Saturday, February 27, 2010
JESSICA DELFINO, SATIRICAL FOLKSINGER, IN GLOUCESTER - March 3, 2010
Jessica Delfino presents “DIRTY FOLK ROCK” in Gloucester, MA
Ribald ditties abound at Cape Ann Community Cinema
PRESS CONTACT:
Jennifer Hanson
gimmemedia@gmail.com
www.gimmemedia.com
(347) 878-7769
WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2010
Cape Ann Community Cinema
21 Main St., Gloucester, MA. 01930
Doors at 7:30 PM
Glitters, sprinkles, rainbow fluff: A) the first few words of a kids’ song? Or, B) the opening line of an edgy, electro-pop number which got Jessica publicly denounced by the US Catholic League, sealed her first record deal and sent her on a UK tour where she had sell out shows? That would be “B”.
Introducing Jessica Delfino. Originally hailing from Damariscotta, Maine, Jessica now calls New York City her home, but she spends a good amount of her time on the road these days, sharing her “dirty folk rock” with anyone who will listen. And it turns out there are actually plenty of people who are ready to hear Jessica’s often comedic, sometimes naughty ballads, anthems and musical numbers.
Much of the award-winning songstress’s repertoire addresses the darker side of life, as in her song, “I Hate Everybody”, or deconstructs sex acts posing as anti-war campfire songs, as in her song, “No More War”. In some songs, she keeps it clean, discussing unicorns and the like. Her bevy of unusual instruments include the normal enough guitar, but then she adds to that an “emergency whistle”, a “q-chord”, and a “flying V ukulele”, and you’ve got “fun for the whole family,” Jessica explains, “except for the kids.”
Jessica recently performed at the world famous Reading & Leeds Festival in England where Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain famously rolled himself out onto the stage in a wheel chair some years ago. Jessica’s work has appeared on TV, radio and she was just this week touted as one of “NYC’s 50 most stylish people” in a photo spread in Time Out NY. Oh, and she is something of an internet celebrity. If you don’t believe it, she suggests you just “google her and see what comes up.”
Jessica performs a slightly tamer version of her material on March 3rd, 2010, at Cape Ann Community Cinema, 21 Main St., Gloucester, MA. 01930. For more information, call (978) 282-1988 or visit www.massbayfilmproject.org.
Ribald ditties abound at Cape Ann Community Cinema
PRESS CONTACT:
Jennifer Hanson
gimmemedia@gmail.com
www.gimmemedia.com
(347) 878-7769
WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2010
Cape Ann Community Cinema
21 Main St., Gloucester, MA. 01930
Doors at 7:30 PM
Glitters, sprinkles, rainbow fluff: A) the first few words of a kids’ song? Or, B) the opening line of an edgy, electro-pop number which got Jessica publicly denounced by the US Catholic League, sealed her first record deal and sent her on a UK tour where she had sell out shows? That would be “B”.
Introducing Jessica Delfino. Originally hailing from Damariscotta, Maine, Jessica now calls New York City her home, but she spends a good amount of her time on the road these days, sharing her “dirty folk rock” with anyone who will listen. And it turns out there are actually plenty of people who are ready to hear Jessica’s often comedic, sometimes naughty ballads, anthems and musical numbers.
Much of the award-winning songstress’s repertoire addresses the darker side of life, as in her song, “I Hate Everybody”, or deconstructs sex acts posing as anti-war campfire songs, as in her song, “No More War”. In some songs, she keeps it clean, discussing unicorns and the like. Her bevy of unusual instruments include the normal enough guitar, but then she adds to that an “emergency whistle”, a “q-chord”, and a “flying V ukulele”, and you’ve got “fun for the whole family,” Jessica explains, “except for the kids.”
Jessica recently performed at the world famous Reading & Leeds Festival in England where Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain famously rolled himself out onto the stage in a wheel chair some years ago. Jessica’s work has appeared on TV, radio and she was just this week touted as one of “NYC’s 50 most stylish people” in a photo spread in Time Out NY. Oh, and she is something of an internet celebrity. If you don’t believe it, she suggests you just “google her and see what comes up.”
Jessica performs a slightly tamer version of her material on March 3rd, 2010, at Cape Ann Community Cinema, 21 Main St., Gloucester, MA. 01930. For more information, call (978) 282-1988 or visit www.massbayfilmproject.org.
Friday, February 26, 2010
MIT LIST CENTER PERFORMANCE SERIES - March 1, 2010
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.
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Monday, March 1 at 7:00 PM
"Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity"
Constanza Macras
Bartos Theater
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Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity
Constanza Macras, an Argentine choreographer based in Berlin, was recipient of the 2009-2010 Abramowitz Award. Macras‘ and her company, DORKYPARK, create works that mix video, dance, text and music with a diverse cast of performers. Her work is based on everyday situations that interrupt themselves and accumulate, creating a form of hyper-narrative.
Constanza Macras
Constanza Macras studied fashion design at the University of Buenos Aires and trained at the Margarita Bali School of Dance and Merce Cunningham Studio in New York. She founded the dance company Tamagotchi Y2K in 1997, now DORKYPARK. The company and its productions are regularly presented at innovative Berlin venues such as Hebbel am Ufer and Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz.
Moderator: Jay Scheib
The lecture is moderated by Jay Scheib, an Associate Professor of Music and Theater Arts at MIT, writer, director and designer.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below).
Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.
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Monday, March 1 at 7:00 PM
"Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity"
Constanza Macras
Bartos Theater
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Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity
Constanza Macras, an Argentine choreographer based in Berlin, was recipient of the 2009-2010 Abramowitz Award. Macras‘ and her company, DORKYPARK, create works that mix video, dance, text and music with a diverse cast of performers. Her work is based on everyday situations that interrupt themselves and accumulate, creating a form of hyper-narrative.
Constanza Macras
Constanza Macras studied fashion design at the University of Buenos Aires and trained at the Margarita Bali School of Dance and Merce Cunningham Studio in New York. She founded the dance company Tamagotchi Y2K in 1997, now DORKYPARK. The company and its productions are regularly presented at innovative Berlin venues such as Hebbel am Ufer and Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz.
Moderator: Jay Scheib
The lecture is moderated by Jay Scheib, an Associate Professor of Music and Theater Arts at MIT, writer, director and designer.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below).
Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
Thursday, February 25, 2010
WATERTOWN/BELMONT MASSACHUSETTS OPEN STUDIOS - March 1, 2010
Artists living and/or working in Watertown or Belmont, Massachusetts are encouraged to participate in the First Annual Watertown and Belmont Open Studios on the weekend of April 24-25, 2010. This inaugural event has been organized by a committee comprised of artists from both communities, working in collaboration with representatives of the Arsenal Center for the Arts and the Belmont Gallery of Art. In addition to Watertown and Belmont Open Studio weekend, submitted works by artists without their own exhibit or studio space may be selected for display at Arsenal Center for the Arts April 15 - May 28, 2010, (Opening Reception: Thursday, April 22, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m) and The Belmont Gallery of Art April 1-30, 2010 (Reception: Friday, April 23, 2010, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m). Juried group exhibitions may also submit. Open Studios are a great opportunity for the public to meet local artists, see their artwork, learn about their creative processes, purchase work and perhaps even commission new work. Refundable entry fees apply.
For more information and to download an application:
http://watertownbelmontopenstudios.wordpress.com
openstudios@arsenalarts.org
For more information and to download an application:
http://watertownbelmontopenstudios.wordpress.com
openstudios@arsenalarts.org
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
EVERGREENS AT FRESH POND - February 28, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Meeting place will be provided to people who register for the program.
Come check out the Reservation's hollies, cedars, rhododendrons, junipers, azaleas, pines, spruces and firs: trees and shrubs that do not lose their leaves or needles in winter. We'll look at the many ways these plants have adapted to winter conditions such as the lack of water, the presence of wind and the threat of freezing. Participants will learn to use Tree Finder guides by May Theilgaard Watts to help identify the evergreens as we marvel at the ingenuity of their design. You can use our Finder guides, or purchase one from us for $5. Most of the plants will be on or near the perimeter road. Children are welcome with an adult.
Events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.
Please register in advance for each event that you plan to attend. Important information on parking will be given to you when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at: friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com
For more information and to join the Friends group: http://www.friendsoffreshpond.org
Meeting place will be provided to people who register for the program.
Come check out the Reservation's hollies, cedars, rhododendrons, junipers, azaleas, pines, spruces and firs: trees and shrubs that do not lose their leaves or needles in winter. We'll look at the many ways these plants have adapted to winter conditions such as the lack of water, the presence of wind and the threat of freezing. Participants will learn to use Tree Finder guides by May Theilgaard Watts to help identify the evergreens as we marvel at the ingenuity of their design. You can use our Finder guides, or purchase one from us for $5. Most of the plants will be on or near the perimeter road. Children are welcome with an adult.
Events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.
Please register in advance for each event that you plan to attend. Important information on parking will be given to you when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at: friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com
For more information and to join the Friends group: http://www.friendsoffreshpond.org
ARTBEAT CALL FOR ARTISTS - July 17, 2010
During the heat of summer, artists and festival goers converge on Davis Square, transforming it into one of the area's largest and most innovative arts festivals. ArtBeat includes music, performance art, craft vendors, dance, theater, food, and a whole lot more. Each year we develop a theme that serves as a launching point for artists and the community to express themselves. ArtBeat 2010: Water, scheduled for July 17, is sure to be a big splash.
The wide variety of talent from local artists, musicians, and vendors is what makes ArtBeat a huge success. Attached is 2010 craft vendor application. We look forward to your participation again this year. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding the event.
