturday, September 26, 10am-7:30pm
The New School
Tishman Auditorium, Johnson/Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th St
Free: reservations recommended

Birth and Rebirth of a Nation considers current issues of race and representation in the media and beyond. D.W. Griffith’s notorious white supremacist manifesto is discussed in the context of contemporary developments in an attempt to reconcile the racial imagination of the average American of today with that of the average American of less than a century ago, when The Birth of a Nation was the most popular film of the day. Speakers analyze recent scholarship on racism in the period of the film and examine the film’s legacy and continuing impact. How do we think critically about the contested notion of a “post-racial” America as we look back at history? How has the social, political, and cultural context that created The Birth of a Nation transformed over time? Organized on occasion of the Vera List Center's 2009–2010 program theme, Speculating on Change.

10:00 a.m.—1:00 p.m.
Screening of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915), b/w & color, silent, 180 minutes. Original sound score and live accompaniment by Michael Stein, introduced by New School Jazz faculty member Sonny Kompanek.

2:00—5:00 p.m.
Colloquium. Speakers include Douglas A. Blackmon, David Blight, Bill Gaskins, Margo Jefferson, Michelle Materre, Assistant Professor, Miriam J. Petty, and Michele Wallace.

6:00—7:30 p.m.
Screening of DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation (2002), color, sound, 90 minutes. A critical revision of Griffith’s historic film, followed by Q & A with filmmaker Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid).

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=30974

Ger van Elk, Allen Ruppersberg, and Lawrence Weiner: Sept 24

Between Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and New York:
A Roundtable with Ger van Elk, Allen Ruppersberg + Lawrence Weiner
Thursday, September 24, 6:30pm
MoMA, Theater 3, Cullman Education and Research Building

This conversation examines the international networks that developed among Conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s. Three such artists—Ger van Elk, Allen Ruppersberg, and Lawrence Weiner—focus the discussion on their respective cities of Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and New York, each of which served as a major center of artistic production at the time. Christophe Cherix, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976, moderates the discussion.

Tickets ($10; members, corporate members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) are available online, or at the Museum at the lobby information desk or the Film desk.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/7158

Michael Smith: Sept 24

The Art of Blandman
Thursday, September 24, 7pm
New Museum

Throughout his career, Michael Smith’s original approach to video, installation, and performance has broken artistic ground—albeit subtly. Steering away from the transgressive actions associated with avant-garde performance, Smith employs the idioms of popular entertainment and comedy to critique culture at large. His eponymous alter ego Mike, who is known for pathologically banal behavior, sends up cultural normalcy and spotlights the ways people consume ideas and lifestyles marketed to them. For this event, New Museum Adjunct Curator and Rhizome Executive Director Lauren Cornell will talk with Smith about his use of comedy, both as a way to engage and quantify audience response and to generate new work. Their conversation will cut through Smith's expansive body of work by focusing on pieces that have been exhibited at the New Museum, including Down in Rec Room, shown in “Not just for Laughs: The Art of Subversion” in 1981; Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snackbar (made in collaboration with Alan Herman), shown in “The End of The World” in 1983; and Open House, a site-specific installation by Smith and Joshua White created for the New Museum in 1999.

(Photo credit: Mike: circa 1979, Photo: Kevin Noble)
http://www.newmuseum.org/events/367

Damon Rich: Sept 17

“Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center”
Thursday, September 17, 6:30pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Damon Rich's exhibition "Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center" at the Queens Museum of Art has been characterized by conversation and public engagement--from town hall meetings held citywide in neighborhoods affected by the foreclosure epidemic, to the graphics, models, videos and archival materials that explore home finance from the Great Depression to the Subprime Meltdown, to the museum's famed "Panorama of the City of New York" onto which the “Red Lines” team mapped New York City’s 2008 foreclosure filings. At Studio-X, artist Damon Rich will discuss these experiences with QMA curator Larissa Harris, who commissioned the show at The Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, and QMA Director of Public Events Prerana Reddy, who organized events around the exhibition alongside a broad array of arts-oriented programming that imagines the museum as a space for community development and social change. "Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center" will be on view at the Queens Museum of Art through September 27th.

Free and open to the public. RSVP: gdb2106[@]columbia[dot]edu.

Fernell Franco Curatorial Talk: Sept 17

Fernell Franco Curatorial Talk: Maria Iovino and Melissa Harris
Thursday, September 17, 6pm
Americas Society 680 Park Avenue, New York

Guest curator Maria Iovino aims to introduce viewers in the United States to Fernell Franco: a photographer who blurred the boundaries between art and photojournalism, and whose work disseminated the use of the medium into contemporary artistic practices in Colombia. For Iovino, Franco "reveals an unedited aspect of the abrupt and violent processes in which modernity was developed in Latin American countries and the periphery." The exhibition "Fernell Franco: Amarrados [Bound]" runs until December 12, 2009.

http://tinyurl.com/lqcysn

Waterpod:Sept 18

Friday, September 18, 2:00pm
Waterpod
World’s Fair Marina Flushing, Queens

As part of Conflux Festival, the Waterpod™ team will tour the on-board closed system, and explore the process of the Waterpod™ from its inception to the possibilities for the future. They will talk about the decision-making behind Waterpod™, how is was built and how it works, the choices made by the residents in their daily lives onboard Waterpod™, and the possibilities for the future of Waterpod™ and Waterpods.

