Tuesday, May 18, 2010
SEEING THE IMPACT OF INVASIVES IN CAMBRIDGE - May 19, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 5:30 to 7 pm
Water Purification Facility front door, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge
Seeing is believing, and it is the first step to understanding the impact of invasive plants on our environment and our economy. Claudia Thompson will take us on a photo tour of Cambridge and the region to demonstrate the proliferation of invasives, and once you start to recognize them, you realize they’re everywhere! Co-sponsored with Grow Native Cambridge.
Please register for each event that you plan to attend: You will be given important information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult. Offered by Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation, May 2010
Water Purification Facility front door, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge
Seeing is believing, and it is the first step to understanding the impact of invasive plants on our environment and our economy. Claudia Thompson will take us on a photo tour of Cambridge and the region to demonstrate the proliferation of invasives, and once you start to recognize them, you realize they’re everywhere! Co-sponsored with Grow Native Cambridge.
Please register for each event that you plan to attend: You will be given important information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult. Offered by Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation, May 2010
BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER EVENT - June 2010
Brookline Arts Center
86 Monmouth St
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
“Gadsby Awards Artwork”
Award-winning artwork by children in grades 4 through 7 in the Brookline Public Schools.
Tuesday, June 1 - Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Gadsby Awards Ceremony: Tuesday, June 8, 6 - 8 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Heart on the Sleeve” by Sridevi Thumati
Images of childhood and family that combine printmaking and photography.
Friday, June 4 – Friday, July 23, 2010
Artist reception: Saturday, June 19, 5 - 7 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Blue”: Color Photography by Sarah Gaw
The strange and unique beauty in the go-between environment of MBTA subway stations.
Thursday, June 17 - Friday, July 19, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, June 19, 5 - 7 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Beaded Jewelry Workshop” with Ashley Procopio
Make your own unique and beautiful beaded jewelry.
Tuesday, June 22 - Thursday, June 4: 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $99, Materials Fee: $40. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“Jewelry and Metalsmithing for Adults”
Kick off your week with a fun and creative class, where you design your own jewelry in silver and other metals
Monday, June 28 - Monday, August 9, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $231, Materials Fee: $50. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“From Memories to Art: Turn Your Photos and Memories into Works of Art”
Learn techniques for transferring your photos to fabric, wood, painting or tiles; make art that tells your story!
Wednesday, June 30 - Wednesday, July 21, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuition: $110, Materials Fee: $30. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
Beginner Painting for Ages 9 to 13
Thursday, July 1 - Thursday, August 5, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
A fun and hands-on course in the fundamentals of painting, in both acrylics and oils. Learn color theory and representation.
Tuition: $134, Materials Fee: $35.
Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
Parent and Child Art Stations, for ages 2 – 3 (with a parent)
Friday, July 16 – Friday, July 30, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Enhance your toddler’s creativity in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Tuition for 3 classes: $55, Materials Fee: $15. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“Mad, Mad World”
A site-specific installation by Brookline artist Joe Kitsch
Monday, August 2 – Thursday, September 2, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, August 6, 6 - 8 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
86 Monmouth St
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
“Gadsby Awards Artwork”
Award-winning artwork by children in grades 4 through 7 in the Brookline Public Schools.
Tuesday, June 1 - Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Gadsby Awards Ceremony: Tuesday, June 8, 6 - 8 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Heart on the Sleeve” by Sridevi Thumati
Images of childhood and family that combine printmaking and photography.
Friday, June 4 – Friday, July 23, 2010
Artist reception: Saturday, June 19, 5 - 7 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Blue”: Color Photography by Sarah Gaw
The strange and unique beauty in the go-between environment of MBTA subway stations.
Thursday, June 17 - Friday, July 19, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, June 19, 5 - 7 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
“Beaded Jewelry Workshop” with Ashley Procopio
Make your own unique and beautiful beaded jewelry.
Tuesday, June 22 - Thursday, June 4: 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $99, Materials Fee: $40. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“Jewelry and Metalsmithing for Adults”
Kick off your week with a fun and creative class, where you design your own jewelry in silver and other metals
Monday, June 28 - Monday, August 9, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $231, Materials Fee: $50. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“From Memories to Art: Turn Your Photos and Memories into Works of Art”
Learn techniques for transferring your photos to fabric, wood, painting or tiles; make art that tells your story!
Wednesday, June 30 - Wednesday, July 21, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuition: $110, Materials Fee: $30. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
Beginner Painting for Ages 9 to 13
Thursday, July 1 - Thursday, August 5, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
A fun and hands-on course in the fundamentals of painting, in both acrylics and oils. Learn color theory and representation.
Tuition: $134, Materials Fee: $35.
Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
Parent and Child Art Stations, for ages 2 – 3 (with a parent)
Friday, July 16 – Friday, July 30, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Enhance your toddler’s creativity in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Tuition for 3 classes: $55, Materials Fee: $15. Advance registration required: 617-566-5715.
“Mad, Mad World”
A site-specific installation by Brookline artist Joe Kitsch
Monday, August 2 – Thursday, September 2, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, August 6, 6 - 8 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Peace Drum Project News - Spring 2010
Celebrating Ten Years of Inter-generational Arts
The Peace Drum Project is CAI's after-school youth leadership program that immerses Boston teens in performing and visual arts, and brings them together with elders in the community to learn from their lives and experiences. Each year, our teens interview a new group of elders, listen to their stories, and create a personalized Peace Drum for each one, reflecting a life well-lived. This year, almost all of the elders working with the teens are professional artists - thus deepening the young people's experience of art as a life-time of expression!
Artists at work
The artists participating this year include: Khalid Kodi (conceptual artist & painter), Curtis Jones (musician & storyteller), Ginny O'Neill and Tom Menihan (painters), Hakim Raquib (photographer), Gary A. Rickson (painter & musician), Susan Thompson (textile artist), Bob Walthol (poet), Anthony Williams (choreographer), and Barbara Ward Armstrong (musician & visual artist). Paul Medling, a retired minister living at Farnsworth House, is also an elder participant. The teens are learning so much from the elders stories about overcoming barriers, celebrating life's joys, their youthful adventures, family hardships, artistic inspiration, and how they gather strength from within themselves.
Youth with Artist Elders
End-of-Year Celebration!
Please join us for our end-of-year Exhibit, Reception & Awards Ceremony
See our drums. Hear our stories.
Meet the participants and help us celebrate ten years of exciting arts programming.
Tuesday, June 1
5:00-7:00 PM
at Julia Martin House,
90 Bickford Street in Jamaica Plain.
For more information or to volunteer to help, contact Susan Porter at 617-524-6378.
Peace Drum Winners & Special Thanks
AND THE WINNERS ARE ....
Thanks to all of you who supported the Peace Drum fall '09 appeal. Each person who donated was entered into a drawing to receive their very own peace drum! The five lucky winners for this year are: Franca DeVito of Quincy, Michael Prince of Waltham, Gary Rickson of Roxbury, Jeri Robinson of Dorchester, & Tiffany Candlish of Quebec, Canada.
A thousand thanks to Liz Elia for her brilliant 30-day yoga challenge that raised over $1000 for the Peace Drum! As a CAI Board member, Liz has inspired our staff and others to think about new creative ways of raising funds for the Peace Drum Project. If you have any great ideas of your own, we are all ears!