Sincerely,
Heather Balchunas
Heather Balchunas
Office Manager
Somerville Arts Council
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
617.625.6600 ext. 2985
-->ArtBeat: July 16&17 2010
2010 theme:
Wet, cool, blue. Water is both life sustaining and a force of nature— and we think, an appropriate theme for a steamy summer festival! We encourage artists to explore water in its many forms—rain, puddles, ponds, oceans, ice floes. Or consider how we trap, transport and market water—via damns, pipes and fancy designer bottles. We hope environmentalists will address shrinking water supplies, the politics of water and water pollution. Conversely, we also hope some artists interpret the theme more playfully, exploring water-related activities like fishing, surfing and sailing. Provocative interpretations are also encouraged: Will Somerville's Mystic River be home to hydroponic farmers in years to come? Will Davis Square be under water in 2500? Water has inspired artists for centuries— consider J.M.W. Turner’s tempestuous seas or Handel’s Water music—we anticipate your creative interpretations!
The wide variety of talent from local artists, musicians, and vendors is what makes ArtBeat a huge success. Attached is 2010 craft vendor application. We look forward to your participation again this year. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding the event.
Sincerely,
Heather Balchunas
Heather Balchunas
Office Manager
Somerville Arts Council
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
617.625.6600 ext. 2985
-->ArtBeat: July 16&17 2010
2010 theme:
Wet, cool, blue. Water is both life sustaining and a force of nature— and we think, an appropriate theme for a steamy summer festival! We encourage artists to explore water in its many forms—rain, puddles, ponds, oceans, ice floes. Or consider how we trap, transport and market water—via damns, pipes and fancy designer bottles. We hope environmentalists will address shrinking water supplies, the politics of water and water pollution. Conversely, we also hope some artists interpret the theme more playfully, exploring water-related activities like fishing, surfing and sailing. Provocative interpretations are also encouraged: Will Somerville's Mystic River be home to hydroponic farmers in years to come? Will Davis Square be under water in 2500? Water has inspired artists for centuries— consider J.M.W. Turner’s tempestuous seas or Handel’s Water music—we anticipate your creative interpretations!
URBAN EDENS PAINTING EXHIBITION IN BROOKLINE - Mar 7 - Apr 2, 2010
Acrylic Paintings by Peg Kane Celebrate
Urban Green Spaces:
“Urban Edens” on view at Brookline Arts Center Gallery during March
(Brookline -- February 23, 2010) In her new series of landscape paintings that are on view this spring at the Brookline Arts Center, Malden artist Peg Kane celebrates the small urban gardens that dot the Boston landscape. Kane’s newest acrylic paintings grew from the artist’s memories of her time studying in Florence, Italy.
“I loved seeing how the Italian gardens created an oasis of green in the middle of a busy urban area. In this series, I try to convey both the light and atmosphere of nature, while showing signs of the human aesthetic that shapes the garden landscape,” says Ms. Kane.
“Urban Edens: Community Gardens of Boston” is on view in the gallery of the Brookline Arts Center from March 7 to April 2, 2010. The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth Street, at the corner of St. Mary’s Street and is open Monday - Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
There will be an opening reception on Sunday, March 7 from 2 - 5 p.m. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. The reception will also inaugurate a new exhibition of black and white photos by Adam Marcinek entitled “West Branch Pond Camps.”
Peg Kane has been a teacher of acrylic painting for adults at the Brookline Arts Center since 2005. She also introduces young children to art in popular after-school painting classes. A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and the Pius XII Institute in Florence, Italy, Kane has also taught on Cape Cod, in Boston, and in the Lincoln and St. Mary of the Assumption Schools in Brookline.
Peg Kane has previously exhibited her work at the Concord Art Association, the Cotuit Center for the Arts, and the Cahoon Museum, as well as West Medford Open Studios and Brookline Open Studios.
The Brookline Arts Center is easily reached by public transportation and is wheelchair accessible. For more information, visit www.brooklineartscenter.com
Urban Green Spaces:
“Urban Edens” on view at Brookline Arts Center Gallery during March
(Brookline -- February 23, 2010) In her new series of landscape paintings that are on view this spring at the Brookline Arts Center, Malden artist Peg Kane celebrates the small urban gardens that dot the Boston landscape. Kane’s newest acrylic paintings grew from the artist’s memories of her time studying in Florence, Italy.
“I loved seeing how the Italian gardens created an oasis of green in the middle of a busy urban area. In this series, I try to convey both the light and atmosphere of nature, while showing signs of the human aesthetic that shapes the garden landscape,” says Ms. Kane.
“Urban Edens: Community Gardens of Boston” is on view in the gallery of the Brookline Arts Center from March 7 to April 2, 2010. The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth Street, at the corner of St. Mary’s Street and is open Monday - Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
There will be an opening reception on Sunday, March 7 from 2 - 5 p.m. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. The reception will also inaugurate a new exhibition of black and white photos by Adam Marcinek entitled “West Branch Pond Camps.”
Peg Kane has been a teacher of acrylic painting for adults at the Brookline Arts Center since 2005. She also introduces young children to art in popular after-school painting classes. A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and the Pius XII Institute in Florence, Italy, Kane has also taught on Cape Cod, in Boston, and in the Lincoln and St. Mary of the Assumption Schools in Brookline.
Peg Kane has previously exhibited her work at the Concord Art Association, the Cotuit Center for the Arts, and the Cahoon Museum, as well as West Medford Open Studios and Brookline Open Studios.
The Brookline Arts Center is easily reached by public transportation and is wheelchair accessible. For more information, visit www.brooklineartscenter.com
Sunday, February 21, 2010
MIT Lecture Event - February 22, 2010
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.
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Monday, February 22 at 7:00 PM
"Production and Reception of the Visual"
Xavier Le Roy
Bartos Theater
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Production and Reception of the Visual
This lecture is the kick-off of our spring series. Xavier Le Roy will explore the relationships between the production and reception of the visual. What do spectators see? Watching a choreography, they see not only a form or a content, but processes at work during the production of the movements in rehearsals as well as during execution of the movements in performance. How and when are these relationships constructed?
Xavier Le Roy
French choreographer Xavier Le Roy studied biochemistry at the University of Montpellier before beginning his dance career in 1988. He performed for various companies before founding his current company, in situ productions with Petra Roggel in 1999. From 2000 and on, Le Roy collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Jerome Bel and Yvonne Rainer and presented his work in various settings. He recently choreographed and performed Rites of Spring at Performa 07 in New York City; and another new work at the Montpellier Danse Festival 2008. Le Roy is in residence at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) this spring. Le Roy will develop a new piece in collaboration with MIT scientists and researchers about species, categorization, classification, and difference in animal and human behaviors
Moderator: Nell Breyer
Nell Breyer is a research affiliate at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) who situates her work at the intersection of dance, new media, and visual art.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below). Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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ABOUT THE SERIES
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The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative. is a lecture series introducing key figures whose artistic practice is situated at the intersection of performance art, avant garde dance, and activist theater. Focusing on time-based and ephemeral formats that navigate between art, film, theater and dance, the series juxtaposes speakers of different generations and backgrounds who share an interest in feminist discourses and politics.
The series this spring is dedicated to Joan Jonas, a pioneer in video and performance art, and the 2010 recipient of the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT on April 15, 2010.
The lecture series is directed by Associate Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in collaboration with Professor Joan Jonas, and Lecturer Amber Frid-Jimenez.
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THANKS
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The lecture series was made possible in part by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT. Thanks also for support from the MIT Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program.
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SERIES SCHEDULE
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02/22/10 - Production and Reception of the Visual
See details above.
03/01/10 - Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity
Constanza Macras
Jay Scheib, moderator
Constanza Macras, an Argentine choreographer based in Berlin, was recipient of the 2009-2010 Abramowitz Award. Macras‘ and her company, DORKYPARK, create works that mix video, dance, text and music with a diverse cast of performers. Her work is based on everyday situations that interrupt themselves and accumulate, creating a form of hyper-narrative. Jay Scheib is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT and is a writer, director and designer. Macras is at MIT through the Student & Artist-in-Residence Programs of the Office of the Arts and the William L. Abramowitz residency.
03/08/10 - The Bread and Puppet Theater
Peter Schumann
John Bell, moderator
Peter Schumann, legendary founder of The Bread and Puppet Theater will present a short “fiddle lecture“ illustrated with cantastoria banners. Moderator John Bell, long-time collaborator of Bread and Puppet Theater, will discuss with Schumann the theater‘s use of public space, technology, the concept of progress, and the relations between puppet theater and modernism. The evening will end with a drum and fiddle performance. John Bell, a fellow at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, is a puppeteer, scholar, and teacher.
03/15/10 - It’s Real to Me
Magda Fernandez
Amber Frid-Jimenez, moderator
Magda Fernandez, a Boston-based artist, creates synthetic video worlds that question our real lives in contemporary times. Fernandez‘s videos rely liberally on composite technology and special effects to make sense out of the nonsensical. Fernandez will screen four of her videos and discuss their subjects and means of production. Amber Frid-Jimenez is a lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
04/05/10 - Stylistic Economies, Reenactments, and Choreographic Regimes
Catherine Sullivan
Jane Farver, moderator
Catherine Sullivan‘s works engage a variety of media—theater, film, video, photography, writing and sculpture. Sullivan will discuss the numerous layers of collaboration and reference apparent in her work, and the anxious and unresolved political and social sensibility that it gives rise to. Catherine Sullivan is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Jane Farver is a curator and the director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/12/10 - Where’s the Passion
Yvonne Rainer
Joan Jonas, moderator
Yvonne Rainer made a transition to filmmaking following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer/dancer. “Where‘s the Passion“ is a lecture in which notions of self-expression, impersonation, and the politics of looking and being looked at are examined, accompanied by documentations of two of her recent performances. Rainer is currently a professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. Joan Jonas is a pioneer in video and performance art and a professor in the MIT Program of Art, Culture and Technology.
04/26/10 - Text: Free and Indirect. A Future Perception.
