In the Fall of 2004, I was invited by Mark Tribe to kick-off a lecture series he had organized at Columbia University’s Digital Media Center, "Open Source Culture and the Arts." Other lecturers in the series included Jeffrey Cunard, Siva Vaidyanathan, Jon Ippolito and Cory Arcangel. The Media Center website has since been revamped, the Index to the lecture series deleted. Happily, they've been putting their archived videos up on Youtube.
From spring 2004 to fall 2004, leading new media artists, curators and theorists discussed the exciting and diverse field of Art & Technology to the students, faculty and staff of Columbia University. All lectures were taped and made available online. The online presentation of the lectures served as a measure of Instructor Mark Tribe's students' understanding of each presenter's talk as well as its place in the larger discourse of art and technology.
NOTE: You can also watch this video on Columbia's DMC site here.
Paul Chan & The Front Gallery talk: Saturday January 17: 1pm
Winkleman Gallery 637 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 t: 212.643.3152 f: 212.643.2040
Please join us for an informal gallery talk by Paul Chan and several members of The Front who are visiting New York from New Orleans on Saturday, January 17, at 1pm (the day after the opening of the "Things Fall Apart" exhibition). They will talk about how The
Front was formed, its mission, its members, and the transformation in the NOLA art scene over the past few years.
The 14 artists who form The Front are Kyle Bravo, Andrea Ferguson,
Rachel Jones, Morgana King, Jenny Le Blanc, Michelle Levine, Jennifer
Odem, Stephanie Patton, Julie Pieri, Claire Rau, Jeff Rinehart, Megan
Roniger, Natalie Sciortino and Jonathan Traviesa.
The Front is located
at 4100 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117. More info:
http://www.nolafront.org/
Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art Curated by Keely Orgeman, Boston University Adelson Fellow September 5 – November 2, 2008
Opening reception: Thursday, September 4, 6:00-8:00pm
Participating artists: Michael Anastassiades, Bruce Connor, Anthony Dunne, Joy Garnett, Vincent Johnson, Michael Light, Robert Longo, Richard Misrach, Trevor Paglen, Fiona Raby
Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art at the
Boston University Art Gallery focuses on recent artistic
re-interpretations of pictures from the era of aboveground nuclear
testing (1945-1962) and new interpretations of weapons-test sites.
Despite the politically charged subject matter, the artworks on view
are less overtly critical than one might expect. Instead, the ten
artists in the exhibition—including Michael Anastassiades, Bruce
Conner, Anthony Dunne, Joy Garnett, Vincent Johnson, Michael Light,
Robert Longo, Richard Misrach, Trevor Paglen, and Fiona Raby—uncover
the role aesthetics played in cold-war politics by playing with these
very aesthetics. Several artists find declassified photographs of
nuclear explosions (examples of which the gallery will display in
printed and digital formats) and incorporate this imagery into their
paintings, drawings, photographs, and designs of everyday objects. Some
others take pictures that have no equivalents in official archives,
recording the landscape and inhabitants of hidden testing sites in the
American desert. Taken together, this powerful selection of
contemporary artworks constitutes a nuclear aesthetic that was—and
continues to be—central to the politics of spectacle and secrecy.
Opening at the Boston University Art Gallery on September 5, “ATOMIC AFTERIMAGE: COLD WAR IMAGERY IN CONTEMPORARY ART”
brings together work by 10 artists — among them Bruce Conner, Joy
Garnett, and Richard Misrach — who reinterpret images from the era of
above-ground nuclear testing (1945–1962). Garnett bases apocalyptic
paintings on declassified photographs of nuclear explosions. Conner, in
one fine example, uses his skillful way with collage to merge a figure
wearing a military jacket with an iconic image of mushroom clouds from
the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, reanimating (and
giving a psychological dimension) to an image of power and destruction
that might not seem as safely far in the past as it used to. [via Time Bombs, Randi Hopkins, The Phoenix, 8/27/08]
Solo exhibition of paintings and source imagery from 2000-2006, at Iona College Art Center. Illustrated brochure available on request.
February 25 - April 17, 2008
opening reception: Sunday, March 2, 1-3pm
Iona College Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801
Lecture + panel discussion with Joy Garnett & activist lawyer Laura Quilter:
"Joywar: Intellectual Property & the Myth of Originality." Appropriation in the visual arts, the legal, aesthetic, moral and academic implications of the creative commons and fair use.
Wednesday, April 2, 7pm The Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium
