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<b>April 4, 2008<br>
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LECTURE SERIES SPRING 2008<br><br>
Zones of Emergency<br><br>
<a href="http://www.zonesofemergency.net">www.zonesofemergency.net</a><br>
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<b>UPCOMING<br>
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<b>Thierry Nlandu and Marjetica Potrc
- Democracy and Access</b>
Monday, April 14, 2008, 6pm @ Bartos Theatre, E15, Wiesner
Building.<br><br>
<b>Ntone Edjabe and Trebor Scholz
- A Conversational Revolution?
</b>
Monday, April 28, 2008, 7pm @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall,
N51-337.<br><br>
<b>Amar Kanwar</b>
Monday, May 5, 2008, 7pm
@ Joan Jonas
Performance Hall, N51-337.<br><br>
<b>RECENT<br>
</b><br>
<b>Tad Hirsch & Amar Kanwar Film - Matters/Critical Design</b>
Monday, March 17, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.<br><br>
<b>David Small & John Tilman -
The Power of Display: The
"Look" of Emergencies</b>
March 10, 2008 @ Joan Jonas
Performance Hall, N51-337.<br><br>
<b>Mark Tribe - Networks, Tactics, Breakdown</b>
March 3, 2008 @ Joan
Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.<br><br>
<b>Alfredo Jaar - It is Difficult</b>
with <b>Kayvan Zainabadi
</b>
February 25, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall.
N51-337.<br><br>
<b>Local Disaster and Emergency Capacities </b>
February 19, 2008 @
Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.<br><br>
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LECTURE SERIES SPRING 2008<br><br>
Art Work Out<br><br>
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<b>UPCOMING<br>
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<b>John Bell and Sam Ford - The Theatre of Sport</b>
Tuesday, April
15, 2008, 2pm @ Rockwell Gym, W33.<br><br>
<b>Game Day - Intersections of Art and Sport</b>
Thursday, April 17,
2008, 2pm @ T-Club Lounge.<br><br>
<b>RECENT<br>
</b><br>
<b>Wendy Jacob and Noah Riskin - Walking on the Ceiling and other
Exercices </b>
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 2pm @ T-Club Lounge, W31 (120
Mass Ave).<br><br>
<b>Antoni Muntadas and Andrea Frank - Stadium</b>
Tuesday, March 4,
2008 2pm @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.<br><br>
<b>Bill Arning and Kate James - Gym Culture </b>
Tuesday, February 26,
2008, 2pm @ Varsity Weight Room, W31 in Du Pont Athletic Gym (120 Mass.
Ave).<br><br>
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FACULTY NEWS<br><br>
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<b>UPCOMING<br>
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<b>Ute Meta Bauer, Director and Associate Professor, </b>is a speaker for
<b>Interconnections, </b>Plymouth Arts Festival (Plymouth, UK), April 25,
2008,
<a href="http://www.plymouthac.org.uk/eshot/eshotCSN/Curatorial.htm"><u>
www.plymouthac.org.uk/eshot/eshotCSN/Curatorial.htm</a>.</u> She
is also participating in <b>Reinventing Harbour Cities</b>, (Reykjavik,
Iceland), May 10, 2008,
<a href="http://www.archinnovations.com/news/exhibitions/reinventing-harbour-cities/">
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www.archinnovations.com/news/exhibitions/reinventing-harbour-cities/</a>
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<b>Krzysztof Wodiczko</b> is on sabbatical, working on several
international installations. Stay tuned. Most recent cover
story in Polish newspaper Duzy Format. <b>Wodiczko</b> also has an
upcoming show at the ICA in 2009 (details to follow).<br><br>
<b>Joan Jonas</b> won an AICA Golden Globe for Best Video Show,
<a href="http://www.aicausa.org">www.aicausa.org</a>. Jonas has a number
of solo exhibitions; <b>Timelines: Transparencies in a Darkroom,
</b>Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve (France), April 30-June 29, 2008,
<a href="http://www.centre.ch/">http://www.centre.ch/</a>; Wilkinson
Gallery (London, UK), April 2008,
<a href="http://www.wilkinsongallery.com/artists.html"><u>
