Monday, March 19, 2012
MIT MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Spring 2012 Monday Nights Lecture Series
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form
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Monday, April 2, 7p
Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now
Gloria Sutton, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
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In the 1970s, broadcast television, cable, and even satellite transmissions were considered viable outlets for visual artists to experiment, tamper, and often times, spectacularly fail with, all the while engaging in a generative model of art production. This talk focuses on the institutionalization of media art with a particular emphasis on the Long Beach Museum of Art’s prescient move to set up a media art center and commission artists to create a broadcast channel to distribute their works in the early 1970s. The museum was one of the first to consider video as a collecting category, managed a thriving residency program, operated a public editing facility, and launched the “museum channel.” Gloria Sutton is a contemporary art historian and a curator. She received the Emily Hall Tremaine Award as a co-curator of How Many Billboards in 2008.
Location:
ACT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA | MAP
For more information:
http://actwebsite.media.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures/2012-spring/
act.mit.edu
About the Lecture Series
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Art, culture, and technology. What is the potential of such an intersection in the present? Being cognizant of historical and unusual crossings while exploring more profound investigations and productions suggest experiments in thinking, action and form. Questions raised by pursuing this matrix lead to a variety of histories of the present, the combination of official and unofficial versions throughout the world; animated by examination and reflection these histories may be transformed by creation.
It is easily possible to feel indifference toward the “merely interesting.” In response to what can appear as a perpetual state of “interesting” spectacles and data flow, the invited speakers address these paradoxes of living. Their presentations and discussions will serve as opportunities to grapple with productions, conditions, and perspectives that can stimulate other kinds of responses. The speakers will not invite smooth or easy receptions of the aural, visual, or spatial operations with which they are engaged, but will, in contrast, raise questions from the perspective of producers and analysts about present and past forms of being and production.
Renée Green
Director, Associate Professor
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Upcoming Lectures
…………………………………………………………………………
April 9
Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
Muntadas, Professor of the Practice, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
More info
…………………………………………………………………………
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
More info
Past Lectures
…………………………………………………………………………
February 13
What Do Artists Know?
Contemporary Responses to the Deskilling of Art
Michael Corris, Professor/Chair of Studio Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
More info and video
…………………………………………………………………………
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
More info and video
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March 12
Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures
Taru Elfving, Artistic Director, Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), Finland
In conversation with ACT Associate Professors
Renée Green and Gediminas Urbonas,
and ACT Affiliate Nomeda Urbonas
More info and video
On View
…………………………………………………………………………
Disobedience Archive
Exhibition extended through April 15, 2012.
http://disobedience.mit.edu/
More info
News
…………………………………………………………………………
The Kepes Institute, Museum and Cultural Center Inauguration More info
Azra Aksamija in the exhibit Cube or Dome. Mosques – New Ways of Building, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Stuttgart
Azra Aksamija in the exhibit Heimatkunde: Eine kosmopolitische Inventur (How German is it? 30 Artists' Notion of Home), Jewish Museum Berlin
Andrea Frank Exhibit Systems, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
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
Gediminas Urbonas in the exhibit Infinite conversation. Art and sciences (which dialogues?) at Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels
Gediminas Urbonas in panel discussion:s Archipelago Logic, Armory Show, New York City
Gediminas Urbonas in Art After the End of the World: Discussion Platform for the 1st Kyiv Biennial, Kiev
Online Community
…………………………………………………………………………
act.mit.edu | Like us | Follow us | TechTV
For further information, contact ACT Public Programs Coordinator Laura Anca Chichisan at clauraa@mit.edu or 617-253-4415.
…………………………………………………………………………
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E15-212
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
act.mit.edu
617-253-5229
Spring 2012 Monday Nights Lecture Series
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form
…………………………………………………………………………
Monday, April 2, 7p
Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now
Gloria Sutton, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
…………………………………………………………………………
In the 1970s, broadcast television, cable, and even satellite transmissions were considered viable outlets for visual artists to experiment, tamper, and often times, spectacularly fail with, all the while engaging in a generative model of art production. This talk focuses on the institutionalization of media art with a particular emphasis on the Long Beach Museum of Art’s prescient move to set up a media art center and commission artists to create a broadcast channel to distribute their works in the early 1970s. The museum was one of the first to consider video as a collecting category, managed a thriving residency program, operated a public editing facility, and launched the “museum channel.” Gloria Sutton is a contemporary art historian and a curator. She received the Emily Hall Tremaine Award as a co-curator of How Many Billboards in 2008.
Location:
ACT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA | MAP
For more information:
http://actwebsite.media.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures/2012-spring/
act.mit.edu
About the Lecture Series
…………………………………………………………………………
Art, culture, and technology. What is the potential of such an intersection in the present? Being cognizant of historical and unusual crossings while exploring more profound investigations and productions suggest experiments in thinking, action and form. Questions raised by pursuing this matrix lead to a variety of histories of the present, the combination of official and unofficial versions throughout the world; animated by examination and reflection these histories may be transformed by creation.
It is easily possible to feel indifference toward the “merely interesting.” In response to what can appear as a perpetual state of “interesting” spectacles and data flow, the invited speakers address these paradoxes of living. Their presentations and discussions will serve as opportunities to grapple with productions, conditions, and perspectives that can stimulate other kinds of responses. The speakers will not invite smooth or easy receptions of the aural, visual, or spatial operations with which they are engaged, but will, in contrast, raise questions from the perspective of producers and analysts about present and past forms of being and production.
Renée Green
Director, Associate Professor
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Upcoming Lectures
…………………………………………………………………………
April 9
Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
Muntadas, Professor of the Practice, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
More info
…………………………………………………………………………
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
More info
Past Lectures
…………………………………………………………………………
February 13
What Do Artists Know?
Contemporary Responses to the Deskilling of Art
Michael Corris, Professor/Chair of Studio Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
More info and video
…………………………………………………………………………
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
More info and video
…………………………………………………………………………
March 12
Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures
Taru Elfving, Artistic Director, Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), Finland
In conversation with ACT Associate Professors
Renée Green and Gediminas Urbonas,
and ACT Affiliate Nomeda Urbonas
More info and video
On View
…………………………………………………………………………
Disobedience Archive
Exhibition extended through April 15, 2012.
http://disobedience.mit.edu/
More info
News
…………………………………………………………………………
The Kepes Institute, Museum and Cultural Center Inauguration More info
Azra Aksamija in the exhibit Cube or Dome. Mosques – New Ways of Building, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Stuttgart
Azra Aksamija in the exhibit Heimatkunde: Eine kosmopolitische Inventur (How German is it? 30 Artists' Notion of Home), Jewish Museum Berlin
Andrea Frank Exhibit Systems, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
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
Gediminas Urbonas in the exhibit Infinite conversation. Art and sciences (which dialogues?) at Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels
Gediminas Urbonas in panel discussion:s Archipelago Logic, Armory Show, New York City
Gediminas Urbonas in Art After the End of the World: Discussion Platform for the 1st Kyiv Biennial, Kiev
Online Community
…………………………………………………………………………
act.mit.edu | Like us | Follow us | TechTV
For further information, contact ACT Public Programs Coordinator Laura Anca Chichisan at clauraa@mit.edu or 617-253-4415.
…………………………………………………………………………
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E15-212
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
act.mit.edu
617-253-5229
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