Art & Cultural Events List

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Spring 2012 Monday Nights Lecture Series
Experiments in Thinking, Action and Form

Mark your calendars!
Mondays, 7–9 PM
ACT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

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February 13
What Do Artists Know?
Contemporary Responses to the Deskilling of Art
Michael Corris, Professor/Chair of Studio Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

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March 5
Re-representations and Simulations
Bruce Yonemoto, Professor of Studio Art in Video, Experimental Media, and Film Theory, University of California, Irvine

In conversation with Stephen Prina, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

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March 12
Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures
Taru Elfving, Artistic Director, Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), Finland

In conversation with:
Renée Green, Associate Professor, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Gediminas Urbonas, Associate Professor, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Nomeda Urbonas, ACT Fellow, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

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April 2
Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now
Gloria Sutton, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston

Respondent: João Ribas, Curator, MIT List Visual Art Center

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April 9
Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
Muntadas, Professor of the Practice, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

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April 23
Sound and Semiocapitalism:
Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real
Michael Eng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
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On View
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Disobedience Archive
Exhibition extended through April 15, 2012.
http://disobedience.mit.edu/
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Faculty News
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Azra Aksamija in Cube or Dome. Mosques – New Ways of Building, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Stuttgart
Azra Aksamija in Heimatkunde: Eine kosmopolitische Inventur (How German is it? 30 Artists' Notion of Home), Jewish Museum Berlin
Andrea Frank Exhibit Systems, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
Renée Green Book Launch in NY, Participant INC
Muntadas Exhibit Information>>Space>>Control, Bronx Museum
• Critics Pick in Art Forum: http://alturl.com/kspyg
Muntadas Exhibit Entre/Between, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
• Reviewed in Wall Street Journal: http://alturl.com/42dkb
Muntadas Lecture at Parsons New School of Design, March 7
Angel Nevarez in Shifters, City University of New York
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For further information, contact ACT Public Programs Coordinator Laura Anca Chichisan at clauraa@mit.edu or 617-253-4415. Calendar can be viewed and downloaded at http://bit.ly/act-spring-lectures-cal.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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