[Sci-tech-public] MIT Visual Arts Program - April 4, 2008 Newsletter

[Debbie Meinbresse]

NEWSLETTER

April 4, 2008

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LECTURE SERIESÂ SPRING 2008

Zones of Emergency

<http://www.zonesofemergency.net>www.zonesofemergency.net

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UPCOMING

Thierry Nlandu and Marjetica Potrc
 - Democracy and Access
 Monday, April 14, 2008, 6pm @ Bartos Theatre, E15, Wiesner Building.

Ntone Edjabe and Trebor Scholz 
- A Conversational Revolution? 
Monday, April 28, 2008, 7pm @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.

Amar Kanwar
 Monday, May 5, 2008, 7pm
 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.

RECENT

Tad Hirsch & Amar Kanwar Film - Matters/Critical Design
 Monday, March 17, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.

David Small & John Tilman -
The Power of Display: The "Look" of Emergencies
 March 10, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.

Mark Tribe - Networks, Tactics, Breakdown
 March 3, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.

Alfredo Jaar - It is Difficult
 with Kayvan Zainabadi 
February 25, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall. N51-337.

Local Disaster and Emergency Capacities 
February 19, 2008 @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.

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LECTURE SERIESÂ SPRING 2008

Art Work Out

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UPCOMING

John Bell and Sam Ford - The Theatre of Sport
 Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 2pm @ Rockwell Gym, W33.

Game Day - Intersections of Art and Sport
 Thursday, April 17, 2008, 2pm @ T-Club Lounge.

RECENT

Wendy Jacob and Noah Riskin - Walking on the Ceiling and other Exercices 
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 2pm @ T-Club Lounge, W31 (120 Mass Ave).

Antoni Muntadas and Andrea Frank - Stadium
 Tuesday, March 4, 2008 2pm @ Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337.

Bill Arning and Kate James - Gym Culture 
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 2pm @ Varsity Weight Room, W31 in Du Pont Athletic Gym (120 Mass. Ave).

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FACULTY NEWS

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UPCOMING

Ute Meta Bauer, Director and Associate Professor, is a speaker for Interconnections, Plymouth Arts Festival (Plymouth, UK), April 25, 2008, <http://www.plymouthac.org.uk/eshot/eshotCSN/Curatorial.htm>www.plymouthac.org.uk/eshot/eshotCSN/Curatorial.htm. She is also participating in Reinventing Harbour Cities, (Reykjavik, Iceland), May 10, 2008, <http://www.archinnovations.com/news/exhibitions/reinventing-harbour-cities/>www.archinnovations.com/news/exhibitions/reinventing-harbour-cities/

Krzysztof Wodiczko is on sabbatical, working on several international installations. Stay tuned. Most recent cover story in Polish newspaper Duzy Format. Wodiczko also has an upcoming show at the ICA in 2009 (details to follow).

Joan Jonas won an AICA Golden Globe for Best Video Show, <http://www.aicausa.org>www.aicausa.org. Jonas has a number of solo exhibitions; Timelines:  Transparencies in a Darkroom, Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve (France), April 30-June 29, 2008, <http://www.centre.ch/>http://www.centre.ch/; Wilkinson Gallery (London, UK), April 2008, <http://www.wilkinsongallery.com/artists.html>www.wilkinsongallery.com/artists.html. Jonas is participating in a number of group exhibitions: Wack!, Ps1 (Queens, New York), February 14- May 12, 2008 <http://www.ps1.org/>www.ps1.org/; Read of Dante, Biennale of Sydney (Australia), June 18- August 7, 2008, <http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/>www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/; Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA), October 13, 2007 – July 31, 2008, <http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/jonas>www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/jonas.

Muntadas has a number of solo exhibitions including: Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie  (Paris), March 2008; Instituto Cervantes (Paris), March 2008; Centro Jose Guerrero (Granada), March 2008; Kent Gallery (New York), May 2008; Gallery, Deak  (Budapest), September 2008; Fundacion Botin (Santander), October 2008.