Very special thanks to The Janey Fund, and to the many individual contributors who made the project possible this year!
Thank you, also, to all of the fabulous Interns who helped with the Peace Drum and other projects this year, especially Prema Bangera, Emily Cobb, Susanna Derby, Courtney Williams, and Chris Watson for their fantastic support, ideas, and presence.
Your contribution to support The Peace Drum Project will ensure that we can continue to provide this one-of-a-kind experience to help at-risk youth transform their lives through the arts and their connection with elders in the community.
Contributions may be sent to CAI, 311 Forest Hills St., Boston, MA 02130-3605 or go to
http://www.tribal-rhythms.org.
In her own voice:
" When I graduated a few days ago, I was thinking about the people who made that step possible, and of course, the first thing I thought of was The Peace Drum. So this is not just to reflect my gratitude for receiving the Charles Holley Memorial Scholarship. It's for the overall inspiration you have given me! There was never a time that I needed help, or even just a burst of happiness, that you weren't there for me. So thank you for believing my wildest dreams might be possible!" Farah Jeune ('09 Graduate)
Elder Banner Project
The community room at Julia Martin House has been buzzing with activity on Mondays in March and April. Some elders who participated in the project in previous years are now creating a banner depicting their own stories with artist Susan Thompson! This beautiful banner will be on exhibit at our end of year awards to celebrate their accomplishment. Elder artists include Julia Martin, Gladys Facey, Bernell Stuart, and Joy Fisher, all of Jamaica Plain.
The Peace Drum Project is CAI's after-school youth leadership program that immerses Boston teens in performing and visual arts, and brings them together with elders in the community to learn from their lives and experiences. Each year, our teens interview a new group of elders, listen to their stories, and create a personalized Peace Drum for each one, reflecting a life well-lived. This year, almost all of the elders working with the teens are professional artists - thus deepening the young people's experience of art as a life-time of expression!
Artists at work
The artists participating this year include: Khalid Kodi (conceptual artist & painter), Curtis Jones (musician & storyteller), Ginny O'Neill and Tom Menihan (painters), Hakim Raquib (photographer), Gary A. Rickson (painter & musician), Susan Thompson (textile artist), Bob Walthol (poet), Anthony Williams (choreographer), and Barbara Ward Armstrong (musician & visual artist). Paul Medling, a retired minister living at Farnsworth House, is also an elder participant. The teens are learning so much from the elders stories about overcoming barriers, celebrating life's joys, their youthful adventures, family hardships, artistic inspiration, and how they gather strength from within themselves.
Youth with Artist Elders
End-of-Year Celebration!
Please join us for our end-of-year Exhibit, Reception & Awards Ceremony
See our drums. Hear our stories.
Meet the participants and help us celebrate ten years of exciting arts programming.
Tuesday, June 1
5:00-7:00 PM
at Julia Martin House,
90 Bickford Street in Jamaica Plain.
For more information or to volunteer to help, contact Susan Porter at 617-524-6378.
Peace Drum Winners & Special Thanks
AND THE WINNERS ARE ....
Thanks to all of you who supported the Peace Drum fall '09 appeal. Each person who donated was entered into a drawing to receive their very own peace drum! The five lucky winners for this year are: Franca DeVito of Quincy, Michael Prince of Waltham, Gary Rickson of Roxbury, Jeri Robinson of Dorchester, & Tiffany Candlish of Quebec, Canada.
A thousand thanks to Liz Elia for her brilliant 30-day yoga challenge that raised over $1000 for the Peace Drum! As a CAI Board member, Liz has inspired our staff and others to think about new creative ways of raising funds for the Peace Drum Project. If you have any great ideas of your own, we are all ears!
Very special thanks to The Janey Fund, and to the many individual contributors who made the project possible this year!
Thank you, also, to all of the fabulous Interns who helped with the Peace Drum and other projects this year, especially Prema Bangera, Emily Cobb, Susanna Derby, Courtney Williams, and Chris Watson for their fantastic support, ideas, and presence.
Your contribution to support The Peace Drum Project will ensure that we can continue to provide this one-of-a-kind experience to help at-risk youth transform their lives through the arts and their connection with elders in the community.
Contributions may be sent to CAI, 311 Forest Hills St., Boston, MA 02130-3605 or go to
http://www.tribal-rhythms.org.
In her own voice:
" When I graduated a few days ago, I was thinking about the people who made that step possible, and of course, the first thing I thought of was The Peace Drum. So this is not just to reflect my gratitude for receiving the Charles Holley Memorial Scholarship. It's for the overall inspiration you have given me! There was never a time that I needed help, or even just a burst of happiness, that you weren't there for me. So thank you for believing my wildest dreams might be possible!" Farah Jeune ('09 Graduate)
Elder Banner Project
The community room at Julia Martin House has been buzzing with activity on Mondays in March and April. Some elders who participated in the project in previous years are now creating a banner depicting their own stories with artist Susan Thompson! This beautiful banner will be on exhibit at our end of year awards to celebrate their accomplishment. Elder artists include Julia Martin, Gladys Facey, Bernell Stuart, and Joy Fisher, all of Jamaica Plain.
Friday, May 14, 2010
MIT SWEATLODGE EVENT - May 21 - 22, 2010
Friday May 21 through Sunday May 22
Location: Richard Fleischner Courtyard on the MIT Campus, 25 Ames St.
MIT students from the Society of Creatives, Department of Architecture, Program in Art, Culture, & Technology and Media Arts & Sciences will host a weekend-long inflatable art intervention on the MIT campus. Happening over 3 themed days, "Construct," "Experience," and "Deconstruct," Sweat Lodge will feature performances, happenings, structures, workshops, and experiences focusing on social and sensory perception. The project is designed to foster creative collaboration between MIT students and the communities of MIT, Cambridge, and Boston.
Participants include: Jerry Adler, Haseeb Ahmed, Veronica Barerra, Clare Bayley, Emily Berger, Erik Benjamins, Jess Camacho, Adam Collins and Chris Clepper, Sam Cohen & Faye Nixon, Dorian Dargan, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Deborah Egloff, Madeline Elish, Claxton Everett, Ryan O'Toole & AKA/Noah Feehan, Mary Hale & Brandon Roy, Quinnton J. Harris, Catherine Havasi, Audrey Horst, Sohin Hwang & Jaekyung Jung, Seth Hunter, Sam Kronick, Amanda Leaman, Amy LeMessurier, Ray Luo, Charlie Mathis, Catherine McMahon & Amanda Moore, Maria Molteni, Fred Montiel, Ashley Nash, Ahn D. Nguyen, Robert Ochshorn, Kathryn Payne, Hannah Perner-Wilson, Angela Ratto, Johanna Reed, David Robert, Patrick Rodriguez, Carlos Ruvacalba, Wayne Stokes, Arya Tafvizi & Arash Wakers, Emily Tow, Alise Upitis, Gabriele Urbonaite, Noah Vawter, Nick Wang, Jeff Warren, Jess Wheelock, Sarah Witt, and Ian Wojtowicz.
Projects will facilitate experiential environments for audience participants through performance, architecture, installation, sound, visuals, smell, taste or other sensory media. Projects are designed to respond to architecture and the spatial, social, and environmental context which they will inhabit.
Schedule & Additional Information Regarding Participating Artists below.
