Two Panels in Two Days!
Art as Mediation: Thursday, February 15, 6:30 p.m.
Visualizing Iraqi Politics: Friday, February 16, 6:30 p.m.
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PANEL DISCUSSION
Art as Mediation
Thursday, February 15, 2007, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Michael Klein Room
66 West 12th Street, 5th floor
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students as well as CAA attendees and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID
How are communications and new media increasingly employed in the arts to engage, connect, and empower global audiences in times of crisis?
As ruptures from world crises deepen, more people look to alternative models for exchange and mediation. Technological means have recently surfaced in the arts that successfully bridge social, cultural, and political differences. How do artists, curators, and theorists use telecommunications technology proactively? How do peer-to-peer networks, on-line social spaces, and blogs lead to participation and empowerment? How are artists using electronic systems to reposition the notion of dialogue and to define dialogue as mediation that counters or disrupts stereotypes and dangerous ideologies?
Panelists:
Steve Dietz, curator and Director, Zero-One, San Jose, CA
Carin Kuoni, curator and Director, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School, New York
Drazen Pantic, internet activist, Co-Director, Location One, New York
Jon Winet, artist and Professor, University of Iowa
Moderator:
Randall Packer, artist, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, American University, Washington D.C., Secretary-at-Large, U.S. Department of Art & Technology
Presented on occasion of the College Art Association’s 95th Annual Conference, and co-sponsored by the New Media Caucus of CAA (www.newmediacaucus.org).
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PANEL DISCUSSION
Visualizing Iraqi Politics & Cultures in Iraq and Diaspora
Friday, February 16, 2007, 6:30 p.m.
The New School, Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
New York City
Admission: Free for Center for Book Arts members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID$10; $5 for student and faculty of other universities; $10 for general public
In the 1960s and 1970s, Baghdad emerged as a vital cultural center in the Arab world. After the devastation of the Hussein regime, and the developing civil war now, how do Iraqi artists today cope with the daily physical challenges most of us can barely imagine? In particular, the panelists will explore the proliferation of the book as an art form pursued by contemporary Iraqi artists, the relationship between Islamic manuscripts and contemporary book art, notions of identity and resistance to the erasure of identity, and the experience of exile.
Panelists:
Hashim al-Tawil, Professor of Art History, Henry Ford Community College; Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, and in Arab Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Sharokin Betgevargiz, artist; Lecturer in History of Graphic Design, Central Connecticut State University
Michael Rakowitz, artist, Associate Professor in Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University
Ella Shohat, Professor in departments of Art, Public Policy, and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
Moderator:
Nada Shabout, exhibition curator, Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art; Assistant Professor of Art History, The University of North Texas; consultant to the U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Antiquities Task Force
Presented on occasion of the exhibition Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art at the Center for Book Arts (located at 28 West 27th Street) from January to March 2007. “Dafatir” (which translates as “notebooks” in Arabic) will introduce to New York the work of fifteen Iraqi book artists, some of whom still live and work in Iraq.
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TICKETS:
In person purchases can be made at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday- Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m. Ticket inquiries can be sent to boxoffice@newschool.edu or 212.229.5488.
EVENT INFORMATION: 212.229.5353, specialprograms@newschool.edu, or www.newschool.edu/publicprograms.
Art as Mediation: Thursday, February 15, 6:30 p.m.
Visualizing Iraqi Politics: Friday, February 16, 6:30 p.m.
* * *
PANEL DISCUSSION
Art as Mediation
Thursday, February 15, 2007, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Michael Klein Room
66 West 12th Street, 5th floor
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students as well as CAA attendees and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID
How are communications and new media increasingly employed in the arts to engage, connect, and empower global audiences in times of crisis?
As ruptures from world crises deepen, more people look to alternative models for exchange and mediation. Technological means have recently surfaced in the arts that successfully bridge social, cultural, and political differences. How do artists, curators, and theorists use telecommunications technology proactively? How do peer-to-peer networks, on-line social spaces, and blogs lead to participation and empowerment? How are artists using electronic systems to reposition the notion of dialogue and to define dialogue as mediation that counters or disrupts stereotypes and dangerous ideologies?
Panelists:
Steve Dietz, curator and Director, Zero-One, San Jose, CA
Carin Kuoni, curator and Director, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School, New York
Drazen Pantic, internet activist, Co-Director, Location One, New York
Jon Winet, artist and Professor, University of Iowa
Moderator:
Randall Packer, artist, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, American University, Washington D.C., Secretary-at-Large, U.S. Department of Art & Technology
Presented on occasion of the College Art Association’s 95th Annual Conference, and co-sponsored by the New Media Caucus of CAA (www.newmediacaucus.org).
* * *
PANEL DISCUSSION
Visualizing Iraqi Politics & Cultures in Iraq and Diaspora
Friday, February 16, 2007, 6:30 p.m.
The New School, Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
New York City
Admission: Free for Center for Book Arts members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID$10; $5 for student and faculty of other universities; $10 for general public
In the 1960s and 1970s, Baghdad emerged as a vital cultural center in the Arab world. After the devastation of the Hussein regime, and the developing civil war now, how do Iraqi artists today cope with the daily physical challenges most of us can barely imagine? In particular, the panelists will explore the proliferation of the book as an art form pursued by contemporary Iraqi artists, the relationship between Islamic manuscripts and contemporary book art, notions of identity and resistance to the erasure of identity, and the experience of exile.
Panelists:
Hashim al-Tawil, Professor of Art History, Henry Ford Community College; Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, and in Arab Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Sharokin Betgevargiz, artist; Lecturer in History of Graphic Design, Central Connecticut State University
Michael Rakowitz, artist, Associate Professor in Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University
Ella Shohat, Professor in departments of Art, Public Policy, and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
Moderator:
Nada Shabout, exhibition curator, Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art; Assistant Professor of Art History, The University of North Texas; consultant to the U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Antiquities Task Force
Presented on occasion of the exhibition Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art at the Center for Book Arts (located at 28 West 27th Street) from January to March 2007. “Dafatir” (which translates as “notebooks” in Arabic) will introduce to New York the work of fifteen Iraqi book artists, some of whom still live and work in Iraq.
* * *
TICKETS:
In person purchases can be made at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday- Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m. Ticket inquiries can be sent to boxoffice@newschool.edu or 212.229.5488.
EVENT INFORMATION: 212.229.5353, specialprograms@newschool.edu, or www.newschool.edu/publicprograms.
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