Thursday 7 October 2010

Don’t wait for the archive, Pt.2


Call for Applications

Workshop with Pad.ma (http://pad.ma/)

Don’t wait for the archive, Pt.2

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS OCT 7


Pad.ma invites artists, archivists, activists, collectors, filmmakers, researchers, writers, hackers coders and anyone to a two-week workshop involving working with video collections from Egypt and beyond and/or collections participants bring to the table while exploring pad.ma as a platform for collaborative video archiving and annotation.

(please email background and interest in taking part to lina.attalah@gmail.com )


For more information http://www.thetownhousegallery.com/

One Minutes Awards 2011


Since 2000 The One Minutes organizes an annual competition for the best one minutes videos.

For 2011 our annual awards are connected to the launch of The One Minutes Magazine, series of One Minute video art to which a selective group of podia can subscribe. It will appear on a monthly basis. The awards and the launch of TOM Magazine is in February 2011.

Series for which you can submit entries are:

Video performance: you and the camera

Cut and Paste: technical miracles

A Small History: small stories about matters we should not forget about

Micro Commercial: small companies run by passionate owners

Fairground Attraction: surreal details of a visual dreamworld

Mini road movie: travel report from A to B, a world network of travels

Per series 6 entries will be nominated for an award plus cash prize. Deadline 1 December 2010.

Wednesday 6 October 2010

SVA MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department: Graduate Lecture Series and News‏


The MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts is pleased to announce its fall 2010 and winter 2011 events. In addition to departmental lectures and exhibitions that explore issues related to the contemporary lens-based arts the Department will also host a series of public lectures organized by Béatrice Gross, independent curator, and SVA faculty member.

Laurent Grasso
Tuesday September 14, 7 p.m.
Laurent Grasso was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2008 and is the subject of a major monograph Laurent Grasso: The Black-Body Radiation published by les presses du réel. He will give a talk in conjunction with his solo exhibition Sound Fossil at Sean Kelly gallery, NY.
SVA Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY

The Original Copy
Tuesday October 26, 7 p.m.
A panel discussion on photography, performance, and the "living sculpture," with artists Eleanor Antin (NY) and Robin Rhode (Berlin), moderated by curator Roxana Marcoci in conjunction with the group exhibition The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, curated by Roxana Marcoci, Curator of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, NY.
SVA Chelsea Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY

Why Stieglitz? Bonnie Yochelson
Tuesday November 9, 7 p.m.
Curator and historian Bonnie Yochelson will lecture on the work of Alfred Stieglitz in conjunction with her exhibition Alfred Stieglitz New York at the South Street Seaport Museum, NY.
SVA Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY

Impressions, Shadows, Marcelline Delbecq
Tuesday February 15, 7 p.m.
A performance-lecture by the artist Marcelline Delbecq.
SVA Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY

All events are free and open to the public.
For complete listing of lectures and events please see the department website.
http://mfaphoto.schoolofvisualarts.edu/

Wahala Dey