Wangechi Mutu: April 1

Wednesday, April 1
3:15- 5:15pm
Parsons, The New School
66 Fifth Ave.
Kellen Auditorium
Ticket Price: Free

Wangechi Mutu is an artist who lives and works in New York. She moved to New York from Kenya in the 1990s to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union (BFA, 1996), and Yale University (MFA, 2000). She creates painted and collaged images of female figures, first painting outline images on PET film, then adding detail with photographic fragments of idealised women collected from print magazines. The figures generally feature grotesque distortions of form and skin texture, which critics read as commentary on a variety of feminist and racial issues.

Mutu’s work has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern in London, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Kunstpalast Dusseldorf in Germany, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She also participated in the 2004 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York, Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles and Victoria Miro Gallery in London.

http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=1035

Doug Aitkin: April 1

Doug Aitkin
Wednesday, April 1, 6:30-8:30pm
Columbia University GSAPP
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

http://beta.arch.columbia.edu/event/gsapp-event/today?mini=calendar/2009-04/all

OULIPO in New York: April 1

Oulipo in New York: A Workshop of Experimental Literature
Wednesday, April 1, 7pm
The New School
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street

Oulipo stands for "Ouvroir de littérature potentielle," which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature." It is a loose gathering of French-speaking writers and mathematicians, and seeks to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Other notable members include novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, the poet Oskar Pastior, and the poet and mathematician Jacques Roubaud. The group defines the term “littérature potentielle” as: "the seeking of new structures and patterns which may be used by writers in any way they enjoy" (rough translation).

Featuring Marcel Bénabou, author of Jacob, Menahem, and Mimoun: A Family Epic; Anne F. Garréta, author of Not a Day; Jacques Jouet, author of Une Mauvaise Marie; Herve LeTellier, author of Esthétique de l’Oulipo; Harry Matthews, author of Oulipo Compendium; Ian Monk, author of Family Archeology and Other Poems; and Jacques Roubaud, author of Some Thing Black. Hosted by Honor Moore, faculty, the Writing Program and Jean-Jacques Poucel, associate professor of French at Yale University.

Cosponsored by the Poet's House, the French Embassy, Columbia University, Yale University, and the New School Writing Program. Oulipo in New York is being held from April 1-4, 2009 at several venues throughout New York City. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on this and other events, please visit www.frenchculture.org.

http://www.newschool.edu/generalstudies/events.aspx?id=27166

Concept: Home: March 31

Concept: Home
Tuesday, March 31, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

This panel discussion, moderated by SVA faculty member Loretta Lorance, will explore the "good, bad and ugly" relationships between technology and our homes. Panelists include Tom Huhn, chair of the Art History and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments at SVA; Lisa Moren, artist and faculty member at the University of Maryland Baltimore County; and Mark Ihnat, humanities professor at Humber College. 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=2763

Notes on Conceptualisms: March 31

Notes on Conceptualisms
Tuesday, March 31, 7pm
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street

Book launch with performances by Jen Bervin, Lytle Shaw, Steve Zultanski, Nada Gordon, and Kim Rosenfield. Hosted by Notes authors Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman.

http://uglyducklingpresse.org/events.html

Katy Grannan: March 30

Katy Grannan
Monday, March 30, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street

Aperture and Parsons The New School for Design present Katy Grannan in the third lecture of an ongoing series. Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1969, Grannan currently lives and works near San Francisco. Her work will be included in a March 2009 group exhibition Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Photographer's Gallery, London; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2004 Biennial, New York; and the 2004 Arles Photo Festival, France. Grannan was the recipient of a 1999 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant; the 2000 PASS Award, with Margaret Talbot, for her photographs accompanying Talbot's New York Times Magazine story "What's Become of the Juvenile Delinquent?"; the 2004 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers; and the 2005 Aperture Award for an Emerging Artist. Her first monograph, Model American: Katy Grannan, was released by Aperture in 2005, and her second, The Westerns (Fraenkel Gallery/Greenberg Van Doren Gallery/Salon 94 Freemans), debuted in January 2008.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=521

Bifo and MacKenzie Wark: March 30

Bifo and MacKenzie Wark
The Change You Want To See Gallery
Monday, March 30th, 7:30pm (free)
84 Havemeyer St, at Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