Sweat Lodge was engineered by Ryan O'Toole & Amanda Moore with MIT Society of Creatives (SOCS)
This Event was Made Possible with Support from The Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT)
http://socs.mit.edu/SweatLodge/Index
Located outdoors on the MIT Campus in the grassy area between Whitaker College E25, Wiesner Building E15, & MIT Medical E23. See whereis.mit.edu for directions.
Location: Richard Fleischner Courtyard on the MIT Campus, 25 Ames St.
MIT students from the Society of Creatives, Department of Architecture, Program in Art, Culture, & Technology and Media Arts & Sciences will host a weekend-long inflatable art intervention on the MIT campus. Happening over 3 themed days, "Construct," "Experience," and "Deconstruct," Sweat Lodge will feature performances, happenings, structures, workshops, and experiences focusing on social and sensory perception. The project is designed to foster creative collaboration between MIT students and the communities of MIT, Cambridge, and Boston.
Participants include: Jerry Adler, Haseeb Ahmed, Veronica Barerra, Clare Bayley, Emily Berger, Erik Benjamins, Jess Camacho, Adam Collins and Chris Clepper, Sam Cohen & Faye Nixon, Dorian Dargan, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Deborah Egloff, Madeline Elish, Claxton Everett, Ryan O'Toole & AKA/Noah Feehan, Mary Hale & Brandon Roy, Quinnton J. Harris, Catherine Havasi, Audrey Horst, Sohin Hwang & Jaekyung Jung, Seth Hunter, Sam Kronick, Amanda Leaman, Amy LeMessurier, Ray Luo, Charlie Mathis, Catherine McMahon & Amanda Moore, Maria Molteni, Fred Montiel, Ashley Nash, Ahn D. Nguyen, Robert Ochshorn, Kathryn Payne, Hannah Perner-Wilson, Angela Ratto, Johanna Reed, David Robert, Patrick Rodriguez, Carlos Ruvacalba, Wayne Stokes, Arya Tafvizi & Arash Wakers, Emily Tow, Alise Upitis, Gabriele Urbonaite, Noah Vawter, Nick Wang, Jeff Warren, Jess Wheelock, Sarah Witt, and Ian Wojtowicz.
Projects will facilitate experiential environments for audience participants through performance, architecture, installation, sound, visuals, smell, taste or other sensory media. Projects are designed to respond to architecture and the spatial, social, and environmental context which they will inhabit.
Schedule & Additional Information Regarding Participating Artists below.
Sweat Lodge was engineered by Ryan O'Toole & Amanda Moore with MIT Society of Creatives (SOCS)
This Event was Made Possible with Support from The Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT)
http://socs.mit.edu/SweatLodge/Index
Located outdoors on the MIT Campus in the grassy area between Whitaker College E25, Wiesner Building E15, & MIT Medical E23. See whereis.mit.edu for directions.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
LEARN TO IDENTIFY FRESH POND'S WILDFLOWERS - May 20, 2010
Date: Thursday, May 20
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Meeting Place: Water Purification Facility Front Door, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge
During this training session, Ted Elliman of the New England Wild Flower Society will help us learn to recognize wildflowers found at Fresh Pond Reservation. This information will be useful for gardeners and anyone else who is interested in plants and conservation.
Please register for each event that you plan to attend: You will be given important information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult. Offered by Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation, May 2010
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Meeting Place: Water Purification Facility Front Door, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge
During this training session, Ted Elliman of the New England Wild Flower Society will help us learn to recognize wildflowers found at Fresh Pond Reservation. This information will be useful for gardeners and anyone else who is interested in plants and conservation.
Please register for each event that you plan to attend: You will be given important information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult. Offered by Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation, May 2010
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology NEWSLETTER - A[romt 2010
A busy spring prevented us from getting out the newsletter regularly, so below we offer a wrap-up of some of the highlights of the spring news and events. The full list was too long in its entirety. If your news or event was left off, feel free to contact us to include it in a future newsletter.
Inauguration of ACT
More than 200 people turned out to celebrate the inauguration of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) on April 15. The new program merges the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the MIT Visual Arts Program.
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/news_inauguration.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/act-program-inaug.html
Joan Jonas
2010 Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize
ACT Professor Joan Jonas was awarded the 2010 Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize by the MIT Council for the Arts, given annually to a member of the community who has demonstrated excellence in the creative arts.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/jonas-gyorgy-kepes.html
Engaged: 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program
To celebrate 20 years of the Visual Arts Program and its transition into the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, a two-hour compilation of video work of the last two decades by the program’s faculty and selected alumni of the SMVisS program has been prepared. The DVD, Engaged: 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program is produced by ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art. Contributors are Dennis Adams, Judith Barry, Joe Gibbons, Wendy Jacob, Joan Jonas, Antoni Muntadas, Julia Scher, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Carrie Bodle, Kelly Dobson, Maximillian Goldfarb, Emily Katrencik, Pia Lindman, Jill Magid, Edgar Pedroza, Ben Wood. Commentators include Ute Meta Bauer, Larissa Harris, Patricia Fuller, Jane Farver, Otto Piene, Bill Arning, Mark Jarzombek, Caroline Jones, Niko Vicario, Rebecca Uchill, João Ribas. Edited by Ute Meta Bauer and Niko Vicario. For copies of Engaged: 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program , go to http://www.aspectmag.com/issues/merchandise.cfm
ASPECT Magazine will celebrate the release of this DVD at a reception on May 15, 5-6PM at the Aspect Magazine Studio, 46 Waltham St., Suite 108, Boston.
http://www.aspectmag.com/
New website
Look for our new redesigned website later this spring:
act.mit.edu/
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ACT FACULTY CURRENT & UPCOMING
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Krzysztof Wodiczko
Art and Public Space: May Symposium
May 15, 2010
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Turkey
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/8079
Joan Jonas
Performance 7: Mirage
December 18, 2009–May 31, 2010
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
An installation that combines elements of ritual, memory, repetition, and rehearsal with games, drawn actions, and syncopated rhythms.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1016
Joan Jonas
Mirror Piece I
June 17, 8PM
Thinking Performance at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Joan Jonas
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
March 26–September 6, 2010
Group show, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Joan Jonas
The Juniper Tree
On display, Tate Modern, London, UK
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&roomid=6249
Joan Jonas
Reading Dante II
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Antoni Muntadas
La Memoria del Otro.
April 28 – June 20, 2010. Santiago de Chile.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Video Projection:On Translation:Miedo/Jauf and On Translation:Fear/Miedo
http://www.dibam.cl/bellas_artes/noticias.asp?id=12336
Antoni Muntadas
Changing Channels, Art and Television 1963-1987
March 3-June 6, 2010
Museum Moderner Kunst MUMOK. Vienna, Austria.
Installation: La Televisión, 1980
http://www.mumok.at/
Antoni Muntadas
Proyecto Tierra
May 18-August 1, 2010
AlhóndigaBilbao. Bilbao. Spain.
Audio Installation: On Translation: JAI ALAI, 2010
http://www.alhondigabilbao.com
Antoni Muntadas
Deux projects
June 12, 2010
L'Appartement22, Rabat. Marocco
Video projection: On Translation: Miedo/Jauf and installation: Diálogo
http://appartement22.com/
Antoni Muntadas
Broadcast
June 4-August 7, 2010
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum Tampa, Florida
Installation: The last ten minutes, 1977
http://ira.usf.edu/CAM/cam_exhibitions.html
Gediminas Urbonas with Nomeda Urbonas
Territories of the In/Human
April 30 – August 1, 2010
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Exhibition in the framework of 20 Years Akademie Solitude!
