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Thursday January 1, 1970
Filed under Events, News, News, Events and Alumni

Call for Proposals and Projects: Critical Information Graduate Student Conference

Hosted by the MFA program in Art Criticism & Writing

at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, December 1, 2013

http://criticalinformationsva.com

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Critical Information is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, which provides a platform to assess current scholarship and research at the intersection of art, media, and society. Critical Information is particularly interested in engaging both collaborative and individual papers or projects that address the following issues: Art and Social Theory, Philosophy and Media, Mediated Image Making, the Work of Art in the Information Age, Media and Memory, Identity and Representation in the Mediated Environment, Mediated Intercultural Exchange, Media Excess, and the History and Future of the Image, and more. All themes pertaining to the juncture of media, theory, society and the visual arts will be considered.

Open to all current graduate students and those who have received a graduate degree within the last year, Critical Information is sponsored by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department at the School of Visual Arts.

Submission Requirements:

Name, School, Department Affiliation, Academic Status

Phone Number, Email Address

Title of Paper or Project

Abstract including thesis statement and main argument. 100-150 words

Please submit the above information and your abstract within the body of an email. No attached word documents.

Important Dates:

Abstract Deadline: June 30, 2013

Decision Email: September 30, 2013

Paper Deadline; November 1, 2013

Conference Date: December 1, 2013

Thursday April 11, 2013
Filed under Events, Spring 2013

SHELLEY RICE, “Apple Juice: Blogging for the Jeu de Paume”

Thursday, April 11, 2013, 7 pm
333 West 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), New York, NY 10011

For most of 2012, Shelley Rice was the “Invited Blogger” for the online magazine of Paris’ contemporary art museum Jeu de Paume. Pronounced with a funky American accent, the museum’s name sounds like jus de pomme: apple juice. Since the blog was based in New York City but published in Paris, “Apple Juice” became its in-house nickname. A veteran of the Downtown NY Scene of the 1970s and 1980s, Rice wrote columns for the Village Voice, the Soho Weekly News, and Artforum. She’ll discuss the similarities and differences, pros and cons, high points and low of her various forays into arts journalism.

free and open to the public

Thursday February 14, 2013
Filed under Events, News, Events and Alumni, Spring 2013

C. CARR AND LYNNE TILLMAN

Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
Thursday, February 14, 2013, 7 pm

A conversation between Cynthia Carr and Lynne Tillman about Carr’s acclaimed biography and cultural history, Fire in the Belly. Novelist, short story writer, and critic Lynne Tillman says: “Fire in the Belly is a richly researched, thorough investigation of David Wojnarowicz’s life and times. It is also a cultural memoir, a history of an important subculture during the devastating AIDS years in New York City. Carr’s intimate knowledge of the period makes her fascinating, beautifully written narrative not only exceptional, but also groundbreaking.”

SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street
(between 8th and 9th Avenues)
in Manhattan

free and open to the public

Wednesday January 16, 2013
Filed under Events, News

Panel Discussion: models, modes, possibilities, and then there is education

Wednesday, January 16th 2013, 7.30pm.
Hunter MFA building, Second floor, 450 W 41st. St, NYC, NY 10036

A Panel discussion moderated by Anthony Huberman & Daniel Bozhkov
With Nicolas Bourriaud, Simon Critchley & David Levi Strauss

This panel brings together several prominent critics and educators for a discussion. How do current artistic, curatorial and educational models re-examine the ways art and education could function together? Have the conditions that once allowed for risk and experimentation within the temporary autonomous zone of the educational institution been changed? What does risk look like now? How can thinkers, artists and curators create these conditions in and outside the institution? The conversation will expand upon the existing structures, the utopian models, and the actual possibilities. Our hope is to touch upon the broader issues of how art can or should be taught, and what the artist can teach given the conditions of the world today.

Thursday December 13, 2012
Filed under Events, Fall 2012, News, Events and Alumni

Debra Bricker Balken, December 13, 2012

December 13th , 7 pm
“Harold Rosenberg and the Twilight of the Intellectuals”
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd street, NYC


Independent writer and curator Debra Bricker Balken will discuss some of the ways in which Harold Rosenberg’s key essay, “The American Action Painters,” both galvanized and polarized mid-century American artists and critics.   Her talk will address, in particular, Rosenberg’s fallout with writers such as Clement Greenberg and Hilton Kramer, as well as a new generation of formalist thinkers who emerged in the 1960s.

Photo credit: Jeff Barnett-Winsby

This event is free and open to the public

Thursday November 15, 2012
Filed under Events, Fall 2012

Luc Sante: The Genius of the System


Luc Sante
Nov 15th 7 pm
“The Genius of the System.”

Photography is unlike other arts in at least one respect: it is seldom entirely within the control of the artist, and almost always represents a collaboration with chance. This keeps the meaning of the photograph in flux; it is changed by successive generations of viewers. Photography is a broad continuum of which self-consciously artistic expression occupies only a small portion, but across which artistic realization can potentially be found at any point at any time.  Attached is my

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street  New York, NY 10011

This event is free and open to the public.

Saturday October 6, 2012
Filed under Events, Fall 2012, News, News, Events and Alumni

David Levi Strauss at Cooper Union, Saturday October 6, 4-6pm

Thursday October 11, 2012
Filed under Events, Fall 2012, News, News, Events and Alumni

Elaine Scarry at the SVA Theatre, October 11th at 7pm


Elaine Scarry
October 11th , 7pm
“Beauty and the Pact of Aliveness”

Elaine Scarry is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics at Harvard University and is the author of The Body in Pain, On Beauty and Being Just, and Thinking in an Emergency. The lecture argues that beauty is a call to social justice. It draws on artists and philosophers from Plato to the present to show three different ways in which beauty presses us to repair the injuries of the world.

Thursday October 11, 2012
Filed under Events, Fall 2012, News, News, Events and Alumni

Open House October 11th at 5pm

On October 11, 2012 at 5 pm, join us for an Open House and Information Session. Tour our new facilities, meet students and faculty, and join us for the Elaine Scarry lecture at the SVA Theatre at 7 pm. Call us for more information and register for this event at http://www.sva.edu/form/graduate-info-sessions.

Thursday September 27, 2012
Filed under Events, News, News, Events and Alumni, Uncategorized

MARCUS BOON: September 27th at 7pm in the SVA Theatre


Marcus Boon
September 27th , 7pm
“Abject Future: Tyler, the Creator, Azealia Banks and the Politics of Vibration”

Scholar Marcus Boon discusses recent music videos by controversial Los Angeles based hip-hop crew Odd Future, including Tyler, the Creator’s (in)famous “Yonkers” and New York rap sensation Azealia Banks’ remarkable “212” as a starting point to examine the role of sound and vibration in politics and aesthetics. Through readings of Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva and Roberto Esposito, he explores the problem of violence and its relation to sound and propose a different way of thinking about vibrational ontology and what it would mean to think of vibration as a political problem.

photo credit: Cylla von Tiedemann

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