A Search for Comity in the Intellectual Property Wars: symposium at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, April 28-30, 2006 [slides, audio, transcripts]
I was in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, wandering at the edge
of a marketplace as the sun went down. Whole swaths of the city are
without electricity, government services or security. Things become
spectral, as areas heavily trafficked and lively by day transform into
deserted, nightmarish landscapes. I navigated for several miles using
distant bonfires like homing devices.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts solicits applications from professional visual artists and arts writers for its new Art & Law Residency Program, the first program of its kind. [More info]
Program dates:March 8throughAugust 30, 2010(6 months)
Application deadline: Monday, February 22, 2010(in-office receipt)
Notification: March 1, 2010
Program Goal
As
legal and judicial issues now permeate every aspect of social,
political and cultural life, artistic production is no longer immune.
The Art & Law Residency provides an intellectual and artistic
setting for participants to engage in ongoing discussions and debates
that examine the overlap and disconnect between artistic production and
the law from historical, social, ethical and intellectual standpoints.
Using law as both a discourse and medium, new visual artwork and
critical writing will come into being through the Program. All the
participants will also gain experience and knowledge they can carry
into the future beyond the Program.
Overview
The
core of the Program will be semi-monthly Seminars directed at the
theoretical and critical examination of current art and law issues.
Seminars will take place at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP.
Faculty as well as leading legal scholars and visiting artists will
lead these Seminars. During the course of the Program, artists and
writers will develop new projects and papers and receive support from
Faculty on a regular basis to discuss and address the aesthetic,
practical, philosophical, legal and judicial aspects of their work. The
Residency will culminate in a public Exhibition and Symposium held at the Maccarone Gallery in New York City where the participants will exhibit their projects and present papers.
What Is Offered
Seminars series: Twice
a month, a legal scholar, artist and/or Program Faculty will lead
Seminars as well as assign related readings. Topics for lectures and
group discussions will include practical, theoretical, philosophical
and speculative perspectives on art, property (tangible and
intangible), contract, constitutional, and international law as well as
touch upon subjects such as free speech.
Legal consultation and representation: Access
to private consultations with attorneys and work with assigned pro bono
representation for individual projects as required. Additional legal
advice and guidance in the form of individual meetings to discuss
general practical and theoretical questions may be arranged.
Exhibition and Symposium: The culminating Exhibition and Symposium will be held at the Maccarone Gallery, inNew York City, inAugust 2010. Art criticism participants
will present papers at an evening Symposium and visual artists will
display their final work during this Exhibition. A modest stipend will
be provided towards production costs and/or research materials.
Participation
Participants
are required to attend semi-monthly Seminars as well as participate
actively in group discussion and individual project and paper
development. Participants who successfully complete the Seminar series
will participate in the final Exhibition and Symposium. The
semi-monthly Seminars will be heldon Mondays from 6-8pmat the law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP. Seminars commenceon March 8, 2010.
Eligibility
Applicants
must have a minimum four-year professional record. Visual artists
working in all media may apply. Writers may have backgrounds in Art
History, Art Theory, and Art Criticism and be strongly engaged with contemporary visual art.
Artists and writers interested in issues of constitutional law,
contracts, property, free speech and intellectual property are
especially encouraged to apply.
In response to last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti, comic
book artists, writers and creators have created fund raising campaign Heroes 4 Haiti.
Donations of original work have been put up for auction via eBay,
with all of the proceeds going to Haitian earthquake victims. Currently
up for bidding are items from the likes of Marvel's Greg Pak, cartoonist Paul Karasik (signed) and illustrator Dave McKean.
Antebi's photo-portrait of Haiti here. All proceeds from the sale of Cite Soleil go to Doctors Without Borders and OxFam, earmarked for Haiti. To purchase photo, email Wall Space Gallery at gallery@
