Susan Buck-Morss: Jan 29

Susan Buck-Morss: Visual Empire
Thursday, January 29, 7pm
SVA, Visual Arts Theater
333 West 23 Street

Writer and educator Susan Buck-Morss will discuss how ideas of empire and sovereignty are reflected in visual imagery. She is a professor at Cornell University and the author of numerous books including The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project and Francis Alys: When Faith Can Move Mountains. Her most recent book is Hegel, Haiti and Universal History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008). 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=2716

Matthew Ritchie: Jan 22

Matthew Ritchie
January 22, 6:30pm
NYU Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street

rsvp to ifa.events@nyu.edu (include Matthew Ritchie in subject).
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/students/artists.htm

Cory Arcangel and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Jan 20

"Open Source"
Tuesday, January 20, 6:30 p.m.
MoMA Education and Research Building
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman

This program explores contemporary art in the age of YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia, online resources that connect people and information in countless ways and through immeasurable distances. Artists Cory Arcangel and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer discuss the ways in which they utilize electronic databases to create works of art. Glenn D. Lowry, director of The Museum of Modern Art, moderates a discussion. ($10/$8/$5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=11472&ref=calendar

Paula Hayes: Jan 20

Paula Hayes
Tuesday, January 20, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C

Inspired by the natural world, artist Paula Hayes incorporates flowers, plants, birds and other living elements into terrariums, bird houses and outdoor installation works. 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=2712

Night School Seminar 11: Raqs Media Collective

Raqs Media Collective
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Thursday, January 15, 7pm
Friday, January 16, 7pm
Saturday, January 17, 3pm

What can pupils learn while they dilate at night? Raqs Media Collective fills three Night School sessions with darkness, scrawls, and gray matter. The first evening (January 15, 7 p.m.), “An Illegible Signature,” will feature a Raqs lecture–performance on the questions of legibility, stammering, and shadows. The second session (January 16, 7 p.m.), “The Watches of the Night,” will feature Raqs weaving considerations on time, immeasurability, and darkness into a presentation with film fragments, nightmares, lucid dreams, recordings, and textual marginalia, accompanied by K. D Vyas and his correspondence. The third session (January 17, 3 p.m.), “The Darkness of Gray Matter,” will feature a conversation on darkness and gray matter, neural conundrums, forensic dilemmas, and the wiring of the imagination between Raqs, and Dr. Arani Bose, a neurosurgeon, and Dr. Steven Pacia, a neurologist.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/278

Kalup Linzy: Jan 14

Kalup Linzy
Artist Talk + Screening
Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 6:30 pm
EAI, 535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor

EAI presents a special screening and talk with artist Kalup Linzy. The screening program will include the New York premiere of Linzy's newest work, Keys To Our Heart, created for the Prospect.1 biennial in New Orleans. Linzy will also screen two recent works, Melody Set Me Free (2007) and SweetBerry Sonnet (Remixed) (2008). The artist will be present to introduce and speak about these works, as well as his practice in video, performance and music. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with the artist.

http://www.eai.org/eai/pressreleases/01_09_linzy_pr.html

24 hours on the Concept of Time: Jan 6-7

24-hours on the Concept of Time
Tuesday, January 6, 6 p.m. through Wednesday, January 7, 6 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum

Continuing non-stop for 24 hours this rich and polyvalent event organized by Nancy Spector and Hans Ulrich Obrist expands upon the theme of time—an interest central to the artists represented in the exhibition. Guests from a wide spectrum of fields and disciplines share their philosophical, sociological, economic, theological and aesthetic perspectives on time.

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/news/2509

Also on view:

Douglas Gordon
24 hour psycho back and forth and to and fro
January 6, 10 a.m.–January 7, 10 a.m.
Rotunda Floor, Free

Serpentine Gallery Marathon Archive
Tuesday, January 6, 6 p.m. through Wednesday, January 7, 6 p.m.
New Media Theatre

DrinkPeeDrinkPeeDrinkPee: Jan 8

A Workshop and Discussion
Thursday, January 8, 7pm (free)
The Change You Want To See Gallery
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Bio-artists Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray create personal, super-local, at-home solutions to big environmental and health issues. Their urine to fertilizer kits let you recycle the excess nutrients your body creates when you eat and drink. You can pee in the kit and then perform a biochemical reaction that transforms the nutrients in your urine into an immediately usable fertilizer to feed your own plants. They invite you to join them for a special opportunity to turn your pee into fertilizer and take it home for your houseplants, and to join in a discussion with artists and friends interested in these same issues. Riley and Bray work as consultants to science museums and are graduates of ITP at NYU. Their work has recently been featured at Eyebeam, in the Venice Bienale, in ArtNews and on the Discovery Channel.

Participants are encouraged to bring clean glass jars.
http://www.submersibledesign.com/drinkpee/
http://www.notanalternative.net/wordpress/