www.wilkinsongallery.com/artists.html</a></u>. Jonas is
participating in a number of group exhibitions: <b>Wack!, </b>Ps1
(Queens, New York), February 14- May 12, 2008
<a href="http://www.ps1.org/">www.ps1.org/</a>; <b>Read of Dante</b>,
Biennale of Sydney (Australia), June 18- August 7, 2008,
<a href="http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/">
www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/</a>; <b>Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent,
the Feel of Things, </b>UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
(Berkeley, CA), October 13, 2007 July 31, 2008,
<a href="http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/jonas"><u>
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/jonas</a></u>.<br><br>
<b>Muntadas </b>has a number of solo exhibitions including: Galerie
Gabrielle Maubrie (Paris), March 2008; Instituto Cervantes
(Paris), March 2008; Centro Jose Guerrero (Granada), March 2008;
Kent Gallery (New York), May 2008; Gallery, Deak
(Budapest), September 2008; Fundacion Botin (Santander), October
2008.<br><br>
<b>Muntadas</b> is also participating in a number of group
exhibitions: <b>Tomorrow</b> Sonje Museum (Seoul); <b>DIstancia
Critica</b> CGAC (Santiago), <b>2007; </b>Mukha (Antwerpen),
<b>Quasi Cinema </b>CAAC (Sevilla). <b>Muntadas</b> is making
special presentations at the University of Tokyo, <b>“Exploring
cultural means to combat global homogenization," </b>May 2008 and at
MoMa (NY) "<b>Political Ads” </b>October 27,
2008.<br><br>
In Spring 2008, <b>Wendy Jacob</b> will have her co-edited book released
with Haha <u>With Love from Haha: Essays and Notes on a Collective Art
Practice,</u> published by White Walls Press,
<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/227189.ctl" eudora="autourl">
www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/227189.ctl</a><br><br>
<b>Andrea Frank</b> has a solo exhibition at Galleria Michela Rizzo
(Venice, Italy) opening on July 12th <b>(global ports and ships),
</b><a href="http://www.galleriamichelarizzo.net" eudora="autourl">
www.galleriamichelarizzo.net</a>. Frank is also in a group show
<b>Presumed Innocence </b>
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park,
Lincoln, MA
, Feb 2 - April 27 -
<a href="http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2008/Presumed%20Innocence.htm">
more info</a><br><br>
In Spring 2008, <b>Jae Rhim Lee</b> brings a FEMA Trailer to MIT Campus
in conjunction with her course, <b>4.391 Special Problems in Visual Arts
- Module 1: Zones of Emergency: The FEMA Trailer Project</b>.<br><br>
<b>Joe Zane</b> is a finalist for the ICA Artist Price. <b>Zane</b> will
have a show in November at the ICA in conjunction with his finalist
status.
<a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/2008/03/ica_artist_priz.html" eudora="autourl">
www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/2008/03/ica_artist_priz.html</a>
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New VAP Lecturer <b>Amber Frid-Jimenez</b> is nominated for the 2008
Renew Media Arts Fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation.<br><br>
<b>RECENT<br>
</b><br>
<b>Andrea Frank
</b>exhibition and book release <b>Visions - MIT
Interviews</b>: Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 5-7 pm
, The Mark Epstein
Innovation Gallery,
MIT
MUSEUM
,<a href="http://www.andreafrank.net/VISIONS.html"><u>
www.andreafrank.net/VISIONS.html</a><br>
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<b>Joe Zane</b> worked with Michael Smith, 2005-2006 CAVS fellow, in
producing the video, "Portal Excursion," a segment of Smith's
30-year work, "Mike's World." Fictional Mike, a hapless
Everyman, is the subject of video, installation and performance works on
display at the Whitney Biennial.<br><br>
<b>Joe</b> show <b>Joe Zane</b> and <b>Joe Gibbons</b> had a
well-received exhibition at the Allston Skirt Gallery in the late fall
2007.<br><br>
<b>Jae Rhim Lee</b> in <b>Seamless 2008</b>, a fashion show highlighting
Computational Couture.