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/programm/2010/ausstellungen/territorien-des/
Andrea Frank
Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - humanities+digital visual interpretations conference 2010
May 20 - May 22
Organized by HyperStudio – Digital Humanities at MIT
Frank will be co-leading a workshop with Shiva Ayyadurai at the conference.
Andrea Frank
SEARCH
Forthcoming book: works 1998 - 2005
Publisher: Aracne editrice, Rome, Italy
Amber Frid-Jimenez
graphical expressions of humanistic interpretation
Thursday, May 20, 2010, 3-4:30 pm
MIT Bartos Theater
Conference respondent
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/graphical_expressions.html
Amber Frid-Jimenez
Humanities+Digital Visual Interpretations 2010
May 20 – 22, 2010
Conference, Hyperstudio, MIT
Amber Frid-Jimenez
Body vs. Network: Devices for Surviving Urban Utopia
Research Fellowship - June 2010 – May 2011
Jan van Eyck Acadamie, Maastricht, Netherlands
Oliver Lutz, SMVisS '06 and current ACT lecturer
THE MEDIATED SUBJECT
Sunday, May 9 – June 26, 2010
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
http://www.scaramoucheart.com/LUTZex.html
Oliver Lutz, SMVisS '06 and current ACT lecturer
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera
May 28-September 19, 2010
Tate Modern, London
The exhibition will travel to SFMOMA in the autumn of 2010 and then the Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis in spring 2011.
http://www.tate.org.uk/about/pressoffice/pressreleases/2009/20472.htm
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ACT FACULTY SPRING 2010
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Krzysztof Wodiczko
OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project
November 4, 2009 - March 28, 2010
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/wodiczko/
Joan Jonas
Residency, Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) Kitakyushu
Professor of Research Program from January 5th to February 2nd, 2010.
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/project/jj_2010.shtml
Joan Jonas
Drawing/Performance/Video
March 20-May 8, 2010
Location One, New York, NY
A new exhibition by Joan Jonas that highlights the role of drawing in the artist’s performance and video work.
http://www.location1.org/
Joan Jonas
Reading Dante II
April 24, 2010
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=118637&cid=192158
Joan Jonas
April 2010
Awarded Skowhegan medal for performance and video
Joan Jonas
Reading Dante III
February 27 - April 10, 2010
Yvon Lambert, New York, NY
Reading Dante III draws inspiration from Dante’s fourteenth-century Divine Comedy, a reoccurring topos of Jonas’s work since 2007. Each performance and installation becomes increasingly layered as the work transforms and develops.
http://www.yvon-lambert.com/-E184.html
Ute Meta Bauer
Research based curating / research-based artistic practice
May 5, 2010
Lecture, Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas, Texas
http://meadowseye.com/?p=135
Ute Meta Bauer
ACT at MIT
April 1, 2010
Lecture, Art-Architecture-Science Collaboration in Sustainability, World in a Shell Seminar, sponsored by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
http://www.v2.nl/events/world-in-a-shell-seminar
Ute Meta Bauer
Body Matters
April 22-24, 2010
Lecture, Körperwissen in der Kunst conference
Deutsche Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
http://www.dhmd.de/neu/index.php?id=1671
Ute Meta Bauer
research-based artistic practice
Keynote address, Conference, arts research: publics and purposes
February 15-19, 2010
Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin, Ireland
http://www.gradcam.ie/art_research_public.php
Antoni Muntadas
Public Interventions: The City
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Lecture, Interventions Lecture Series, Department of Art & Design, Northeastern University
http://www.art.neu.edu/events/?eid=94&navyear=2010
Gediminas Urbonas with Nomeda Urbonas
A History of Irritated Material
Raven Row, London, UK
25 February – 2 May 2010
http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/irritatedmaterial/
Gediminas Urbonas
Conference: Deschooling Society
April 29 – 30, 2010
Lecture
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2010/02/conference_deschooling_society.html
Wendy Jacob
Waves and Signs
Friday, April 9, 7PM
New York Public Library, New York, NY
A performative structure carrying low-frequency vibrations. By sitting, standing, or lying on the stucture, audience members can experience tactile sound through their bodies.
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2010/04/09/george-prochnik-paul-holdengraber
Wendy Jacob
Waves and Signs, in "Silent Mixer"
April 10, 2010
Cabinet_Space, Brooklyn, New York
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/silent_mixer.php
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ACT STUDENTS SPRING 2010
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Something like a proposition
An exhibition of degree candidates in
MIT's Master of Science in Visual Studies
Closing reception: Thursday May 13, 6-9 PM
MIT Media Lab Complex, Ground Floor
Sweat Lodge
May 21 - 23, 2010, MIT Fleischner Courtyard
Organized by ACT student Amanda Moore in collaboration with Ryan O'Toole of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Society of Creatives. Sweat Lodge is a weekend-long inflatable intervention on the MIT campus featuring performances, happenings. Participating artists from ACT include Haseeb Ahmed, Chris Clepper, Sohin Hwang, Jaekyung Jung, Charlie Mathis, Amanda Moore, Jess Wheelock, Sarah Witt, and Ian Wojtowicz.
http://socs.mit.edu/SweatLodge/Index
Jaekyung Jung
The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts
In April, Jaekyung Jung was awarded Second Prize. A panel from the MIT Student Art Association, Council for the Arts at MIT, and the MIT visual arts community selected the winners based on the artist’s overall artistic talents and creative concept.
http://saa.mit.edu/schnitzer-prize
Haseeb Ahmed, Jessica Wheelock
Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine
Two SMVisS students - Haseeeb Ahmed and Jessica Wheelock, both class of 2010, have been awarded residencies for Summer 2010.
http://www.skowheganart.org/index.php?page=mission
Amanda Moore, Jessica Wheelock
FEMMES ON FEMINISM: Contemporary Practice in the 21st Century
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 6-7:30 PM in E14-140
Panel discussion of the role and relevance of feminism in contemporary artistic, academic, and spatial practice. Moderated by ACT Professor Joan Jonas.
Amanda Moore
SWAN DAY: Support Women Artist Now Performing Arts Festival 2010
March 28, 2010
Amanda Moore was a participating artist. Eight women artists working in mediums of dance, installation art, music, and text collaboratively transformed the Middlesex Lounge, Cambridge, MA into a performance installation space.
