Web2.0 Activist Model Case Studies: Dec 17

Web2.0 Activist Model Case Studies
Wednesday, December 17, 7:30pm
The Change You Want To See Gallery
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

Over the past two years, Web 2.0 technologies have matured and so have the methods activists use to employ them. In 2008, activists from around the world used Web 2.0 to take command of the digital airwaves pioneering new forms of political mobilization. From Student's for a Free Tibet's live streamed protests in Beijing, to RNC protesters coordinating actions and monitoring police movements on Twitter to mass digital mobilizations for humanitarian relief and election protection, Web 2.0 is no longer just for social networking and fundraising.

This Wednesday, practitioners involved in the above campaigns will present case studies and highlight how they leveraged these tools to have broader reach and greater effectiveness. We’ll also delve into issues governing internal organization and communication among political actors, including: transparency vs. security; command and control vs. autonomous affinity groups, and the power of organizing without organizations vs. the tyranny of structurelessness.

This report back and skills share is intended to leave you with concrete ideas for how these models and tools could impact your work.

http://www.notanalternative.net/wordpress/wednesday-web-20-activism-case-studies

Also, live stream at 7:30pm EST at http://mogulus.com/notanalternative.

Martin Parr: Dec 16

Talk & Book Signing
Tuesday, December 16, 7:00 pm
Strand Bookstore , 828 Broadway

Martin Parr’s collections of photography books and postcards are world-renowned. Unbeknownst to many, he is also an obsessive collector of photographic and themed objects. Parr will discuss his luscious new two-volume set, Parrworld: Objects and Postcards (Aperture, 2008). While Objects is the first publication to document his twenty-five-plus years of such collecting, Postcards is the “last word” on an extraordinary collection of over twenty thousand cards. http://www.aperture.org

DIY Law-Breaking & Mischief Making: Dec 16

DIY Law-Breaking & Mischief Making
A Conversation about Rogue Artists, Pranksters and Other Trouble-Makers
Tuesday, December 16, 6:30 p.m.

Jeff Stark leads a conversation with Graffiti Research Lab's James
Powderly, the Mare Liberum collective, Jeanine Oleson, and Cḥen Tamir, exploring the rationale, responsibilities, risks and benefits of forms of artistic expression that occur outside of the boundaries of the conventional art world, and how these creative forms-such as interference, prank, and viral culture-serve to continually redefine those boundaries.

http://efa1.org/2008/12/04/diy-law-breaking/

Architecture in Contemporary Art: Dec 13

Representing Modernism: Architecture in Contemporary Art
Saturday, December 13th, 6:00 pm.
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, 6th floor

The panel will examine the role of modernist architecture in contemporary art, discussing ways in which artists use architectural modernism in their work and why such historical visual languages are relevant now. Is modernist architecture seen to provide examples of utopian experiments and politicized space, a catalogue of design references, or a way to examine issues of ideology, gender, and political aesthetics?

Representing Modernism: Architecture in Contemporary Art will bring together artists, architectural theorists, and practicing architects to discuss ways in which such strategies are pertinent for contemporary artists. The discussion's participants are Katarina Burin, Keller Easterling, Sarah Oppenheimer, Amie Siegel, and Thomas Tsang. Jess Atwood Gibson will moderate the discussion, which will be followed by a Q & A with the audience. More at www.adhocvox.com

Holiday Hackshop: Dec 13

Holiday Hackshop 2008
Saturday, December 13
1pm- 6pm
Eyebeam
540 West 21st St.

Calling all makers, residents, fellows, and friends … If you haven’t yet experienced everyone’s favorite holiday gift-making event, here’s the scoop: For one day and one day only, Eyebeam becomes an all-ages, mutl-workshop electronic craft-making fair, with entertainment, decorations and plenty of holiday spirit. Cost: Free.

http://www.eyebeam.org/about/about.php?page=calendar
http://theredproject.com/brightbike/

Documentary Photography and the Politics of Truth: Dec 12+13

What is Real: Documentary Photography and the Politics of Truth
Friday, December 12, 6:00–10:00 pm
Saturday, December 13, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
The Times Center, 242 West 41st Street

Join photographers, curators, historians, and journalists for a series of panels exploring contemporary trends in documentary practice. Participants include Ariella Azoulay, Geoffrey Batchen, Nayland Blake, Okwui Enwezor, Thomas Keenan, Thomas Y. Levin, Maria Lind, Susan Meiselas, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Brian Wallis, and others. $10/$5 for ICP members

For more information and to register, visit
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.886227/#real

Craft Hackers: Dec 12

Craft Hackers
Friday, Dec 12, 7:30 pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Craft Hackers is a panel discussion among artists who use crafting techniques to explore high-tech culture and the relationship between needlework and computer programming. Panelists include Cat Mazza, who translates moving images into stills knit in yarn; Christy Matson, who uses Jacquard Looms (some of the earliest computers) to knit landscape images from computer games; Ben Fino-Radin, whose witty needlepoint sculptures translate the World Wide Web into yarn and plastic, one pixel at a time; and Cody Trepte, whose embroidery of retired computer punch cards rekindles an old-fashioned love affair with the hand of the artist. $6 Members, $8 General Public

