David Joselit: Time Batteries: April 8

Time Batteries
Presented by David Joselit
Wednesday, April 8, 7:30pm
Light Industry
220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn
Tickets $7, available at door.

"Data storage is one of our fundamental economic, political and historical challenges. Data is collected from us whenever we click, charge, or swipe—it helps politicians decide who “we” are and what “we” want. Wal-mart knows how to use it to sell us things and Obama knows how to read it to take the nation’s temperature. But is there an aesthetics of data storage? Now that anybody can record almost anything, can this form of primitive image accumulation be a kind of art?

"'Time Batteries' handle duration differently from classic video works by artists like Peter Campus, Bruce Nauman or Joan Jonas where the dilation of time was tied to the expansion of perception. Duration is now linked to the banal but fundamental ethos of storage. I will test this thesis by presenting two works: Mary Ellen Carroll’s film “Alas poor YORICK!” (2008) in which the artist’s drawing made from her hand transcription of the entire text of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy on a single sheet is burned on a beach in Truro, and Rachel Harrison’s “Roman Holiday,” a found moment of slapstick recorded from a restaurant table in Rome. I’ll discuss questions of media transfer and consumption (in fire, in boredom, and even of products) as manifest in these works, and I’ll draw a historical genealogy for a possible aesthetics of data storage." - DJ

http://www.lightindustry.org

R.H. Quaytman: April 8

R.H. Quaytman
Wednesday, April 8
3:15-5:15pm
Parsons
66 Fifth Ave. Kellen Auditorium
Ticket Price: Free

R.H. Quaytman is a painter living and working in New York City. She was born in 1961 and received her BA in Painting from Bard College. Subsequent to that she attended the Post-Graduate program in painting at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. In 1989 she was invited to the Institut Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris, France where she studied with Daniel Buren and Pontus Hulton. She was also the recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in 1992. Quaytman was a founding member and director of a cooperative gallery called Orchard. Her work is represented by Miguel Abreu Gallery and Vilma Gold Gallery in London. Currently she is working on two upcoming solo exhibitions for those galleries for December 2008. Her book Allegorical Decoys was just published by MER Press and is available at Printed Matter bookstore. She is currently on the faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=1036

Lisa Yuskavage: April 7

Lisa Yuskavage
Tuesday, April 7, 7pm
SVA, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

Lisa Yuskavage, a figurative painter best known for her overtly sexualized female nudes, will discuss works chosen by students for this event. Eleanor Heartney, writing in Art in America, described Yuskavage’s work: “Echoes of Vermeer and Goya jostle against the spirit of calendar pinups and Catholic Kitsch.” 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=2766

Nietzsche Loves You: April 7

Avital Ronell: Nietzsche Loves You
Tuesday, April 7, 7pm
SVA, Visual Arts Theater, 333 West 23 Street

Author and educator Avital Ronell will examine the relationships between art and morality, presenting the dossiers of Friedrich Nietzsche, the most ferocious defender of art as a vital necessity. Ronell is a professor at NYU and the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and frequently contributes to ArtForum and ArtUS. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department. Free and open to the public

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2765

Marina Abramović: April 7

Marina Abramović—Night Sea Crossing: A Lecture
Tuesday, April 7, 6:30 p.m.
Guggenheim

The celebrated performance artist Marina Abramović discusses the series of twenty-two Night Sea Crossing performances (1981-87) created with her former collaborator, Ulay (Uwe Layesiepen). Created after Ulay and Abramović had returned from a long period in the Australian outback, the performance work consisted of Abramović and Ulay seated in stillness and silence with a Tibetan Buddhist lama and a member of the Pintubi tribe from the Central Australian Desert. $30, $25 members, $10 students under 25.

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

Michael Rock: April 7

Michael Rock
Superficiality: Dematerialization and Branded Surfaces
Tuesday, April 7, 6 - 8pm
SVA, 136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor

Michael Rock is a partner in 2x4, Inc. in New York; director of the Graphic Architecture Project at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; and adjunct professor of design at the Yale School of Art. Working from offices in New York and Beijing, 2x4’s projects range from collaborations with architects, artists and writers to branding for cultural and commercial organizations. 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=2840

Guthrie Lonergan: April 6

We Did It Ourselves!
Presented by Guthrie Lonergan
Monday, April 6, 2009 at 7:30pm
Light Industry
220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn

Guthrie Lonergan is an Internet and video artist based in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum and Artists Space in New York and the Sundance Film Festival, and written about in The Wall Street Journal and Rhizome. He is a co-founder of Nasty Nets Internet Surfing Club. All of his work is online at http://www.theageofmammals.com.
http://lightindustry.org/

Personal Structures: "Space" Symposium: April 3-4

Personal Structures: Time | Space | Existence:
Two-Day “Space” Symposium at the New Museum

Friday, Apr 3, 3-7pm
and Saturday, April 4, 2-6pm
$6 Members, $8 General Public

The “Space” Symposium is the third in the “Personal Structures Time Space Existence” project. The first symposium, “Time,” was held 2007 in Amsterdam; and the second, “Existence,” 2008 in Tokyo. Dutch curators Sarah Gold and Karlijn De Jongh organized the series.

In this third symposium, basic artistic questions related to space and spatiality will be discussed. On the one hand, “space-relatedness” means the three-dimensional body of the artwork itself or its aesthetic interaction with the actual space in which it is placed. On the other hand, “space-relatedness” means the various notions of space depending on personal, cultural, and social circumstances. These become visible in the artist’s specific choice of his or her means of expression.

Discussion topics include:
- Space and spatiality as themes of nonrepresentational art
- Concepts of space-related painting
- Experience of landscape and urban space structures as artistic inspiration
- Self-perception in space: the experience of space in the reception of nonrepresentational art

See full schedule here: http://www.personalstructures.org/index.php?page=36&lang=en

Natalie Jeremijenko: April 3

Natalie Jeremijenko: Re-Imagining Our Relationship to Natural Systems and Material Culture
Friday, April 3, 6 - 8pm
SVA, 136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor

Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist and experimenter who uses contemporary scientific knowledge and technical resources to redesign socio-ecological systems. She is currently the New York Prize Fellow at Van Alen Institute and directs a network of environmental health clinics. She is an associate professor of visual art at NYU and affiliated faculty in computer science and environmental studies. Her work has been exhibited widely, including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. 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=2838

The Brothers Quay: April 2

The Brothers Quay:
The Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-reading Puppets
Thursday, April 2, 6:30pm
Visual Arts Theater, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

A discussion of the film and theater work of stop-motion animators The Brothers Quay, whose feature films include The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes and the upcoming Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Moderated by faculty member Thyrza Goodeve. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts, BFA Visual and Critical Studies, and MFA Art Criticism and Writing Departments.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2764