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

Moyra Davey on Louise Bourgeois: Sept 14

Moyra Davey on Louise Bourgeois
September 14, 6:30pm
Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street
Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors.

Moyra Davey, born in Canada in 1958, lives and works in New York. Her solo exhibitions include presentations at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2008); Goodwater, Toronto (2002); and American Fine Arts, Co. New York (1994, 1999).

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/lectures/artists/index.html

Hellen van Meene + Jorg Colberg: Sept 14

Monday, September 14, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene has exhibited her work in New York City, London, the Netherlands and Germany. Her photographs have been collected in several books, including the recently published Hellen van Meene: New Photographs (Schirmer/Mosel, 2009). Blogger Jorg Colberg is the founder and editor of the pioneering photo blog Conscientious. In 2006, he was named one of American Photo's Photography Innovators, and is a regular contributor to their Web site. Presented by the BFA Photography Department and Dear Dave, magazine.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3036

Martin Beck Panel: Sept 14

Nothing Better Than a Touch of Ecology and Catastrophe to Unite the Social Classes.
Martin Beck, Felicity Scott and Mark Wasiuta
September 14, 6:30pm
Columbia University GSAPP
Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium

Drawing from architecture, design and popular culture, Panel 2: "Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes..." continues Martin Beck's interest in exhibitions as a medium and addresses questions of historicity, referentiality and authorship. The show features works in different media, each pointing to distinct yet interwoven historical narratives that coalesce around the terms "ecology" and "panel" as display or discussion.

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/event/gsapp-event/panel-2-nothing-better-touch-ecology-and-catastrophe-unite-social-classes

Dan Graham and Glenn Branca: Sept 12

Dan Graham in Conversation with Glenn Branca
Saturday, September 12 at 7 pm
X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street

Dan Graham joins avant-garde composer and musician Glenn Branca for a conversation about past collaborations, rock music, and shared interests working in New York City. This evening also includes a screening of Westkunst (Modern Period): Dan Graham Segment (1980) by Dan Graham and Ernst Mitzka. This is a free event. No reservations. Space is limited; first-come, first-seated.

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

Juergen Teller with Cathy Horyn: Sept 12

Juergen Teller in Conversation with Cathy Horyn
Saturday, September 12, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

In addition to his recent celebrity-studded ad campaign for Marc Jacobs, influential fashion photographer Juergen Teller is known for his raw, un-retouched commercial and autobiographical images. To mark his solo exhibition “Paradis” opening Thursday, September 10 at Lehmann Maupin gallery, Teller will speak with New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn, who also writes the blog On the Runway for NYTimes.com. Presented by the BFA Photography Department and Dear Dave, magazine.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3100

Nature as Artifice: Sept 12

Nature as Artifice:
New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art
Saturday, September 12, 1pm
SVA Theater, 333 23rd Street

Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson to New York Harbor aboard the Dutch vessel Halve Maen, Aperture Gallery is pleased to present the New York debut of Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art, curated by Maartje van den Heuvel, a major survey of work by contemporary Dutch artists who, over the past twenty years, have taken contemporary Holland as their point of departure.

In support of the exhibition, Aperture and SVA will present a panel discussion on the significance and implications of the artworks showcased. Moderated by Tracy Metz, catalogue co-editor, panelists include exhibition curator Maartje van den Heuvel; Alison Nordstrom, George Eastman House; and exhibited artists Jannes Linders, Hans van der Meer, Frank van der Salm, and Edwin Zwakman.

This event will be followed by a reception in the lobby of the SVA Theater.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=579

Bifo: September 8

Franco Berardi (Bifo)
Recomposition, Subjectivation, Recombination
Tuesday, September 8th, 6:00 pm
Eugene Lang College, The New School
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street

Franco Berardi Bifo is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist. Founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981), he was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Like other intellectuals involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970's, he fled to Paris, where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. He has been a contributor to several magazines and newspapers, and author of Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994), Felix (Rome, 2001, London 2009) and Generacion Postalfa (Buenos Aires 2007). His new book Soul@Work, published by Semiotext(e) will be in bookstores at the end of the year 2009. He is teaching social history of communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, and is the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org and of the telestreet network. His talk focuses on the concept of recomposition, drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari to examine how social production and communication are related to capitalism.

http://www.16beavergroup.org/events/archives/002941.php

Connective Mutations: A Seminar with Bifo

Connective Mutations:
Autonomy & Subjectivation in the Coming Century
16 Beaver Street
Thursday, September 3- Sunday, September 6, 2009

In addition to Bifo, expect a nice group of interventions by those taking part in the seminar and/or guests including: Jack Bratich, Zoe Beloff, Erika Biddle, Jonah Bossewitch, Stephen Duncombe, Jim Fleming, Brian Holmes, Mallory Knodel, Jamie McClelland, Jackie Orr, Paolo Pedercini, Claire Pentecost, Annie Robinson, Stevphen Shukaitis, Abe Walker, Mckenzie Wark

For more info, please visit the website:
http://www.16beavergroup.org/bifo/

For some useful reading, please see:
http://www.16beavergroup.org/bifo/precariousrhapsodyweb.pdf