Announcements
Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 5 pm
Lecture and Reception on the occasion of the launch of The New Everyday Website and the Digital Humanities Working Research Group
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College; she is spending this year as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and as an honorary fellow of the Humanities Initiative at NYU. She is author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, forthcoming from NYU Press and is a founding editor of MediaCommons.
The New Everyday is a "middle-state" on-line publishing project hosted by Media Commons, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff, devoted to a transdisciplinary exploration of the radically changed condition known as "the everyday."
The Digital Humanities Working Research Group, part of the Humanities Initiative, is led by Diana Taylor (Performance Studies) and Michael Stoller (Division of Libraries), and brings together a broad range of humanists and technologists from across NYU to discuss the role and implication of digital technology.
Co-organized by Media Commons/The New Everyday, The Humanities Initiative & The Digital Humanities Working Research Group, New York University Press, New York University Libraries, & The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
- The Hemispheric Institute
- 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
- (free, photo ID required)
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The Fales Library and Special Collections and The Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts Present
Where is Ana Mendieta?*
25 Years Later - An Exhibition and Symposium
Curated by Richard Move
Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) played a vital role in the development of multidisciplinary, feminist art. September 8, 2010 marks 25 years since her fatal fall, naked, from the window of the 34th floor apartment she shared with her husband of just eight months, the renowned sculptor Carl Andre. NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts directly overlooks the rooftop of the Delion delicatessen, the site of her violent end. The Fales Library at NYU contains the A.I.R. (Artist in Residence) Gallery Archive, with a significant number of Mendieta’s original works. Mendieta’s haunting proximity and continually felt presence at NYU make it the most appropriate locale for this Exhibition and Symposium. And, after 25 years, it is time to ask this question once again, Where is Ana Mendieta?*
The Exhibition and Symposium explore vital aspects of Mendieta’s iconoclastic earth, body, performance, site-specific and visual art works, while addressing her influences, legacy, and the era of feminist art from which she emerged. The Exhibit and Symposium also addresses the controversy surrounding her tragic death and what many believe to be Carl Andre’s unjust acquittal of her murder.
The Exhibition: August 1 – October 8, 2010
The exhibition includes Mendieta’s original works with archival documents from the A.I.R. Gallery Archives, courtesy of the Fales Library, and the film BloodWork by Richard Move.
- The Fales Library and Special Collections
- Tracey/Barry Gallery
- 70 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor
- Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm
The Symposium: Thursday, October 7 at 7pm
- The Department of Performance Studies
- 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Room 612
- FREE. Non-NYU affiliates please RSVP to Este endereço de e-mail está protegido de spam bots, pelo que necessita do Javascript activado para o visualizar
- A reception will follow at the Tracey/Barry Gallery
- View the invitation
Symposium Panelists:
- Kat Griefen – Director, A.I.R. Gallery
- Genevieve Hyacinthe - Assistant Professor, Purchase College (SUNY)
- Jose Esteban Munoz - Chair, NYU Department of Performance Studies
- Carolee Schneemann - Multidisciplinary Artist
- Diana Taylor – University Professor, NYU and Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute
* The Women’s Action Coalition mobilized approximately 500 protestors outside the Guggenheim Museum in Soho on its opening day in 1992, where Carl Andre’s works were on display. A group held a banner that read, “Carl Andre is in the Guggenheim. Where is Ana Mendieta?” In addition to this action outside, some protestors infiltrated the invitation only Gala opening and dropped copies of a photograph of Mendieta's face onto Andre's floor sculptures.
Co-sponsored by: CLACS - The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, CSGS - The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, The Department of English, Grey Art Gallery - New York University, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and Women & Performance
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