Allora & Calzadilla, Amy Balkin, Robert Bordo, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Ross Cisneros, Amy Franceschini and Free Soil, Andrea Geyer, Hans Haacke, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Runo Lagomarsino, Andrea Polli, Marjetica Potrč, Simon Starling, Temporary Services, Oscar Tuazon, Lidwien Van de Ven
Curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 7-9pm
Exhibition on view: September 16-October 27, 2009
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11-6pm
41 Cooper Gallery
The Cooper Union School of Art, 41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave. b/w 6th and 7th Sts.)
Lower Level 1,
NYC, NY 10003
The Cooper Union School of Art's exhibition Free as Air and Water opens Wednesday, September 16, 2009 and will run to Saturday, October 27, 2009. In connection with the exhibition there will be a series of conferences, the first before the opening reception, 9/16, from 5 to 7 pm in The Great Hall and the second on 10/12 from 7 to 9 pm in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium.
The exhibition takes Peter Cooper's quote that "Education should be Free as Air and Water" as a starting point. The exhibition addresses the spirit of this statement by recognizing the difference between then (1859) and now (2009). Today, air, water, land, an all are all subordinated to the logic of privatization impacting the environment in challenging ways. As the past few decades have witnessed how global power has systematically distributed the world's resources in unfair ways, concerns such as human rights become increasingly tied to issues involving land, space, and environmental justice.
Free as Air and Water poses these questions for our contemporary moment linking a broad set of issues such as public access to resources, political ecology, and governmentality within a group exhibition that features a diverse array of artistic operations and tactics. Featuring projects that are rigorous and poetic in its conceptual processes, the exhibition provides a needed density when one discusses the role of art in relation to ecology.
Free as Air and Water inaugurates the 41 Cooper Gallery's exhibition program to the public and is scheduled to open along with the New Academic Building in September 2009, which commemorates Cooper Union's 150th anniversary. The building designed by Thom Mayne and the architectural firm, Morphosis, inaugurates the first green academic laboratory building in NYC.
SYMPOSIA DETAILS Free as Air and Water Symposium I: Artistic Responses to Self-Sustainability and Climate Change
Amy Balkin, Hans Haacke, Yates McKee, Andrea Polli, Marjetica Potrč, moderated by Doug Ashford
Wednesday, September 16, 5- 7 pm (before the reception)
The Cooper Union, Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street
Free as Air and Water Symposium II: Art in relation to Human Rights and the Freedom of Expression
Doug Ashford, Andrea Geyer, Paul Ramirez Jonas, among others
Monday, October 12, 2009, 7 to 9 pm
The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square
A catalog will be produced documenting the symposia and exhibition and will be available to purchase after the exhibition. Please contact the Cooper Union School of Art or check the website for additional information.
This project was funded in part by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Robert Lehman Foundation, and Duggal Visual Solutions.
*Un)Inhabitable? – Art of Extreme Environments* presents works that explore the meaning of living in extreme environments, in the imaginary realm as well as in the physical one, in the political, social and environmental fields as well as in the poetic ones.
Click here to get connected to the exhibition in Paris.
There was a conference in prague in 2007 on a related topic
UC Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery
Reception: Saturday, September 26, 6-9 PM
Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art is a group exhibition of twenty international artists exploring human interaction with animals through a collection of provocative video installations, photographs, paintings, and sculptures.
Artists in the exhibition collaborate with the animal species, which may be domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, modeled, or wild.
Artists design their projects as a form of conversation or inquiry about the non-human world and challenge the anthropocentric perspective of the world, placing human perception on par with other animals. Inspired by Darwin, the environmental movement, and species collapse, Intelligent Design envisions a paradigm shift in which human beings are no longer the center of the Universe.
The exhibition will also stimulate discussions about the differences and similarities of how the arts and sciences approach the world, animals as products, animal rights and conservation.
The Katrina Project: NO-LA involves collaborators from art, design, behavioral science, journalism, and community outreach. A database-driven, activist website explores the psychological and social effects of the storm and its aftermath through interviews with and works by filmmakers, artists, dancers,musicians, architects, and cooks in New Orleans and Los Angeles.
Victoria Vesna presents project: Aesthetic Computing panel,
chaired by Michael Kelly.
Panel link:
The State of Aesthetic
Computing or Info-Aesthetics
Monday, 3 August | 3:45 - 5:30 pm
Auditorium B
Aesthetic Computing is one of several related new fields: Info-Aesthetics, Database Aesthetics, Net-work Aesthetics, and Software Aesthetics. What are their similarities and differences? What are the aesthetic issues that drive them? How are they linked to technological developments? And what exactly is the role of aesthetics is this context?