Eva Meyer
Ute Meta Bauer, moderator
Eva Meyer, a writer and filmmaker based in Berlin, will screen and discuss Sie könnte zu Ihnen gehören/She Might Belong to you, a 37 minute film Meyer created with artist Eran Schaerf in 2007 for Skulptur Projekte Münster. Meyer describes the film: “With the passing of time she has become clairvoyant….She could go beyond the perceptive and sensitive states of experience and entrust sensations surpassing them to a future perception.” Ute Meta Bauer is a curator and director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
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DIRECTIONS
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MIT Bartos Theater is located on the ground floor of the Wiesner Building on MIT campus (20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge) in close proximity to Kendall Square.
By Public Transportation
Take the MBTA red line to the Kendall/ MIT stop, follow Main Street west to Ames Street, turn left, walk the distance of about one block to the crosswalk and the Wiesner Building (E15) is on your left.
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SAVE THE DATE
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03/13/10
Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art Parody, Politics, and Performativity Saturday, March 13, 3PM, Stata Center, presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/15/10
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) is celebrating its official inauguration with an Open House and day of activities in Buildings E14 and E15 presenting various projects by our current SMVisS graduate students, ACT fellows and affiliates, the launch of new ACT website and the release of Engaged a DVD celebrating 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program in collaboration with Aspect: the Chronicle of New Media Art featuring works by VAP faculty and alumni. More details TBA.
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.
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Monday, February 22 at 7:00 PM
"Production and Reception of the Visual"
Xavier Le Roy
Bartos Theater
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Production and Reception of the Visual
This lecture is the kick-off of our spring series. Xavier Le Roy will explore the relationships between the production and reception of the visual. What do spectators see? Watching a choreography, they see not only a form or a content, but processes at work during the production of the movements in rehearsals as well as during execution of the movements in performance. How and when are these relationships constructed?
Xavier Le Roy
French choreographer Xavier Le Roy studied biochemistry at the University of Montpellier before beginning his dance career in 1988. He performed for various companies before founding his current company, in situ productions with Petra Roggel in 1999. From 2000 and on, Le Roy collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Jerome Bel and Yvonne Rainer and presented his work in various settings. He recently choreographed and performed Rites of Spring at Performa 07 in New York City; and another new work at the Montpellier Danse Festival 2008. Le Roy is in residence at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) this spring. Le Roy will develop a new piece in collaboration with MIT scientists and researchers about species, categorization, classification, and difference in animal and human behaviors
Moderator: Nell Breyer
Nell Breyer is a research affiliate at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) who situates her work at the intersection of dance, new media, and visual art.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below). Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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ABOUT THE SERIES
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The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative. is a lecture series introducing key figures whose artistic practice is situated at the intersection of performance art, avant garde dance, and activist theater. Focusing on time-based and ephemeral formats that navigate between art, film, theater and dance, the series juxtaposes speakers of different generations and backgrounds who share an interest in feminist discourses and politics.
The series this spring is dedicated to Joan Jonas, a pioneer in video and performance art, and the 2010 recipient of the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT on April 15, 2010.
The lecture series is directed by Associate Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in collaboration with Professor Joan Jonas, and Lecturer Amber Frid-Jimenez.
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THANKS
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The lecture series was made possible in part by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT. Thanks also for support from the MIT Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program.
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SERIES SCHEDULE
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02/22/10 - Production and Reception of the Visual
See details above.
03/01/10 - Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity
Constanza Macras
Jay Scheib, moderator
Constanza Macras, an Argentine choreographer based in Berlin, was recipient of the 2009-2010 Abramowitz Award. Macras‘ and her company, DORKYPARK, create works that mix video, dance, text and music with a diverse cast of performers. Her work is based on everyday situations that interrupt themselves and accumulate, creating a form of hyper-narrative. Jay Scheib is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT and is a writer, director and designer. Macras is at MIT through the Student & Artist-in-Residence Programs of the Office of the Arts and the William L. Abramowitz residency.
03/08/10 - The Bread and Puppet Theater
Peter Schumann
John Bell, moderator
Peter Schumann, legendary founder of The Bread and Puppet Theater will present a short “fiddle lecture“ illustrated with cantastoria banners. Moderator John Bell, long-time collaborator of Bread and Puppet Theater, will discuss with Schumann the theater‘s use of public space, technology, the concept of progress, and the relations between puppet theater and modernism. The evening will end with a drum and fiddle performance. John Bell, a fellow at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, is a puppeteer, scholar, and teacher.
03/15/10 - It’s Real to Me
Magda Fernandez
Amber Frid-Jimenez, moderator
Magda Fernandez, a Boston-based artist, creates synthetic video worlds that question our real lives in contemporary times. Fernandez‘s videos rely liberally on composite technology and special effects to make sense out of the nonsensical. Fernandez will screen four of her videos and discuss their subjects and means of production. Amber Frid-Jimenez is a lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
04/05/10 - Stylistic Economies, Reenactments, and Choreographic Regimes
Catherine Sullivan
Jane Farver, moderator
Catherine Sullivan‘s works engage a variety of media—theater, film, video, photography, writing and sculpture. Sullivan will discuss the numerous layers of collaboration and reference apparent in her work, and the anxious and unresolved political and social sensibility that it gives rise to. Catherine Sullivan is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Jane Farver is a curator and the director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/12/10 - Where’s the Passion
Yvonne Rainer
Joan Jonas, moderator
Yvonne Rainer made a transition to filmmaking following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer/dancer. “Where‘s the Passion“ is a lecture in which notions of self-expression, impersonation, and the politics of looking and being looked at are examined, accompanied by documentations of two of her recent performances. Rainer is currently a professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. Joan Jonas is a pioneer in video and performance art and a professor in the MIT Program of Art, Culture and Technology.
04/26/10 - Text: Free and Indirect. A Future Perception.
Eva Meyer
Ute Meta Bauer, moderator
Eva Meyer, a writer and filmmaker based in Berlin, will screen and discuss Sie könnte zu Ihnen gehören/She Might Belong to you, a 37 minute film Meyer created with artist Eran Schaerf in 2007 for Skulptur Projekte Münster. Meyer describes the film: “With the passing of time she has become clairvoyant….She could go beyond the perceptive and sensitive states of experience and entrust sensations surpassing them to a future perception.” Ute Meta Bauer is a curator and director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
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DIRECTIONS
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MIT Bartos Theater is located on the ground floor of the Wiesner Building on MIT campus (20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge) in close proximity to Kendall Square.
By Public Transportation
Take the MBTA red line to the Kendall/ MIT stop, follow Main Street west to Ames Street, turn left, walk the distance of about one block to the crosswalk and the Wiesner Building (E15) is on your left.
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SAVE THE DATE
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03/13/10
Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art Parody, Politics, and Performativity Saturday, March 13, 3PM, Stata Center, presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/15/10
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) is celebrating its official inauguration with an Open House and day of activities in Buildings E14 and E15 presenting various projects by our current SMVisS graduate students, ACT fellows and affiliates, the launch of new ACT website and the release of Engaged a DVD celebrating 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program in collaboration with Aspect: the Chronicle of New Media Art featuring works by VAP faculty and alumni. More details TBA.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
CONCERT FOR HAITI - March 25, 2009
Panopticon Gallery, Hotel Commonwealth,
Eastern Standard and 2120 Productions
are pleased to collaborate on
"Blues for Haiti"
A Blues Benefit Concert
To benefit Partners in Health and
their ongoing medical efforts in Haiti
March 25, 2010 7:30 - 10:30 pm
Panopticon Gallery of Photography
presents
"Sight of Sound"
A Music Photography Exhibition featuring the works of
Ryan Mastro, Ron Pownall, Charlie Sawyer,
Frank Stewart, and Ernest C. Withers.
March 11, 2010 - May 18, 2010
Reception: March 25, 2010 5-7 pm
Contact Us
Panopticon Gallery
502c Commonwealth Ave
Boston MA 02215
Panopticon Gallery Email
Join Us on Facebook!
617-267-8929
Websites
Panopticon Gallery
Hotel Commonwealth
Eastern Standard
Partners in Health
The Artists:
Ryan Mastro
Ron Pownall
Charlie Sawyer
Frank Stewart
Ernest C. Withers
Join Our Mailing List
Dear Gallery Friends,
Panopticon Gallery, The Hotel Commonwealth, Eastern Standard and 2120 Productions are pleased to present "Blues For Haiti" a concert to benefit Partners in Health (PIH), from 7:30 - 10:30 in the ballroom of Hotel Commonwealth, following the gallery reception for the "Sight of Sound" exhibit. Admission to "Blues for Haiti" is by paid tickets only (see below for ticketing information).
At the event, Panopticon Gallery will conduct a silent auction of individual photographs donated by the photographers featured in the "Sight of Sound" exhibition. Proceeds from the auction will also benefit Partners in Health.
Jay Geils and a long line-up of great blues artists will share the stage with host band: 2120 South Michigan Avenue, led by Charlie Sawyer, music director of Blues for Haiti. Artists include: Sweet Willie "D", David Maxwell, Gerry Beaudoin, Pat Herlehy, Paul Rishell and Annie Raines, Toni-Lynn Washington and Bruce Bears, The Duke Robillard Band with Sunny Crownover and Jiri Hokes.
Tickets are $75 per person and include the concert, beverages, hors d'oeuvres and a talk by Partners in Health (PIH) medical professionals with first-hand experience in Haiti.
A limited number of tickets are available at $150 per person, which include a special pre-show reception with the musical artists and PIH representatives, to be held in the Commonwealth Room from 7 - 7:30pm.
To attend "Blues for Haiti" please RSVP by calling 617-532-5017 or emailing
BluesforHaiti@hotelcommonwealth.com.
You may pay by credit card or check.
