[Sci-tech-public] MIT Visual Arts Program - April 4, 2008 Newsletter
Debbie Meinbresse
meinbres at MIT.EDU
Sat Apr 5 16:59:50 EDT 2008
>NEWSLETTER
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>April 4, 2008
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>LECTURE SERIESÂ SPRING 2008
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>Zones of Emergency
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><http://www.zonesofemergency.net>www.zonesofemergency.net
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>UPCOMING
>
>Thierry Nlandu and Marjetica Potrc
 -
>Democracy and Access
 Monday, April 14, 2008,
>6pm @ Bartos Theatre, E15, Wiesner Building.
>
>Ntone Edjabe and Trebor Scholz 
- A
>Conversational Revolution? 
Monday, April 28,
>2008, 7pm @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.
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>Amar Kanwar
 Monday, May 5, 2008, 7pm
 @
>Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.
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>RECENT
>
>Tad Hirsch & Amar Kanwar Film - Matters/Critical
>Design
 Monday, March 17, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.
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>David Small & John Tilman -
The Power of
>Display: The "Look" of Emergencies
 March 10,
>2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.
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>Mark Tribe - Networks, Tactics, Breakdown

>March 3, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.
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>Alfredo Jaar - It is Difficult
 with Kayvan
>Zainabadi 
February 25, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall. N51-337.
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>Local Disaster and Emergency Capacities
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February 19, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.
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>LECTURE SERIESÂ SPRING 2008
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>Art Work Out
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>UPCOMING
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>John Bell and Sam Ford - The Theatre of Sport

>Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 2pm @ Rockwell Gym, W33.
>
>Game Day - Intersections of Art and Sport

>Thursday, April 17, 2008, 2pm @ T-Club Lounge.
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>RECENT
>
>Wendy Jacob and Noah Riskin - Walking on the
>Ceiling and other Exercices 
Tuesday, March
>11, 2008, 2pm @ T-Club Lounge, W31 (120 Mass Ave).
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>Antoni Muntadas and Andrea Frank - Stadium