Michael Kelly
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Victoria Vesna
University of California, Los Angeles
The CNSI Gallery hosts an exhibition of photographs from "After the Storm" and "40 Days and 40 Nights."
After the Storm is a feature-length documentary that follows the production of a musical and the story of each young actor's life experiences following Hurricane Katrina. Director Hilla Medalia and stills photographer Donn Young will be at the exhibit opening, which follows the premiere of the film at the L.A. Film Festival June 21 at the Mann Festival Theater in Westwood. The exhibit will remain on display through July 5.
40 Days and 40 Nights is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to increasing awareness of human rights issues through the collaborative work of researchers, practitioners and artists. The organization brings together members of communities who can address complex human rights issues through a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach, and in 2008 we collaborated with numerous partners to develop the largest and most well-attended exhibition in the history of the Louisiana, “40 Days and 40 Nights,” an exhibit of more than 100 artists whose work tells the story of the rebuilding of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Donn Young, the executive director of the nonprofit 40 Days, documented the making of “After the Storm” – a film that documents the experiences of New York theater producers and actors who came to New Orleans after the storm to help local youth rebuild their lives through their experiences on stage. In the process, they helped rebuild St. Mark’s Community Center, which provides youth activities in a low-income area. We seek to exhibit documentary photography from this project and related pieces from the “40 Days and 40 Nights” exhibition.
Join a group of artists from New York visiting Los Angeles for an exhibition downtown at the Outpost for Contemporary Art.
A discussion on participatory mapping with Lucy Hg from The League of Imaginary Scientists, media artists Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga, and xtine.
X, Y, Z, and U is an exhibition and series of discussions and workshops featuring the mapping projects of artists whose creative practices resemble field research and scientists who use DIY tactics and creative visualization to map scientific information. The exhibition and related community-based activities are scheduled throughout June at Outpost for Contemporary Art, and organized in partnership with apexart and The League of Imaginary Scientists.
Ecological concepts of continuity and interdependence are renegade forces. They not only transform existing patterns of material consumption and production, they destabilize social values and disrupt aesthetic conventions. Even the notion of beauty is overhauled by the ecological mandate to embrace all aspects of the life cycle – decay as well as growth. Artists who demonstrate radical beauty are renegade aestheticists. They demonstrate that the greening of society depends as much upon revising human values as reforming human behaviors.
Opening Reception
June 5th, 5.30 - 7:00 pm
UCLA California NanoScience Institute
C(N)SI, Art|Sci Lab suite 5419
GAUTAM RANGAN
(DMA MFA Class of 2010) uses animation and imagery to investigate ideas found in nature. He has created animations for 11 different faculty at UC Berkeley, the Discovery Science channel, and the Connecticut Science Center opening in 2009.
Most recently Gautam worked on a series of short games to help with physical therapy for Parkinson’s patients at the Baker Fitness Center at UCSF.
Location: Art | Sci gallery at the California Nanosystems Institute
The Antmaster is an experiment in hybridizing Dynamic Media (projections) with Static Media (paintings.) Digitally projected images of live ants are superimposed onto painted surfaces to achieve a new amalgam of motion and still images. In addition, nanosounds of ants moving and communicating were recorded in a nanoscience lab to act as a soundtrack to the pieces.
GIL KUNO
Through experiments in sound and re-envisioning experiences common within everyday life, Gil's aim is to push people away from paradigmatic thinking. He takes a whimsical approach in subverting common perceptions of reality. By exaggerating perception and derailing reality, Gil redefines the familiarity we associate with the organic and social processes that surround us.
Gil has exhibited/performed at: The National Art Center Tokyo, The Hammer Museum (L.A.), Fuji Rock Festival (Naeba, Japan), Laforet Harajuku (Tokyo), The Melkweg (Amsterdam), Schouwburg (Rotterdam), The Sprawl (London), Liquid Room (Tokyo), Womb (Tokyo), Milk (Tokyo), New Wight Gallery (L.A.), Code (Shinjuku, Tokyo), Core (Roppongi, Tokyo), Warp (Tokyo), Heaven's Door (Tokyo), Rockets (Osaka), Loft (Tokyo), among others.
work based On Darwin's Tracings of plants movements on glass
By Julie Pate
Julie's technique uses nail polish to add a shimmering quality to the patterns and floral designs found throughout nature.
All spaces today are blurring from museums to stores, from the private to the public. I am interested in framing Museum's gallery spaces, and creating (presents) for the viewer (to BE in).
Julie's technique uses nail polish to add a shimmering quality to the patterns and floral designs found throughout nature.
