Off the Clock: Oct 11

Off the Clock: Working with Flexible Labor, Social Networks and Everyday Life

Tuesday, October 11, 7pm

Art in General, 79 Walker St.

How do recent lateral, collaborative projects, ranging from artist-run spaces to curatorial initiatives to knowledge communities, counter the information/service-based economy and its elements of fluid social networks, entrepreneurial spirit, flexible labor management and interactions with daily life? Or do these art projects and communities utilize these factors and build upon them — in turn aligning with this mode rather than producing a disarming critique?

Presented by Silvershed at Art in General. Liam Gillick will moderate.

Panelists include:

Summer Guthery, The Chrysler Series

Rose Marcus, The Dependent Art Fair

Jackson Moore, The Public School New York

Lise Soskolne, W.A.G.E.

James Voorhies, Bureau for Open Culture

http://www.artingeneral.org/events/1085

Internet Economies: Porn, Labor, and Banking: Oct 7

Internet Economies: Porn, Labor, and Banking

Eyebeam

Thursday, October 7, 6pm

Eyebeam invites you to join us for a discussion on the future of internet economies. What might be strategies to explore and build alternate economies? Eyebeam Fellow Fran Ilich, alums Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeff Crouse, and Finnish researcher Susanna Paasonen will lead discussion to examine the worlds of online porn, digital labor, and alternative finance models. The conversation will be moderated by Amanda McDonald Crowley.

http://www.eyebeam.org/events/internet-economies-porn-labor-and-banking

Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel: Oct 6

A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus [1970]

and a screening of Who is Marvin Israel? [2005]

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

Thursday, October 6, 7:30 pm

Free Admission

A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus [1970]

and a screening of Who is Marvin Israel? [2005]

On the 40th anniversary of the artist’s death, SVA and Aperture present A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus, a rare screening of a historic 1970 slide presentation given by the legendary photographer Diane Arbus where she discusses her work and her motivations. The presentation will be accompanied by a screening of the short documentary Who is Marvin Israel? (2005), an examination of the life of designer Marvin Israel, a friend of Arbus and an influence in her work. Presented by the BFA Photography, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media and MPS Digital Photography departments at SVA in conjunction with the Aperture Foundation.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3942

Jeffrey Deitch + Jay Sanders: Oct 6

Jeffrey Deitch & Jay Sanders in Conversation

Thursday, October 6, 7pm

Artists Space

$5 Entrance Donation, Members Free

In 1975 Christopher D’Arcangelo participated in the group exhibition Lives: Artists Who Deal With Peoples’ Lives (Including Their Own) As The Subject And/Or The Medium of Their Work, curated by Jeffrey Deitch. After meeting at John Weber Gallery in New York where both were working at the time, their dialogue resulted in an essay by the curator that focused on the artist’s actions in New York museums. Jeffrey Deitch will be in conversation with curator Jay Sanders discussing D’Arcangelo’s work, its critical position in relation to the museum, and the particular cultural context of New York in the mid 1970s.

http://www.artistsspace.org/programs/jeffrey-deitch-jay-sanders-in-conversation/

Paola Pivi: Oct 5

Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

Wednesday, October 5, 6:30pm

Admission: $10; FREE to all students, New School faculty,

staff and alumni with valid ID.

The fall 2011 Public Art Fund Talks series examines the transformative potential of sculpture and its ability to transcend the material presence of an object's physical form. Italian artist Paola Pivi (now based in Alaska) creates installations, sculpture, performances, and photographs that convey astonishing and enigmatic associations and visual relationships. Her work extends our understanding of the experience of contemporary art. Presented by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

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

Wafaa Bilal: Oct 5

AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Wafaa Bilal

October 5, 2011 6:15 p.m.

Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal is known for his on-line performance works intended to provoke dialogue about international politics. For his current project, 3rdi, Bilal had a camera surgically implanted on the back of his head that transmitted images to the Web 24 hours a day, a statement on surveillance, the mundane, and the things we leave behind. Bilal’s 2010 work, ...And Counting, similarly used his own body as a medium: his back was tattooed with a map of Iraq with dots representing Iraqi and U.S. casualties of occupation, the Iraqis in invisible ink, visible only under a black light. Bilal's 2007 installation, Domestic Tension, also addressed the Iraq war: he spent a month in a Chicago gallery with a paintball gun that Internet interactive viewers could shoot at him. Bilal's work is constantly informed by the experience of fleeing his homeland and existing simultaneously in two worlds, the “comfort zone” of his U.S. home and the “conflict zone” in Iraq.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=69783

Fluxus Redux: Oct 4

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South

Tuesday, October 4, 6:30 pm

Displaying objects intended to circumvent the institutional art system—and preserving performative and ephemeral works in perpetuity—raises fundamental questions for art museums. This panel will confront the challenges posed by exhibiting Fluxus works, addressing both theoretical issues and hands-on museum practice. Speakers include Christophe Cherix, Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art; Alison Knowles, Fluxus artist; Carlo McCormick, Senior Editor, Paper magazine; and Glenn Wharton, Time-Based Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art, and Research Scholar in Museum Studies, NYU. Moderated by Julia Robinson.