Muntadas is also participating in a number of group exhibitions: Tomorrow Sonje Museum (Seoul); DIstancia Critica CGAC (Santiago), 2007; Mukha (Antwerpen), Quasi Cinema CAAC  (Sevilla). Muntadas is making special presentations at the University of Tokyo, “Exploring cultural means to combat global homogenization," May 2008 and at MoMa (NY) "Political Ads” October 27, 2008.

In Spring 2008, Wendy Jacob will have her co-edited book released with Haha With Love from Haha: Â Essays and Notes on a Collective Art Practice, published by White Walls Press, www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/227189.ctl

Andrea Frank has a solo exhibition at Galleria Michela Rizzo (Venice, Italy) opening on July 12th (global ports and ships), www.galleriamichelarizzo.net. Frank is also in a group show Presumed Innocence 
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
, Feb 2 - April 27 - <http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2008/Presumed%20Innocence.htm>more info

In Spring 2008, Jae Rhim Lee brings a FEMA Trailer to MIT Campus in conjunction with her course, 4.391 Special Problems in Visual Arts - Module 1: Zones of Emergency: The FEMA Trailer Project.

Joe Zane is a finalist for the ICA Artist Price. Zane will have a show in November at the ICA in conjunction with his finalist status. www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/2008/03/ica_artist_priz.html

New VAP Lecturer Amber Frid-Jimenez is nominated for the 2008 Renew Media Arts Fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation.

RECENT

Andrea Frank 
exhibition and book release Visions - MIT Interviews: Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 5-7 pm
, The Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery, 
MIT MUSEUM
,<http://www.andreafrank.net/VISIONS.html>www.andreafrank.net/VISIONS.html

Joe Zane worked with Michael Smith, 2005-2006 CAVS fellow, in producing the video, "Portal Excursion," a segment of Smith's 30-year work, "Mike's World." Fictional Mike, a hapless Everyman, is the subject of video, installation and performance works on display at the Whitney Biennial.

Joe show –“ Joe Zane and Joe Gibbons had a well-received exhibition at the Allston Skirt Gallery in the late fall 2007.

Jae Rhim Lee in Seamless 2008, a fashion show highlighting Computational Couture. 
 Museum of Science, Boston, MA
, January 30, 2008 @ 8pm - <http://mos.org/events_activities/lectures&d=2091>more info


Ute Meta Bauer, participated in New Geographies in Contemporary African Art
 Harvard University Committee on African Studies announces a two-day conference to be held on Friday, February 29 and Saturday, March 1, 2008.

Ute Meta Bauer and Joan Jonas
 at SITAC VI, What’s Left, What Remains - Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (CCUT), 
Ricardo Flores Magón 1
Col. Nonoalco – Tlatelo co
-directed by Ute Meta Bauer,
 speakers included Joan Jonas
 January 23 - 26, 2008
 (Mexico City, Mexico).

Ute Meta Bauer spoke on February 22 at “La mirada iracunda” (the Furious Gaze) at the Montehermoso Kulturunea Cultural Center. On February 29, Bauer was a panelist on the  "New Geographies in Contemporary African Art” at Harvard.

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SMVisS GRAD NEWS

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UPCOMING

SMVisS Final Reviews
 May 16, 2008, Open to the Public @ VAP, 9am-5pm

On April 4 and 5, 2008, two SMVisS grads are participating in the fourth annual *research-in-progress, presented by the History, Theory and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at MIT. The 2008 workshop, focusing around the theme “What Object” aims to offer graduate students an opportunity to work together in cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional dialogues, and, specifically, with objects in mind. Caitlin Berrigan will present Activating Seduction (MIT, 34-401A) and Kate James: will present I Have Seven Hoovers: Objects of Domestic Maintenance, and Affection (MIT, 7-338).

Alia Farid Abdal has been accepted by the MACBA to join the PEI (Programa de Estudios Independientes) She will be joining the program in September 2008.

