[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: Mon. Nov 17: Visual Arts Program Lecture Series

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    Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:17:47 -0500
    From: Lisa Hickler <lhickler at MIT.EDU>
 Subject: Mon. Nov 17: Visual Arts Program Lecture Series
      To: Lisa Hickler <lhickler at mit.edu>

MONDAY NIGHTS @ VAP LECTURE SERIES
"THIS IS TOMORROW? Urban Utopia - Dystopia - Heterotopia"

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Monday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
"Remote Habitats"
Nicholas Makris, Lucy Orta, Armin Linke
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This cross-disciplinary lecture series includes speakers from art,
architecture, urbanism and related research fields from around the
world. These speakers will pose questions to start a discussion about
imagining tomorrow’s urban “everyday life”- a topic that calls
for a discourse beyond just formal disciplines.

Location:
Joan Jonas Performance Hall, MIT Visual Arts Program, Bldg N51-337, 3FL
265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
(see directions below).

For more information:
http://urbanutopias.mit.edu
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap at mit.edu
617-253-5229

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SPEAKERS
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Nicholas Makris

Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director of the
Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing at MIT.


How are new technologies, such as Ocean Waveguide Remote Sensing,
enabling many new discoveries about remote undersea habitats? How will
these technologies permit scientists to detect and monitor extra-
terrestrial ecosystems, such as the vast ocean under the ice of
Jupiter’s moon Europa? How is a habitat, remote in terms of time now
being retrieved and sensed?

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Lucy Orta

Artist; fashion designer; Professor for Art, Fashion and the
Environment at the London College of Fashion; Paris (France)

Is the idea of a settlement in a place like Antarctica – inherently
isolated, inhospitable and uninhabitable - a tabula rasa that could
lead to a “nation of humanity” and a peaceful land for those
escaping economic or natural disasters, war or political intimidation?

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Armin Linke

Photographer; filmmaker, Guest Professor for Photography at the HFG
Karlsruhe, Germany; Milan (Italy)

Armin Linke is working on an ongoing archive about human activity and
the most varied natural and human-made landscapes. His attempt is to
document scenes where the boundary between fiction and non-fiction
blurs or becomes invisible.

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SERIES SCHEDULE
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September 29 at 7P
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"Imagining Communities"

Ute Meta Bauer, Director MIT Visual Arts Program; Yvonne P. Doderer,
architect and urban researcher, MIT Visiting Professor in Visual Arts;
Jesko Fezer, architect, collaborator with the Institute of Applied
Urbanism in Berlin, Germany, and coeditor of AnArchitektur.

October 6 at 7PM

"Urban Utopia?"

Peter Marcuse, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, NYC;
Pia Maria Ahlback, Lecturer and Researcher in Comparative literature
at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Ahlback is a critic and writer
whose dissertation was "Energy, Heterotopia, Dystopia. George Orwell,
Michel Foucault and the Twentieth Century Environmental
Imagination" (2001).

October 20 at 7PM

"The Right to the City"

Shuddhabrata Sengupta, member of Raqs Media Collective and Sarai.net,
New Delhi, India, co-curator of manifesta7, Bolzano, Italy; Philippe
Rekacewicz, geographer and cartographer for Le Monde Diplomatique,
France and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP/Grid),
Arendal, Norway.

October 27 at 7PM

"What City? Whose City?"

Regina Bittner, curator and coordinator of the Bauhaus Kolleg at the
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany; Stefano Boeri, Editor-in-Chief of
Abitare, Milan, Italy, teaches at the Milan Polytechnic and is a
visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard
University; Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Art Critic; chief curator Italian
National Contemporary Art Museum (MAXXI), Rome (Italy).

November 3 at 7PM

"Mobile Life, Ghost Towns"

Lukas Feireiss, Berlin, Germany, curator, and editor of Architecture
of Change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment;
AbdouMaliq Simone, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmith
University of London, UK.

November 17 at 7PM

"Remote Habitats"

Lucy Orta, Studio-Orta, Paris, France, and Professor for Art, Fashion
and the Environment, London College of Fashion, UK; Nichlas Makris,
Professor of Engeneering and Director of the MIT Laboratory of
Undersea Remote Sensing; Armin Linke, photographer and film maker,
Milan, Italy, and guest professor at the HFG Karlruhe, Germany.

December 1 at 7PM

"Urban Culture, Urban Agriculture"

Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén, artists, Oslo, Norway; Nikolaus Hirsch,
architect, current work includes the European Kunsthalle in Cologne,
United Nations Plaza (with Anton Vidokle) Berlin, Germany, and a
cultural laboratory for a new residential area in Delhi, India.

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DIRECTIONS
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The MIT Visual Arts Program is located adjacent to the MIT Museum at
265 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. 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.

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SPECIAL THANKS
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This lecture series is made possible by a special grant from the
Office of the Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning.



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