In your email or phone message please state the number of tickets you require and at which price level, and include your name and phone number. The Hotel Commonwealth will contact you to process your purchase.
You may purchase tickets by credit card over the phone. If you do, make sure to bring your credit card the night of the event.
If you prefer to pay by check, make checks payable to Hotel Commonwealth, with Blues for Haiti/PIH as a memo, and mail to:
Hotel Commonwealth
Executive Office
500 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston MA 02215
You will recieve an email confirmation and printable ticket upon receipt of your payment.
Email Confirmations should be printed and used for entrance to "Blues for Haiti" Benefit Concert.
For any questions regarding the event, please contact Sarah at marketing@panopt.com.
"Sight of Sound"
A Music Photography Exhibition featuring the works of
Ryan Mastro, Ron Pownall, Charlie Sawyer,
Frank Stewart, and Ernest C. Withers.
March 11, 2010 - May 18, 2010
Reception: March 25, 2010 5-7pm
March 11th through May 18th, Panopticon Gallery is excited to present an exhibition of photographs revolving around music. Sight of Sound includes photographs of Blues, Rock & Roll and Jazz, with B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Joan Baez, The Flaming Lips, and many more performers. The exhibit features work by Ryan Mastro, Ron Pownall, Charlie Sawyer, Frank Stewart, and Ernest C. Withers.
RMa-Dillinger Escape Plan - Bonnaroo '09
"Dillinger Escape Plan - Bonnaroo '09"
© Ryan Mastro, Courtesy Panopticon Gallery, Boston MA
Ryan Mastro has been photographing musicians and music festivals since 2005. His work includes photographs of many different musical artists like The White Stripes, Phish, The Flaming Lips, and Radiohead. Mastro's photographs capture the electric intensity of a live concert environment, showcasing high-energy performers and excited crowds.
Ron Pownall has been capturing images of Rock & Roll since 1968. A darkroom summer job evolved into documenting the Democratic National Convention riots in Grant Park for the Chicago Tribune. Pownall ended up shooting for big names such as Aerosmith and Boston. His images encapsulate the essence of the Rock & Roll era, where, in his words, the music was the bottom line.
CS-BBK-HighChaparral
"B.B. King at the High Chaparral"
© Charlie Sawyer, Courtesy Panopticon Gallery, Boston MA
Charlie Sawyer began his Blues photographic career in 1968, the year he met B.B. King. Sawyer published the first full-length biography of B.B., eleven years after that first meeting. Charlie's photographs include not only B.B. King but also Nina Simone, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and many other Blues greats. He currently teaches Blues History at Harvard Extension School.
Frank Stewart grew up the stepson of a Jazz musician. Stewart's affinity for the music goes beyond just a love of the sound, rooted deep within the African American culture. He elegantly and beautifully captures his admiration of Jazz and the culture it represents.
Ernest C. Withers documented the rise of the music scene in his hometown of Memphis Tennessee. He photographed a young B.B. King on Beale Street, Al Green (before he was Reverend Al Green), Howlin' Wolf, Ike and Tina Turner, and a very young Elvis. Withers secured the legacy of Beale Street in spite of an era that ignored African American achievement. His powerful photographs celebrate the life and triumphs of Memphis Blues.
This exhibition pulsates with intimate experiences of Sight and Sound.
Eastern Standard and 2120 Productions
are pleased to collaborate on
"Blues for Haiti"
A Blues Benefit Concert
To benefit Partners in Health and
their ongoing medical efforts in Haiti
March 25, 2010 7:30 - 10:30 pm
Panopticon Gallery of Photography
presents
"Sight of Sound"
A Music Photography Exhibition featuring the works of
Ryan Mastro, Ron Pownall, Charlie Sawyer,
Frank Stewart, and Ernest C. Withers.
March 11, 2010 - May 18, 2010
Reception: March 25, 2010 5-7 pm
Contact Us
Panopticon Gallery
502c Commonwealth Ave
Boston MA 02215
Panopticon Gallery Email
Join Us on Facebook!
617-267-8929
Websites
Panopticon Gallery
Hotel Commonwealth
Eastern Standard
Partners in Health
The Artists:
Ryan Mastro
Ron Pownall
Charlie Sawyer
Frank Stewart
Ernest C. Withers
Join Our Mailing List
Dear Gallery Friends,
Panopticon Gallery, The Hotel Commonwealth, Eastern Standard and 2120 Productions are pleased to present "Blues For Haiti" a concert to benefit Partners in Health (PIH), from 7:30 - 10:30 in the ballroom of Hotel Commonwealth, following the gallery reception for the "Sight of Sound" exhibit. Admission to "Blues for Haiti" is by paid tickets only (see below for ticketing information).
At the event, Panopticon Gallery will conduct a silent auction of individual photographs donated by the photographers featured in the "Sight of Sound" exhibition. Proceeds from the auction will also benefit Partners in Health.
Jay Geils and a long line-up of great blues artists will share the stage with host band: 2120 South Michigan Avenue, led by Charlie Sawyer, music director of Blues for Haiti. Artists include: Sweet Willie "D", David Maxwell, Gerry Beaudoin, Pat Herlehy, Paul Rishell and Annie Raines, Toni-Lynn Washington and Bruce Bears, The Duke Robillard Band with Sunny Crownover and Jiri Hokes.
Tickets are $75 per person and include the concert, beverages, hors d'oeuvres and a talk by Partners in Health (PIH) medical professionals with first-hand experience in Haiti.
A limited number of tickets are available at $150 per person, which include a special pre-show reception with the musical artists and PIH representatives, to be held in the Commonwealth Room from 7 - 7:30pm.
To attend "Blues for Haiti" please RSVP by calling 617-532-5017 or emailing
BluesforHaiti@hotelcommonwealth.com.
You may pay by credit card or check.
In your email or phone message please state the number of tickets you require and at which price level, and include your name and phone number. The Hotel Commonwealth will contact you to process your purchase.
You may purchase tickets by credit card over the phone. If you do, make sure to bring your credit card the night of the event.
If you prefer to pay by check, make checks payable to Hotel Commonwealth, with Blues for Haiti/PIH as a memo, and mail to:
Hotel Commonwealth
Executive Office
500 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston MA 02215
You will recieve an email confirmation and printable ticket upon receipt of your payment.
Email Confirmations should be printed and used for entrance to "Blues for Haiti" Benefit Concert.
For any questions regarding the event, please contact Sarah at marketing@panopt.com.
"Sight of Sound"
A Music Photography Exhibition featuring the works of
Ryan Mastro, Ron Pownall, Charlie Sawyer,
Frank Stewart, and Ernest C. Withers.
March 11, 2010 - May 18, 2010
Reception: March 25, 2010 5-7pm
March 11th through May 18th, Panopticon Gallery is excited to present an exhibition of photographs revolving around music. Sight of Sound includes photographs of Blues, Rock & Roll and Jazz, with B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Joan Baez, The Flaming Lips, and many more performers. The exhibit features work by Ryan Mastro, Ron Pownall, Charlie Sawyer, Frank Stewart, and Ernest C. Withers.
RMa-Dillinger Escape Plan - Bonnaroo '09
"Dillinger Escape Plan - Bonnaroo '09"
© Ryan Mastro, Courtesy Panopticon Gallery, Boston MA
Ryan Mastro has been photographing musicians and music festivals since 2005. His work includes photographs of many different musical artists like The White Stripes, Phish, The Flaming Lips, and Radiohead. Mastro's photographs capture the electric intensity of a live concert environment, showcasing high-energy performers and excited crowds.
Ron Pownall has been capturing images of Rock & Roll since 1968. A darkroom summer job evolved into documenting the Democratic National Convention riots in Grant Park for the Chicago Tribune. Pownall ended up shooting for big names such as Aerosmith and Boston. His images encapsulate the essence of the Rock & Roll era, where, in his words, the music was the bottom line.
CS-BBK-HighChaparral
"B.B. King at the High Chaparral"
© Charlie Sawyer, Courtesy Panopticon Gallery, Boston MA
Charlie Sawyer began his Blues photographic career in 1968, the year he met B.B. King. Sawyer published the first full-length biography of B.B., eleven years after that first meeting. Charlie's photographs include not only B.B. King but also Nina Simone, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and many other Blues greats. He currently teaches Blues History at Harvard Extension School.
Frank Stewart grew up the stepson of a Jazz musician. Stewart's affinity for the music goes beyond just a love of the sound, rooted deep within the African American culture. He elegantly and beautifully captures his admiration of Jazz and the culture it represents.
Ernest C. Withers documented the rise of the music scene in his hometown of Memphis Tennessee. He photographed a young B.B. King on Beale Street, Al Green (before he was Reverend Al Green), Howlin' Wolf, Ike and Tina Turner, and a very young Elvis. Withers secured the legacy of Beale Street in spite of an era that ignored African American achievement. His powerful photographs celebrate the life and triumphs of Memphis Blues.
This exhibition pulsates with intimate experiences of Sight and Sound.
Monday, February 15, 2010
BOSTON CYBERARTS NEWS & EVENTS - February 2010
It might be cold outside, but the Cyber-world is hot!
COLLISION in Jamaica Plain
Participation in Portland
Heretics at the ICA
Fireworks in Wellesley
It's time to join ATNE!
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COLLISIONcollective at Axiom
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Axiom Center for New and
Experimental Media - which is now a part of Boston Cyberarts! - presents "Collision
XV," which is COLLISIONcollective's 15th annual
exhibition of artwork that brings science and technology together. With work
ranging from 3-D animation to video sculpture to multi-media interactive
projects, this year's exhibition features works by Ben Bray, Joseph Farbrook,
Chris Fitch, John Goodman, Rob Gonsalves, Georgina Lewis, Dan Paluska, Roy
Pardi, Dan Roe, John Slepian, Mark Stock(whose work is pictured here), Wayne Strattman,
and Aaron Zinman.