The Change You Want To See Gallery presents a conversation with renowned philosopher, media activist and cultural agitator Franco Berardi (aka Bifo) and media theorist MacKenzie Wark, author of Game Theory and A Hacker's Manifesto.

http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org

Office for Subversive Architecture: March 27

projections with the Office for Subversive Architecture
(Reinventing Goethe with ifau + Jesko Fezer)

Friday, March 27, 6:30pm
Goethe-Institut New York Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street

The Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building is proud to present the next event of the venue’s kickoff series Reinventing Goethe, an intriguing examination of issues regarding public, private and performance space, as the Wyoming space is itself being developed. series Reinventing Goethe will be collaboratively curated by Joseph Grima, the director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and ifau (Institut für angewandte Urbanistik/Institute for Applied Urbanism) + Jesko Fezer.

Leading off is a lecture/presentation by members of the Office for Subversive Architecture, a network of international architects examining the interface between architecture and art. projections plays with ideas of light and color, brightness and darkness, and, as the title itself suggests, with the very concept of projection. It also acknowledges the interplay of the very-contemporary Goethe-Institut with its very-historical namesake, specifically with his theories on light, color and optics. projections is a hands-on experience of theory, an discussion in which the space itself demonstrates what is being discussed. Please join us for this unique event exploring the possibilities of projection—and the projection of possibilities.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/kue/en4303155v.htm

Rachel Harrison: March 25

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 6:30pm
The New School, 66 West 12th Street
Tickets are $5 ($3 for seniors) and FREE to students with valid ID

Rachel Harrison is well known for her conceptual works constructed from combinations of found objects and handmade creations. Employing multiple mediums at once to create forms both abstract and figurative, she presents an array of clues and many layers of meaning in her work. Prompting a deeper level of thought from viewers, Harrison’s work reflects her interest in the act of experiencing an art object and the path that one takes towards comprehension. Harrison received her B.A. in Fine Art from Wesleyan University in 1989 and currently lives and works in New York City.

To guarantee seats, purchase tickets ahead of time by ordering online at www.publicartfund.org or by calling 212.980.4575

Karim Rashid: March 25

Wednesday, Mar 25, 6:30 pm
Museum of Art and Design
2 Columbus Circle

Karim Rashid is a leading figure in product and interior design, furniture, lighting, and art. Working with an impressive array of clients over the years including Alessi, Umbra, Prada, Issey Miyake, and Method, Karim has infused consumer culture with his signature Sensual Minimalism. To date, around 2500 objects designed by him have been produced. Successes such as the Dirt Devil Kone, Umbra Garbo, and Method Home designs illustrate Karim’s ethos of affordable, democratic design for the masses. Karim’s language has graced all aspects of life from furniture to cosmetics, artwork to architecture. His award winning interior work includes the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel in Athens as well as many retail stores and restaurants world wide. $10/ $9 members

http://www.madmuseum.org/DO/Calendar/200903/Karim%20Rashid.aspx

Silvia Kolbowski: March 25

Silvia Kolbowski
Wednesday, March 25, 3:15- 5:15
Parsons, 66 Fifth Ave. Kellen Auditorium

Silvia Kolbowski is an artist based in New York. Her scope of address includes the ethics of history, memory, sexuality, and the unconscious. Her 2004 project "Proximity to Power, American Style," a slide/audio work about the relational aspects of masculine power was published in its entirety by WhiteWalls and University of Chicago Press (2008). In 2007 she exhibited a revised version of her 1999 "an inadequate history of conceptual art" at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. Her most recent project, a video and photo work entitled "After Hiroshima Mon Amour," (2008), premiered in September at LAX<>Art in Los Angeles, curated by Christopher Bedford. Kolbowski has exhibited at many venues, including the Secession, Vienna, the Whitney Biennial, and The Walker Art Center, and has upcoming exhibitions at The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, and The Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana. She is on the advisory board of October journal.

http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=1034

Information Architectures: March 24, 25, 26

Information Architectures
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St

The Drawing Center is pleased to offer this series of talks in which leading philosophers, architects, designers, editors, and artists consider how information is diagrammed, modeled, structured, and otherwise disseminated.

Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 PM
Alva Noë, Author and Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of California Berkley
Danica Phelps, Artist

Wednesday, March 25, 6:30 PM
Jeffrey Inaba, Director of C-Lab, the Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting and founder INABA Projects, Los Angeles
Nathan Carter, Artist

Thursday, March 26, 6:30 PM
Peter Macapia, Founder of Peter Macapia/labDORA, Design Office for Research and Architecture, New York
Alice Aycock, Artist

http://www.drawingcenter.org/events_public_01.cfm

Geoffrey Batchen: March 24

Geoffrey Batchen
Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street

In this lecture hosted by Aperture and presented by Parsons The New School, Geoffrey Batchen will discuss the topic Perplexity and Embarrassment: Photography as Work. Batchen is a professor of art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he specializes in the history of photography. He is currently working on an exhibition about the careers of Richard Beard and Antoine Claudet, due to open at the Yale Center for British Art in October 2011. Batchen's books include Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (The MIT Press, 1997); Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (The MIT Press, 2001); Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance (Van Gogh Museum & Princeton Architectural Press, 2004); and William Henry Fox Talbot (Phaidon, 2008).

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=507

The Beats, Psychedelia & the Neo-Avant-Garde: March 24

The Beats, Psychedelia & the Neo-Avant-Garde
Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 p.m.
The Guggenheim

In a lively conversation, artists and curators discuss the use and interpretation of Asian sources in the expression of postwar counterculture movements on the East and West coasts, and the ongoing legacy of equating art with an alternative consciousness. Moderated by Lisa Phillips, Director, The New Museum

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

Laura Kurgan: March 24

Laura Kurgan: Mapping Justice
Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 - 8:30pm
SVA, 136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor

Laura Kurgan teaches in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is director of Visual Studies and director of the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL). Her work blends academic architectural research with design, information, communication, advocacy and public work. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.

Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2835

Experimental Geography: March 21

Experimental Geography Panel Discussion:
An Aesthetic Investigation of Space
Saturday, March 21, 3pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Creative Time curator Nato Thompson will lead a discussion of Experimental Geography with Lize Mogel and Damon Rich, two artists who participated in his exhibition (for Independent Curators International) and book (Melville House) of the same name.

The discussion will focus on the creative use of landscape hacking, cartography, locative media, and radical urbanism as a means of engaging with the politics of contested spaces. In presenting work from the show and book, the panelists will explore the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, and the juncture where the two realms collide. $6 Members, $8 General Public

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/298

After the Deluge?: March 19

After the Deluge?: Perspectives on Challenging Times in the Art World
Thursday, March 19, 6:30 PM
X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street

A Town Hall Meeting and Panel Discussion with:
Jeffery Deitch, Deitch Projects, New York
Brett Littman, Executive Director, The Drawing Center
Michael Rush, Henry and Lois Foster Director, Rose Art Museum
Anya Kielar, Artist and Co-founder, Guild & Greyshkul

Moderated by:
Lindsay Pollock, Journalist and Writer, Bloomberg News

Please RSVP at March19@x-initiative.org or 917-697-4886

http://www.drawingcenter.org/events_public_01.cfm

Ken Jacobs + Amy Taubin: March 17

Return to LH6
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 7:30pm
Light Industry
220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn

Screening followed by a conversation between Jacobs and Amy Taubin.
Tickets - $7, available at door.

http://www.lightindustry.org/lh6.html

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: March 16

Subjective Histories of Sculpture III: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Monday, March 16, 2009, 6:30 PM
Theresa Lang Center at The New School
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was born in Strasbourg, France in 1965. She is known for creating installation/environmental works that incorporate varying degrees of interactivity, as well as for making films. Portraying and replicating hybrid spaces inspired by her travels through Asia and Latin America, Gonzalez-Foerster has developed her own approach to re-creating and redefining space and structures. Using narrative devices borrowed from film and literature, and incorporating sound, music, and light, her work embraces various forms of sensorial perception. Gonzalez-Foerster's gaze on our cultural legacies and our current landscapes remains complex. It combines the critical, the poetic, and the romantic while engaging the viewer's body with a certain immediacy. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has exhibited at Documenta 11, Kassel (2002), the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (ARC) (2007), the Guggenheim Museum (2008/09), and the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London (2008/9). She lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

