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