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/267

Dan Graham: Dec 11

Dan Graham, born in 1942, was a pioneer of performance and video art in the 70’s. He is a gallery owner, theorist, photographer, and installation artist. His work currently involves architecture designed for social interactions in public spaces. He is also a writer whose work ranges from conceptual art pieces inserted in mass-market magazines to pop culture analysis. He lives and works in New York.

http://events.nyu.edu/index.cgi?cmd=showevent&ncmd=list2week&cal=cal12,cal187&id=177645&ncals=&de=1&tf=0&sib=1&sb=0&sa=1&ws=1&stz=Default&sort=e,m,t&cat=&swe=1&cf=list&set=1&m=12&d=8&y=2008','500','500'

McKenzie Wark: Dec 11

50 Years of Recuperation: The Situationist International 1957-1972
Thursday, December 11, 7:15pm
16 Beaver Street

McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard UP 2004), Gamer Theory (Harvard 2007) and most recently 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International (Princeton Architectural 2008). He is th chair of Culture & Media Studies at Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Studies.

http://www.16beavergroup.org/monday/

WJT Mitchell: Dec 11

W.J.T. Mitchell: The Future of the Image
Thursday, December 11, 7pm
SVA, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

Scholar and theorist of media, art and literature W.J.T. Mitchell will discuss the work of Jacques Ranciere, a contemporary French philosopher whose writings on the relationship between contemporary art and politics have garnered much attention in the art world. Mitchell is a well-known figure in the fields of visual culture and iconology, a professor of English and art history at the University of Chicago and the editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry. 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=2671

Situated Technologies:The Colloquy of Things

Philip Beesley, Marc Böhlen, and Natalie Jeremijenko.
Moderated by Omar Khan
Thursday, December 11, 7pm
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue

A panel discussion organized in conjunction with the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series, the League's ongoing publication series exploring the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. The panel will explore the growing agency of natural and artificial "things," considering themes such as ambient intelligence, underspecification, responsiveness, and emergent ecologies. Free for League members; $10 non-members. To reserve or purchase tickets, or for more information, click here.

The third Situated Technologies pamphlet, Situated Advocacy, is currently available print-on-demand from Lulu.com. This special double issue features the essays "Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy," by Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey, and "Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces," by Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko. See website for more info: http://www.archleague.org/index-dynamic.php?show=828

Karen Finley: Nov 25

Karen Finley
RAPID RESPONSE: I NEED MY SPACE
Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Visual and performance artist Karen Finley will lead this group meeting, featuring invited and volunteer testimonials sharing our emotional responses to the election and the various needs for space--physical, social, cultural and psychological--that it exposed. How do our national political relationships inform or dialogue with the workplace, family, community and friends? How do the race, gender, class and identity issues raised in the campaign continue to be discussed? Finley will also address the transformation of the memory of Chicago's Grant Park (and the 1968 Democratic Convention) from a site of pain and loss into one of celebration and unity on November 4th, as well as legacies of Vietnam War protests and the Civil Rights Movement embodied in that space.

Audience participation in the meeting is encouraged. I NEED MY SPACE will last approximately one hour, with the hope of providing a therapeutic and supportive group environment for those needing space in their own lives.

Free and open to the public. RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu
Refreshments provided by BAREFOOT WINES

RAPID RESPONSE is held on the last Tuesday of each month, it is an open and undetermined platform for quick response to events that have taken place over the last thirty days. Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. http://www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/calendar.html

Howard Gardner: Nov 25, Dec 2+9

The True, the Beautiful, and the Good:
Reconsiderations in a Postmodern, Digital Era
Museum of Modern Art, Titus Theater 1

Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 p.m.
Kinds and Degrees of Truths.
Moderated by Peter Galison, Pellegrino University Professor in the History of Science and Physics, Harvard University

Tuesday, December 2, 6:30 p.m.
Beauty and Its Successors.
Moderated by Paola Antonelli, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art

Tuesday, December 9, 6:30 p.m.
The Good: Seen through the Prisms of Biology, Culture, and History.
Moderated by Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, and Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California

In this unprecedented lecture series, world-renowned psychologist Howard Gardner offers an extended reflection on the concepts of Truth, Beauty, and the Good in a postmodern, digital age. Drawing from philosophy, history, natural sciences, and cultural theory, Gardner analyzes how a sophisticated understanding of the power and limitations of these concepts can come about; and how best to understand what is essential, expendable, or deceptive about truth, beauty, goodness, and their opposites. ($10/$8/$5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=10171&ref=calendar

Shirazeh Houshiary: Nov 25

Shirazeh Houshiary
Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum

Guided by the mystical traditions of Sufism, Shirazeh Houshiary's practice challenges the boundaries of perception and reality with drawings and paintings characterized by layers of fine marks as well as sculptures and installations that evoke biomorphic, abstract forms based on mathematical calculation. $10 ($7 for members and students)