$5 General Admission, SculptureCenter Members and Students Free
For tickets call 212-229-5488 or email boxoffice@newschool.edu

http://www.sculpture-center.org/eventsEvent.htm?id=11906

Browser As Exhibition Space: March 7

Roundtable Discussion: Browser As Exhibition Space
Saturday, March 7. 8-10 pm
103 Broadway, 1st Floor
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Participants from the exhibition IN REAL LIFE including Art Fag City, Club Internet, Ffffound, The Highlights, Humble Arts Foundation, Platform For Pedagogy, Private Circulation, UbuWeb, Why + Wherefore, and others will collectively discuss the concept of browser as exhibition space. Moderated by Laurel Ptak. Reception to follow.

"In Real Life" is an exhibition featuring Art Fag City, ASDF, Club Internet, Ffffound, The Highlights, Humble Arts Foundation, I Heart Photograph, Loshadka, Netmares/Netdreams, Platform For Pedagogy, Private Circulation, UbuWeb , VVORK, Why + Wherefore.

Details at: www.letsmeetinreallife.com.

(via ArtCat)

Dara Birnbaum: March 5

Thursday, March 5, 7 pm
Whitney Museum

A pioneer in the appropriation of popular television imagery, Dara Birnbaum probes and subverts conventional viewing patterns, narrative structures, and pop icons to address the ideological and aesthetic character of mass media. Spanning four decades and varying styles, her work reveals a sustained engagement with media's complex and dominant societal presence. This evening, Birnbaum will discuss her attempts to find alternative expressions that “talk back” to mainstream media’s penetration of – and even intrusion on–public and private life.

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

The Commons: March 5

Thursday, March 5, 6:30 pm
Studio-X
180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Given the massive bailout of the financial sector by the US government and the demise of laissez-faire capitalism, questions of regulation, shared burden and collective action resonate more strongly than ever with the public. Garrett Hardin's 1968 essay "The Tragedy of the
Commons"illustrates the dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently in her or his own self-interest can ultimately destroy a shared resource, even when everyone knows that this depletion is in no one’s long-term interest. Hardin, a biologist, was concerned with population growth, and discusses the moral and ethical issues at stake when "no technical solution" to the problem is available. How might we re-evaluate the Commons as both opportunity and dilemma today?

Panelists include:
Nora Libertun de Duren, Director of Planning, New York City Parks and
Recreation Department
Olympia Kazi, Executive Director, Institute for Urban Design
Michael Mandiberg, Artist; Senior Fellow, Eyebeam
Mark Shepard; SUNY Buffalo
Brooke Singer, Artist; SUNY Purchase

Moderated by Gavin Browning, Studio-X

This event is a prelude to the performance of "Hertzian Rain" by Mark Shepard at Eyebeam's MIXER: EXPO, March 6-7, 2009.

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

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/index.html

Recent Artist Videos Concerning War in the Middle East: March 5

Thursday, March 5
On the Contrary:
Recent Artist Videos Concerning War in the Middle East
Scope Art Fair

Panel Discussion: "Shifting Alliances", 6pm–8pm
A reflection on methods of provocation used by artists to make political cinema, in this case regarding war in the Middle East, moderated by Mary Billyou and Meredith Drum with Martha Rosler, Benj Gerdes, Chen Tamir, Judy Ditner, and TBA.

Panel preceded by video programming curated by Mary Billyou and Meredith Drum. This program presents a wide range of cinema projects that share a rebellious and subjective resistance to imperial domination in the Middle East.

Program 1
12pm–2pm: Baghdad in No Particular Order
Featuring Paul Chan as well as shorter works by Naeem Mohaimen; Jeanne Finely and John Muse; Caroline Koebel; Benj Gerdes; Mary Billyou and Annelisse Fifi; Sabine Gruffat; Susan Youssef.

Program 2
2pm–4pm: "Operation Atropos"
Featuring Coco Fusco and shorter works by Harun Farocki and Walid Ra'ad.

Program 3
4pm–6pm: "Beyond Guilt"
Featuring Maayan Amir and Ruti and shorter works by Martha Rosler, Bryan Boyce, The Yes Men, Eric Fensler, Dara Greenwald, NYC Ya Basta.

http://www.scope-art.com/Index.php/new_york/programs/