The
exhibition runs from February 19 through March 27, and there's an opening
reception on February 19 from 6-9pm. Axiom
is located at 141 Green Street in Jamaica Plain, next to the Green Street T
stop on the Orange Line. For more information on the exhibition and reception,
visit www.axiomart.org [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwphoGtkGJH90Y3O6QxQVMc9uIc7C13LY3Kidf_JJ6jDRiDQUqDxuNKHCg9uCISZ_p8XlQAB-BeyBpTWJb18l2w0loyGz04zkeY=]or
call 617.676.5904. For more information on COLLISIONcollective, visit their website
at www.collisioncollective.org. [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwq5lK4cHFDF5nMlc_oMcNs6UAp5_L2l9QpcG9MtIPUlV5z0FOLCOiEaK1w4-DGGlXQqL4N-0RW8gIchRlNT9jhuzfLjfpeT5j-QUJoMz0EHxtPoSyMiylkc]
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Deb Todd Wheeler in Portland
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You'll
want to head up to Portland to see Deb Todd Wheeler's installation "PolyPolyphemous,"
part of an exhibition called "Exchange" in the Evans Hunt Gallery at the Maine
College of Art's Institute of Contemporary Art. This exhibition series features
diverse collaborative approaches between individuals, groups, and institutions Deb's
work concerns technology as a mediator for human interaction with the
environment, and she will be coordinating a large participatory project that
promotes the common good of joined labor forces.
The
exhibition runs through April 11, and Deb will be giving an artist talk at
12:30pm on March 18. For more
information, go to www.meca.edu/ica [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwpF94e0kuQjaWlV0y7sg5FLtp07CscUD5hvfBrS47at75sP-LPahPsURv9PX6WpjHdx6Osv43V13trICS5v-xXLKRz-uiovy4H6j-ichY1Bow==]
or call 207.699.5029.
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"The Heretics" at the ICA
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Closer to home, the Institute of
Contemporary Art presents the Boston premiere of "The Heretics," an
experimental documentary film that charts the history of a 1970's New York feminist
art collective from the inside.
Directed by world-renowned video artist Joan
Braderman, the film chronicles the twenty-year span of the feminist art
magazine "Heresies," a magazine that spawned groundbreaking photography,
poetry, art and ideas.
Filmed at locations around the world, "The Heretics"
features interviews and artwork of the artists who grew "Heresies" into a
feminist forum for revolution. Among the luminaries who got their starts in the
magazine are Alice Walker, Adrienne Rich, and Barbara Kruger.
Screenings take place Thursday, February 11 at 7
p.m. (followed by a Q & A with Joan Braderman) and Sunday, February 14 at
3:30 p.m. Tickets are just $10, or $8
for seniors, students, and ICA members. For
more information about "The Heretics," visit www.heresiesfilmproject.org [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwoRfZK7BJ7K4nrP1DDfSYxSYxW35c5D4-T30PMz1QRmvUNfkZcS1gWbL1ekvs-GISd2GdA179GJFG65khUvbJABSWLZlkQPSoTyU5JxMUFGpscLH8XZmMge].
For more info about the screenings, or to
purchase tickets, visit www.icaboston.org [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwpHBv6arM6GhrKF-brNKMcIe8Whc1eRnU6jsrG8thUAR_WVbKlZe6m_s_alUIVuXKc0XbFe1VnbCYSf9klCk3c-7SlDVXGo9mfHlPIXsS_lfg==]
or call 617.478.3103.
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Something Like Fireworks
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In his first solo exhibition in New England, sound artist
and electronic musician Stephen
Vitiello creates "Something Like Fireworks," a new installation at the Davis Museum
in Wellesley. The
installation, done in collaboration with lighting designer Jeremy Choate, features
Vitiello's field
recordings from the Australian outback, the Canadian wilderness, a Virginia
marsh, and New York City's streets. In this installation, sound inspires
color, creating an experience akin to synaesthesia, in which stimulation of one
sense causes the linked experience of another. This experience is described by neurologist
Richard Cytowicas
"something like fireworks." The Los
Angeles Times has called Vitiello's work "stunning" and
"revelatory."
The installation is on view from February 24 through June 6
at the Davis Museum on the campus of Wellesley College. There's an opening reception
on February 24
from 6-8pm, with an artist talk at 7pm. Stop by and meet the artist - and
you'll have a chance to welcome the Davis Museum's new director Lisa Fischman
too.
For more information on the exhibition, visit www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwquJS87nATFr2ecLOzK3bxsHda3lkjqQ-98pwHLSbEVpeZfSeE3HNqcIKZqzPJgHdVhUFeB-F4AhJgVBBu2vbhanV0BcdRZaL1yXC3DZYVEp_Lt__-N5LNW]or
call 781.283.2051. For more information on the
artist, visit www.stephenvitiello.com [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwpfjY407Ipqf0_jhXshd2O13uA_65JZOe6t2avbdA5G_35YKHG1cqY8JS9bgA9pbCqtUmx2Lqw5NvklBgmTFGt6Puv0eSdF3XWrYUy43_7wpA==].
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It's time to join ATNE!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Looking for ways to connect with other like-minded cyber-folk? Art Technology New
England (ATNE)is a new initiative that connects four distinct groups in the art/techology
sector: multimedia
and digital artists; academic
institutions that train digital artists; nonprofit
organizations who support the digital arts; and businesses that either generate
new creative technologies
or use those technologies to create digital arts and entertainment.
ATNE provides a variety of services, including resource sharing, a forum for interaction
and networking,
opportunities for learning and collaboration, workforce development and human
resource assistance, and avenues for advocacy and community building. Among the
specific programs will be a job board, internship placement program, a digital art
lending program, artist residencies at high-tech companies, and professional development
workshops. And social events too!
Individual membership is just $60 per year, or $45 for students; organization memberships
are also available. To find out more about ATNE and to sign up for membership, go
to www.atne.org [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwor7zqvUfpFC21LpXg8U6wjJ_LKISLWKX1vo-4bhLAEdpdrbvX0YMS7-qPkrBKm7YeIrQ-WZ_qW3y0T5pzeRGs9uJMk-dUME8w=].
Start-up funding for ATNE was provided by the Massachusetts Cultural Council's Adams
Arts Fund, a program that invests in cultural economic
development projects across the state.
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COLLISION in Jamaica Plain
Participation in Portland
Heretics at the ICA
Fireworks in Wellesley
It's time to join ATNE!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COLLISIONcollective at Axiom
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Axiom Center for New and
Experimental Media - which is now a part of Boston Cyberarts! - presents "Collision
XV," which is COLLISIONcollective's 15th annual
exhibition of artwork that brings science and technology together. With work
ranging from 3-D animation to video sculpture to multi-media interactive
projects, this year's exhibition features works by Ben Bray, Joseph Farbrook,
Chris Fitch, John Goodman, Rob Gonsalves, Georgina Lewis, Dan Paluska, Roy
Pardi, Dan Roe, John Slepian, Mark Stock(whose work is pictured here), Wayne Strattman,
and Aaron Zinman.
The
exhibition runs from February 19 through March 27, and there's an opening
reception on February 19 from 6-9pm. Axiom
is located at 141 Green Street in Jamaica Plain, next to the Green Street T
stop on the Orange Line. For more information on the exhibition and reception,
visit www.axiomart.org [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwphoGtkGJH90Y3O6QxQVMc9uIc7C13LY3Kidf_JJ6jDRiDQUqDxuNKHCg9uCISZ_p8XlQAB-BeyBpTWJb18l2w0loyGz04zkeY=]or
call 617.676.5904. For more information on COLLISIONcollective, visit their website
at www.collisioncollective.org. [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwq5lK4cHFDF5nMlc_oMcNs6UAp5_L2l9QpcG9MtIPUlV5z0FOLCOiEaK1w4-DGGlXQqL4N-0RW8gIchRlNT9jhuzfLjfpeT5j-QUJoMz0EHxtPoSyMiylkc]
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Deb Todd Wheeler in Portland
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You'll
want to head up to Portland to see Deb Todd Wheeler's installation "PolyPolyphemous,"
part of an exhibition called "Exchange" in the Evans Hunt Gallery at the Maine
College of Art's Institute of Contemporary Art. This exhibition series features
diverse collaborative approaches between individuals, groups, and institutions Deb's
work concerns technology as a mediator for human interaction with the
environment, and she will be coordinating a large participatory project that
promotes the common good of joined labor forces.
The
exhibition runs through April 11, and Deb will be giving an artist talk at
12:30pm on March 18. For more
information, go to www.meca.edu/ica [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwpF94e0kuQjaWlV0y7sg5FLtp07CscUD5hvfBrS47at75sP-LPahPsURv9PX6WpjHdx6Osv43V13trICS5v-xXLKRz-uiovy4H6j-ichY1Bow==]
or call 207.699.5029.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The Heretics" at the ICA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Closer to home, the Institute of
Contemporary Art presents the Boston premiere of "The Heretics," an
experimental documentary film that charts the history of a 1970's New York feminist
art collective from the inside.
Directed by world-renowned video artist Joan
Braderman, the film chronicles the twenty-year span of the feminist art
magazine "Heresies," a magazine that spawned groundbreaking photography,
poetry, art and ideas.
Filmed at locations around the world, "The Heretics"
features interviews and artwork of the artists who grew "Heresies" into a
feminist forum for revolution. Among the luminaries who got their starts in the
magazine are Alice Walker, Adrienne Rich, and Barbara Kruger.