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Jonas Bendiksen: Nov 24

Monday, November 24, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street,4th fl

Magnum Photographer Jonas Bendiksen will be in conversation with prominent author and editor of the Paris Review Philip Gourevitch about Bendiksen’s latest book The Places We Live (Aperture, 2008), a unique and powerful portrait of slum life today introduced by Gourevitch.
http://www.aperture.org/events/

You can also listen to the live webcast here: http://www.aperture.org/live/

John Baldessari: Nov 20

The Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture
John Baldessari
Thursday, November 20, 7 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art

In honor of the late Walter H. Annenberg, philanthropist, patron of the arts, and former ambassador, the Whitney Museum of American Art established the Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture to advance this country's understanding of its art and culture. In this fourth Annenberg Lecture, John Baldessari will speak about his work in conversation with Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney's Alice Pratt Brown Director. For more than fifty years, Baldessari has masterfully juxtaposed painting, photography, sculpture, and other media to probe how meaning is created through images, objects, and text.

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

Matthew Higgs and Elizabeth Peyton: Nov 20

Matthew Higgs and Elizabeth Peyton: 20 Questions
Friday, Nov 21, 7:30 pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Artist, curator, and director of White Columns Matthew Higgs will interview the artist Elizabeth Peyton using a list of questions contributed by twenty artists, curators, critics, and others who are familiar with Peyton's work.

From her earliest portraits of musicians like Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher, and Jarvis Cocker to more recent paintings featuring friends and figures from the worlds of art, fashion, cinema, and politics, including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Matthew Barney, and Marc Jacobs, Elizabeth Peyton's body of work presents a chronicle of America at the end of the last century. A painter of modern life, Peyton's small, jewel-like portraits are also intensely empathetic, intimate, and even personal. Together, her works capture an artistic zeitgeist that reflects the cultural climate of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/266

Tercerunquinto: Nov 19

Panel Discussion: Tercerunquinto
Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue

Panelists include Julio Castro, Gabriel Cázares, and Rolando Flores from Tercerunquinto, as well as Eungie Joo, Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, and Taiyana Pimentel, Independent Curator, Mexico City.

Tercerunquinto is a collective formed by Castro, Cázares and Flores that jointly manipulate architectural elements to change the spatial dynamics of interior and exterior spaces, in order to examine their limits and to alter their functions. The artists will discuss their work with Joo and Pimentel. This event is free and open to the public. In collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute. This program is part of the 3rd Annual Latin American Culture Week in New York City. For more information visit www.pamar.org/lacwnyc/

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=394

Catherine Sullivan: Nov 19

Wednesday, November 19, 6:30pm
The New School
John Tishman Auditorium / 66 West 12th Street

Catherine Sullivan's installations combine theater, dance, film, music and visual art; through these disciplines she scrutinzes collective audiences such as nostalgia, the sensations of history, and cultural acquiescence. The performers in her pieces often explore written texts, stylistic economies, gestural regimes, reenactments of history and conceptual orthodoxies. Her work is usually shot or performed within locations that are richly layered with social functions, and the elements of character, action and setting play off one another to produce an anxious and unresolved political sensibility. The topics touched upon in Sullivan's 2007 piece, Triangle of Need, are numerous and varied, including Neanderthal orphans, Nigerian email scams and even time travel. To create this piece, the artist collaborated with noted music, dance and film professionals, to create an ambitious and thought-provoking work that makes underlying comments on a broader set of issues. However, her true medium is the ensemble itself, and her works most often involve multiple collaborators. With The Chittendens (2005), for example, a six-channel sound and video piece produced in collaboration with composer Sean Griffin, Sullivan assigned sixteen actors different "attitudes" — each characterized by appointed movements and emotions that were performed according to a strict pattern. The name of the piece itself was derived from an insurance agency called "Chittenden Group" whose logo — a lighthouse — is a meaningful metaphor for self-possession.

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_current.htm

James Hyde: Nov 18

Tuesday, November 18, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C

Known for his imaginative use of materials, like beach-chair webbing and illuminated Plexiglas, Brooklyn-based artist James Hyde has experimented with everything from fresco paintings on Styrofoam to furniture making. Over the past two decades, Hyde has been the subject of many solo exhibitions nationwide, and his work is included in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Brooklyn Museum and the Denver Art Museum. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and 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=2617

Mapping Nations: Nov 17

Mapping Nations
Monday, November 17, 6:30 p.m.
MoMA Cullman Education and Research Building, Theater 3

IRWIN is an artist collective based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, best known for their ongoing projects NSK State and East Art Map. NSK State is a utopian state without a concrete territory, questioning notions of borders and nationhood. East Art Map is a work focusing on retracing the contemporary art and history of Eastern Europe. The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a research organization that explores how the United States' lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived. Matt Coolidge of CLUI and Miran Mohar and Borut Vogelnik of IRWIN discuss how they engage in the specific and symbolic meaning of territoriality and how they use the tools of art, research, and collaboration to present their projects both in and outside of museum contexts. ($10/ $8/ $5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9861&ref=calendar

