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Memory Loss: Excavating the Abushady Archive at NYU's Radical Archives Conference (April 11-12)

Figures and Sphinx, Gizeh, c.1945. Courtesy the Abushady Archive.

 

On Saturday April 12th at 4:45pm I'll be giving a talk about my archive project 'Memory Loss: Excavating the Abushady Family Archive' on a panel at NYU's Radical Archives Conference (April 11-12, 2014):

 

No Instructions for Assembly: Case Studies in Radical Archiving, with artists Joy Garnett and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Michelle Wong on her research at Asia Art Archive and Ian Alden Russell on his work with the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. Moderated by Steffani Jemison. Saturday 4/12, 4:45-6:00 pm

 

The conference and its website are ...organized around the notion of archiving as a radical practice, by which we mean: archives of radical politics and practices; archives that are radical in form or function; moments or contexts in which archiving in itself becomes a radical act; and considerations of how archives can be active in the present, as well as documents of the past and scripts for the future.

 

ABOUT the conference http://www.radicalarchives.net

Radical Archives is an online companion to the April 2014 conference at NYU, organized by Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh of Index of the Disappeared (with the invaluable assistance of Amita Manghnani) and presented by NYU's Asian/Pacific/American Institute as part of our 2013-14 residency at A/P/A. The conference is co-sponsored by NYU's History Department, Moving Image Archive Program, and Archives and Public History Program, along with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, the Asia Art Archive in America, and media partner Creative Time Reports. [...]

 

Full Schedule: and Registeration (register by Wednesday April 9th)

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Conference participants

Both the conference and its website are organized around four threads of radical archival practice: Archives and Absence, or lost and counter-archives; Archives and Affect, or embodied archives; Archives and Ethics, or stealing from and for archives; and Archive as Constellation, or archive as method, medium, and interface.

The conference website is built to grow over time and serve as a resource for teaching, research and networking.....

My talk and panel are part of the latter (via conference site):

Archive as Constellation at the Radical Archives conference

The Archive as Constellation strand at the conference will include the following:

KEYNOTE by Lara Baladi (Cinema Tahrir, Arab Image Foundation) on the archive as site of resistance, Friday 4/11 at 10 am

PANELS
Disrupting Standards, Remaking Interfaces. With Hadassah Damien on OpenFlows, Eric Goldhagen on the Queer Zine Archive Project and xxZineCorexx, Jenna Freedman & Martha Tenney on the Barnard Library’s feminist approach to process and access, Zack Lischer-Katz on memory traces, and Anne Gilliland on a platform for radical archival description. Moderated by Alexander Provan of Triple Canopy. Friday 4/11, 11:05 am-1:00 pm (Cantor 101).

Collaborative Preservation Strategies: A Look Into XFR STN. With Johanna Burton, Andrea Callard, Colleen Fitzgibbon, Tara Hart, Alan W. Moore and Leeroy Kun Young Kang (moderator). Friday 5:00-6:30 pm (Cantor 102).

Radical Sampling: Archives Remixed and Remade. With Jennifer Burris and Park McArthur on Beverley Buchanan, G.D. Cohen on the Valaco Archive, and Brian Harnetty on the Sun Ra archive. Moderated by Sukhdev Sandhu. Friday 3:45-4:45 pm (Cantor 101).

No Instructions for Assembly: Case Studies in Radical Archiving, with artists Joy Garnett and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Michelle Wong on her research at Asia Art Archive and Ian Alden Russell on his work with the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. Moderated by Steffani Jemison. Saturday 4/12, 4:45-6:00 pm

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Once More to Pfaffs! A Walking Tour of A Living Archive led by Karen Karbiener (Space limited, not handicapped accessible). Saturday during lunch break, 1:30 – 2:15 pm.

SPAN Listening Sessions with Jules Rochielle and Carol Stakenas, times TBA (A/P/A Institute seminar room).
pilot press… (Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden), 10 am – 8 pm, Friday & Saturday (Cantor lobby)

XFR STN Viewing Station, Friday 10 am – 9:30 pm, Saturday 10 am – 6 pm (A/P/A Institute gallery)

 

'Economy of the Ephemeral' Exhibition and panel discussion

I'll be moderating a panel on Wednesday evening composed of the six great MFA students of DIAP who organized the exhibition:

 

ECONOMY OF THE EPHEMERAL

An exhibition curated by MFA students of DIAP - Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice at The City College of New York (CCNY).

