Where the Truth Lies: Feb 15

Where the Truth Lies: A Symposium on Propaganda Today
Organized by Stewart Ewen, Steve Heller, and Mary Jeys
Friday, February 15, 2008, 9am- 4pm
Baisely Powell Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave at 34th St.
$35 general admission/ $20 students

MODERATOR: David Brancaccio
KEYNOTE: Milton Glaser

SPEAKERS
Maro Chermayeff, Stephen Duncombe, Sam Ewen, Stuart Ewen, Jeffrey Graham, Julia Hobsbawm, Eugene Secunda

http://www.wherethetruthlies.org/

Explorations in Second Life: Feb 13

Parallel Worlds: Explorations in Second Life
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street

Coinciding with the first of a series of articles in Aperture magazine by Fred Ritchin exploring “postphotographic” media and emerging technologies, this panel focuses on the community within Second Life, where within a 3D world, users can explore, build, and socialize. Panelists include Fred Ritchin, a contributing editor to Aperture magazine and professor at NYU; Michael Van Horn, curator of the Joseph Monsen Collection in Seattle, and Richard Minsky, founder of the Center for Book Arts, an independent not-for-profit organization.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-month.aspx?Month=2

Huma Bhabha: Feb 11

Subjective Histories of Sculpture II: Huma Bhabha
Monday, February 11, 2008, 6:30pm
Theresa Lang Center at The New School
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor

SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents a series of artist-led lectures: Subjective Histories of Sculpture II. This lecture series furthers SculptureCenter's exploration of how contemporary artists think about sculpture - its conventions, and its legacies.

http://sculpture-center.org/pe_ca_feb.html

"Gorging on Images": Feb 11

Gorging on Images: The Archive in Contemporary Photography
A Lecture by Sven Spieker

Monday, February ll, 2008 at 7:45 pm
NYU Silver Center, Room 300,
100 Washington Square East (entrance on Waverly Place)

Organized by Professors Ulrich Baer and Shelley Rice, as part of the seminar Archive, Image, Text: The Myth and Reality of What Archives Hold, sponsored by the Departments of Photography, German, Art History, English and Comparative Literature.

The archive in contemporary photography—from Gerhard Richter to Susan Hiller and Tacita Dean—oscillates between the pathos of total inclusiveness and the specter of radical dispersion and discontinuity. In this lecture Spieker will trace this double orientation: first to the 19th-century (photo) archive with its rhetoric of preservation and identification, and second to what has been referred to as the early 20th century’s turn towards archival forms of organization as a result of the waning of the aesthetic of shock during the 1920s (photomontage). Using two seminal essays in the history of photography— Alexander Rodchenko’s ““Against the Synthetic Portrait, for the Snapshot” (1928) and Sigfried Kracauer’s“Photography” (1927)—he will demonstrate that this archival turn, whose impact on contemporary photographic practice is considerable, was not without its own internal fissures and contradictions. Whereas Rodchenko appeals to a monumental, totalizing archive of photographs with a transcendent referent (the founder of the Soviet Union, Lenin), Kracauer, who views photography as a form of counter-memory, proposes an archive of radical dispersion. By way of a conclusion he will highlight the different ways in which the fractured “archival turn” of the early 20th century lingers in contemporary photographic practice.

http://arthistory.as.nyu.edu/object/ah.gorgingonimages.html

Nextcity: The Art of the Possible: Feb 8

Nextcity: The Art of the Possible
Part of New Silent
Friday, February 8, 2008, 7pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery
$8 General Public, $6 Members

Rhizome's New Silent Series looks at the ways digital technologies have fundamentally altered our lives and experiences of urban space. Featured projects by Stamen Design, J. Meejin Yoon, and Christian Nold blur the boundaries between art, design and technological development. Moderated and introduced by Everyware author Adam Greenfield.

Emergent digital technologies are rapidly changing both the face of our cities and our daily experience of them, whether invoked in the production of architectural form, the representation of urban space, or our interface to the locative and other services newly available there. Dynamic maps update in real time; garments and spaces deform in response to environmental, biological and even psychological conditions. We find our very emotions made visible, public, and persistently retrievable. Somewhere along the way, we find our notions of public space, participation, and what it means to be urban undergoing the most profound sort of change

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/124#images_panel

Inaba, Wigley & Flood: Feb 7

Ambitions: Jeffrey Inaba, Mark Wigley, and Richard Flood in Conversation
New Museum
235 Bowery
Thursday, February 7
7:30pm

Free with Museum admission but tickets are required

This event about philanthropy, education, architecture, and other forms of influence is co-presented by New Museum and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. It takes place in conjunction with Jeffrey Inaba's installation Donor Hall at the New Museum as well as the release of Issue 13 of the architecture magazine Volume, of which Inaba is an editor. The discussion will be followed by music by Jamo and Nick Kay.

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

Allan Kaprow Tribute: Feb 7

A Tribute to Allan Kaprow
Thursday, February 7, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
MOMA Education and Research Building,
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine

This program is dedicated to the artist Allan Kaprow (1927–2006), whose events and narratives engaged the environment, the public, and the fabric of everyday life. Through a discussion moderated by Judith Rodenbeck (Noble Chair in Modern Art & Culture, Sarah Lawrence College, and Editor-in-Chief, Art Journal), artists and scholars reflect on Kaprow's legacy. Letty Eisenhauer, Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College, discusses her contributions to Kaprow's Happenings, and Alison Knowles, artist, offers her perspectives on performance and Fluxus. André Lepecki, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, addresses his experience of remaking Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 Acts, and Robert Whitman, artist and former student of Kaprow's, reflects on his participation in this moment of artistic revolution. After the program, audience members have the opportunity to view material from The Museum of Modern Art Library's Special Collections.

Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=7392&ref=calendar

Allison Smith: Feb 7

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 7pm
SVA Amphitheater, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor
Free and open to the public

Allison Smith recently organized and directed the public art event The Muster. Inspired by the aesthetic and performative qualities of American Civil War reenactments, Smith enlisted an army of participants from the art and queer communities who fashioned uniforms, built campsites and declared their causes publicly to an audience of spectators. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2160

Martha Rosler: Feb 7

An Evening with Martha Rosler
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
65 West 11th St, 5th fl (enter at 66 West 12th)
February 7, 2008, 6pm

The Arts Program at Eugene Lang College presents the Visiting Artist for Spring 2008, Martha Rosler. Ms. Rosler, who has been active as an artist since the early 1970s, will give a presentation of her work including photography, performance, writing, and video.

Rosler is an artist who works primarily with images and texts. Most of her work concerns social issues, manifested at various sites such as the kitchen, the television set, and the streets and transportation systems. Describing her work, Rosler says, "The subject is the commonplace—I am trying to use video to question the mythical explanations of everyday life. We accept the clash of public and private as natural, yet their separation is historical. The antagonism of the two spheres, which have in fact developed in tandem, is an ideological fiction—a potent one. I want to explore the relationships between individual consciousness, family life, and culture under capitalism." Rosler's career retrospective, Positions in the Life World, was exhibited in Europe and New York City. Rosler lives in Brooklyn.

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

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=14210

Eve Ensler: Feb 4

The New School Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of The Vagina Monologues with Eve Ensler

Monday, February 4, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID

Seating is limited and advance tickets are required. In person purchases can be made at The New School Box Office at 212 229-5488 or boxoffice@newschool.edu. For more information, please email vday@newschool.edu or call 212.229.5687.