Négritude Dialogues: July 21

Négritude Dialogues
Tuesday, July 21, 7-9 pm
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave

In these intimate, public conversations, participants in the exhibition Négritude will talk with an artist, scholar or cultural producer of their choice about various aspects of the Négritude movement and Black identity. These in-depth conversations will contextualize the exhibition within larger discussions about the politics and culture of Blackness, from the Americas and the Caribbean to Africa. $5 Suggested Donation. Cash bar.

7pm: A Conversation with Négritude artists Vladimir Cybil Charlier Juste and Andre Juste, Moderated by Thomas C. Spear, French and Francophone scholar and Professor of French at Lehman College (CUNY) and at the Graduate Center (CUNY).

8pm: Racial Spacial Facial Glacial: A Group Lecture on the Architectonics and Antipsychotics of 4th-Stage Négritude and other Dub Strategies. A conversation with ('VËRSION'), the newly formed collective of Xaviera Simmons, Arthur Jafa, and Greg Tate.

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/negritude/events.html

A Protest Against Forgetting: July 20

A Protest Against Forgetting: A Brief History of Curating
Monday, July 20, 6:30 pm
Guggenheim Museum

"It is rare that we have the opportunity to celebrate our own ecosystem." —Richard Armstrong

Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, Richard Armstrong, and Serpentine Gallery Codirector, Hans Ulrich Obrist, discuss the legacy of Walter Hopps, one of the 11 groundbreaking curators gathered together in A Brief History of Curating, Obrist's most recent book. Through their focus on reinvention and experimentation, the practices of these innovative curators provide a guide into emerging artistic landscapes. The program is followed by a reception.

$5 General Admission; FREE for members, students, and staff of other museums with ID and RSVP. To RSVP, call the Box Office at 212 423 3587, Mon.–Fri., 1–5 p.m. Space is limited.

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

Eduardo Coutinho and Bruno Barreto: July 20

TropiChat: Eduardo Coutinho and Bruno Barreto
Monday, July 20, 6:30pm
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue

TropiChat, an ongoing series that features conversations with renowned Latin American filmmakers, presents a talk between Brazil’s master of documentary filmmaking Eduardo Coutinho with acclaimed director Bruno Barreto. They will be discussing Coutinho’s work with particular emphasis on the borders between fiction and reality, a recurrent theme throughout Coutinhos’s filmography. This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required.

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=573

The Power of Art: July 11

The Power of Art: A Panel Discussion
Saturday, July 11, 11am - 6pm
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St.

The Power of Art will center its discussions on the relationship between art and power, as well as a wider conception of the current ‘value’ of art. Internationally renowned philosophers, art historians, architects, poets, cultural critics and artist will assemble for this one-day event to address the power (or in many cases powerlessness) that art has to produce individual, social and cultural change, and will also investigate art’s influence on cultural aesthetics and the global economy.

Participants will include: Meena Alexander, Keller Easterling, Jonatan Habib Engqvist , David Joselit, Alexis Knowlton, Warren Neidich, Susanne Neubauer, John Welchman, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Bruce Wexler & Laura Wexler.

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

Alex McQuilkin: July 8

Alex McQuilkin
Wednesday, July 8, 6- 7pm
34 Stuyvesant Street, Einstein Auditorium

In 2002 Alex McQuilkin caused a sensation -- some called it a scandal -- at the Armory Show with a videotape called Fucked. Since then she has shown extensively in galleries and museums throughout Europe and the United States. McQuilkin works primarily in video but recently expanded her practice to include sculpture, drawing and installation. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Artforum, Flash Art and many international publications and is currently on view at the Hochschule f�r Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany and the Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany. Her work will be included in East Coast Video at Ramis Barquet, NY July, 2009 and she will have a solo show at Marvelli Gallery, NY in January, 2010. McQuilkin lives and works in New York and teaches video art at NYU.

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/2009/7/8/206965/visiting_artist_talk_alex_mcquilkin

Eyebeam's Curatorial Masterclass

Eyebeam's Summer School: Curatorial Masterclass
Five sessions | Tuesdays + Thursdays, 3 – 5PM | July 7 – July 21
Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: Advance: $10/session | At door: $15/session
Advance registration: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/9265/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=664

An initiative of Eyebeam's Summer School program, the Curatorial Masterclass will be led by Eyebeam research partner Sarah Cook from CRUMB, the online resource for curators working with media art. The series will be an opportunity for emerging and established curators of art to get together within a focused period of time to learn from each other's practice, and to develop a greater understanding of curating, open source methods, and working in the public domain.

