Life In Lieu of Art: Jan 30

Alexander Dumbadze presents Life In Lieu of Art: Bas Jan Ader’s “In Search of the Miraculous”,
Saturday, January 30, 6:30pm
X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street

http://x-initiative.org/blog/2010/01/16/future-events/

Liam Gillick and Gianni Vattimo: Jan 30

Liam Gillick and Gianni Vattimo
Wyoming Evenings: What Is the Good of Work? Talk series
Saturday, January 30, 3pm
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery)
$10 and $25 (brownpapertickets.com), Tel.: +1 (212) 439-8700
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/enindex.htm

The Man I Wish I Was: Jan 27

The Man I Wish I Was: Talkies Edition
Film Screening + Discussion with artists Thomas Allen Harris, Sarah Maple, and Linda Montano
Wednesday, January 27, 6pm
X-initiative, 548 West 22nd Street

ARTBOOK in conjunction with A.I.R. Gallery will hold a special film screening and roundtable discussion at X-initiative. The films to be screened augment the selections that comprise The Man I Wish I Was, a month-long exhibit currently on display at A.I.R. Gallery through January 31st. Click here for a full press release.

The Art and Influence of Robert Blanchon: Jan 26

"You are Cordially Invited”: The Art and Influence of Robert Blanchon
Tuesday January 26, 6:30 - 8:30pm
The Fales Library & Special Collection
Bobst Library, New York University
70 Washington Square South, Third Floor

A Panel Discussion with:
Sasha Archibald, independent writer and curator
Mary Ellen Carroll, artist and manager of the Robert Blanchon Estate
Laura Parnes, artist and Momenta Art founder
Nelson Santos, artist and Visual AIDS Associate Director
Ginger Brooks Takahashi, artist
moderated by Amy Sadao

The Fales Collection at New York University in collaboration with Visual AIDS present an event discussing Robert Blanchon as a conceptual artist whose work expands and reiterates many of the themes of 1990s art. Through brief presentations and “interviews” with panelists we will explore Blanchon’s connection to artists as well as emerging trends in contemporary art. Throughout his career, from parodies of the art world to AIDS agit-prop to cerebral, minimalist photography, Blanchon gleaned from art history in order to make his own crucial intervention, and taught his students to do the same. RSVP: 212 992-9018 or rsvp.bobst@nyu.edu

http://newsgrist.typepad.com/visualaids/2010/01/robert-blanchon-artists-panel-fales-library-.html

No Fixed Points in Space: Jan 26

No Fixed Points in Space:
Transferring Form, Time, and Narrative between Architecture and Performance
Tuesday, January 26, 6:30 pm
Columbia University
Miller Theatre: 2960 Broadway at 116th Street

Moderated and curated by architect Annie K. Kwon, No Fixed Points in Space will include a panel discussion with distinguished voices from both fields to explore the relationship between architecture and performance, focusing in particular on the notions of multiple perspectives and spatial plasticity. Panelists include:

* Trevor Carlson, Executive Director, Cunningham Dance Foundation;
* Michelle Fornabai, Principal, Ambo Infra Design;
* Paul Kaiser, digital artist, Open Ended Group;
* Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), artist; composer; writer
* Tere O’Connor, Artistic Director, Tere O’Connor Dance; and
* Bernard Tschumi, Principal, Bernard Tschumi Architects

http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&id=37864&con=embedded&br=ais

Discs to Downloads: Jan 26

Discs to Downloads: New Directions in the Music Industry
Tuesday, January 26th at 7pm
Broadway and 4th Street

Continuing No Longer Empty's panel discussion series, Discs to Downloads will focus on how technology has transformed the music industry and how contemporary gadgets and the Internet have impacted twenty-first century music production, listening and consumption. No Longer Empty (NLE) hosts the following music industry panelists:

David Goodman: President, CBS Interactive Music Group
Elliot Groffman: Music Attorney, Founding member of Codikow, Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, who represent several celebrity clients including Dave Matthews Band and Jay-Z
Kevin Patrick: Artist Manager of the 2009 MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video Matt and Kim, Lord Wardd, Vivian Green
Ted Riederer: Featured NLE artist of Never Can Say Goodbye's
David Weiss: President DLB Media, Co-Founder/Co-Editor of SonicScoop.com and Editor of Mix Magazine
Moderator: Brad LeBeau, Founder of PRO MOTION

Limited seating. Please RSVP to rsvp@nolongerempty.org

Court sketch artist Jane Rosenberg: Jan 25

Artist @ the Library presents:
"An Evening of Art in High Drama, with court sketch artist, Jane Rosenberg"
January 25, 6:30pm
NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library