Museum of Science, Boston, MA
, January 30,
2008 @ 8pm -
<a href="http://mos.org/events_activities/lectures&d=2091">more
info</a>
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<b>Ute Meta Bauer, </b>participated in<b> New Geographies in Contemporary
African Art</b>
Harvard University Committee on African Studies
announces a two-day conference to be held on Friday, February 29 and
Saturday, March 1, 2008. <br><br>
<b>Ute Meta Bauer</b> and <b>Joan Jonas</b>
at <b>SITAC VI, What’s
Left, What Remains</b> - Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (CCUT),
Ricardo Flores Magón 1
Col. Nonoalco Tlatelo co
-directed by
Ute Meta Bauer,
speakers included Joan Jonas
January 23 - 26,
2008
(Mexico City, Mexico).<br><br>
<b>Ute Meta Bauer</b> spoke on February 22 at “La mirada iracunda”
(the Furious Gaze) at the <b>Montehermoso Kulturunea Cultural
Center</b>. On February 29, <b>Bauer</b> was a panelist on the
"<b>New Geographies in Contemporary African Art</b>” at
Harvard.<br><br>
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SMVisS GRAD NEWS<br><br>
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<b>UPCOMING<br>
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<b>SMVisS Final Reviews</b>
May 16, 2008, Open to the Public @ VAP,
9am-5pm<br><br>
On April 4 and 5, 2008, two SMVisS grads are participating in the fourth
annual<b> *research-in-progress</b>, presented by the History, Theory and
Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at MIT. The 2008
workshop, focusing around the theme<b> “What Object” </b>aims to
offer graduate students an opportunity to work together in
cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional dialogues, and, specifically,
with objects in mind. <b>Caitlin Berrigan</b> will present
<b>Activating Seduction</b> (MIT, 34-401A) and Kate<b> James</b>: will
present <b>I Have Seven Hoovers: Objects of Domestic Maintenance, and
Affection </b>(MIT, 7-338).<br><br>
<b>Alia Farid Abdal </b>has been accepted by the<b> MACBA </b>to join the
PEI (Programa de Estudios Independientes)<b> </b>She will be joining the
program in September 2008<b>.<br>
</b><br>
<b>Matthew Mazzotta’s </b>buscycle installation will be part of a group
exhibition, “Exhibition: Art in the Public Sphere: Singular Works,
Plural Possibilities,” Friday, April 25 - Sunday, May 18, at University
of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center - University Gallery.<br><br>
<b>Jin Jung, Annatina Caprez, </b>and <b>Matthew Mazzotta</b> are disc
jockeys every Friday on WMBR 88.1 FM 8-9pm
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/drawingontheradio" eudora="autourl"><u>
www.myspace.com/drawingontheradio</a>.<br>
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<b>Sofia Ponte </b>installation <b>Dreaming Lounge</b> is exhibited at
the MIT Barker Engineering Library, 10-500.<br><br>
<b>Caitlin Berrigan</b> received a prestigious residency from the
Skowhegan School of Art for this summer (Skowhegan, Maine),
<a href="http://www.skowheganart.org">www.skowheganart.org</a>.<br><br>
<b>RECENT<br>
</b><br>
<b>Caitlin Berrigan</b> presented an artist talk, <b>Whitney Initial
Public Offerings, </b>Whitney Museum of American Art (New York,
NY, <a href="http://whitney.org/">whitney.org/</a>. On
March 6, 2008,<br><br>
Berrigan gave a lecture “<b>What is bioArt</b>” for the Biomedical
Graduate Student Organization at Harvard Medical School (Boston,
MA)<br><br>
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ALUMNI NEWS<br><br>
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<b>Sung Hwan Kim</b> '03 is participating in the 5th Berlin Biennial for
Contemporary Art, April 5, 2008,
<a href="http://www.berlinbiennial.de">www.berlinbiennial.de</a>.<br><br>
This summer, VAP grad<b> Marisa Jahn </b>will be Artist-in-Residence at
the Headands Center for the Arts (San Francisco Bay Area, CA).