Cory Arcangel: Nov 14

Continual Partial Awareness:
Premiere of a New Performance by Cory Arcangel
Friday, November 14, 2008, 8:30 PM
New Museum, 235 Bowery

According to the artist: “This performance is going to be about ‘Continuous Partial Awareness’—a phrase that was first described to me as meaning ‘you know, like, when you have three IM windows open, two e-mail in boxes dinging away, are texting five different people, and also have five tabs open on your browser, each with updated content.’ It is about paying attention to everything all the time, but not really concentrating on anything. It is different from multitasking, because with multitasking, one actually is expected to concentrate on tasks at some point, even if in small doses. ‘Continuous Partial Awareness’ is the eroded degenerate modern version of multitasking. I still don’t know how this performance will take shape, it might be a lecture, a music show, a broadcast, a chess game, etc., but what I do know is that the feeling of ‘non-concentration’ that has seeped into today’s life through our flat-screen displays and Wi-Fi will be its starting point." http://www.newmuseum.org/events/264

Eugen Radescu and Bosko Blagojevic: Nov 13

How innocent is that?
Thursday, November 13, 6:30 pm
apexart, 291 Church Street

Eugen Radescu and Bosko Blagojevic in conversation about the state of innocence in Eastern Europe. Eugen Radescu is an independent curator, co-founder, and co-publisher at Pavilion magazine, president of artphoto asc., and co-director of Bucharest Biennale. Eugen Radescu is in residence with apexart as the recipient of a CEC ArtsLink Fellowship.

Bosko Blagojevic is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn. His writing on art and culture has appeared in a variety of media both online and off, including recently the journals Afterimage, USELESS and Art Asia Pacific, as well as several artist's publications. He, along with Xenia Pachikov, is co-founder and director of Platform for Pedagogy, a New York-based organization working to advance a culture of cross-disciplinary public lecture attendance and develop the lecture as form. http://apexart.org/events/radescu_talk.htm

From Sketching to Experience: Nov 13

From Sketching to Experience
Thursday, November 13, 6 - 8pm
White Rabbit, 145 Houston Street

In anticipation of its fall 2009 opening, the MFA Interaction Design Department at SVA presents “Dot Dot Dot,” a monthly public lecture series exploring interaction design, business and aesthetic inspiration. Designed to satisfy both social and scholarly pursuits, each program features three talks by three practitioners in thirty minutes, followed by drinks. First up, Tom Bodkin, design director, New York Times; Jake Barton, founder and principal, Local Projects; Andrew Sloat, graphic designer and videomaker; and Christopher Fahey, SVA faculty member for Interaction Design Fundamentals, will present their individual design processes, from sketching to production. Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to http://tinyurl.com/58e9jm

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2677

Full Moon POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi: Nov 13

Full Moon POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Thursday, November 13, 12pm- 7pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Museum as Hub, 5th floor (directions)

Ginger Brooks Takahashi’s quilting forum or “POWERSTITCH” employs traditional craft to de-formalize the exhibition space as productive community space. An ongoing project since 2004, an army of lovers cannot fail, has been shown and worked on all over North America. With its “harmless” motif of rabbits engaged in acts of physical play and sex, the quilt as an object of both work and display documents the participation of many while offering itself to new hands. As invited guests, friends, and visitors stitch the all-white quilt alongside participatory readings on privilege, sex, or society, the work affirms self-organized community formation with regards to ideas of camaraderie, intimacy, or solidarity.

As this POWERSTITCH is taking place on the full moon, please bring a text, story or poem to honor this lunar event. Quilting direction and supplies will be provided.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/258

Framing the Presidency: Nov 12

Framing the Presidency Panel Discussion
Wednesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street

This panel explores the collision of photography, mass media, and politics in examining the role of images in the 2008 presidential campaign and beyond. Artists and media experts share their experiences and explore the power of photography in constructing our image of the presidency. Panelists will include New York Times campaign picture editor David Scull; Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Todd Heisler who has been following both Democratic and Republican candidates; photographer Tim Davis whose body of work My Life in Politics, irreverently examines American politics; and Robert Hariman, Chair of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.

This event is part of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context in collaboration with Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Parsons the New School for Design. Admission is free.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=450

Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis: Nov 11

Tuesday, November 11, 6:30 p.m.
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor

An intimate conversation between mother and son about their work, influences, and collaborations. Hank Willis Thomas' first monograph, Pitch Blackness (Aperture), raises complex questions about identity, race, violence, and commodification in contemporary life. Deborah Willis is a photographer, educator, author, and curator. She is currently chair and professor of photography and imaging at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-single.aspx?id=449

Cultural Power: Nov 10

Monday, November 10, 7:00 pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY, Proshansky Auditorium
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

How does art affect consciousness, bridge political, ideological, religious, and geographic distances, and contribute to physical and political change? Tom Stoppard and Derek Walcott, two international literary luminaries, examine the power of culture and art in a globalizing world. David Nasaw, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, will moderate.

http://www.greatissuesforum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=78