>Tuesday, March 4, 2008 2pm @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.
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>Bill Arning and Kate James - Gym Culture
>
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 2pm @ Varsity
>Weight Room, W31 in Du Pont Athletic Gym (120 Mass. Ave).
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>FACULTY NEWS
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>UPCOMING
>
>Ute Meta Bauer, Director and Associate
>Professor, is a speaker for Interconnections,
>Plymouth Arts Festival (Plymouth, UK), April 25,
>2008,
><http://www.plymouthac.org.uk/eshot/eshotCSN/Curatorial.htm>www.plymouthac.org.uk/eshot/eshotCSN/Curatorial.htm.Â
>She is also participating in Reinventing Harbour
>Cities, (Reykjavik, Iceland), May 10, 2008,
><http://www.archinnovations.com/news/exhibitions/reinventing-harbour-cities/>www.archinnovations.com/news/exhibitions/reinventing-harbour-cities/
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>Krzysztof Wodiczko is on sabbatical, working on
>several international installations. Stay
>tuned. Most recent cover story in Polish
>newspaper Duzy Format. Wodiczko also has an
>upcoming show at the ICA in 2009 (details to follow).
>
>Joan Jonas won an AICA Golden Globe for Best
>Video Show,Â
><http://www.aicausa.org>www.aicausa.org. Jonas
>has a number of solo exhibitions; Timelines: Â
>Transparencies in a Darkroom, Centre d'Art
>Contemporain Geneve (France), April 30-June 29,
>2008,
><http://www.centre.ch/>http://www.centre.ch/;
>Wilkinson Gallery (London, UK), April 2008,
><http://www.wilkinsongallery.com/artists.html>www.wilkinsongallery.com/artists.html.Â
>Jonas is participating in a number of group
>exhibitions: Wack!, Ps1 (Queens, New York),
>February 14- May 12,
>2008Â <http://www.ps1.org/>www.ps1.org/; Read
>of Dante, Biennale of Sydney (Australia), June
>18- August 7, 2008,
><http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/>www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/;
>Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of
>Things, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
>Archive (Berkeley, CA), October 13, 2007 – July
>31, 2008,
><http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/jonas>www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/jonas.
>
>Muntadas has a number of solo exhibitions
>including: Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie Â
>(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.
>
>Muntadas is also participating in a number of
>group exhibitions: Tomorrow Sonje MuseumÂ
>(Seoul); DIstancia Critica CGAC (Santiago),
>2007; Mukha (Antwerpen), Quasi Cinema CAACÂ
> (Sevilla). Muntadas is making special
>presentations at the University of
>Tokyo, “Exploring cultural means to combat
>global homogenization," May 2008 and at MoMa
>(NY) "Political Adsâ€Â October 27, 2008.
>
>In Spring 2008, Wendy Jacob will have her
>co-edited book released with Haha With Love from
>Haha: Â Essays and Notes on a Collective Art
>Practice, published by White Walls Press,
>www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/227189.ctl
>
>Andrea Frank has a solo exhibition at Galleria
>Michela Rizzo (Venice, Italy) opening on July
>12th (global ports and ships),
>www.galleriamichelarizzo.net. Frank is also in a
>group show Presumed Innocence 
DeCordova
>Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
, Feb 2
>- April 27 -
><http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2008/Presumed%20Innocence.htm>more
>info
>
>In Spring 2008, Jae Rhim Lee brings a FEMA
>Trailer to MIT Campus in conjunction with her
>course, 4.391 Special Problems in Visual Arts -
>Module 1: Zones of Emergency: The FEMA Trailer Project.
>
>Joe Zane is a finalist for the ICA Artist Price.
>Zane will have a show in November at the ICA in
>conjunction with his finalist status.
>www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/2008/03/ica_artist_priz.html
>
>New VAP Lecturer Amber Frid-Jimenez is nominated
>for the 2008 Renew Media Arts Fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation.
>
>RECENT
>
>Andrea Frank 
exhibition and book release
>Visions - MIT Interviews: Tuesday, March 18,
>2008, 5-7 pm
, The Mark Epstein Innovation
>Gallery, 
MIT
>MUSEUM
,<http://www.andreafrank.net/VISIONS.html>www.andreafrank.net/VISIONS.html
>
>Joe Zane 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.
>
>Joe show –“ Joe Zane and Joe Gibbons had a
>well-received exhibition at the Allston Skirt Gallery in the late fall 2007.
>
>Jae Rhim Lee in Seamless 2008, a fashion show
>highlighting Computational Couture. 
 Museum
>of Science, Boston, MA
, January 30, 2008 @
>8pm - <http://mos.org/events_activities/lectures&d=2091>more info

