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Art and Cognitive Activism
September 12, 2022
Organized by Warren Neidich in collaboration with UCLA Art|Sci Center, Getty Research Center, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art and the Museum of Neon Art. Friday, September 23, 2022, 9am to 6:30pm UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Building 114 – Presentation Space, 5th Floor 570 Westwood Plaza – Los Angeles, California This event is free and open to the public as well as streamed online via Zoom. Press Release PDF This symposium endeavors to describe the role of art and artists in…
Proclamations and Paraphernalia
April 7, 2021
In the new issue of journal Media-N, 'Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix', Roopa Vasudevan (Alum '20) contributes an essay on 'the Art of Remixing the Political Document.' For Vol. 17 No. 1 (2021) of Media N journal is a special issue on contemporary approaches to remix. The issue "was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a recurring point of reference in the development of media culture. Prior to terms such as new media,…
A Performance in 21 Readings
March 31, 2021
'A Performance in 21 Readings' is a series of online performances by Emily Gastineau (Alum '20) and Samantha Johns where the artists invite one performer and one audience member to join them for each reading. "Remember standing close to strangers? The heat? Your mouth begins to water. We’re not talking about satisfaction here--that may come after. We’re talking about the bell. We’re talking about your empty hand, your eyes that are searching for something, a catch in your throat, that sharp…
Committee of Six
March 24, 2021
Fred Schmidt-Arenales' (Alum Berlin '20) film 'Committee of Six,' Chicago (2020) continues the artist's work from 2017, as part of the Graham Foundation's Grantee Project programme. Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Film still from “Committee of Six,” Chicago, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Graham Foundation Committee of Six Committee of Six is an enactment of a series of archival documents from the Special Collections Archive the University of Chicago. These documents are rough transcripts of meetings…
Sogno di Sogni
March 17, 2021
Eva Macali's (Alum Berlin '18) installation Sogno di Sogni (Dream of Dreams) in the garden of the Convent of S.M. del Giglio in Bolsena, Italy, investigates the collective dream as part of regions's project towards relational and participatory art with the inhabitants of the area. Sogni di Sogni by Eva Macali (2020) Macali describes the installation: "Sogno di sogni is a fabric sculpture and an installation that investigates the possibility of a collective dream created after the narrative of…
Monuments to the Precarity of Survival
January 26, 2021
Olu Oguibe's (Faculty Berlin '18) first solo exhibition in Austria presents a tripartite of monumental and commemorative works produced since 2000. The exhibition Olu Oguibe was part of the annual "Curated By" gallery festival in Vienna, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Faculty Berlin '19 and '20). Iuventa (2020) With this eponymous exhibition, painter, sculptor, conceptual, artist, poet, curator, scholar and art critic, Olu Oguibe, was hosted by Galerie Kandlhofer. The monumental…
Overmorrow’s Library
January 20, 2021
Overmorrow’s Library is a podcast series by Federico Campagna (Faculty Berlin '16), presented by the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. The library for "the day after tomorrow" is dedicated to books and authors whose work explores the limits of the "world" as the frame of sense through which our consciousness experiences the chaos of reality. 'Each new episode presents a book that engages with the challenge of world-making, with the end-time of a world, or with the eternal unworldly. Spanning…
In Search of a Recuperative Aesthetics
January 13, 2021
In Search of a Recuperative Aesthetics is an Art & Education Classroom curated by Kayla Anderson (Alum Berlin '19). The hypertext 'seeks out art works and practices that we might call recuperative - those that grapple with the present by carving out space to feel, mourn, dream, and build.' Providing introduction to the space/programme, Anderson opens: In discourses about climate change, extinction, slow violence, and lingering manifestations of colonialism, to profess hope can seem…
In Darkness We Hear
January 6, 2021
In Darkness We Hear is an experimental essay by curator, writer, and SFSIA alum, Anabelle Lacroix (Alum NYC '19), published as part of the online journal Disclaimer's latest dossier From Wakefulness to Consciousness, edited by Anabelle Lacroix and commissioned by Liquid Architecture. As a journal focusing on new thinking and writing about listening and sound, this latest publication is "an invitation to critically reinvest and inhabit sonic worlds" in particular regard to insomnia. Donald Duck…
GLOBAL MODE >
December 22, 2020
GLOBAL MODE > by Eva Davidova (Alum NYC '19) is an experimental project that explores play, new video formats, possibilities of interactivity and interdependences, and the merging of realities. Eva Davidova: Global Mode > Low Witness Objects Created with ISSUE Project Room, and supported by Harvestworks, GLOBAL MODE > is a collaboration performers Naicha Diaby, Heather Mo'Witz and Mx. Oops, the musician and artist Matthew D. Gantt, and the technologist/ musician Danielle McPhatter. The…