An-My Lê on Michael Heizer: Nov 10

Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street
Monday, November 10, 6:30 pm

Born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1960, New York-based artist An-My Lê gained a Master of Science from Stanford University, California, in 1985, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale School of Art, New Haven, in 1993. Recent solo shows include presentations at Murray Guy, New York (2008); Marion Center, Santa Fe (2006, and traveling through 2008). Trap Rock, Lê’s 2006-2007 series was on view at Dia:Beacon through September 2008. Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors. Tickets are available at the lecture only. Reservations are suggested, please call 212 293 5583

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

Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese: Oct 30

Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese
Thursday, October 30, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
MoMA
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2)

With every presidential election beginning in 1984, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese have compiled and edited Political Advertisement, a historical survey of television campaign spots from 1952 to the present. This anthology, updated to include advertisements from the 2008 presidential campaign, documents the selling of the American presidency since the 1950s. As Muntadas and Reese trace the development of the TV "spot," a social and media history emerges revealing how campaign spots have become a political strategy and manipulative marketing technique. This evening, the artists debut the latest version of Political Advertisement in a premiere presentation followed by commentary by Laura Flanders, journalist, Air America host of Radio Nation, and author of Blue Grit. $10/$8/5
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9757&ref=calendar

Anthony Goicolea: Oct 30

Anthony Goicolea
Thursday, October 30, 6:30pm
SVA: 133/141 West 21st Street, room 101c.

Anthony Goicolea is interested in self-portraiture, vanity and narcissism as well as issues dealing with the body, beauty, chaos, the grotesque and the perverse. In his recent work--whether it is photography, video, or drawing--he focuses on how people shed their sense of individuality to become part of a larger homogenized group, or conversely, how they rebel against the larger whole and assert their individuality. His latest public art project, a large street-poster installation organized by More Art, is currently on view on Tenth Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets.

On Criticism: Oct 30

Thursday, October 30th, 7:00pm.
Guild & Greyshkul
28 Wooster St

Questioning the relevancy of criticism is hardly the exclusive sport of a contemporary audience. The roles, values, and goals of criticism have been as contested as any individual critic's pronouncements. What factors, then, uniquely beset art criticism now? What basis is there for the widely espoused claim that we are in a "post critical" age? In a highly diversified and cross-disciplinary art world, what constitutes a conflict of interest for a critic? How have blogging and self-publishing through the Internet affected art writing? On Criticism will bring together critics writing for print and online publications, editors, and artists writing criticism to discuss such questions. The discussion's participants are Jan Avgikos, Ben Davis, John Miller, Joao Ribas, Martha Schwendener, and Roger White. Colleen Asper will moderate the discussion, which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. Organized by Colleen Asper and Jennifer Dudley, Ad Hoc Vox is an ongoing series of discussions and lectures without a fixed location that addresses a wide range of issues in contemporary art. More at

Ken Jacobs: Oct 29

Ken Jacobs Artist Talk and Premiere of New Work
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:30 pm
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor

EAI is pleased to present the premiere screening of a new feature-length, 3-D video by legendary experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, titled ANAGLYPH TOM (Tom With Puffy Cheeks). Jacobs will be present to introduce and discuss his work and will also screen three of his recent digital shorts: His Favorite Wife Improved (2008), Nymph (2007), and Capitalism: Slavery (2006). In these works, Jacob reanimates through digital manipulation sources ranging from a 19th century stereograph to a 20th-century televised movie. Throbbing and flickering, pulsing and stuttering, these works plunge the viewer into haunted scenes that come alive with illusory depth and movement. Whether undertaking archaeological journeys to the birth of cinema, or reactivating vintage stereographs through digital interventions, Jacobs investigates, provokes and draws power from the mysteries of the nature of vision. *NOTE: The works being screened should not be viewed by individuals with epilepsy or seizure disorders.

http://www.eai.org/eai/publicProgramArtists.htm?id=111

Street Art: Oct 28

Honors Program Annual Lecture: Street Art
SVA: 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Tuesday, October 28, 7pm

A panel will discuss the history and potential of street art, including its role as inspiration for artists. The panelists include: Marc and Sara Schiller, Wooster Collective; Thomas Beale, Honey Space; Frank Anselmo, art director, BBDO New York and SVA faculty member; and ELBOW-TOE, street artist. Artist and SVA faculty member Amy Wilson will moderate. Presented by the Honors Program. Free and open to the public.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2578

Joachim Koester: Oct 28

Tuesday, October 28, 6:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum

Hugo Boss Prize 2008 finalist, Koester draws on archival methods through films and photographic installations which explore an array of enigmatic, historical narratives through their material remains, ultimately challenging the viewer's understanding of the construction and degradation of history. $10/7 http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Democracy and Bureaucracy: Oct 24

Panel Discussion: Democracy and Bureaucracy
Friday, October 24, 2008, 6:30-8:30pmArt in General, 79 Walker St