Haseeb Ahmed
Art, Autonomy, and Resistance: The relationship of art to politics today
April 28, 2010
Haseeb Ahmed was a panelist at this event sponsored by Platypus in New York City.
http://newyork.platypus1917.org/artautonomyandresistance/
Gina Badger
UNDERCURRENTS: Experimental Ecologies in Recent Art
May 27 - June 19, 2010
The Kitchen + The Little Red Lighthouse, New York, NY
Group show organized by the curatorial residents of the Whitney independent Study Program. Badger will present her new work, Rates of Accumulation, as both FM radio broadcast and installation.
http://www.thekitchen.org/event/207/0/1/
Gina Badger
Mapping Meaning: A Holistic Approach Toward Human, Ecological & Technological Landscapes
July 18-23, 2010
Red Canyon - Dixie National Forest, Utah
http://artenvironment.ning.com/profiles/blogs/unique-summer-conference
Gina Badger
Digging, Sowing, Tending, Harvesting (Making War-Fair)
Published in Public: Art Culture Ideas, Spring 2010
Ian Wojtowicz
The Betweeners
April 16 - May 22, 2010
Centre des arts actuels Skol, Montreal, Quebec
By analysing Montreal’s MySpace network, the artist intends to identify a group of people who constitute, in the artist’s words, “a small group of highly-connected but obscure Montrealers."
http://www.skol.ca/en/programmation/ian-wojtowicz-betweeners
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ALUMNI SPRING 2010
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Caitlin Berrigan '09
They Go Round and Round
April 23 - May 23, 2010
The second of two exhibitions curated by Carson Chan at 0047 dealing with the structures, tangible or otherwise, that pervade reality. 0047, Oslo, Norway
http://www.0047.org/exhibitions/view/52
Matthew Mazzotta '09
De Galerij, Drachten, The Netherlands
A methane digester in a remote community in the Netherlands transforms cow manure into methane gas used to boil tea water.
http://www.lawei.nl/index.php?cat=galerij
Alexander Rosenberg '09
Alex has been an artist in residence in Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts’ glass program this year. He was featured in the Spring 2010 issue of The University Magazine in an article, "Hand-crafting the future."
http://www.rit.edu/news/umag/spring2010/14_features_handcraft.php
Alia Farid '08
February 2, 2010
Moderator, panel, Design as Reform
Menatalks, Menalab 2010 Designing Change
Bastakiya, Dubai, UAE
http://menaseries.org/menalab/talk03.php
Marisa Jahn '07
Where We Are Now Issue #3: Aftermath
Monday, May 10, 2010 – 7 pm
Launch at Bluestockings Books, New York, NY
Join editors Berin Golonu and Marisa Jahn for a conversation with contributors.
http://wherewearenow.org/
Hope Ginsburg '07
Sponge
Sponge generates experimental approaches to learning and teaching. Sponge takes up residence at the Anderson Gallery at VCUarts
http://www.vcu.edu/arts/gallery/
Jae Rhim Lee, '06 and current ACT affiliate
Resurrectine
May 15-June 26, 2010
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
New York, NY
Group exhibition
http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/home_frame.html
Jill Magid '00, Jennifer Allora '03
GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words
GAGARIN is published twice a year by GAGA vzw, Antwerp, Belgium
http://www.gagarin.be/
Sung Hwan Kim '03
golden times, part 2
February 12 - April 11, 2010
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Whose history is told, in which context and by whom? Works by four contemporary artists, who consider 'history' as an unstable concept.
http://www.hausderkunst.de/
Emily Katrencik '01
100 Years
November 1, 2009 - May 3, 2010
MoMA PS1, New York, NY
An exhibition presenting influential moments in the past century of performance art history.
http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/303
Grady Gerbracht '99
Re: Percussions
May 6, 2010
Project Room
an evening of experimental and improvised approaches to the drum
http://issueprojectroom.org/2010/04/07/re-percussions-an-evening-of-experimental-and-improvised-approaches-to-the-drum/
Toshihiro Komatsu '99
Water Wall
December 6, 2009 - January 23, 2010
The 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale Of Urbanism/Architecture
www.szhkbiennale.org/en
Michael Rakowitz '98
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own
January 22–May 12, 2010
Tate Modern , Level 2 Gallery
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/michaelrakowitz/default.shtm
TateShots meets Michael Rakowitz to talk about his Tate Modern exhibition,
http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/73610933001
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ACT FELLOWS & AFFILIATES SPRING 2010
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Xavier Le Roy
Lecture
Friday, May 7, 2010 – 8 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY, New York, NY
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc/events/s10/Xavier-Le-Roy.html
Xavier Le Roy
more floor pieces by Xavier Le Roy
April 24, 2010
Performance resulting from ACT residency
Media Lab Complex, MIT, Cambridge MA
http://cavs.mit.edu/artists.html?id=201,785
Xavier Le Roy
Le Sacre du Printemps & Self Unfinished
April 2-3, 2010
Performanc, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
http://www.icaboston.org/programs/performance/dance/leroy/
Nitin Sawhney
Supporting Cooperative Storytelling among Children: Experiences from Projects in Lugano and Jerusalem
June 9-12, 2010
International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Barcelona, Spain - Workshop with Elisa Rubgni on Interactive Storytelling for Children
Nitin Sawhney
Media Barrios: Envisioning Media Arts for Urban Renewal and Cultural Identity in the Divided City of Jerusalem
March 19-20, 2010
Lecture, Arts in the One World Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI
Jane Philbrick
Creativity and Collaboration
March 19, 2010
Lecture and Seminar, Valand Art School, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
http://www.gu.se/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=104651&languageId=100000&contentId=-1&eventId=176964772
Jessica Rylan and John Bell
The Curse of Bigness
May 14-Oct 14, 2010
Exhibition curated by former CAVS Associate Director Larissa Harris, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
http://www.queensmuseum.org/the-curse-of-bigness
John Bell
The World Is Flat Toy Theater Festival
February 22—March 1, 2010
Links Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Great Small Works performance. Great Small Works is a collective of six theater artists: John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, Roberto Rossi and Mark Sussman.
http://www.linkshall.org/10-pp-feb.shtml
John Bell
9th International Toy Theater Festival with Great Small Works
May 30-June 13, 2010
St. Ann's Warehouse, DUMBO Brooklyn NYC
http://www.greatsmallworks.org/TTF2010/schedule.html
Jessica Rylan
Felix Kubin in duet with Jessica Rylan and Keith Fullerton Whitman
May 14, 2010
Performance, Goethe-Institut Boston
http://www.nonevent.org/
Kelly Dobson
Hybrid Materials lecture and workshop
January 12, 2010
Ecole Natioanale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris, France
http://hybrides.ensad.fr/?p=100
Laurel Braitman
Military Dreams and the Deep Sea Mind
May 15, 2010
Lecture and film screening with Dr. Graham Burnett
Cabinet Magazine/Orion Magazine, Brooklyn, New York. May 15, 2010.
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/burnett_braitman.php
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ABOUT US
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The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology operates as a critical studies and production based laboratory, connecting the arts with an advanced technological community. ACT faculty, fellows and students engage in advanced visual studies and research by implementing both an experimental and systematic approach to creative production and transdisciplinary collaboration. As an academic and research unit, the ACT Program emphasizes both knowledge production and knowledge dissemination. In the tradition of artist and educator Gyorgy Kepes, the founder of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and an advocate of “art on a civic scale,” ACT envisions artistic leadership initiating change, providing a critically transformative view of the world with the civic responsibility to enrich cultural, discourse.
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For information email us at act@mit.edu or visit http://act.mit.edu/.
Send news to lhickler@mit.edu.
Inauguration of ACT
More than 200 people turned out to celebrate the inauguration of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) on April 15. The new program merges the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the MIT Visual Arts Program.