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/programs/programs.html

Transdisciplinary Seminar on Afrofuturism: Julie Mehretu: Oct 4

Transdisciplinary Seminar on Afrofuturism: Julie Mehretu

October 4, 2011 6:00 p.m.

Kellen Auditorium, Johnson Design Center

66 Fifth Avenue

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

The Transdisciplinary Seminar on Afrofuturism explores how representations of science, technology, and social engineering intersect with visual cultural expressions of the African Diaspora. Science fiction is the organizing theme that unites the guest presentations and works under consideration. Visiting artists and cultural theorists lecture on the role of futuristic speculations in African diasporic art, literature, film, and music. The ability of science fiction to function as both a fractured mirror of historical experience and a projection of the collective desires of a displaced people is discussed throughout the semester.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=69950

Penelope Umbrico + Cay Sophie Rabinowitz: Oct 4

Tuesday, October 4, 7pm

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd St, New York, NY

Free and open to the public.

Aperture and Dear Dave, Magazine present a conversation between artist Penelope Umbrico and Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, cofounder and editor of Fantom magazine. This event coincides with the recently released Aperture book Penelope Umbrico (photographs), which offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images.

http://public.sva.edu/dd/Umbrico/default.html

Index Festival Panel #3: Make Ready: Aug 17

Index Festival Panel #3: Make Ready

Wednesday, August 17th, 7pm

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center

596 Broadway, #602

This panel (or moreso a roundtable) brings together artists who engage in the breaking down of analogue and digital systems through practice. Issues surrounding, documentation, preserving experience, and media obsolescence with be raised along with changing roles of artists -as-inventor, place for artists who work “outside the box” and community.

Panelists: Byron Westbrook, Shelley Burgon, Future Archeology, Ed Bear and Lea Bertucci, MV Carbon, Bruce McClure, Carrie Gates

Moderated by Peter Kirn

http://indexfestival.com/events/panels/make-ready/

A full listing of Index Festival events can be found here:

http://indexfestival.com/schedule/

Fair for Knowledge: Clouds: April 16

“Fair for Knowledge: Clouds”

Saturday, 16 April 2011, 11 am–4 pm (brunch hours)

Jo’s restaurant, 264 Elizabeth Street, New York

For table reservations, call 212 966 9640 (recommended)

An event organized by Cabinet and copresented as part of Villa Gillet’s “Walls and Bridges” series

Featuring: Deborah Coen (historian of science), Pierre Pachet (novelist and literary critic), Lytle Shaw (literary scholar), Luc Steels (computer scientist), Ginger Strand (author), and Carole Talon-Hugon (philosopher).

Cabinet’s “fairs for knowledge” take learning out of the classroom and into unexpected venues. Focusing on apparently minor topics that, if treated correctly, can in fact open up to a wide number of cultural and scientific disciplines, each fair features six leading experts in a given field ready for brief, spontaneous conversations with members of the general public. Aiming to create bridges between specialists and laymen, these fairs are designed to encourage an informal, social, and open mode of learning.

Following the first installment devoted to the theme of “Hair” at the Brooklyn Flea, this season’s fair for knowledge on “Clouds” will take place at a restaurant, where diners can order some food for thought to be served at their table along with their meal.

Reservations with Jo's restaurant recommended but not necessary.

http://cabinetmagazine.org/events/fair_for_knowledge_clouds.php

Digital Folklore: April 15

Digital Folklore: A conversation with Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied

Friday, April 15, 7pm

New Museum

$6 Members, $8 General Public

How is folk culture defined in the digital age? This is the question that renowned artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied set out to answer in their new book, Digital Folklore (2010), an anthology that examines an emergent kind of amateur, popular art: the kind made by computer users. The artists write: “Users’ endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, kittens, and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.” At this talk, part of the monthly New Silent Series, Lialina and Espenschied will present their groundbreaking book, and their new definition of contemporary folk art.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/536

The Hard Labor of the Live: April 15

Rebecca Schneider: The Hard Labor of the Live

Friday, April 15, 6:30pm

Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square

If a service economy thrives on the production of affect and the “immaterial labor” associated with the post-industrial condition, in what ways does performance-based work challenge or uphold that condition? Schneider brings this question to recent work in major art museums, such as Tino Sehgal’s Kiss and Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, beside work in theatre such as the Wooster Group’s Poor Theater.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122806564463968&index=1

Dara Birnbaum & Paul Pfeiffer: April 14

Skowhegan Conversations #2: Transitions in Media: Generational Shifts

Dara Birnbaum & Paul Pfeiffer, moderated by Lori Zippay (Electronic Arts Intermix)

Thursday, April 14 7pm

White Columns 320 West 13th St

Admission Free

Temporary Services: April 13

Social Practice: Temporary Services

Wednesday, April 13, 6pm

MoMA, Theater 3, Cullman Education and Research Building

Chicago-based artist collective Temporary Services in conversation with Max Schumann, Associate Director at Printed Matter Inc., discuss their shared concerns about self-publishing and the democratic aspects of artist books. Moderated by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry.