Artists Carla Herrera-Prats and Carlos Motta discuss ideas about democracy and access, archives and standardization, with Tim Rollins, artist and co-founder of Group Material, Nato Thompson, curator of the Creative Time exhibition Democracy in America: The National Campaign, and Art in General curator Eva Díaz.

http://www.artingeneral.org/articles/234

Contemporary Artists' Books: Oct 24

Contemporary Artists' Books Conference: Keynote Session
MoMA, Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
Friday, October 24, 2008, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

In conjunction with the Contemporary Artists' Books Conference, a collaboration between the Art Libraries Society of New York and Printed Matter, Inc., numerous institutions in New York City are offering panels, artists' presentations, and tours. MoMA hosts the keynote session, which features curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with artists Joseph Grigely and Rirkrit Tiravanija about new developments in the dynamic genre of artists' books and artworks that relate to the codex form. $10/$8/$5

For more information, please visit www.arlisny.org/cabc
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9751&ref=calendar

The Art of the 1990s: Oct 24

Catalysts and Critics: The Art of the 1990s
Friday, October 24, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Columbia University
Havemeyer Hall, Room 309 (Broadway at 116th Street)

An international roster of academics, critics, curators, gallerists, and collectors participate in this day-long session dedicated to the critical debate surrounding "relational aesthetics" as well as to the shared history of the artists featured in theanyspacewhatever. Organized by the Guggenheim Museum and presented with Columbia University School of the Arts.

Participants include: Alex Alberro, Claire Bishop, Ina Blom, Nicolas Bourriaud, Massimo de Carlo, Jose Falconi, Massimiliano Gioni, Nancy Spector, and Andy Stillpass

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Night School Seminar 9: Natascha Sadr Haghighian

Night School Public Seminar 9: Natascha Sadr Haghighian
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Thursday, October 23, 2008, 7:30pm
Friday, October 24, 7:30pm
Saturday, October 25, 3pm

Natascha Sadr Haghighian works in the fields of video, performance, computer, and sound, and is primarily concerned with the sociopolitical implications of constructions of vision from a central perspective and with abstract events within the structure of industrial society, as well as with the strategies and returning circulations that become apparent in them.

Instead of a CV, Natascha Sadr Haghighian started bioswop.net, an Internet platform for CV-exchange where artists and other cultural practitioners can borrow and lend CVs for various purposes. The aim is to have more and more people exchanging their CVs for representational purposes. For more information go to bioswop.net

Copyright and the Digital Age: Oct 15

Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street


Aperture and The New School are pleased to present an important and timely discussion on essential issues of photography and copyright in a digital age. A current and burning issue since the Senate just passed a few days ago, The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Bill of 2008, designed to free up creative works for which no copyright holder can be located. The discussion will focus on what every working photographer today needs to know, engaging prominent experts to share their knowledge and different points of view. Panelists to include Nancy E. Wolff, lawyer and partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, who specializes in intellectual property and digital media law; Eileen Flanagan, licensing director of Magnum Photos and former national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals, with longstanding experience in the photo licensing business including Corbis, Getty Images, and the Chicago Historical Society; as well as photographer-turned-industry-advocate Lou Lesko. Moderated by Michelle Bogre, Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design.

This event is part of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography In Context.

www.newschool.edu/publicprograms

Carlos Motta: Oct 15

Wednesday, Oct 15, 3:15 pm - 5pm
Parsons, The New School for Design
6 Fifth Ave. Kellen Auditorium


Carlos Motta is a New York based artist whose work has been individually presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art,Philadelphia; Art in General, NY; and Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden. His was included in recent group exhibitions such as Convergence Center, Democracy in America, Creative Time at Park Avenue Armory, NY; The Greenroom, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Ours: Democracy in the Time of Branding, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, NY; and Soft Manipulation, Casino Luxemburg, Luxemburg. Motta is adjunct faculty in the MFA and BFA Photography department at Parsons. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2008.
www.carlosmotta.com; www.la-buena-vida.info
http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=1013

Perceptual Transformations: Oct 14

Perceptual Transformations
Tuesday October 14, 6:30 p.m.
The King Juan Carlos of Spain Center-NYU
53 Washington Square South

This multidisciplinary panel will focus on theories of perception, phenomenology, and the development of spectator participation in artworks such as Carlos Cruz-Diez' Cromosaturación and Pedro Reyes' Leverage.

Speakers includeNuit Banai (Art Historian), Marisa Carrasco (Chair of Psychology, New York University), Pedro Reyes (Artist) and Edward Sullivan, Moderator (Dean of Humanities, New York University)

This fall, Americas Society presents Carlos Cruz-Diez’s first solo show in a major U.S. cultural institution: Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color. Focusing on the relationship between color and perception, the exhibition will increase Cruz-Diez's visibility and appreciation in the United States, one of Latin America’s Kinetic Art masters.