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>Ute Meta Bauer, participated in New Geographies
>in Contemporary African Art
 Harvard
>University Committee on African Studies
>announces a two-day conference to be held on
>Friday, February 29 and Saturday, March 1, 2008.
>
>Ute Meta Bauer and Joan Jonas
 at SITAC VI,
>What’s Left, What Remains - 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).
>
>Ute Meta Bauer spoke on February 22 at “La
>mirada iracunda†(the Furious Gaze) at the
>Montehermoso Kulturunea Cultural Center. On
>February 29, Bauer was a panelist on the  "New
>Geographies in Contemporary African Art†at Harvard.
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>SMVisS GRAD NEWS
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>UPCOMING
>
>SMVisS Final Reviews
 May 16, 2008, Open to the Public @ VAP, 9am-5pm
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>On April 4 and 5, 2008, two SMVisS grads are
>participating in the fourth annual
>*research-in-progress, presented by the History,
>Theory and Criticism section of the Department
>of Architecture at MIT. The 2008 workshop,
>focusing around the theme “What Object†aims
>to offer graduate students an opportunity to
>work together in cross-disciplinary and
>cross-institutional dialogues, and,
>specifically, with objects in mind. Caitlin
>Berrigan will present Activating Seduction (MIT,
>34-401A) and Kate James: will present I Have
>Seven Hoovers: Objects of Domestic Maintenance, and Affection (MIT, 7-338).
>
>Alia Farid Abdal has been accepted by the MACBA
>to join the PEI (Programa de Estudios
>Independientes) She will be joining the program in September 2008.
>
>Matthew Mazzotta’s 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.
>
>Jin Jung, Annatina Caprez, and Matthew Mazzotta
>are disc jockeys every Friday on WMBR 88.1 FM
>8-9pm www.myspace.com/drawingontheradio.
>
>Sofia Ponte installation Dreaming Lounge is
>exhibited at the MIT Barker Engineering Library, 10-500.
>
>Caitlin Berrigan received a prestigious
>residency from the Skowhegan School of Art for
>this summer (Skowhegan, Maine),
><http://www.skowheganart.org>www.skowheganart.org.
>
>RECENT
>
>Caitlin Berrigan presented an artist talk,
>Whitney Initial Public Offerings, Whitney Museum
>of American Art (New York,
>NY, <http://whitney.org/>whitney.org/. On March 6, 2008,
>
>Berrigan gave a lecture “What is bioArt†for
>the Biomedical Graduate Student Organization at
>Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
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>ALUMNI NEWS
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>Sung Hwan Kim '03 is participating in the 5th
>Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, April 5,
>2008, <http://www.berlinbiennial.de>www.berlinbiennial.de.
>
>This summer, VAP grad Marisa Jahn will be
>Artist-in-Residence at the Headands Center for
>the Arts (San Francisco Bay Area, CA). Marisa
>Jahn curated Kits for an Encounter, April 25 -
>May 31, 2008 @ Western Front (Vancouver, Canada)
>featuring SMVisS grads Azra Aksamija and Max
>Goldfarb. Marisa Jahn and Max Goldfarb
>installation Volume Drawings @ Western Front May
>31, 2008 (Vancouver, Canada). In collaboration
>with Future Farmers, Marisa Jahn is doing a
>project called Commuter Cookout as part of 2nd
>Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge
>June 4-7, 2008 (San Jose, California),
><http://www.futurefarmers.com/tour2/>www.futurefarmers.com/tour2/
>Steve Shada & Marisa Jahn): In addition this
>summer, Jahn will have a solo exhibition
>Overlaps & Half-Laps at Camac (Marnay-sur-Seine, France).
>
>Jill Magid in Working Title - Group show at
>Momenta Art
 March 7 through April 14,
>2008
. 359 Bedford Ave. BKLYN, NY
>11211<http://momentaart.org>
>momentaart.org. Magid is also part of an
>exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies
>at Bard College:Â Under the Influence. The
>opening reception is on Sunday April 13th from
>1-4pm, with performances by Rachel Mason, snow boots, and Arctic Circle.
>
>Now Assistant Professor of Art Foundations -
>VCU School of the Arts Hope Ginsburg exhibits
>Sponge
 January 25th-February 23rd
 Solvent
>Space - Plant Zero Arts Complex Hull & 4th
>Streets, Richmond, VA, 
 www.spongespace.net
>
>Oliver Lutz makes top 10 list,
><http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/12/27/art_brought_to_the_edge/>Boston
>Globe Article. Oliver Lutz has been awarded the
>IV International Painting Prize Diputación de
>Castellón, for his painting Lynching
>I. Lynching I is now part of the permanent
>collection of the Museo de Bellas Artes de
>Castellón. certamenpintura.dipcas.es/en/index.php
>
>Michael Rakowitz, SMVisS '98, wins a
><http://www.creative-capital.org/about/media/2008-0109-awards.html>Creative
>Capital Grant was also featured in the Museum of
>Modern Art Book safe:Â Design Takes on Risk for his paraSITE homeless shelter.
>
>Pia Lindman 
- Faceworks, Luxe Gallery (New
>York), February 15-March 15, 2008. Soapbox
>Event
 April 2008 at the Federal Hall National
>Memorial in New York City - <http://www.soapboxevent.blogspot.com/>more info
>
>Sounding the Subject: Selections from the Pamela
>and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art
>Trust
 MIT List Visual Arts Center: Oct 31, 7
>pm
, Artist Talk by MIT Alumnus Jennifer
>Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla -
><http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/exhibitions/upcoming.html>more info
>
>Seth Weiner
my - Opticon part of Sculpture in
>Environment
, New York, NY -
><http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/attractions/public_art/public_art_new3.html>more
>info (link)
>
>Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla – Never
>Mind That Noise You Heard, Stedelijk Museum CS
>(Amsterdam), February 4, 2008-May 4,
>2008. Recent press in Parquett 80
 www.parkettart.com/index3.htm
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>Assistant to the Director
>
><mailto:vap at mit.edu>vap at mit.edu
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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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