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/news_inauguration.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/act-program-inaug.html
Joan Jonas
2010 Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize
ACT Professor Joan Jonas was awarded the 2010 Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize by the MIT Council for the Arts, given annually to a member of the community who has demonstrated excellence in the creative arts.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/jonas-gyorgy-kepes.html
Engaged: 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program
To celebrate 20 years of the Visual Arts Program and its transition into the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, a two-hour compilation of video work of the last two decades by the program’s faculty and selected alumni of the SMVisS program has been prepared. The DVD, Engaged: 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program is produced by ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art. Contributors are Dennis Adams, Judith Barry, Joe Gibbons, Wendy Jacob, Joan Jonas, Antoni Muntadas, Julia Scher, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Carrie Bodle, Kelly Dobson, Maximillian Goldfarb, Emily Katrencik, Pia Lindman, Jill Magid, Edgar Pedroza, Ben Wood. Commentators include Ute Meta Bauer, Larissa Harris, Patricia Fuller, Jane Farver, Otto Piene, Bill Arning, Mark Jarzombek, Caroline Jones, Niko Vicario, Rebecca Uchill, João Ribas. Edited by Ute Meta Bauer and Niko Vicario. For copies of Engaged: 20 years of the MIT Visual Arts Program , go to http://www.aspectmag.com/issues/merchandise.cfm
ASPECT Magazine will celebrate the release of this DVD at a reception on May 15, 5-6PM at the Aspect Magazine Studio, 46 Waltham St., Suite 108, Boston.
http://www.aspectmag.com/
New website
Look for our new redesigned website later this spring:
act.mit.edu/
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ACT FACULTY CURRENT & UPCOMING
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Krzysztof Wodiczko
Art and Public Space: May Symposium
May 15, 2010
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Turkey
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/8079
Joan Jonas
Performance 7: Mirage
December 18, 2009–May 31, 2010
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
An installation that combines elements of ritual, memory, repetition, and rehearsal with games, drawn actions, and syncopated rhythms.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1016
Joan Jonas
Mirror Piece I
June 17, 8PM
Thinking Performance at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Joan Jonas
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
March 26–September 6, 2010
Group show, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Joan Jonas
The Juniper Tree
On display, Tate Modern, London, UK
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2&roomid=6249
Joan Jonas
Reading Dante II
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Antoni Muntadas
La Memoria del Otro.
April 28 – June 20, 2010. Santiago de Chile.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Video Projection:On Translation:Miedo/Jauf and On Translation:Fear/Miedo
http://www.dibam.cl/bellas_artes/noticias.asp?id=12336
Antoni Muntadas
Changing Channels, Art and Television 1963-1987
March 3-June 6, 2010
Museum Moderner Kunst MUMOK. Vienna, Austria.
Installation: La Televisión, 1980
http://www.mumok.at/
Antoni Muntadas
Proyecto Tierra
May 18-August 1, 2010
AlhóndigaBilbao. Bilbao. Spain.
Audio Installation: On Translation: JAI ALAI, 2010
http://www.alhondigabilbao.com
Antoni Muntadas
Deux projects
June 12, 2010
L'Appartement22, Rabat. Marocco
Video projection: On Translation: Miedo/Jauf and installation: Diálogo
http://appartement22.com/
Antoni Muntadas
Broadcast
June 4-August 7, 2010
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum Tampa, Florida
Installation: The last ten minutes, 1977
http://ira.usf.edu/CAM/cam_exhibitions.html
Gediminas Urbonas with Nomeda Urbonas
Territories of the In/Human
April 30 – August 1, 2010
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Exhibition in the framework of 20 Years Akademie Solitude!
http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/programm/2010/ausstellungen/territorien-des/
Andrea Frank
Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - humanities+digital visual interpretations conference 2010
May 20 - May 22
Organized by HyperStudio – Digital Humanities at MIT
Frank will be co-leading a workshop with Shiva Ayyadurai at the conference.
Andrea Frank
SEARCH
Forthcoming book: works 1998 - 2005
Publisher: Aracne editrice, Rome, Italy
Amber Frid-Jimenez
graphical expressions of humanistic interpretation
Thursday, May 20, 2010, 3-4:30 pm
MIT Bartos Theater
Conference respondent
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/graphical_expressions.html
Amber Frid-Jimenez
Humanities+Digital Visual Interpretations 2010
May 20 – 22, 2010
Conference, Hyperstudio, MIT
Amber Frid-Jimenez
Body vs. Network: Devices for Surviving Urban Utopia
Research Fellowship - June 2010 – May 2011
Jan van Eyck Acadamie, Maastricht, Netherlands
Oliver Lutz, SMVisS '06 and current ACT lecturer
THE MEDIATED SUBJECT
Sunday, May 9 – June 26, 2010
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
http://www.scaramoucheart.com/LUTZex.html
Oliver Lutz, SMVisS '06 and current ACT lecturer
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera
May 28-September 19, 2010
Tate Modern, London
The exhibition will travel to SFMOMA in the autumn of 2010 and then the Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis in spring 2011.
http://www.tate.org.uk/about/pressoffice/pressreleases/2009/20472.htm
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ACT FACULTY SPRING 2010
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Krzysztof Wodiczko
OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project
November 4, 2009 - March 28, 2010
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/wodiczko/
Joan Jonas
Residency, Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) Kitakyushu
Professor of Research Program from January 5th to February 2nd, 2010.
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/project/jj_2010.shtml
Joan Jonas
Drawing/Performance/Video
March 20-May 8, 2010
Location One, New York, NY
A new exhibition by Joan Jonas that highlights the role of drawing in the artist’s performance and video work.
http://www.location1.org/
Joan Jonas
Reading Dante II
April 24, 2010
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=118637&cid=192158
Joan Jonas
April 2010
Awarded Skowhegan medal for performance and video
Joan Jonas
Reading Dante III
February 27 - April 10, 2010
Yvon Lambert, New York, NY
Reading Dante III draws inspiration from Dante’s fourteenth-century Divine Comedy, a reoccurring topos of Jonas’s work since 2007. Each performance and installation becomes increasingly layered as the work transforms and develops.
http://www.yvon-lambert.com/-E184.html
Ute Meta Bauer
Research based curating / research-based artistic practice
May 5, 2010
Lecture, Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas, Texas
http://meadowseye.com/?p=135
Ute Meta Bauer
ACT at MIT
April 1, 2010
Lecture, Art-Architecture-Science Collaboration in Sustainability, World in a Shell Seminar, sponsored by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
http://www.v2.nl/events/world-in-a-shell-seminar
Ute Meta Bauer
Body Matters
April 22-24, 2010
Lecture, Körperwissen in der Kunst conference
Deutsche Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
http://www.dhmd.de/neu/index.php?id=1671
Ute Meta Bauer
research-based artistic practice
Keynote address, Conference, arts research: publics and purposes
February 15-19, 2010
Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin, Ireland
http://www.gradcam.ie/art_research_public.php
Antoni Muntadas
Public Interventions: The City
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Lecture, Interventions Lecture Series, Department of Art & Design, Northeastern University
http://www.art.neu.edu/events/?eid=94&navyear=2010
Gediminas Urbonas with Nomeda Urbonas
A History of Irritated Material
Raven Row, London, UK
25 February – 2 May 2010
http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/irritatedmaterial/
Gediminas Urbonas
Conference: Deschooling Society
April 29 – 30, 2010
Lecture
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2010/02/conference_deschooling_society.html
Wendy Jacob
Waves and Signs
Friday, April 9, 7PM
New York Public Library, New York, NY
A performative structure carrying low-frequency vibrations. By sitting, standing, or lying on the stucture, audience members can experience tactile sound through their bodies.