Works by:

Hilary Basing
Levi Gonzalez
Abigail Levine
Douglas Mackenzie
Kim Sargent-Wishart
Cody Schlanger
Buster Simpson
Yi-Jou Sun
Christine Sun Kim

Reception // Tuesday May 7th 5:00 - 9:00

Panel Discussion: What Is the Economy of the Ephemeral? (Moderated by Joy Garnett) // Wednesday May 8th 6:00 - 7:30

Everything is happening in the DIAP Studio, aka Shepard 408 !

 

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Art is eternal; economy is ephemeral

The “Economy of the Ephemeral” refers to a system of labor where outcomes are not translated into dollars, but instead are valuated in terms of the experiential. The fruits of such labor, expressed as sensory experiences or forms that are fluid and flexible, include outcomes that could lead, ideally, to cultural dialogue. If art is to be considered a type of labor, its value goes beyond the monetization of the object, drawing instead on its relevance in the realm of memory and history. While an object’s monetary value is determined by the fluctuating economics of the art market, its ephemeral value is decided by the uniquely human experience of the viewer.

Performance plays an important part in the economy of the ephemeral, whereas the term “economy” can be applied to any system of measured, result-driven performance. While that which is “ephemeral” is understood as something short-lived, unpredictable, and often hard to measure, its full impact may only be felt somewhere down the line. For example, a forgotten childhood memory or experience can live deep in the subconscious, only to re-emerge and trigger strong emotions later in life. Here, the economy of the ephemeral allows for a period of dormancy before the full power of an experience is felt and expressed.

In a world obsessed with the material, how do we value the not-solid and the unseen? Digital mediums and contemporary financial practices muddy the waters of material exchange--we monetize the future through derivatives, and attempt to quantify immaterial goods. How to assess the value of electrons, or the future? We want to muddy the waters of exchange even further by questioning the need to create monetary value in every facet of our lives. What if we reject capital as the system for determining value? And how do we create value that doesn't depend on capital?

The economy of the ephemeral describes the budgeting of intangible, organic, immeasurable performance. The work that comes under this rubric doesn’t beat you over the head with its intentions, but rather it acts like a time bomb: it ticks inside you, seeps in, marinates, and then explodes.

 Links: Economy of the Ephemeral on Facebook; City College campus map and directions.

(Take the 1 train to 137th St City College and walk a few blocks east from Broadway.)

Brooklyn Art Talk series: Joy Garnett, Tues April 30, 2013, 6:30pm

via http://brooklynartspace.org/art-talk-series

Joy Garnett
Tuesday, April 30 at 6:30PM
RSVP at [email protected]
www.brooklnartspace.org
$5 donation

Directions:
Take the F, G, or R train to 4th Ave/9th St. or take the F, G to Smith/9th St.

Address:
168 7th Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Please buzz number 35 to enter the building.

Contact:
718-858-9069
info[at]brooklynartspace.org

 

Upcoming Art Talks

Nicole Cohen Tuesday May 28th at 6:30PM

Jennifer Wynne Reeves Tuesday June 18th at 6:30PM

Bill Carroll Tuesday July 30th at 6:30PM

Adam Parker Smith Tuesday September 24th at 6:30PM

Elizabeth Condon Tuesday November 19th at 6:30PM

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Painting and the Technical Image World - Pratt Talk 2012

Artist Joy Garnett to Speak on Painting and the Technical Image World,
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 @ 12:44 pm

Joy Garnett will deliver a lecture titled "Painting and the Technical Image World" as part of the Department of Digital Arts' fall 2012 lecture series. The talk will take place on Wednesday, November 28th from 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM in Myrtle Hall, Lecture Room 4E-3, on Pratt's Brooklyn campus.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

See event details on Facebook.

Joy Garnett is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her paintings, based on found images of explosive events, locate instances of the apocalyptic sublime in mass media culture. Her social media projects examine the intersections of our digital and material worlds. Garnett studied at the Ecole des beaux-arts in Paris and received her MFA from The City College of New York. She has received numerous fellowships including a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman.

Garnett is represented by Winkleman Gallery, NY.

More info: http://joygarnett.com

DDA Fall Lecture Series: http://prattddals.wordpress.com/

Tonight: Fair Use & Contemporary Art: A Panel Discussion

FAIR USE & CONTEMPORARY ART: A PANEL DISCUSSION
Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 7pm – 9pm

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Main Gallery, 68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ 07901
www.artcenternj.org

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.