Screenings take place Thursday, February 11 at 7
p.m. (followed by a Q & A with Joan Braderman) and Sunday, February 14 at
3:30 p.m. Tickets are just $10, or $8
for seniors, students, and ICA members. For
more information about "The Heretics," visit www.heresiesfilmproject.org [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwoRfZK7BJ7K4nrP1DDfSYxSYxW35c5D4-T30PMz1QRmvUNfkZcS1gWbL1ekvs-GISd2GdA179GJFG65khUvbJABSWLZlkQPSoTyU5JxMUFGpscLH8XZmMge].
For more info about the screenings, or to
purchase tickets, visit www.icaboston.org [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwpHBv6arM6GhrKF-brNKMcIe8Whc1eRnU6jsrG8thUAR_WVbKlZe6m_s_alUIVuXKc0XbFe1VnbCYSf9klCk3c-7SlDVXGo9mfHlPIXsS_lfg==]
or call 617.478.3103.
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Something Like Fireworks
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In his first solo exhibition in New England, sound artist
and electronic musician Stephen
Vitiello creates "Something Like Fireworks," a new installation at the Davis Museum
in Wellesley. The
installation, done in collaboration with lighting designer Jeremy Choate, features
Vitiello's field
recordings from the Australian outback, the Canadian wilderness, a Virginia
marsh, and New York City's streets. In this installation, sound inspires
color, creating an experience akin to synaesthesia, in which stimulation of one
sense causes the linked experience of another. This experience is described by neurologist
Richard Cytowicas
"something like fireworks." The Los
Angeles Times has called Vitiello's work "stunning" and
"revelatory."
The installation is on view from February 24 through June 6
at the Davis Museum on the campus of Wellesley College. There's an opening reception
on February 24
from 6-8pm, with an artist talk at 7pm. Stop by and meet the artist - and
you'll have a chance to welcome the Davis Museum's new director Lisa Fischman
too.
For more information on the exhibition, visit www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwquJS87nATFr2ecLOzK3bxsHda3lkjqQ-98pwHLSbEVpeZfSeE3HNqcIKZqzPJgHdVhUFeB-F4AhJgVBBu2vbhanV0BcdRZaL1yXC3DZYVEp_Lt__-N5LNW]or
call 781.283.2051. For more information on the
artist, visit www.stephenvitiello.com [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwpfjY407Ipqf0_jhXshd2O13uA_65JZOe6t2avbdA5G_35YKHG1cqY8JS9bgA9pbCqtUmx2Lqw5NvklBgmTFGt6Puv0eSdF3XWrYUy43_7wpA==].
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It's time to join ATNE!
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Looking for ways to connect with other like-minded cyber-folk? Art Technology New
England (ATNE)is a new initiative that connects four distinct groups in the art/techology
sector: multimedia
and digital artists; academic
institutions that train digital artists; nonprofit
organizations who support the digital arts; and businesses that either generate
new creative technologies
or use those technologies to create digital arts and entertainment.
ATNE provides a variety of services, including resource sharing, a forum for interaction
and networking,
opportunities for learning and collaboration, workforce development and human
resource assistance, and avenues for advocacy and community building. Among the
specific programs will be a job board, internship placement program, a digital art
lending program, artist residencies at high-tech companies, and professional development
workshops. And social events too!
Individual membership is just $60 per year, or $45 for students; organization memberships
are also available. To find out more about ATNE and to sign up for membership, go
to www.atne.org [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102961998526&s=2873&e=001DELZ73QhZwor7zqvUfpFC21LpXg8U6wjJ_LKISLWKX1vo-4bhLAEdpdrbvX0YMS7-qPkrBKm7YeIrQ-WZ_qW3y0T5pzeRGs9uJMk-dUME8w=].
Start-up funding for ATNE was provided by the Massachusetts Cultural Council's Adams
Arts Fund, a program that invests in cultural economic
development projects across the state.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Calendar of Upcoming Events at the Brookline Arts Center
86 Monmouth Street, Brookline, MA 02446
MBTA stops: St. Mary’s Street; and Fenway on Green Line, #47 or CT2
www.brooklineartscenter.com
bac@brooklineartscenter.com
617-566-5715 for more information
Partially Wheelchair accessible: call for details
Gallery Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Free Admission
Non-profit organization: Tax ID # 23-7000746
Photography Discussion Salon: Color Photography by Deanna Christo
Open to all photography lovers and photographers: bring your work to share at this discussion led by a Brookline artist
Friday, February 26, 2010, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Suggested donation: $5
“West Branch Pond Camps” by Adam Marcinek
An off-season meditation on a Maine summer camp; black and white photos by Adam Marcinek
Thursday, March 4 – Friday, April 2, 2010
Opening reception: Sunday, March 7, 2-5 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Urban Edens: Community Gardens of Boston”
Paintings in acrylic by Brookline Arts Center faculty Peg Kane
Monday, March 8 – Friday, April 2, 2010
Opening reception: Sunday, March 7, 2-5 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Parent and Child Art Stations, for ages 2 – 3 (with a parent)
Wednesday, April 7 – Wednesday, June 9, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Enhance your toddler’s creativity in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Tuition: $248, Materials Fee: $30. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
Comics Class for Children: Beginner to Advanced
Thursday, April 8 - Thursday, June 10, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
A fun and hands-on course in comics drawing techniques and story development.
Tuition: $243, Materials Fee: $30. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“Oil Painting Workshop” for Beginners, with Dana Levin
Learn the basic methods and secrets of oil painting through demonstrations, guidance, and class exercises.
Thursday, April 8 - Thursday, May 6, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $134, Materials Fee: $25. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“Jewelry and Metalsmithing for Adults”
Kick off your weekend with a fun and creative class, where you design your own jewelry in silver and other metals
Friday, April 9 - Friday, June 11, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $297, Materials Fee: $60. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“The Tribal World of Venkat Raman Singh Shyam”
Paintings in acrylic by visiting Indian artist Venkat Raman Singh Shyam
Sunday, April 11 – Friday, May 7, 2010
Opening reception: Sunday, April 11, 1 - 3 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Discovering Art: Mixed Media Vacation Art Class for ages 10 and up”
Learn drawing and painting techniques, leading to personal creative expression
Tuesday, April 20 - Friday April 23, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Tuition: $287, Materials Fee: $40. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
86 Monmouth Street, Brookline, MA 02446
MBTA stops: St. Mary’s Street; and Fenway on Green Line, #47 or CT2
www.brooklineartscenter.com
bac@brooklineartscenter.com
617-566-5715 for more information
Partially Wheelchair accessible: call for details
Gallery Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Free Admission
Non-profit organization: Tax ID # 23-7000746
Photography Discussion Salon: Color Photography by Deanna Christo
Open to all photography lovers and photographers: bring your work to share at this discussion led by a Brookline artist
Friday, February 26, 2010, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Suggested donation: $5
“West Branch Pond Camps” by Adam Marcinek
An off-season meditation on a Maine summer camp; black and white photos by Adam Marcinek
Thursday, March 4 – Friday, April 2, 2010
Opening reception: Sunday, March 7, 2-5 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Urban Edens: Community Gardens of Boston”
Paintings in acrylic by Brookline Arts Center faculty Peg Kane
Monday, March 8 – Friday, April 2, 2010
Opening reception: Sunday, March 7, 2-5 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Parent and Child Art Stations, for ages 2 – 3 (with a parent)
Wednesday, April 7 – Wednesday, June 9, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Enhance your toddler’s creativity in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Tuition: $248, Materials Fee: $30. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
Comics Class for Children: Beginner to Advanced
Thursday, April 8 - Thursday, June 10, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
A fun and hands-on course in comics drawing techniques and story development.
Tuition: $243, Materials Fee: $30. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“Oil Painting Workshop” for Beginners, with Dana Levin
Learn the basic methods and secrets of oil painting through demonstrations, guidance, and class exercises.
Thursday, April 8 - Thursday, May 6, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $134, Materials Fee: $25. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“Jewelry and Metalsmithing for Adults”
Kick off your weekend with a fun and creative class, where you design your own jewelry in silver and other metals
Friday, April 9 - Friday, June 11, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $297, Materials Fee: $60. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“The Tribal World of Venkat Raman Singh Shyam”
Paintings in acrylic by visiting Indian artist Venkat Raman Singh Shyam
Sunday, April 11 – Friday, May 7, 2010
Opening reception: Sunday, April 11, 1 - 3 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Discovering Art: Mixed Media Vacation Art Class for ages 10 and up”
Learn drawing and painting techniques, leading to personal creative expression
Tuesday, April 20 - Friday April 23, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Tuition: $287, Materials Fee: $40. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
MIT LIST CENTER PERFORMANCES - March 13, 2010
The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents The Annual Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art
/Parody, Politics, and Performativity/
Saturday, March 13, 3PM
Ray and Maria Stata Center, Rm. 123
32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA
The Forum is free and open to the public.
*
The MIT List Visual Arts Center has gathered together several practicing artists and experts on performative practices to participate in the 2010 Wasserman Forum. This year’s forum will include a panel discussion with artists *Tino Sehgal*, *Tania Bruguera*, and the collective artist *Claire Fontaine*, moderated by writer and curator *Jens Hoffmann*, with respondents *Dorothea von Hantelmann*, *Frazer Ward*, and *Joan Jonas*. The forum will examine a variety of artistic practices in which the passage of time and the relationship to the viewer are significant. Unlike traditional art objects that are characterized by a physical permanence, many of the works created by the panel participants question and undermine, often in humorous ways, the common forms of how institutions present, collect, and display most art today.
*/Parody, Politics, and Performativity/* will take place on Saturday, March 13 with a panel discussion at 3PM, followed by responses beginning at 4:45. The forum is open and free to the public.
The annual Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art was established in memory of Max Wasserman (MIT Class of 1935), a founding member of the Council of the Arts at MIT. This public forum is funded through the generosity of the late Jeanne Wasserman, and addresses critical issues in contemporary art and culture through the participation of renowned scholars, artists, and arts professionals. The forum was coordinated by Rebecca Uchill, a student in MIT’s department of History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art, and is administered and presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
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/Parody, Politics, and Performativity/
Saturday, March 13, 3PM
Ray and Maria Stata Center, Rm. 123
32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA
The Forum is free and open to the public.
