Art & Cultural Events List

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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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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