For more information, directions, and a full list of events, please visit www.thewaterpod.org.

Post-Crisis Aesthetics: Sept 18

Post-Crisis Aesthetics
Friday, September 18, 7pm
SVA, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

A panel discussion exploring how the economic crisis has affected the production and display or art. The panelists are Richard Flood, chief curator of the New Museum; Anton Kern, gallerist, Anton Kern Gallery; and Josh Baer, writer and art adviser, The Baer Faxt. Moderated by Peter Duhon, director of programming, ATOA and director, Art Comments.

Admission is free for SVA students, faculty, staff and ATOA members; $7 regular admission; $3 for SVA alumni, non-SVA students and seniors. RSVP to atoarsvp@gmail.com.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3040

Mandela’s Ego: Sept 18

Mandela’s Ego
Friday, September 18, 7pm
New Museum

Members of South Africa’s Generation X speak about the intricacies of post-coloniality. Expect complicated ambiguities as the panelists MC Lee-Ursus Alexander, Dineo Bopape, Hlonipha Mokoena, and Gabi Ngcobo present alternative perspectives on art, music, literature, masculinities, and football!

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/357

Conflux Festival: Sept 17-20

Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment. All events are open to the public. Admission to Conflux is a $5 Suggested Donation. To see the timeline of events, please view the full schedule here: http://confluxfestival.org/2009/events/.

Charles Traub: Sept 17

Charles Traub
September 17, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

Photographer and chair of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department Charles Traub will be speaking about his recent monograph of color photography In the Still Life and his forthcoming book, Still Life in America: Looking at US. Traub cites the road and the street as his muses, and his work explores irony and humor inherent in the human condition. Presented by The Camera Club of New York. A book signing will follow the lecture. Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty and staff; General admission $10, $5 for other students with ID.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3101

Words Without Pictures: Sept 17

Words Without Pictures Panel Discussion
September 17, 7pm
The New School
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

Aperture Foundation at The New School presents this panel discussion as part of the Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context series. This event is the first in series VI, celebrating the launch of the innovative Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) book project Words Without Pictures, which documents roughly one year of conversations about the most pressing issues shaping contemporary photography.

Featuring moderator Charlotte Cotton, curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, LACMA; and panelists Alex Klein, artist and Curatorial Fellow in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, LACMA; Matt Keegan, artist and editor of North Drive Press; David Reinfurt, graphic designer and co-founder of Dexter Sinister; Denise Wolff, Aperture Editor, plus special guests!

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=578

Dave Hickey: Sept 17

Dave Hickey: The God Ennui
September 17, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Writer and educator Dave Hickey is the author of two highly regarded collections of critical essays, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (Art Issues Press, 1993); Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (Art Issues Press, 1998) and the forthcoming Pagan America (Simon and Schuster, 2010). He was the recipient of a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship, and is currently Schaeffer Professor of Modern Letters at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3039

Jonathan Horowitz: Sept 15

Jonathan Horowitz
Tuesday, September 15, 7:30pm
Light Industry

In an evening exploring the subject of documentary genres, from cinéma vérité to reality TV, Jonathan Horowitz screens his new video, Apocalypto Now (2009), along with an early, rarely seen video, Making Pharaoh’s Red Flag Video(1988). The videos will be presented within the context of a prerecorded “live” introduction/monologue. The artist will be present to answer questions afterward. Tickets - $7, available at door.

http://lightindustry.org/horowitz

Hans Aarsman: Sept 15

Hans Aarsman
From Pretty to Ugly and Back Again, Mysterious Ways of Beauty in Photography
Tuesday, September 15, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor

Being a photographer Hans Aarsman has always had resentments towards beauty in photography. In this lecture, Aarsman, featured in the Nature As Artifice exhibition on view at Aperture Gallery, examines the myriad questions involved in taking photographs for purposes as varied as advertising, documentation, and personal mementos. How does our understanding of the beauty in these images differ depending their final resting place, be it ebay, a family album, specialist magazine or museum collection? Through his own experiences, Aarsman asks if—and how—artistic ambitions, aesthetics, and useful photography can coincide. Aarsman describes beauty as feeling like a way of forcing the world into an almost obligatory shape. In order to escape the trappings of beauty, Aarsman has changed his photographic approach many times, but, try as he might, beauty has always prevailed. He will present pictures from all periods of his attempts to finally find another kind of beauty.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=576

Gary Indiana: Sept 15

Gary Indiana
Tuesday, September 15, 6:30pm
School of Visual Arts
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public

Writer, filmmaker and visual artist Gary Indiana is known for both his art criticism--which has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Village Voice and other publications--and fictional works including Resentment and Three Month Fever. His most recent novel, The Shanghai Gesture, was released this year by independent publisher Two Dollar Radio. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3037

The Mobile Archive: The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon: Sept 15

The Mobile Archive: The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
September 15, 6:30pm
The New School, Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue
Free; no tickets or reservations required

Presented in conjunction with an exhibition of recent video art from the Middle East on view at the Art in General gallery, this discussion considers the contributions of video art to political developments in the region. Speakers include Galit Eilat, curator and founding director of the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=31707