Organized by the Americas Society in conjunction with the exhibition "Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color" and with the collaboration of the King Juan Carlos Center, New York University, and The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. This event is free and open to the public. Full listing details here

Susan Meiselas and Alfredo Jaar: Oct 8

Wednesday, October 8, 6:30 p.m.
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor

Coinciding with the long awaited reissue of Nicaragua, and the accompanying exhibition on view at the International Center of Photography, Aperture presents a special evening of conversation between internationally acclaimed photojournalist Susan Meiselas and artist and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar. Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and is renowned for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her widely-published documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Jaar emigrated from Chile at the height of Pinochet’s military dictatorship in 1981. His installations, photographs, films, and community-based projects bear powerful witness to military con­flicts, imbalances of power, and political corruption.

Note: This event also launches "Aperture Live", a new initiative to webcast and archive Aperture artist talks. http://www.aperture.org/live

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-single.aspx?id=441

Leslie Hewitt: Oct 8

The New School
66 Fifth Ave. Kellen Auditorium
Wednesday, Oct 8, 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Leslie Hewitt uses photography, sculpture and film to challenge the representation and organization of social meaning. Hewitt uses the camera as a tool to reposition ones view, subtly disrupting the window effect and expectations of a photographic document. She engages architectural space and the fragmentation of time through photographic and sculptural means. In exploring the “revolution embedded” in photography and film, her work addresses how cultural material is documented, classified and preserved.Hewitt was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions also include The High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX; Artists Space, New York; Sculpture Center, New York; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, D’Amelio Terras, New York; Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland and Thomas Dane, London, United Kingdom. (Ticket Price: free)

http://www.parsons.newschool.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=1012

Bondell Cummings: Oct 7

Blondell Cummings
Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 5pm
The New School
Skybridge Art Space, Eugene Lang Building,
65 West 11th Street, 3rd floor

Blondell Cummings will lead a three-week workshop series titled ‘Meditations of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.’ The series will explore The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in a series of interdisciplinary workshops. Using observation and research materials from personal, local and global perspectives, human rights issues are explored through traditional and non-traditional approaches, partnerships and collaborations. Artists in all media and non-artists are invited to contribute and realize their ideas and points of view. The workshop concludes with a final meditative workshop open to the entire New School community. The residency will also include an exhibit on Blondell and her work in the Skybridge Gallery. Blondell Cummings is founder and artistic director of the Cycle Arts Foundation, a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural arts collaborative that focus on contemporary issues- social, political and personal, to bring the artist and audience to the poetics of the human condition and build community.

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=21750

David Ross: Oct 7

David Ross: In Real Time
Tuesday, October 7, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C

A conversation with David Ross and Suzanne Anker, chair, SVA BFA Fine Arts Department, on the function of the museum in the 21st century and what some consider the disconnect between what is happening in “real life” and the kinds of persuasions found in the art world. David Ross has played a prominent role in the museum world since 1971, serving as the director of both the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He recently opened a commercial gallery, Albion New York, an expansion of Albion London. 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=2566

Women In Photography: September 30

Tuesday, September 30, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor

Aperture is hosting a panel discussion featuring Cara Philips and Amy Elkins, co-founders and co-curators of Women in Photography, a new online venue showcasing work by contemporary female photographers, for a lively discussion on what it means to be a woman in photography today. Moderated by Laurel Ptak, Aperture's Educational Programs Manager, the discussion also includes Women in Photography featured photographers Robin Schwartz and Elinor Carucci speaking about their work.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-single.aspx?id=428

Visuality+ Performance+ Social Critique: 9/25+ 26

Conference: VISUALITY + PERFORMANCE + SOCIAL CRITIQUE
Thursday - Friday, September 25 - 26
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU
53 Washington Square South

What can performance and visual studies learn from each other? This two-day symposium explores evocative sites of intersection between performance and the visual in dialogue with artists and scholars who work in both registers. What strategies for political/social critique does their combination enable? Participants include MacArthur-award winning photographer Susan Meiselas (NYC), art historian Estrella de Diego (Madrid), Ricardo Dominguez of Electronic Disturbance Theatre (San Diego/Tijuana), political performance artist Coco Fusco (New York), the theatre company Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani (Peru), and members of artist-activist collective, YoMango (Barcelona), among others. Click here to download the full program

Signs of Change Symposium: Sept 25

Signs of Change Event: A Two-Panel Symposium
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave
Thursday, September 25

6 pm: Producing and Distributing Social Movement Culture
Panelists include: Judy Ann Seidman/ Artist and Writer (South Africa); Sphinx/Indymedia Africa; illcommonz (Japan), Favianna Rodriguez/Tumis Design (Oakland, CA) and others TBA. Moderated by Gregory Sholette, Assistant Professor Queens College Department of Art, Co-Founder PAD/D & REPOhistory/New York.

8 pm: Assessing the History and Future of Social Movement Culture: A Critical Analysis
Panelists include: Stephen Duncombe/Writer & Professor, NYU; Dee Dee Halleck/Media Activist, Co-founder Deep Dish TV; Sasha Roseneil/Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, Director, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birbeck, University of London (UK), Jose Vasquez/Iraq Veterans Against the War, CUNY Graduate Center and others TBA. Moderated by Kazembe Balagun, Brecht Forum/blogger: blackmanwithalibrary.com (New York, NY).