*
The MIT List Visual Arts Center has gathered together several practicing artists and experts on performative practices to participate in the 2010 Wasserman Forum. This year’s forum will include a panel discussion with artists *Tino Sehgal*, *Tania Bruguera*, and the collective artist *Claire Fontaine*, moderated by writer and curator *Jens Hoffmann*, with respondents *Dorothea von Hantelmann*, *Frazer Ward*, and *Joan Jonas*. The forum will examine a variety of artistic practices in which the passage of time and the relationship to the viewer are significant. Unlike traditional art objects that are characterized by a physical permanence, many of the works created by the panel participants question and undermine, often in humorous ways, the common forms of how institutions present, collect, and display most art today.
*/Parody, Politics, and Performativity/* will take place on Saturday, March 13 with a panel discussion at 3PM, followed by responses beginning at 4:45. The forum is open and free to the public.
The annual Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art was established in memory of Max Wasserman (MIT Class of 1935), a founding member of the Council of the Arts at MIT. This public forum is funded through the generosity of the late Jeanne Wasserman, and addresses critical issues in contemporary art and culture through the participation of renowned scholars, artists, and arts professionals. The forum was coordinated by Rebecca Uchill, a student in MIT’s department of History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art, and is administered and presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
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MIT LIST CENTER PERFORMANCES - February 22, 2010
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.
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Monday, February 22 at 7:00 PM
"Production and Reception of the Visual"
Xavier Le Roy
Bartos Theater
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Production and Reception of the Visual
This lecture is the kick-off of our spring series. Xavier Le Roy will explore the relationships between the production and reception of the visual. What do spectators see? Watching a choreography, they see not only a form or a content, but processes at work during the production of the movements in rehearsals as well as during execution of the movements in performance. How and when are these relationships constructed?
Xavier Le Roy
French choreographer Xavier Le Roy is in residence at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) this spring. Previously trained as a molecular biologist, Le Roy will develop a new piece in collaboration with MIT scientists and researchers about species, categorization, classification, and difference in animal and human behaviors
Moderator: Nell Breyer
Nell Breyer is a research affiliate at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) who situates her work at the intersection of dance, new media, and visual art.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below). Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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ABOUT THE SERIES
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The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative. is a lecture series introducing key figures whose artistic practice is situated at the intersection of performance art, avant garde dance, and activist theater. Focusing on time-based and ephemeral formats that navigate between art, film, theater and dance, the series juxtaposes speakers of different generations and backgrounds who share an interest in feminist discourses and politics.
The series this spring is dedicated to Joan Jonas, a pioneer in video and performance art, and the 2010 recipient of the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT on April 15, 2010.
The lecture series is directed by Associate Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in collaboration with Professor Joan Jonas, and Lecturer Amber Frid-Jimenez.
The lecture series was made possible in part by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT. Thanks also for support from the MIT Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program.
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SERIES SCHEDULE
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02/22/10 - Production and Reception of the Visual
See details above.
03/01/10 - Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity
Constanza Macras
Jay Scheib, moderator
Constanza Macras, an Argentine choreographer based in Berlin, was recipient of the 2009-2010 Abramowitz Award. Macras‘ and her company, DORKYPARK, create works that mix video, dance, text and music with a diverse cast of performers. Her work is based on everyday situations that interrupt themselves and accumulate, creating a form of hyper-narrative. Jay Scheib is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT and is a writer, director and designer. Macras is at MIT through the Student & Artist-in-Residence Programs of the Office of the Arts and the William L. Abramowitz residency.
03/08/10 - The Bread and Puppet Theater
Peter Schumann
John Bell, moderator
Peter Schumann, legendary founder of The Bread and Puppet Theater will present a short “fiddle lecture“ illustrated with cantastoria banners. Moderator John Bell, long-time collaborator of Bread and Puppet Theater, will discuss with Schumann the theater‘s use of public space, technology, the concept of progress, and the relations between puppet theater and modernism. The evening will end with a drum and fiddle performance. John Bell, a fellow at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, is a puppeteer, scholar, and teacher.
03/15/10 - It’s Real to Me
Magda Fernandez
Amber Frid-Jimenez, moderator
Magda Fernandez, a Boston-based artist, creates synthetic video worlds that question our real lives in contemporary times. Fernandez‘s videos rely liberally on composite technology and special effects to make sense out of the nonsensical. Fernandez will screen four of her videos and discuss their subjects and means of production. Amber Frid-Jimenez is a lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
04/05/10 - Stylistic Economies, Reenactments, and Choreographic Regimes
Catherine Sullivan
Jane Farver, moderator
Catherine Sullivan‘s works engage a variety of media—theater, film, video, photography, writing and sculpture. Sullivan will discuss the numerous layers of collaboration and reference apparent in her work, and the anxious and unresolved political and social sensibility that it gives rise to. Catherine Sullivan is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Jane Farver is a curator and the director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/12/10 - Where’s the Passion
Yvonne Rainer
Joan Jonas, moderator
Yvonne Rainer made a transition to filmmaking following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer/dancer. “Where‘s the Passion“ is a lecture in which notions of self-expression, impersonation, and the politics of looking and being looked at are examined, accompanied by documentations of two of her recent performances. Rainer is currently a professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. Joan Jonas is a pioneer in video and performance art and a professor in the MIT Program of Art, Culture and Technology.
04/26/10 - Text: Free and Indirect. A Future Perception.
Eva Meyer
Ute Meta Bauer, moderator
Eva Meyer, a writer and filmmaker based in Berlin, will screen and discuss Sie könnte zu Ihnen gehören/She Might Belong to you, a 37 minute film Meyer created with artist Eran Schaerf in 2007 for Skulptur Projekte Münster. Meyer describes the film: “With the passing of time she has become clairvoyant….She could go beyond the perceptive and sensitive states of experience and entrust sensations surpassing them to a future perception.” Ute Meta Bauer is a curator and director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
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DIRECTIONS
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MIT Bartos Theater is located on the ground floor of the Wiesner Building on MIT campus (20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge) in close proximity to Kendall Square.
By Public Transportation
Take the MBTA red line to the Kendall/ MIT stop, follow Main Street west to Ames Street, turn left, walk the distance of about one block to the crosswalk and the Wiesner Building (E15) is on your left.
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SAVE THE DATE
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03/13/10
Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art Parody, Politics, and Performativity Saturday, March 13, 3PM, Stata Center, presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/15/10
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) is celebrating its official inauguration with an Open House and day of activities in Buildings E14 and E15 presenting various projects by our current SMVisS graduate students, ACT fellows and affiliates, the launch of new ACT website and the release of Engaged a DVD celebrating 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program in collaboration with Aspect: the Chronicle of New Media Art featuring works by VAP faculty and alumni. More details TBA.
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.
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Monday, February 22 at 7:00 PM
"Production and Reception of the Visual"
Xavier Le Roy
Bartos Theater
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Production and Reception of the Visual
This lecture is the kick-off of our spring series. Xavier Le Roy will explore the relationships between the production and reception of the visual. What do spectators see? Watching a choreography, they see not only a form or a content, but processes at work during the production of the movements in rehearsals as well as during execution of the movements in performance. How and when are these relationships constructed?
Xavier Le Roy
French choreographer Xavier Le Roy is in residence at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) this spring. Previously trained as a molecular biologist, Le Roy will develop a new piece in collaboration with MIT scientists and researchers about species, categorization, classification, and difference in animal and human behaviors
Moderator: Nell Breyer
Nell Breyer is a research affiliate at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) who situates her work at the intersection of dance, new media, and visual art.
Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below). Free and open to the public.
For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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ABOUT THE SERIES
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The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative. is a lecture series introducing key figures whose artistic practice is situated at the intersection of performance art, avant garde dance, and activist theater. Focusing on time-based and ephemeral formats that navigate between art, film, theater and dance, the series juxtaposes speakers of different generations and backgrounds who share an interest in feminist discourses and politics.
The series this spring is dedicated to Joan Jonas, a pioneer in video and performance art, and the 2010 recipient of the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize presented by the Council for the Arts at MIT on April 15, 2010.
The lecture series is directed by Associate Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in collaboration with Professor Joan Jonas, and Lecturer Amber Frid-Jimenez.
The lecture series was made possible in part by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT. Thanks also for support from the MIT Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program.
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SERIES SCHEDULE
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02/22/10 - Production and Reception of the Visual
See details above.
03/01/10 - Dance on Top of Everyday Throwaways: Extreme Simultaneity
Constanza Macras
Jay Scheib, moderator
Constanza Macras, an Argentine choreographer based in Berlin, was recipient of the 2009-2010 Abramowitz Award. Macras‘ and her company, DORKYPARK, create works that mix video, dance, text and music with a diverse cast of performers. Her work is based on everyday situations that interrupt themselves and accumulate, creating a form of hyper-narrative. Jay Scheib is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT and is a writer, director and designer. Macras is at MIT through the Student & Artist-in-Residence Programs of the Office of the Arts and the William L. Abramowitz residency.
03/08/10 - The Bread and Puppet Theater
Peter Schumann
John Bell, moderator
Peter Schumann, legendary founder of The Bread and Puppet Theater will present a short “fiddle lecture“ illustrated with cantastoria banners. Moderator John Bell, long-time collaborator of Bread and Puppet Theater, will discuss with Schumann the theater‘s use of public space, technology, the concept of progress, and the relations between puppet theater and modernism. The evening will end with a drum and fiddle performance. John Bell, a fellow at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, is a puppeteer, scholar, and teacher.