Tues., July 7, 3–5PM: What open source is and what it means for art
How do practices prevalent in the open source community match up against curatorial paradigms in the visual arts? What is the difference between curatorial openness, working in the public domain or releasing work under a public license? How can we learn about curating and commissioning via platforms which engage audiences or encourage participation? Defining useful metaphors and discarding hyperbolic buzzwords will be encouraged.

Thur., July 9, 3–5PM: Publication and Documentation
As part of Fair Use Day, we'll consider some of the practical and legal issues concerning reproduction, particularly as it applies to issues of curating time-based art forms such as performance or work which takes place in the public domain. Can publishing be a documentation strategy for curating ephemeral work such as music or software? Release strategies used by curators working with emergent new media forms will be rigorously compared.

Tues., July 14, 3–5PM: Networking and Collaboration
New media tools seem to make remote working and networking easier, but do they facilitate curating? How is the time-frame of collaboration – between artists and curators or producers, or between the art and its audience – different when adopting open source methodologies (such as iterative or modular methods, sometimes called bootstrapping)? Discussions of the different shapes of collaboration and the tried and tested 'rules' of good collaboration will be ascertained.

Thur., July 16, 3–5PM: Curating in the public domain
Curating is often a private activity with a very public outcome, but recent hype about the term in relation to 'filtering' online content (from videos and photos to tweets and urls) has made 'curating' something people now think of as a very public process. What can we learn from public art models of curatorial practice? How do we cater for passerby audiences? What are the lessons to be learned from open submission projects online and offline? The ideal conditions for creating a platform for participation will be dreamt up.

Tues., July 21, 3–5PM: Evaluation and Audience Engagement
The last session of the curatorial masterclass series will ask, who is participating in open curatorial projects? Why? How do we know what they're getting out of it? What can be learned from the revisions/lifelines used in open source software generation and how can that way of thinking be applied to consideration of the 'lifeline' of a curatorial project? What are other evaluation strategies that can be applied to curating, such as comment boxes or feedback forms? Obvious and proposed benchmarks of success will be interrogated.

SERIES FORMAT: The first hour of each day will be a formal conversation modeled on CRUMB's tea-time chats, and will feature established curators and artists. The second hour will be a rigorous participant driven discussion, building upon the first hours themes and insights. Following each presentation and workshop, participants will have the opportunity to stick around for beer o'clock and conversation with presenters and fellow masterclass participants, as well as participants from other Eyebeam Summer School programs.

http://eyebeam.org/events/summer-school-curatorial-masterclass

Risk, Responsibility, and Toxins...: July 7

GOO GONE: Risk, Responsibility, and Toxins in the Landscape
Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 7–9 pm
Center for Urban Pedagogy
The Old American Can Factory (In the courtyard, weather permitting)
232 Third St at Third Ave, Gowanus, Brooklyn

CUP's office is now located in a potential SUPERFUND SITE. Superfund is a federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. There are over 1,331 final and proposed sites on the National Priorities List, and thousands more wait for approval. Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed adding the Gowanus Canal to this list.

Please join CUP and Urban Omnibus for a different kind of Superfund discussion. Artist Brooke Singer, advocate Anne Rabe, and historian Sarah Vogel will discuss the history of the Superfund program, the politics of designation, and the changing legal definitions of toxins, risk, and responsibility. Local experts will also give updates on the status of the Gowanus’ designation.

Free and open to the public. Refreshments provided!
RSVP to info@anothercupdevelopment.org

http://anothercupdevelopment.org/news

The College of Tactical Culture: July 2

The College of Tactical Culture
Thursday, July 2, 6-8pm
Eyebeam, 540 W 21st St

A mind shredding evening with the College of Tactical Culture, hosted by Eyebeam Fellow Steve Lambert, and Eyebeam Research Associate, Stephen Duncombe. Lambert and Duncombe will discuss tools and techniques in creative activism and the work happening at their new College.

Part of SUMMER SCHOOL @ NIGHT: a series of free thursday evening lectures (July 2-23) open to the public led by hosts from Eyebeam's Summer School program, and friends of Eyebeam.

http://eyebeam.org/