Covering thirty years of court drama, from the trials of mobster John Gotti and notorius Ponzi scheme artist Bernie Maddoff, to police corruption in the Abner Louima case and sensational trial of Anthony Marsharll, accused of stealing millions from his socialite mother Brooke Astor, Jane Rosenberg with steady hand and a clear eye, captures the drama of the famous trials in pastel for the New York Daily News, Vanity Fair Magazine and tv news shows.

http://nypl.org/node/64200

A Proposition by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Jan 15+16

A Proposition by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Maps for the 21st Century
Saturday January 16, 4pm, and
Sunday, January 17, 12pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery

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:
Saturday, 4:00 PM – Initial proposition and lecture
Sunday, 12:00 PM – Guest speaker responds, followed by a lunch break
Sunday, 3:00 PM – Discussion

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/403

Landscape Talks Back: Jan 16

Landscape Talks Back
Sunday, January 16, 7pm
X-initiative, 548 West 22nd St

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s and Roni Horn’s engagement with landscape as both subject and object, this program explores the question of an animated landscape. Terry Gunnell, professor of folklore in Iceland, and Elizabeth Hutchinson, professor of art history who specializes in Native American traditions and American art, consider the ways in which Iceland and the American southwest are rich territories for living landscapes. Moderated by Sina Najafi, editor of Cabinet Magazine. Organized by artist Spencer Finch as part of the Whitney’s My Turn series.

http://x-initiative.org/blog/

Blogging the contemporary arts: Jan 14

BLOG THIS! Blogging the contemporary arts
Friday, January 14, 6:30pm
X-Initiative

Panelists: Barry Hoggard, Paddy Johnson, William Powhida, Kelly Shindler, Edward Winkleman Moderator: Robin White. RSVP required and limited to 125 people. **SOLD OUT**

http://x-initiative.org/blog/

Interactive Architecture: Reinventing Social Spaces: Jan 15

Interactive Architecture: Reinventing Social Spaces
Friday, January 15, 7-9:30pm
Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue

A discussion with Natalie Jeremijenko, Terreform One and BLDGBLOG creator Geoff Manaugh. In conjunction with the exhibition WATERPOD: Autonomy and Ecology. $5 Suggested Donation. Cash bar.

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/calendar.html

Walid Raad on Bernd and Hilla Becher: Jan 11

Walid Raad on Bernd and Hilla Becher
Artists on Artists Lecture Series at Dia:Chelsea
Dia:Chelsea
535 W 22nd Street
January 11, 2010, 6:30pm
http://www.diaart.org/programs/main/16

Art Education: A Study: Jan 10

Art Education: A Study
Sunday, January 10, 7pm
Cabinet
300 Nevins St, Brooklyn

Ad Hoc Vox and Cabinet Magazine are pleased to invite you to Art Education: A Study, a panel discussion on the relationship between art and pedagogy developed in response to Cabinet Magazine's Darcy Lange: Work Studies in Schools.

Too bohemian for the establishment, too avant-garde for the academy, too anti-intellectual for school: the artist, in many popular conceptions, resists education. Yet from the Académie des Beaux-Arts, to the Bauhaus, to the MFA, the history of art is also a history of the institutions that have accredited its practitioners. These institutions have determined both how art is made and distributed, and what art is—defining art not only functionally, but also philosophically.

Ad Hoc Vox, itself an educational context, will not only examine this history in light of current debates about the MFA and the professionalization of the arts, but also by considering alternatives offered to us by non-traditional methods of education, the history of the academy, and models for the future of art school. To do so we have gathered together artists and art historians who have looked closely and critically at how art education has shaped artistic production. The panel's participants are Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Colin Lang, Robert Linsley, Mira Schor, and Howard Singerman. Colleen Asper will moderate the panel, which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

http://www.adhocvox.com/upcoming.html

16 TONS: The Caseros Prison Demolition

16 TONS: The Caseros Prison Demolition
Talk by Seth Wulsin
Thursday, 7 January, 7 - 8pm
Eyelevel BQE, 364 Leonard St, Brooklyn

Wulsin will examine the transformations of a decomposing emblem of modernist dystopia, exploring themes of architectural immanence, historical resonance and the human survival complex through the lens of the 16 Tons: Caseros Prison Project.

16 Tons was a direct action on the 22-story Caseros Prison building that sought to connect the scales of human perception and cosmic movement through the filter of demolition architecture. After five weeks of on-site work, the artist created 48 faces spanning 18 unique stories, visually formed across the rows of windows that line the prison's exterior. The countenances themselves—inscribed in a pixel-like system on the gridded windows, knocked out or left intact—were evoked regularly with the coming of the day's light. Over the course of the following year and a half, the building was demolished floor by floor—and with it, these images.

http://platformed.org/programs/16tons.html