[Sci-tech-public] TONIGHT! 7-9p @ MIT Visual Arts Program - Zones of Emergency - Artist Alfredo Jaar + Kayvan Zainabadi (MIT Amnesty)

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>From: Amber Frid-Jimenez <amber at media.mit.edu>
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>Subject: TONIGHT! 7-9p @ MIT Visual Arts Program - Zones of 
>Emergency - Artist Alfredo Jaar + Kayvan Zainabadi (MIT Amnesty)
>Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:56:01 -0500
>
>
>Monday, February 25, 2008, 7 - 9 pm
>
>ZONES OF EMERGENCY - Monday Night @VAP lecture series
>Artist Alfredo Jaar + Kayvan Zainabadi (MIT Amnesty)
>MIT Visual Arts Program
>
>Location: N51-337, (Joan Jonas Performance Hall)
>Video blog: <http://zonesofemergency.net>http://zonesofemergency.net
>
>The Chilean Alfredo Jaar 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.
>
>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.
>
>Kayvan Zainabadi 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.
>
>We are excited to announce the 2008 Spring term Monday Nights at 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.
>
>Free and open to the public.
>
>Visual Arts Program
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Department of Architecture
>Bldg N51-337, 3rd floor
>Joan Jonas Performance Hall
>265 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>
>Directions
>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.
>
>By Public Transportation
>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.

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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