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2010/04/09/george-prochnik-paul-holdengraber
Wendy Jacob
Waves and Signs, in "Silent Mixer"
April 10, 2010
Cabinet_Space, Brooklyn, New York
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/silent_mixer.php
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ACT STUDENTS SPRING 2010
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Something like a proposition
An exhibition of degree candidates in
MIT's Master of Science in Visual Studies
Closing reception: Thursday May 13, 6-9 PM
MIT Media Lab Complex, Ground Floor
Sweat Lodge
May 21 - 23, 2010, MIT Fleischner Courtyard
Organized by ACT student Amanda Moore in collaboration with Ryan O'Toole of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Society of Creatives. Sweat Lodge is a weekend-long inflatable intervention on the MIT campus featuring performances, happenings. Participating artists from ACT include Haseeb Ahmed, Chris Clepper, Sohin Hwang, Jaekyung Jung, Charlie Mathis, Amanda Moore, Jess Wheelock, Sarah Witt, and Ian Wojtowicz.
http://socs.mit.edu/SweatLodge/Index
Jaekyung Jung
The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts
In April, Jaekyung Jung was awarded Second Prize. A panel from the MIT Student Art Association, Council for the Arts at MIT, and the MIT visual arts community selected the winners based on the artist’s overall artistic talents and creative concept.
http://saa.mit.edu/schnitzer-prize
Haseeb Ahmed, Jessica Wheelock
Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine
Two SMVisS students - Haseeeb Ahmed and Jessica Wheelock, both class of 2010, have been awarded residencies for Summer 2010.
http://www.skowheganart.org/index.php?page=mission
Amanda Moore, Jessica Wheelock
FEMMES ON FEMINISM: Contemporary Practice in the 21st Century
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 6-7:30 PM in E14-140
Panel discussion of the role and relevance of feminism in contemporary artistic, academic, and spatial practice. Moderated by ACT Professor Joan Jonas.
Amanda Moore
SWAN DAY: Support Women Artist Now Performing Arts Festival 2010
March 28, 2010
Amanda Moore was a participating artist. Eight women artists working in mediums of dance, installation art, music, and text collaboratively transformed the Middlesex Lounge, Cambridge, MA into a performance installation space.
Haseeb Ahmed
Art, Autonomy, and Resistance: The relationship of art to politics today
April 28, 2010
Haseeb Ahmed was a panelist at this event sponsored by Platypus in New York City.
http://newyork.platypus1917.org/artautonomyandresistance/
Gina Badger
UNDERCURRENTS: Experimental Ecologies in Recent Art
May 27 - June 19, 2010
The Kitchen + The Little Red Lighthouse, New York, NY
Group show organized by the curatorial residents of the Whitney independent Study Program. Badger will present her new work, Rates of Accumulation, as both FM radio broadcast and installation.
http://www.thekitchen.org/event/207/0/1/
Gina Badger
Mapping Meaning: A Holistic Approach Toward Human, Ecological & Technological Landscapes
July 18-23, 2010
Red Canyon - Dixie National Forest, Utah
http://artenvironment.ning.com/profiles/blogs/unique-summer-conference
Gina Badger
Digging, Sowing, Tending, Harvesting (Making War-Fair)
Published in Public: Art Culture Ideas, Spring 2010
Ian Wojtowicz
The Betweeners
April 16 - May 22, 2010
Centre des arts actuels Skol, Montreal, Quebec
By analysing Montreal’s MySpace network, the artist intends to identify a group of people who constitute, in the artist’s words, “a small group of highly-connected but obscure Montrealers."
http://www.skol.ca/en/programmation/ian-wojtowicz-betweeners
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ALUMNI SPRING 2010
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Caitlin Berrigan '09
They Go Round and Round
April 23 - May 23, 2010
The second of two exhibitions curated by Carson Chan at 0047 dealing with the structures, tangible or otherwise, that pervade reality. 0047, Oslo, Norway
http://www.0047.org/exhibitions/view/52
Matthew Mazzotta '09
De Galerij, Drachten, The Netherlands
A methane digester in a remote community in the Netherlands transforms cow manure into methane gas used to boil tea water.
http://www.lawei.nl/index.php?cat=galerij
Alexander Rosenberg '09
Alex has been an artist in residence in Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts’ glass program this year. He was featured in the Spring 2010 issue of The University Magazine in an article, "Hand-crafting the future."
http://www.rit.edu/news/umag/spring2010/14_features_handcraft.php
Alia Farid '08
February 2, 2010
Moderator, panel, Design as Reform
Menatalks, Menalab 2010 Designing Change
Bastakiya, Dubai, UAE
http://menaseries.org/menalab/talk03.php
Marisa Jahn '07
Where We Are Now Issue #3: Aftermath
Monday, May 10, 2010 – 7 pm
Launch at Bluestockings Books, New York, NY
Join editors Berin Golonu and Marisa Jahn for a conversation with contributors.
http://wherewearenow.org/
Hope Ginsburg '07
Sponge
Sponge generates experimental approaches to learning and teaching. Sponge takes up residence at the Anderson Gallery at VCUarts
http://www.vcu.edu/arts/gallery/
Jae Rhim Lee, '06 and current ACT affiliate
Resurrectine
May 15-June 26, 2010
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
New York, NY
Group exhibition
http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/home_frame.html
Jill Magid '00, Jennifer Allora '03
GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words
GAGARIN is published twice a year by GAGA vzw, Antwerp, Belgium
http://www.gagarin.be/
Sung Hwan Kim '03
golden times, part 2
February 12 - April 11, 2010
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Whose history is told, in which context and by whom? Works by four contemporary artists, who consider 'history' as an unstable concept.
http://www.hausderkunst.de/
Emily Katrencik '01
100 Years
November 1, 2009 - May 3, 2010
MoMA PS1, New York, NY
An exhibition presenting influential moments in the past century of performance art history.
http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/303
Grady Gerbracht '99
Re: Percussions
May 6, 2010
Project Room
an evening of experimental and improvised approaches to the drum
http://issueprojectroom.org/2010/04/07/re-percussions-an-evening-of-experimental-and-improvised-approaches-to-the-drum/
Toshihiro Komatsu '99
Water Wall
December 6, 2009 - January 23, 2010
The 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale Of Urbanism/Architecture
www.szhkbiennale.org/en
Michael Rakowitz '98
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own
January 22–May 12, 2010
Tate Modern , Level 2 Gallery
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/michaelrakowitz/default.shtm
TateShots meets Michael Rakowitz to talk about his Tate Modern exhibition,
http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/73610933001
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ACT FELLOWS & AFFILIATES SPRING 2010
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Xavier Le Roy
Lecture
Friday, May 7, 2010 – 8 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY, New York, NY
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc/events/s10/Xavier-Le-Roy.html
Xavier Le Roy
more floor pieces by Xavier Le Roy
April 24, 2010
Performance resulting from ACT residency
Media Lab Complex, MIT, Cambridge MA
http://cavs.mit.edu/artists.html?id=201,785
Xavier Le Roy
Le Sacre du Printemps & Self Unfinished
April 2-3, 2010
Performanc, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
http://www.icaboston.org/programs/performance/dance/leroy/
Nitin Sawhney
Supporting Cooperative Storytelling among Children: Experiences from Projects in Lugano and Jerusalem
June 9-12, 2010
International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Barcelona, Spain - Workshop with Elisa Rubgni on Interactive Storytelling for Children
Nitin Sawhney
Media Barrios: Envisioning Media Arts for Urban Renewal and Cultural Identity in the Divided City of Jerusalem
March 19-20, 2010
Lecture, Arts in the One World Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI
Jane Philbrick
Creativity and Collaboration
March 19, 2010
Lecture and Seminar, Valand Art School, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
http://www.gu.se/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=104651&languageId=100000&contentId=-1&eventId=176964772
Jessica Rylan and John Bell
The Curse of Bigness
May 14-Oct 14, 2010
Exhibition curated by former CAVS Associate Director Larissa Harris, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
http://www.queensmuseum.org/the-curse-of-bigness
John Bell
The World Is Flat Toy Theater Festival
February 22—March 1, 2010
Links Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Great Small Works performance. Great Small Works is a collective of six theater artists: John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, Roberto Rossi and Mark Sussman.
