SPRING 2009

Natalie Jeremijenko
Wednesday, February 4, 6:30 pm.
Neuberger Museum
"Environmental Health Clinic and xDesign"

Natalie Jeremijenko is a design engineer and technoartist. In this talk she will describe a number of her experimental design (or xdesign) projects that explore the opportunity new technologies present for non violent social change.

BIO:
Jeremijenko is currently Associate Professor of Visual Art at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. She is also a visiting professor at Royal College of Art, in London and an artist not-in-residence at the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto. Previously Jeremijenko was on the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, and Faculty of Engineering at Yale.

Her work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial of American Art (also in 1997) and the Cooper Hewit Smithsonian Design Triennial 2006-7. She has a permanently installed Model Urban Development on the roof of Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea, featuring 7 residential housing developments, concert hall, and other public amenities, powered by human food waste where it continues to toy with new conceptions of urban futures, and re-imagine our relationship to nonhuman organisms. Her research centers on structures of participation in the production of knowledge, and information and the political and social possibilities (and limitations) of information and emerging technologies -- mostly through public experiments. In this vein, her work spans a range of media from statistical indices (such as the Despondency Index, which linked the Dow Jones to the suicide rate at San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge) to biological substrates (such as the installations of cloned trees in pairs in various urban micro-climates) to robotics (such as the development of feral robotic dog packs to investigate environmental hazards). The Environmental Health Clinic (http://xdesign.nyu.edu) develops and prescribes locally optimized and often playful strategies to effect remediation of environmental systems, producing measurable and mediagenic evidence, and coordination diverse projects to effective material change.

URL: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/index_projects.html

Paul Vanouse
Wednesday, March 11, 6:30 p.m.
Neuberger Museum

Working at the crossroads of genetics and art, Paul Vanouse has been creating interdisciplinary installations since 1990. For the past several years, Vanouse has been specifically concerned with forcing the arcane codes of scientific communication into a broader cultural language. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and international venues including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Louvre in Paris; and the TePapa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand. He is featured in the book Information Arts by Stephen Wilson and has been funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital and the Heinz Foundation, among others. He is an associate professor of art at the University at Buffalo in New York and has also taught at the University of California, San Diego.

URL: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~pv28/

FALL 2008

La Americana Screening
Wednesday, Oct 8, 4:00 pm.
Neuberger Museum

In commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month, a film screening of La Americana, directed and produced by three Purchase College graduates, Director Nicholas Bruckman (BA, New Media '06) , Co-Director John Mattiuzzi (BFA, Visual Arts '05) and Co-Producer: Jesse Thomas (BA, Political Science '07). La Americana is an intimate documentary following an undocumented immigrant's journey from Bolivia to New York City and back, as she struggles to save the life of her ailing daughter. Her unforgettable story is woven into the current immigration crisis in the United States, putting a human face on this timely and controversial issue.

La Americana took the best documentary prize at the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City, and received a special jury mention for Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. The film will be followed by a Q & A session in which all three Alumni will be present. This event is co-sponsored by Student Affairs, the New Media program and Neuberger Museum.

Burak Arikan
Wednesday, November 5, 6:30 p.m.
Neuberger Museum
"User Labor"

Arikan will speak about the flaws in the Architecture of Participation, living physical/digital processes, and aesthetics of extreme use in networks and its relation to contemporary art making, presenting instances from his own projects "MYPOCKET," "Meta-Markets," and "User Labor Markup Language (ULML)."

Arikan's work has been presented and performed at institutions including Ars Electronica in Linz, the Venice Biennale, Sonar in Barcelona, DEMF in Detroit and the Amber Festival in Istanbul, and online at Upgrade! International and Turbulence, and can be accessed at http://burak-arikan.com. He completed his master's degree at the MIT Media Laboratory in the Physical Language Workshop (PLW) led by John Maeda. He received an MA degree in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University and a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Yildiz Technical University. Arikan serves on the advisory board of Prix Arts Electronica Digital Communities in Linz and Amber Generative Arts Foundation in Istanbul; he currently is an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Tisch Interactive Communications Program.

Kristin Lucas
Wednesday, December 3, 6:30 p.m.
Neuberger Museum
"If Lost Then Found (update)"

A paradoxical and insubstantial explanation of the inherent problem of simplifying a complex set of concerns related to the phenomenon of over-identification with an inanimate object such as a computer and its consequent animations and manifestations. The artist will present recent work including "Refresh," in which she becomes the most current version of herself in a court of law, and "More Melting", a beeswax-cast memorial about an electronic medium's finite reality.

Kristin Lucas is a recent transplant from California's Bay Area to the Hudson Valley. Transformations and portraiture are the focus of her work as she investigates visions of future, the effects of an accumulation of rapid-spread flash-in-the-pan technology on the human condition and the environment, and the impact of the digital medium on perception of time and space.

Lucas's work has been exhibited at The Whitney Biennial, and in group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art and Artists Space, New York; San Jose Museum of Art; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville; ACC Weimar; ICA, London; [Plug in], Basel; ZKM, Karlsruhe; and at festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Mexico City, Montreal, Toronto, New York and San Francisco. Solo exhibitions of her recent work have been held at And/Or Gallery, Dallas; Postmasters Gallery, New York; Or Gallery, Vancouver; JEMA, a location variable museum. She is a 2008 recipient of the Edith Russ Site for Media Art "New Work Stipend".

SPRING 2008

Amy Franceschini
FEB 13, 6:30 pm
Neuberger Museum

The Local
Amy Franceschini will present works she has collaborated on with Futurefarmers and Free Soil. She will discuss research-based projects that look at how the local relates to larger global issues. She will present works that questions the role of technology in art and in our everyday lives.

Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator who works with notions of community, sustainability and a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her work manifests "on" and "offline" in the form of dynamic websites, installations, open-access laboratories, and educational formats that collectively question or challenge the social, political and economic systems we live in.

Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, and Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been included in exhibitions internationally including ZKM, Whitney Museum, NYMOMA and SFMOMA. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally. She has work in the permanent collection at the SFMOMA and Orange County Museums and has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Anderson Ranch and Pasadena City College. She is the recipient of the Artadia Award, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship and SFMOMA SECA. BFA, San Francisco State University; MFA, Stanford University. She is currently a professor of art at University of San Francisco and visiting faculty at CCA.

URL: http://www.futurefarmers.com/

Torsten Zenas Burns
MARCH 5, 6:30 pm
Neuberger Museum

COLLABOTRONICA
Reimagined space station training, etheric residue, reducational workshops, obsessive compulsive androids, gestural researchers,and semi-dead hosts are joined at the hip in this selection of works by videomakers who work together and apart. These Collaborative works by the Halflifers, Darrin Martin, the Foundry, Virocode and Michael O'Malley chart a processed terrain of speculative fictions and claim them as their science.

Torsten Zenas Burns received his BFA in video in 1990 from the New York State College of Art at Alfred University and his MFA in video and performance art from The San Franscisco Art Institute in 1993. He has created & curated video and installation projects exploring speculative content. Burns' video work is distributed by The Video Data Bank in Chicago. Over the past 10 years Burns has participated in seven residency programs including Headlands Center for the Arts(CA), L.M.C.C. World Views Studio Program(NY), and Eyebeam(NY). Burns has screened at the the Museum of Modern Art's Video Viewpoints and Premieres series, The Pacific Film Archive (CA), Aurora Picture Show (tx), Scanners: The New York Video Festival, The Chicago Underground Film & video Festival, the European Media Arts Festival(Germany),the Impakt Festival (Netherlands),the 4th Busan,Korean international video festival. In 2008 he curated HHORRRAUTICA a video program for the Stuttgarter Filmwinter festival for expanded media. Currently Burns is a visiting professor in the New Media program at Purchase College.

URL: http://holyokeresearch.blogspot.com

Off the Grid Artists
APRIL 2, 6:30 pm
Neuberger Museum

Artists from the Neuberger exhibition "Off the Grid" present a series of performances and workshops.

"Off The Grid" features contemporary works which formally and/or conceptually challenge conventional and commercial infrastructures. Co-presented by the Neuberger Museum of Art and free103point9. Curated by Jacqueline Shilkoff (Neuberger Museum) and Galen Joseph-Hunter, Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe (free103point9).

URL: http://www.free103point9.org/events/1678/

FALL 2007

Mariam Ghani
OCT 3, 6:30 pm
Neuberger Museum

Kabul Reconstructions
Artist Mariam Ghani will discuss diasporic networks, the politics of reconstruction, collaborative practice, critical cartography, web-based performance and public dialogue, and the art of asking and answering the right questions in the context of her on- and off-line interactive documentary Kabul: Reconstructions (www.kabul-reconstructions.net, 2002-07).

Mariam Ghani's work in video, installation, photography, new media, performance, text, and public dialogue has been exhibited, screened, and published internationally. She is a NYFA and Soros Fellow, has been an artist in residence at LMCC, Eyebeam Atelier, Smack Mellon, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, and has received grants and commissions from the Experimental Television Center, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Turbulence and the Longwood Digital Matrix. She has a B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU and an MFA from SVA, lives in Brooklyn, and teaches in the Department of Art, Music and Technology at Stevens in New Jersey.

URL: http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/mariam

Jillian McDonald
NOV 6, 6:30 pm
Neuberger Museum

Kissing Celebrities and Walking with The Dead
Jillian Mcdonald will speak about her recent work - combining video, new media, and performance - that deals with celebrity obsession and the marketing of fear in horror films.

Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian artist, currently living in Brooklyn. Originally from Winnipeg, she wishes daily for more snow. Her work - combining video, new media and performance has been featured at solo shows in New York includig Moti Hasson Gallery, Jack the Pelican Presents, ArtMoving Projects, and vertexList. She has also had solo shows in San Francisco, Toronto, and Winnipeg, and exhibited in various International festivals and group exhibitions.

Mcdonald received grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, Soil New Media, Turbulence, NYSCA, The Experimental Television Center, and held residencies at The LMCC and Harvestworks in New York, and The Western Front in Vancouver. She teaches at Pace University, where she also co-directs the Pace Digital Gallery.

URL: http://www.jillianmcdonald.net

FREE103POINT9
DEC 5, 6:30 pm
Neuberger Museum

free103point9 (http://www.free103point9.org/) is a non-profit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum. With locations in Upstate and Brooklyn, New York, free103point9 activities support and promote artists exploring transmission frequencies for creative expression. free103point9 programs include public performances and exhibitions, an experimental music series, an online radio station and distribution label, an education initiative, and an artist residency program and study center. The Neuberger Museum of Art and free103point9 will be co-curating "Off the Grid" at the museum from March 30 until July 1, 2008.

URL: http://www.free103point9.org/

SPRING 2007

Char Davies is known for her pioneering artworks using the technologies of virtual reality. Her immersive virtual environment Osmose - first shown in NYC in the 1995 exhibition CODE at the Ricco-Maresca Gallery - is now considered an historic landmark in new media art.

URL: http://www.immersence.com

  This series is organized by Brooke Singer, Assistant Professor of New Media, Purchase College, and Jacqueline Shilkoff, Assistant Curator at the Nueberger Museum.