Temporary Services, currently comprising Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, and Marc Fischer, is an artist group based in Chicago and Copenhagen that has existed, with several changes in membership and structure, since 1998. Temporary Services, which produces exhibitions, events, projects, and publications, consider the distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors irrelevant. They invent infrastructure or borrow it when necessary. The group is self-representing and has never had a commercial gallery affiliation. In 2008 Temporary Services created Half Letter Press, a publishing imprint and online store, to better circulate their own published work and to begin highlighting and distributing the work of their peers. Publications by the group include Prisoners' Inventions with Angelo (WhiteWalls, 2003), Group Work (Printed Matter, 2005), Public Phenomena (Half Letter Press, 2008) and the nationally distributed newspaper Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics (self-published, with numerous contributors, in 2009).

Max Schumann has been working at Printed Matter, Inc. for the past 21 years; he has been Manager since 1993, took on the title of Associate Director in 2005, and has played a key role in the development of many of Printed Matter’s programs and services over the past two decades. Schumann is also a working artist and has shown internationally, mostly in public venues and alternative art spaces. He is currently represented by Taxter & Spengemann in New York City.

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/learn/lectures_events/talks_readings#course11740

Art & Technology: April 10

Art & Technology: How technology is changing art and how we create

Sunday, April 10, 4pm

The Invisible Dog, 51 Bergen St, Brooklyn

Chris Klapper and Jen Lusker will be hosting a panel discussion with five artists who use technology as a medium in their work. Prior to the discussion, each artist will give a short presentation on their work.Participating artists Patrick Gallagher , Maia Marinelli, Julien Gardair, Ernesto Klar, Jason Van Anden

http://theinvisibledog.org/2010/11/24/prana/

Curiosity and Method: April 9

Curiosity and Method:

an all-day symposium in celebration of Cabinet’s ten years of publication

Saturday, April 9, 2011, 10 am–6:30 pm

Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University

FREE. No RSVP necessary

With its fortieth issue, released in January of this year, Cabinet celebrated ten years of publication. We are using the occasion as a way of thinking both retrospectively and prospectively about some keywords that have been important to us in framing our project. These themes include amateurism, curiosity, pranks, the ordinary, deception, attention, the ethics of listening, and more. This all-day symposium gathers a diverse group of extraordinary writers and thinkers to help us sift through these keywords and to allow us to ask questions about Cabinet’s successes and failures. The symposium will be followed by a reception during which there will be a number of short readings (five minutes each) from Cabinet’s first decade.

The full program is listed at:

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/curiosity_and_method.php

N. Katherine Hayles: April 8

N. Katherine Hayles: Transcendent Data and Transmedia Narrative

Steven Hall’'s "The Raw Shark Texts"

Friday, April 8, 6:30pm

The Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium

As databases become dominant cultural forms, narratives are morphing to exploit ecological niches that enable them to compete and cooperate with data. The shape and stakes of these transformations are explored through Steven Hall’s visual/verbal transmedia novel, "The Raw Shark Texts."

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104952866256860&index=1

The Concept of Non-Photography: April 7

The Concept of Non-Photography

Lecture by François Laruelle, Introduction by Robin Mackay

Thursday, April 7th, 7pm

Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard Street (between Canal & Hester)

Of what do these essays speak? Of photography in the flesh – but not the flesh of the photographer. Myriads of negatives tell of the world, speaking in clichés among themselves, constituting a vast conversation, filling a photosphere that is located nowhere. But one single photo is enough to express a real that all photographers aspire one day to capture, without ever quite succeeding in doing so. Even so, this real lingers on the negatives’ surface, at once lived and imperceptible. Photographs are the thousand flat facets of an ungraspable identity that only shines – and at times faintly – through something else. What more is there to a photo than a curious and prurient glance? And yet it is also a fascinating secret.

—From Preface, The Concept of Non-Photography

François Laruelle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris West Nanterre La Défence, is the founder of ‘non-philosophy’ and the author of around twenty works, including Une biographie de l’homme ordinaire, Principes de la non-philosophie, Le Christ futur: Une leçon d’hérésie, and Philosophie non-standard. An introductory collection of his essays, From Decision to Heresy: Introduction to Non-Philosophy, will be published by Urbanomic/Sequence in 2011.

http://www.miguelabreugallery.com/pdf/UrbanomicSequence_PrRlse_Apr2011.pdf

Lucy Lippard: April 7

Lucy Lippard: Ghosts, the Daily News and Prophecy: Critical Landscape Photography

Thursday, April 7, 7pm

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street

Based on her book The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (New Press, 1997), activist, curator and writer Lucy Lippard will examine the role and effectiveness of photography in generating responsibility for place. She has published more than 20 books on art, feminism and politics, including Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change (E.P. Dutton, 1984), The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (The New Press, 1995) and On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place (The New Press, 2000). Lippard has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association and the 2011 Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. 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=3610