03/15/10 - It’s Real to Me
Magda Fernandez
Amber Frid-Jimenez, moderator
Magda Fernandez, a Boston-based artist, creates synthetic video worlds that question our real lives in contemporary times. Fernandez‘s videos rely liberally on composite technology and special effects to make sense out of the nonsensical. Fernandez will screen four of her videos and discuss their subjects and means of production. Amber Frid-Jimenez is a lecturer in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
04/05/10 - Stylistic Economies, Reenactments, and Choreographic Regimes
Catherine Sullivan
Jane Farver, moderator
Catherine Sullivan‘s works engage a variety of media—theater, film, video, photography, writing and sculpture. Sullivan will discuss the numerous layers of collaboration and reference apparent in her work, and the anxious and unresolved political and social sensibility that it gives rise to. Catherine Sullivan is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Jane Farver is a curator and the director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/12/10 - Where’s the Passion
Yvonne Rainer
Joan Jonas, moderator
Yvonne Rainer made a transition to filmmaking following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer/dancer. “Where‘s the Passion“ is a lecture in which notions of self-expression, impersonation, and the politics of looking and being looked at are examined, accompanied by documentations of two of her recent performances. Rainer is currently a professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. Joan Jonas is a pioneer in video and performance art and a professor in the MIT Program of Art, Culture and Technology.
04/26/10 - Text: Free and Indirect. A Future Perception.
Eva Meyer
Ute Meta Bauer, moderator
Eva Meyer, a writer and filmmaker based in Berlin, will screen and discuss Sie könnte zu Ihnen gehören/She Might Belong to you, a 37 minute film Meyer created with artist Eran Schaerf in 2007 for Skulptur Projekte Münster. Meyer describes the film: “With the passing of time she has become clairvoyant….She could go beyond the perceptive and sensitive states of experience and entrust sensations surpassing them to a future perception.” Ute Meta Bauer is a curator and director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
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DIRECTIONS
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MIT Bartos Theater is located on the ground floor of the Wiesner Building on MIT campus (20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge) in close proximity to Kendall Square.
By Public Transportation
Take the MBTA red line to the Kendall/ MIT stop, follow Main Street west to Ames Street, turn left, walk the distance of about one block to the crosswalk and the Wiesner Building (E15) is on your left.
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03/13/10
Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art Parody, Politics, and Performativity Saturday, March 13, 3PM, Stata Center, presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
04/15/10
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) is celebrating its official inauguration with an Open House and day of activities in Buildings E14 and E15 presenting various projects by our current SMVisS graduate students, ACT fellows and affiliates, the launch of new ACT website and the release of Engaged a DVD celebrating 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program in collaboration with Aspect: the Chronicle of New Media Art featuring works by VAP faculty and alumni. More details TBA.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER FLOWER PHOTOGRAPHY - February 26, 2010
Photo one, July, photograph by Deanna Christo, who will lead a photography discussion at the Brookline Arts Center on Friday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Photo one, April, photograph by Deanna Christo, who will lead a photography discussion at the Brookline Arts Center on Friday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Press Contact:
Susan Navarre, Executive Director
Brookline Arts Center
617-566-5715
www.brooklineartscenter.com
Deanna Christo Brings
Color Photography…Mostly Flowers
to the Brookline Arts Center Gallery
(Brookline -- January 15, 2010) Despite the winter’s cold, the Brookline Arts Center’s second floor photography gallery is filled with the light and color of spring, because of Deanna Christo’s exhibition Color Photography…Mostly Flowers. The exhibition presents new work by a Brookline photographer who came to the medium after she retired from a 34-year teaching career.
Christo says, “When I retired …I took up the habit of going for a walk everyday and I started to notice my surroundings in greater and greater detail.” Christo’s photos are inspired by the infinite variety of color, texture, beauty and detail that surround us at every moment.
Christo will lead a free Photography Salon discussion group on Friday, February 26 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Photographers are encouraged to bring samples of their own work to share with the group to spur discussion of artistic and technical issues. The exhibition will be on view in Brookline from January 12 to February 26, 2010. The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth Street, at the corner of St. Mary’s Street; the exhibition is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Christo is a long-time Brookline resident, and the daughter of artist Nathan Kredenser, who worked in a studio at Coolidge Corner for many years, and was a member of the Brookline Library Society of Artists. Deanna is an alumna of the Driscoll School, Brookline High School, Brown University and Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The salon is part of a continuing series of casual discussions for photographers at the Brookline Arts Center. Professionals, amateurs and anyone interested in photography are welcome, and encouraged to bring their work, both digital and film, for discussion.
The Brookline Arts Center is easily reached by public transportation: the photography salon will be wheelchair accessible. For more information, visit www.brooklineartscenter.com
Photo one, April, photograph by Deanna Christo, who will lead a photography discussion at the Brookline Arts Center on Friday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Press Contact:
Susan Navarre, Executive Director
Brookline Arts Center
617-566-5715
www.brooklineartscenter.com
Deanna Christo Brings
Color Photography…Mostly Flowers
to the Brookline Arts Center Gallery
(Brookline -- January 15, 2010) Despite the winter’s cold, the Brookline Arts Center’s second floor photography gallery is filled with the light and color of spring, because of Deanna Christo’s exhibition Color Photography…Mostly Flowers. The exhibition presents new work by a Brookline photographer who came to the medium after she retired from a 34-year teaching career.
Christo says, “When I retired …I took up the habit of going for a walk everyday and I started to notice my surroundings in greater and greater detail.” Christo’s photos are inspired by the infinite variety of color, texture, beauty and detail that surround us at every moment.
Christo will lead a free Photography Salon discussion group on Friday, February 26 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Photographers are encouraged to bring samples of their own work to share with the group to spur discussion of artistic and technical issues. The exhibition will be on view in Brookline from January 12 to February 26, 2010. The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth Street, at the corner of St. Mary’s Street; the exhibition is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Christo is a long-time Brookline resident, and the daughter of artist Nathan Kredenser, who worked in a studio at Coolidge Corner for many years, and was a member of the Brookline Library Society of Artists. Deanna is an alumna of the Driscoll School, Brookline High School, Brown University and Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The salon is part of a continuing series of casual discussions for photographers at the Brookline Arts Center. Professionals, amateurs and anyone interested in photography are welcome, and encouraged to bring their work, both digital and film, for discussion.
The Brookline Arts Center is easily reached by public transportation: the photography salon will be wheelchair accessible. For more information, visit www.brooklineartscenter.com
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
BROOKLINE ARTISTS AUCTION/FUNDRAISER - May 8, 2010
Brookline Arts Center Presents Color Your World, with the Brookline Arts Center
WHAT A community-wide spring art event and fundraiser to support quality art education for all at the Brookline Arts Center in Brookline.
WHO The event is a festive party that will feature an exhibition and auction of artists’ palettes decorated by artists and others from all over Brookline. A selection of the artist’s palettes will be auctioned by Stanley J. Paine of Stanley Paine Auctioneers, who grew up in Brookline and has a special fondness for the Brookline Arts Center. In addition, pianist Sarkis Zerounian will appear with vocalist Julia Zerounian for an international celebration of spring, featuring love songs in many languages. There will also be refreshments and visiting artists.
WHERE Wheelock College’s Wightman Mansion
43 Hawes Street, Brookline to benefit
Brookline Arts Center
86 Monmouth Street
Brookline, MA
www.brooklineartscenter.com
WHEN Saturday, May 8, 2010: 7 to 10 p.m.
WHY The fundraising event will benefit the mission of the Brookline Arts
Center to stimulate creative expression and appreciation of the visual arts by providing high quality, affordable programming to people of all ages,
backgrounds, and abilities. Tickets are $100.
WHAT A community-wide spring art event and fundraiser to support quality art education for all at the Brookline Arts Center in Brookline.
WHO The event is a festive party that will feature an exhibition and auction of artists’ palettes decorated by artists and others from all over Brookline. A selection of the artist’s palettes will be auctioned by Stanley J. Paine of Stanley Paine Auctioneers, who grew up in Brookline and has a special fondness for the Brookline Arts Center. In addition, pianist Sarkis Zerounian will appear with vocalist Julia Zerounian for an international celebration of spring, featuring love songs in many languages. There will also be refreshments and visiting artists.
WHERE Wheelock College’s Wightman Mansion
43 Hawes Street, Brookline to benefit
Brookline Arts Center
86 Monmouth Street
Brookline, MA
www.brooklineartscenter.com
WHEN Saturday, May 8, 2010: 7 to 10 p.m.
WHY The fundraising event will benefit the mission of the Brookline Arts
Center to stimulate creative expression and appreciation of the visual arts by providing high quality, affordable programming to people of all ages,
backgrounds, and abilities. Tickets are $100.
Monday, February 01, 2010
GILBERT & SULLIVAN THEATER, LYNN - March 14, 2010
Angeliki Theoharis, Artistic Director Meredith Lavine, Executive Director
Mass Theatrica
presents
THE SORCERER
by Gilbert and Sullivan
(LMLO with NEGASS)
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Sunday, March 14, 2010, 3:00 PM
at
LynnArts
25 Exchange Street, Lynn, MA
in The Neal Rantoul Vault Theater
Admission: $10
NEGASS members: free!
For more information, contact Mass Theatrica:
Phone: 508-757-8515,
Email: masstheatrica@yahoo.com
Visit our website: www.masstheatrica.org
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency."
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Mass Theatrica
presents
THE SORCERER
by Gilbert and Sullivan
(LMLO with NEGASS)
Your browser may not support display of this image.
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 3:00 PM
at
LynnArts
25 Exchange Street, Lynn, MA
in The Neal Rantoul Vault Theater
Admission: $10
NEGASS members: free!
For more information, contact Mass Theatrica:
Phone: 508-757-8515,
Email: masstheatrica@yahoo.com
Visit our website: www.masstheatrica.org
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency."
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