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/public_programs.html

Night School Seminar 8: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Night School Public Seminar 8: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Thursday, September 25, 2008, 7:30 PM
Friday, September 26, 2008, 7:30 PM
Saturday, September 27, 2008, 3:00 PM

Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A year-long program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program. Free with Museum admission but tickets are required.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/233

Shelly Silver: Sept 24

Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 6:30 pm
MoMA, Theater 3, Cullman Education and Research Building

Shelly Silver, a New York–based artist who utilizes video, film, and photography, screens and discusses in complete world (2008), a feature-length documentary made up of street interviews done throughout New York City. Mixing political questions ("Are we responsible for the government we get?") with more broadly existential ones ("Do you feel you have control over your life?"), the film centers on the tension between individual and collective responsibility. in complete world can be seen as a user's manual for citizenship in the twenty-first century, as well as a glimpse into the opinions and self-perceptions of a diverse group of Americans. It is a testament to the people of New York City in this new millennium who freely offer thoughtful, provocative and at times tender revelations to a complete stranger, just because she asked. Silver currently teaches at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Sciences and in the MFA Department of Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts. Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, moderates a discussion. $10/$8/$5

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9753&ref=calendar

Democracy in America: Convergence Center

September 21- 27, 2008
noon-10pm daily*
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 21, 2-10pm
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave
*Open from 2 to 10 pm on September 21 and from 12 to 6:30 pm on September 23.

After traveling across the country to glean perspectives from artists and activists on the state of democracy, Creative Time’s year-long program Democracy in America: The National Campaign culminates in the “Convergence Center”: a major exhibition, participatory project space, and meeting hall mounted in New York City’s Park Avenue Armory just in time for election season. The Convergence Center at Park Avenue Armory will provide an activated space to both reflect on and perform democracy and will be punctuated by speeches by leading political thinkers as well as community leaders and activists throughout the run of its program. As one of the largest unobstructed spaces in New York, the non-traditional setting of the Armory features interiors—such as its vast drill hall and historic period rooms—that are ideal for artists presenting multifaceted visual and performing arts productions.

More details and full schedule of events available here: http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2008/democracy/convergence_events.php

James Benning: Sept 21

Sunday, September 21, 3:30pm
Dia Beacon

James Benning in conversation with Lynne Cooke at 3:30pm
Following a screening of Benning's Casting a Glance (2007), at 2pm

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/conversations/index.html

"New York: Past, Present, and Possible Future": Sept 20

Saturday, September 20, 2008 | 3:00 PM
New York: Past, Present, and Possible Future
New Museum, 235 Bowery

This panel will engage New York’s landscape at three distinct moments in history. Eric W. Sanderson, leader of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Mannahatta Project, will discuss Manhattan island in 1609; Matthew Coolidge, of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), will speak about “Up River: Points of Interest from The Battery to Troy,” CLUI’s study of the “sculpted landscape” of today’s Hudson River; and Matthew Sharpe will read from his novel Jamestown, which is partially set in an imaginary future Manhattan. Moderated by Brian Sholis, editor of Artforum.com. http://www.newmuseum.org/events/232

Conflux Festival

Going on now through Sunday, over one hundred local and international artists are transforming New York City streets into a laboratory for exploring the urban environment at the Conflux Festival. Located in Greenwich Village at the Center for Architecture (a.k.a. Conflux HQ), the four-day event includes art installations, street art interventions, interactive performance, walking tours, bicycle and public-transit expeditions, DIY media workshops, lectures, films and music. For more info visit http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2008/ .

Linda Nochlin on Louise Bourgeois: Sept 16

Old-Age Style: Late Louise Bourgeois
Tuesday, September 16, 6:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue

Linda Nochlin discusses Louise Bourgeois’s “late style” within the context of the artist’s long and distinguished career. Focusing on Bourgeois’s recent stuffed fabric sculptures, Professor Nochlin contrasts this characteristic “soft” production with the more architectonic sculptures dating from the same period. $10/$7

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Breaking Conventions: Sept 16

Breaking Conventions: Video Report-Back and Discussion
Tuesday, September 16, 7:00-10:00 pm
The Change You Want To See Gallery
84 Havemeyer St, at Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

An evening of video clips and conversation with independent media activists who’ve recently returned from the national political conventions: including Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now!, I-Witness Video, Glassbead Collective, Big Noise Tactical & Indymedia. Hear first-hand accounts from the convention floor to the protests in the streets to the insides of a Minneapolis jailhouse. Discussion topics include the state of protest, the state of independent media, the state of the state, policies of pre-emption, policies of exception, party policies, predictions, predelictions, and lessons learned...

http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org

Robert Buck on Andy Warhol: Sept 15

September 15, 2008, 6:30 pm.
Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street
Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors.

This series, established in 2001, highlights the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers, and focuses on artists in Dia’s collection and exhibition programs. Robert Buck is a New York-based artist who until recently has shown as Robert Beck. Tickets are available at the lecture only. Reservations are suggested, please call 212 293 5583

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