From: Amber Frid-Jimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: TONIGHT! 7-9p @ MIT Visual Arts Program - Zones of
Emergency - Artist Alfredo Jaar + Kayvan Zainabadi (MIT Amnesty)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:56:01 -0500
Monday, February 25, 2008, 7 - 9 pm
ZONES OF EMERGENCY - Monday Night @VAP lecture series
Artist Alfredo Jaar + Kayvan Zainabadi (MIT Amnesty)
MIT Visual Arts Program
Location: N51-337, (Joan Jonas Performance Hall)
Video blog: <http://zonesofemergency.net>http://zonesofemergency.net
The Chilean Alfredo Jaar will present a selection of works, that
focus on his practice in zones of emergency like Chile during the
Pinochet dictatorship, and in Rwanda in the aftermath of the
genocide (1994 -2000). Kayvan Zainabadi, former president of Amnesty
International at MIT, will speak about his experience at MIT working
with Amnesty on crisis in Darfur.
Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker who lives and
works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the
world. He has participated in the Venice, Sao Paulo, Johannesburg,
Sydney, Istanbul and Kwangju Biennales as well as in the Documenta
in Kassel. Major solo exhibitions include the New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York, the Whitechapel in London, the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and
the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship
in 1985 and was chosen as a Mac Arthur Fellow in 2000.
Kayvan Zainabadi is a 5th year graduate student in biology at MIT,
and former president of the Amnesty International chapter of MIT,
and co-founder of MIT-STAND, an anti-genocide student coalition.
Last year, Kayvan led a successful campaign that led MIT to divest
its investments in companies that were funding the genocide in
Darfur. Kayvan has been a lead organizer of fundraising drives on
campus that have raised over $8,000 for humanitarian relief for the
victims of Darfur.
We are excited to announce the 2008 Spring term Monday [EMAIL PROTECTED]
entitled "Zones of Emergency" which bring together practitioners
from a wide range of backgrounds and fields to examine the scale and
complexity of catastrophe and disaster scenarios through lectures
and panel discussions. Lectures and panel discussions will range
from the philosophical and cultural understandings of the emergency
to practical "on the ground" operating organizations to current use
of networked technology examining its own breakdown. This lecture
series is co-organized by Ute Meta Bauer (Director of the MIT Visual
Arts Program), Jae Rhim Lee, and Amber Frid-Jimenez.
Free and open to the public.
Visual Arts Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
Bldg N51-337, 3rd floor
Joan Jonas Performance Hall
265 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Directions
The MIT Visual Arts Program is located above the MIT Museum. Enter
through the grey door on Front Street and take the elevator to the
third floor. Exit to your left and go down the ramp. The Joan Jonas
Performance Hall is located on the right.
By Public Transportation
Take the Red Line to Central Square. Walk four blocks along
Massachusetts Avenue towards Boston and the Charles River, or take
the #1 bus to the Front Street stop.
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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