This event is free and open to all
Join us for a dynamic panel discussion that will explore the creative
methods and ideas associated with fair use in contemporary art. The
concept of fair use, described as the right to use another’s copyrighted
material, under certain circumstances, for purposes such as criticism,
news reporting, teaching, and research without the need for permission
from or payment to the copyright holder is a contentious issue in the
art world today.
Joy Garnett, New York painter and writer who is featured in
Picture Takers, will moderate the panel. Participants include
Nicole Fleetwood, Associate Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University,
Nate Harrison, New York artist and writer,
Chad Rutkowski, a partner with the law firm of Woodcock Washburn in Philadelphia, and
Penelope Umbrico, New York artist featured in
Picture Takers.
RSVP is required for this free event. Please call 908.273.9121
This panel is in conjunction with the exhibition
Picture Takers curated by Mary Birmingham.
Participating artists:
Paul Chiappe,
Willie Cole,
Anne-Karin Furunes,
Joy Garnett,
Gail Gregg,
Diana Jensen,
Cassandra C. Jones,
Whitfield Lovell,
Penelope Umbrico and
Aaron Williams.
An exhibition catalog is available.
More info.
MODERATOR
Joy Garnett
Joy Garnett is a New York painter and writer who also works with social
media to create objects and images. Garnett's paintings, based on found
images of explosive events, locate instances of the apocalyptic sublime
in mass media culture. Her social media performances examine the
intersections of our digital and material worlds. Garnett studied
painting at the École des beaux-arts in Paris and is the recipient of an
MFA in painting from The City College of New York. She has received
numerous fellowships, including a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman and a
commission from The Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. Her work is in
the collections of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC,
Philip Morris, The West Collection, and numerous private collections.
She is represented by Winkleman Gallery, NY.
PANELISTS
Nicole Fleetwood
Nicole Fleetwood is Associate Professor in the Department of American
Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She researches and teaches
in the areas of visual culture and media studies, black cultural
studies, gender theory, and culture and technology studies. She is the
author of
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (University of Chicago Press 2011). Her articles appear in
American Quarterly,
Signs,
Social Text,
tdr: the journal of performance studies,
Art Journal,
and edited anthologies. Fleetwood has worked as a consultant and has
collaborated with a number of arts organizations and programs, including
the Ford Foundation’s Artography initiative, New Museum of Contemporary
Art’s Visual Knowledge Program, Walker Art Center, Southern Exposure,
San Francisco Arts Commission, and Youth Speaks. Fleetwood is currently
researching a study on prison art and visuality.
Nate Harrison
Nate Harrison is an artist and writer working at the intersection of
intellectual property, cultural production and the formation of creative
processes in modern media. His work has been exhibited at the American
Museum of Natural History, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the
Centre Pompidou, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the
Kunstverein in Hamburg, among others. Nate has also lectured at a
variety of institutions, including Experience Music Project, Seattle,
the Art and Law Residency Program, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, New
York and SOMA Summer, Mexico City. From 2004-2008 he co-directed the Los
Angeles project space ESTHETICS AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. Nate earned a
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, a Master of Fine
Arts from California Institute of the Arts and is a doctoral candidate,
Art and Media History, Theory and Criticism in the Visual Arts
Department at the University of California, San Diego. Currently Nate is
on the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and
lives in Brooklyn, New York with a lovely wife and two pesky cats.
Chad Rutkowski
Chad Rutkowski is a partner with the law firm of Woodcock Washburn in
Philadelphia, PA and chairs the firm’s New Media practice group. Chad’s
clients include traditional print media companies experiencing the
transition to new forms of media; a platform provider that is helping
top universities embrace web-based learning; and a software company that
creates tools for enhancing social media experiences. Chad is the
chair of the Philadelphia chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA,
and regularly counsels his clients on copyright and trademark issues,
including fair use issues. In addition to his work as a lawyer, Chad
acts as the Business Manager for Throwaway Horse LLC, creator of the
well-known Ulysses Seen iPad app and website.
Penelope Umbrico
Penelope Umbrico has exhibited widely, both nationally and
internationally. She has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, NY;
Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, CA; the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; the
Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery
of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; Carpenter Center at Harvard
University, Cambridge; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College,
NY; International Center of Photography, NY, among others. Her work is
in permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Metropolitan
Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Chicago, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tampa
Museum of Art, FL.; International Center of Photography NY. Umbrico is
the recipient of a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Guggenheim
Fellowship; a Deutsche Bank Fellow - New York Foundation of the Arts
Fellowship, a Peter S Reed Grant; an Anonymous Was A Woman Award; a New
York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; and an Aaron Siskind
Individual Photographer’s Fellowship. Her first monograph, "Penelope
Umbrico (photographs)", was published by Aperture in the spring of 2011.