Matthew Mazzotta’s buscycle installation will be part of a group exhibition, “Exhibition: Art in the Public Sphere: Singular Works, Plural Possibilities,” Friday, April 25 - Sunday, May 18, at University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center - University Gallery.

Jin Jung, Annatina Caprez, and Matthew Mazzotta are disc jockeys every Friday on WMBR 88.1 FM 8-9pm www.myspace.com/drawingontheradio.

Sofia Ponte installation Dreaming Lounge is exhibited at the MIT Barker Engineering Library, 10-500.

Caitlin Berrigan received a prestigious residency from the Skowhegan School of Art for this summer (Skowhegan, Maine), <http://www.skowheganart.org>www.skowheganart.org.

RECENT

Caitlin Berrigan presented an artist talk, Whitney Initial Public Offerings, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, <http://whitney.org/>whitney.org/. On March 6, 2008,

Berrigan gave a lecture “What is bioArt” for the Biomedical Graduate Student Organization at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)

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ALUMNI NEWS

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Sung Hwan Kim '03 is participating in the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, April 5, 2008, <http://www.berlinbiennial.de>www.berlinbiennial.de.

This summer, VAP grad Marisa Jahn will be Artist-in-Residence at the Headands Center for the Arts (San Francisco Bay Area, CA). Marisa Jahn curated Kits for an Encounter, April 25 - May 31, 2008 @ Western Front (Vancouver, Canada) featuring SMVisS grads Azra Aksamija and Max Goldfarb. Marisa Jahn and Max Goldfarb installation Volume Drawings @ Western Front May 31, 2008 (Vancouver, Canada). In collaboration with Future Farmers, Marisa Jahn is doing a project called Commuter Cookout as part of 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge June 4-7, 2008 (San Jose, California), <http://www.futurefarmers.com/tour2/>www.futurefarmers.com/tour2/ Steve Shada & Marisa Jahn): In addition this summer, Jahn will have a solo exhibition Overlaps & Half-Laps at Camac (Marnay-sur-Seine, France).

Jill Magid in Working Title - Group show at Momenta Art
 March 7 through April 14, 2008
. 359 Bedford Ave. BKLYN, NY 11211<http://momentaart.org> momentaart.org. Magid is also part of an exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: Under the Influence. The opening reception is on Sunday April 13th from 1-4pm, with performances by Rachel Mason, snow boots, and Arctic Circle.

Now Assistant Professor of Art Foundations - VCU School of the Arts Hope Ginsburg exhibits Sponge
 January 25th-February 23rd
 Solvent Space - Plant Zero Arts Complex Hull & 4th Streets, Richmond, VA, 
 www.spongespace.net

Oliver Lutz makes top 10 list, <http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/12/27/art_brought_to_the_edge/>Boston Globe Article. Oliver Lutz has been awarded the IV International Painting Prize Diputación de Castellón, for his painting Lynching I. Lynching I is now part of the permanent collection of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón. certamenpintura.dipcas.es/en/index.php

Michael Rakowitz, SMVisS '98, wins a <http://www.creative-capital.org/about/media/2008-0109-awards.html>Creative Capital Grant was also featured in the Museum of Modern Art Book safe:Â Design Takes on Risk for his paraSITE homeless shelter.

Pia Lindman 
- Faceworks, Luxe Gallery (New York), February 15-March 15, 2008. Soapbox Event
 April 2008 at the Federal Hall National Memorial in New York City - <http://www.soapboxevent.blogspot.com/>more info

Sounding the Subject: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust
 MIT List Visual Arts Center: Oct 31, 7 pm
, Artist Talk by MIT Alumnus Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla - <http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/exhibitions/upcoming.html>more info

Seth Weiner
my - Opticon part of Sculpture in Environment
, New York, NY - <http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/attractions/public_art/public_art_new3.html>more info (link)

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla – Never Mind That Noise You Heard, Stedelijk Museum CS (Amsterdam), February 4, 2008-May 4, 2008. Recent press in Parquett 80
 www.parkettart.com/index3.htm

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