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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">From: Amber Frid-Jimenez
<amber@media.mit.edu><br>
To: vap-info@mit.edu, archall@mit.edu, msgs@media.mit.edu,
dusp@mit.edu,<br>
cms@mit.edu,
vap-all@mit.edu<br>
Subject: TONIGHT! 7-9p @ MIT Visual Arts Program - Zones of Emergency -
Artist Alfredo Jaar + Kayvan Zainabadi (MIT Amnesty)<br>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:56:01 -0500<br>
<br><br>
Monday, February 25, 2008, 7 - 9 pm<br><br>
<font size=4 color="#FF8000"><b>ZONES OF EMERGENCY - Monday Night @VAP
lecture series<br>
Artist Alfredo Jaar + Kayvan Zainabadi (MIT Amnesty)<br>
</b></font><font color="#FF8000">MIT Visual Arts Program<br>
</font><font size=4><b><br>
</b></font>Location: N51-337, (Joan Jonas Performance Hall)<br>
Video blog:
<a href="http://zonesofemergency.net">http://zonesofemergency.net</a><br>
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The Chilean <b>Alfredo Jaar</b> will present a selection of works, that
focus on his practice in zones of emergency like Chile during the
Pinochet dictatorship, and in Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide
(1994 -2000). Kayvan Zainabadi, former president of Amnesty International
at MIT, will speak about his experience at MIT working with Amnesty on
crisis in Darfur. <br><br>
Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker who lives and works in
New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has
participated in the Venice, Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, Sydney, Istanbul and
Kwangju Biennales as well as in the Documenta in Kassel. Major solo
exhibitions include the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the
Whitechapel in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the
Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He
received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and was chosen as a Mac Arthur
Fellow in 2000. <br><br>
<b>Kayvan Zainabad</b>i is a 5th year graduate student in biology at MIT,
and former president of the Amnesty International chapter of MIT, and
co-founder of MIT-STAND, an anti-genocide student coalition. Last year,
Kayvan led a successful campaign that led MIT to divest its investments
in companies that were funding the genocide in Darfur. Kayvan has been a
lead organizer of fundraising drives on campus that have raised over
$8,000 for humanitarian relief for the victims of Darfur.<br><br>
We are excited to announce the 2008 Spring term Monday Nights@VAP
entitled "Zones of Emergency" which bring together
practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and fields to examine the
scale and complexity of catastrophe and disaster scenarios through
lectures and panel discussions. Lectures and panel discussions will range
from the philosophical and cultural understandings of the emergency to
practical "on the ground" operating organizations to current
use of networked technology examining its own breakdown. This lecture
series is co-organized by Ute Meta Bauer (Director of the MIT Visual Arts
Program), Jae Rhim Lee, and Amber Frid-Jimenez.<br><br>
Free and open to the public.<br><br>
Visual Arts Program<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Department of Architecture<br>
Bldg N51-337, 3rd floor<br>
Joan Jonas Performance Hall<br>
265 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br><br>
Directions<br>
The MIT Visual Arts Program is located above the MIT Museum. Enter
through the grey door on Front Street and take the elevator to the third
floor. Exit to your left and go down the ramp. The Joan Jonas Performance
Hall is located on the right.<br><br>
By Public Transportation<br>
Take the Red Line to Central Square. Walk four blocks along Massachusetts
Avenue towards Boston and the Charles River, or take the #1 bus to the
Front Street stop.<br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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