Here are clips from Collen’s lecture on March 21st
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/podcast/collen clips.mp3
Compare his sociological comparative notes with our class perception of pigeons from the beginning of the semester:
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/podcast/Jeremin_Jan22_Pigeons.mp3
Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 9
“Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage”, by Heather Rogers
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/artact/Garbage002.pdf
http://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/127/index.htm
February 15 – March 17 2007
David Zwirner
525 West 19 Street
New York, NY 10011
A compulsive wanderer, Francis Alÿs is known for his in-depth projects in a wide range of media including documentary film, painting, photography, performance and video. Many of his works involve intense observation and recording of the
social, cultural and economic conditions of particular places, usually conceived during walks through urban areas….
GREEN MANHATTAN; OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS
DAVID OWEN. The New Yorker New York:Oct 18, 2004. Vol. 80, Iss. 31, p 111-123
Most Americans, including most New Yorkers, think of New York City as
an ecological nightmare. However, Owen says that by most significant
measures, New York is the greenest community in the US.
Michael Krondl – Fall
Black and White Gallery, Chelsea
February 16 – March 17, 2007
Czech-born New York-based artist Michael Krondl is recognized for a practice that embraces installations which become visual experiences. Krondl places personal observations of natural phenomena into the terrain of formal aesthetics, resulting in witty and poetic work that challenges how we perceive the world around us.
In his precise articulation of nature, its beauty and danger, Krondl examines and decodes human interaction with nature, working with limited materials and situations that take on symbolic meanings.
In Krondl’s own words, “Fall†is a Frankenstein-like stepchild of the Hudson River School. Thomas Cole and his companions used to hike the Catskills with sketchbook in hand returning home to assemble landscapes of the sublime. Krondl lugged a backpack full of expensive technology and fashioned a large and threatening behemoth out of fragments of their beloved waterfalls. Sure, it bears only the faintest family resemblance to their splendent pictures. But the relationship is there.
There is another connection to the Hudson here as well, for if the virtual water falling down the gallery wall were real, it would flow out of the white box into the street and then course …
OPEN CITY: Tools For Public Action
Eyebeam announces its long-anticipated 2007 exhibition season and commences its 10th Anniversary year with Open City – a glimpse into the current media and tactics of artists who take their practices into the street. Be it through projection, writing on walls or robotic pamphleteering, Open City presents the work of artists who communicate through the surfaces and structures of our communal spaces and offers a deeper look at the means and motivations of urban action and creativity.
Please join us for the Opening Reception March 1, 6-8pm to launch this series of screenings, presentations and workshops exploring tool building, tactics, techniques and approaches to communication by any means necessary within the urban context.
http://www.maweb.org/
Here is a podcast from our guest lecturer on February 21. Marissa Jahn, co-producer of Throw-n-Sow and co-founder of the experimental curatorial group called Pond.
http://www.throw-n-sow.org/
http://www.mucketymuck.org/
The lecture may take 30 seconds to download, so please be patient.
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/podcast/Marissa Jahn_1-2.mp3
Lillian Ball: GO ECO
February 4 – May 27, 2007
Opening Reception: Sunday February 4th, 2-5 PM
GO ECO is an interactive installation that illuminates the different perspectives of several participants involved in a wetland preservation project. The concept is metaphorically based on the ancient Asian game of Go, (originally, one of the Four Arts of China along with music, painting, and poetry) which uses strategies to capture territory through balancing tactics. GO ECO also functions as an informational “serious game†installation of video vignettes. Digitally manipulated images with sound are projected in quadrants on the screen to lead players through to the next move. The final outcome of the game is determined by the teamwork of players making their way toward a solution that enables all sides to win or to lose together. GO ECO allows players of many ages to be empowered and to learn about the issues through an art experience that maps paths of action.
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368-3398
718.592.9700
http://www.queensmuseum.org
These are three essays from the book, “Questions of Evidence.” Each essay has three parts according to each subject: the author’s arguments, the response from an outside reader, and the author’s counterargument. The essay subjects as follows refer to evidence from the self, experience, and natural sciences.
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/artact/Evidence Self003.pdf
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/artact/Evidence Experience004.pdf
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/artact/Evidence Natural Science005.pdf