<b>Marisa Jahn</b> curated <b>Kits for an Encounter</b>, April 25 - May
31, 2008 @ Western Front (Vancouver, Canada) featuring SMVisS grads
<b>Azra Aksamija</b> and <b>Max Goldfarb.</b> <b>Marisa Jahn</b>
and <b>Max Goldfarb</b> installation <b>Volume Drawings</b> @ Western
Front May 31, 2008 (Vancouver, Canada). In collaboration with
Future Farmers, <b>Marisa Jahn</b> is doing a project called <b>Commuter
Cookout</b> as part of 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the
Edge June 4-7, 2008 (San Jose, California),
<a href="http://www.futurefarmers.com/tour2/">
www.futurefarmers.com/tour2/</a> Steve Shada & Marisa Jahn): In
addition this summer, Jahn will have a solo exhibition <b>Overlaps &
Half-Laps</b> at Camac (Marnay-sur-Seine, France).<br><br>
<b>Jill Magid </b>in <b>Working Title</b> - Group show at Momenta Art
March 7 through April 14, 2008
. 359 Bedford Ave. BKLYN, NY
11211<a href="http://momentaart.org"><u> momentaart.org</a>.</u>
Magid is also part of an exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies
at Bard College: <b>Under the Influence</b>. The opening reception is on
Sunday April 13th from 1-4pm, with performances by Rachel Mason, snow
boots, and Arctic Circle.<br><br>
Now Assistant Professor of Art Foundations - VCU School of the Arts
<b>Hope Ginsburg </b>exhibits<b> Sponge
</b>January 25th-February
23rd
Solvent Space - Plant Zero Arts Complex Hull & 4th Streets,
Richmond, VA,
<a href="http://www.spongespace.net" eudora="autourl"><u>
</a><a href="http://www.spongespace.net" eudora="autourl">
www.spongespace.net</a><br>
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<b>Oliver Lutz</b> makes top 10 list,
<a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/12/27/art_brought_to_the_edge/">
Boston Globe Article</a>. Oliver Lutz has been awarded the <b>IV
International Painting Prize Diputación de Castellón</b>, for his
painting <b>Lynching I.</b> <b>Lynching I</b> is now part of the
permanent collection of the <b>Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón</b>.
certamenpintura.dipcas.es/en/index.php<br><br>
<b>Michael Rakowitz</b>, SMVisS '98, wins a
<a href="http://www.creative-capital.org/about/media/2008-0109-awards.html">
Creative Capital Grant</a> was also featured in the Museum of Modern Art
Book <b>safe: Design Takes on Risk for</b> his <b>paraSITE
homeless shelter.<br>
</b><br>
<b>Pia Lindman
- Faceworks, </b>Luxe Gallery (New York), February
15-March 15, 2008. <b>Soapbox Event</b>
April 2008 at the
Federal Hall National Memorial in New York City -
<a href="http://www.soapboxevent.blogspot.com/">more info</a><br><br>
<b>Sounding the Subject: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich
Collection and the New Art Trust</b>
MIT List Visual Arts Center: Oct
31, 7 pm
, Artist Talk by MIT Alumnus <b>Jennifer Allora</b> and
Guillermo Calzadilla -
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/exhibitions/upcoming.html">more
info</a><br><br>
<b>Seth Weiner
my - Opticon</b> part of Sculpture in Environment
,
New York, NY -
<a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/attractions/public_art/public_art_new3.html">
more info</a> (link)<br><br>
<b>Jennifer Allora</b> and Guillermo Calzadilla <b>Never Mind That
Noise You Heard</b>, Stedelijk Museum CS (Amsterdam), February 4,
2008-May 4, 2008. Recent press in Parquett
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