http://www.linkshall.org/10-pp-feb.shtml
John Bell
9th International Toy Theater Festival with Great Small Works
May 30-June 13, 2010
St. Ann's Warehouse, DUMBO Brooklyn NYC
http://www.greatsmallworks.org/TTF2010/schedule.html
Jessica Rylan
Felix Kubin in duet with Jessica Rylan and Keith Fullerton Whitman
May 14, 2010
Performance, Goethe-Institut Boston
http://www.nonevent.org/
Kelly Dobson
Hybrid Materials lecture and workshop
January 12, 2010
Ecole Natioanale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris, France
http://hybrides.ensad.fr/?p=100
Laurel Braitman
Military Dreams and the Deep Sea Mind
May 15, 2010
Lecture and film screening with Dr. Graham Burnett
Cabinet Magazine/Orion Magazine, Brooklyn, New York. May 15, 2010.
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/burnett_braitman.php
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Friday, May 07, 2010
BOSTON NORTH SHORE OPEN STUDIOS - June 19-20, 2010
Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour
Celebrating twenty-seven years as the North Shore’s premier artisans’ collaborative, Cape Ann Artisans will hold their 27th Annual Spring Tour on Saturday and Sunday, June 19 and 20, 2010, from 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. each day. This self-guided tour presents a rare opportunity to meet fifteen professional artists and to see their work and demonstrations in the artists’ studios. The work represented includes painting, jewelry, pottery, sculpture, pastels, photography, and mosaics. The tour route follows the scenic coast of Gloucester and Rockport, with many studios located on the water.
The Tour is free of charge; handicap accessibility varies by location. Brochures with route maps will be available at the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, the Rockport Information Booth on Rte 127 and at each of the artisans. A bright magenta Studio Tour banner will mark each location.
For further information: tel: 978-281-3347 http://www.capeannartisans.com
Celebrating twenty-seven years as the North Shore’s premier artisans’ collaborative, Cape Ann Artisans will hold their 27th Annual Spring Tour on Saturday and Sunday, June 19 and 20, 2010, from 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. each day. This self-guided tour presents a rare opportunity to meet fifteen professional artists and to see their work and demonstrations in the artists’ studios. The work represented includes painting, jewelry, pottery, sculpture, pastels, photography, and mosaics. The tour route follows the scenic coast of Gloucester and Rockport, with many studios located on the water.
The Tour is free of charge; handicap accessibility varies by location. Brochures with route maps will be available at the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, the Rockport Information Booth on Rte 127 and at each of the artisans. A bright magenta Studio Tour banner will mark each location.
For further information: tel: 978-281-3347 http://www.capeannartisans.com
Thursday, May 06, 2010
FRESH POND DAY GARLIC MUSTARD WEED OUT - May 8, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 10 am to 2 pm
Water Purification Facility lawn, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Come help clear the reservation of this invasive weed that spreads rapidly and degrades the habitat for other plants and animals. Groups will leave from the Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation information table every hour on the hour.
Please register for each event that you plan to attend: You will be given important information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult. Offered by Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation, May 2010
Water Purification Facility lawn, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Come help clear the reservation of this invasive weed that spreads rapidly and degrades the habitat for other plants and animals. Groups will leave from the Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation information table every hour on the hour.
Please register for each event that you plan to attend: You will be given important information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult. Offered by Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation, May 2010
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
BOSTON FIRST FRIDAY OPEN STUDIOS - May 7, 2010
I would like to invite you to First Friday Open Studios this Friday, May. 7th, from 5-9 pm., at 450 Harrison Ave., Studio 227, Boston, MA. Due to a large house renovation, I have not been open for First Fridays for a year; I am so happy to be back, and look forward to seeing you! I will also be open for the SOWA Art Walk, May 15-16, from 11am-6pm. I have completely re-done my studio, have much more display space with new lighting and many new framed prints; I hope you'll come and see them.
Also, beginning this month, I will be hosting a guest artist each month. Many of these artists will be clients for whom I make limited edition and/or photo prints, so you'll get a chance to see that aspect of my work. This month, I am very pleased to be hosting a visiting painter from Uruguay, Jose Trujillo.
José Trujillo was born in Maldonado, Uruguay in 1960, where he still paints and resides. In his youth, he studied drawing and painting with Manolo Lima. Trujillo is a career artist who has devoted his life to his craft. The fundamental focus of his work at first glance appears to stream towards naturalism and realism, but his approach is far more complex; he can not be restrictively labeled by the standard definitions of these styles. Trujillo does not seek traditional reality, rather choosing to transform his observations by imposing his artistic language. By remaining loyal to himself and ignoring trends, Trujillo upholds the integrity of his art. He has exhibited at galleries, museums, and cultural centers worldwide. José Trujillo can be contacted at: jtrujillo6@yahoo.com
Also this month, in addition to new prints from my personal collection, I will continue to feature newly restored photographs of early 20th century China from the archive of my Grandfather, William Leete. Finally, I will have new examples of client work, both photography and Fine-Art reproductions.
Wm. Morse Editions
A Fine-Art Printmaking Studio
450 Harrison Avenue, Studio 227
Boston, MA 02118
Bill@MorseEditions.com
Also, beginning this month, I will be hosting a guest artist each month. Many of these artists will be clients for whom I make limited edition and/or photo prints, so you'll get a chance to see that aspect of my work. This month, I am very pleased to be hosting a visiting painter from Uruguay, Jose Trujillo.
José Trujillo was born in Maldonado, Uruguay in 1960, where he still paints and resides. In his youth, he studied drawing and painting with Manolo Lima. Trujillo is a career artist who has devoted his life to his craft. The fundamental focus of his work at first glance appears to stream towards naturalism and realism, but his approach is far more complex; he can not be restrictively labeled by the standard definitions of these styles. Trujillo does not seek traditional reality, rather choosing to transform his observations by imposing his artistic language. By remaining loyal to himself and ignoring trends, Trujillo upholds the integrity of his art. He has exhibited at galleries, museums, and cultural centers worldwide. José Trujillo can be contacted at: jtrujillo6@yahoo.com
Also this month, in addition to new prints from my personal collection, I will continue to feature newly restored photographs of early 20th century China from the archive of my Grandfather, William Leete. Finally, I will have new examples of client work, both photography and Fine-Art reproductions.
Wm. Morse Editions
A Fine-Art Printmaking Studio
450 Harrison Avenue, Studio 227
Boston, MA 02118
Bill@MorseEditions.com
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