[Sci-tech-public] Social Action and Responsibility at MIT

[Rosie Branson Gill]

*The Center for Advanced Visual Studies @ MIT invites you......*

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*Come Together/ Social Action
April 28th **
1:30 – 6:30 pm **
CAVS, 265 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd, Fl. Building N52*




Harrell Fletcher, artist, and Larissa Harris, Associate Director, Center for
Advanced Visual Studies
Introduction

1:30


Professor Emeritus Robert Mann, Dept Biomedical Engineering
Technology and Culture Forum

1:55


Bill Thies
PhD candidate; student leader, TEK
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab

2:20


Professor Ceasar McDowell
Director, Center for Reflective Community Practice


2:45


Mako Hill
PhD candidate; Media Arts and Sciences (Media Lab)


3:10
 Break/ Q + A

Professor Donald Sadoway
Dept. Materials Science and Engineering


4:00
Julia Scher
Artist; lecturer, Visual Art Program, Dept Architecture


4:25
Debbie Douglas
Curator, Science and Technology
MIT Museum

4:50

Tad Hirsch
PhD candidate, Media arts and Sciences (Media Lab)
Graduate affiliate, Center for Advanced Visual Studies
 5:15

Professor Noam Chomsky
Dept. Linguistics and Philosophy

5:40

Q + A



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This event is part of the exhibition
John Malpede and Harrell Fletcher: What do we learn when we push there and
then up against here and now?



Artists' talk
Thurs. April 27th 6:30 PM

John Malpede with Harrell Fletcher
Artist, director, and performer John Malpede will talk with artist Harrell
Fletcher about three decades of Malpede's aesthetically and politically
uncompromising brand of art as social action.
  Exhibition

What do we learn when we push there and then up against here and now?

RFK in EKY, 2004
Photo and video documentation of John Malpede's full-scale reenactment of
Robert F Kennedy's 1968 tour through southeastern Kentucky that took place
in September 2004 against the backdrop of the Bush-Kerry campaign.

The American War, 2005
In Vietnam for an artists' retreat the summer of 2005, Harrell Fletcher
re-photographed each image and text description on view at Ho Chi Minh City's
The War Remnants Museum. The American War, 2005, is made up of these
photographs. On view concurrently at White Columns, New York.

Thurs April 27th -- June 30th, M-F 11-5 pm



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