Waiting Rooms: Architecture for the Time of Waiting

Saturday, April 18
4-6pm
Deutsches Haus, NYU
42 Washington Mews,
New York, NY
Free, Open to the Public

Waiting Rooms: Architecture for the Time of Waiting

Exploring transitory spaces, limbo of bureaucratic hallways,
futuristic architecture, space pregnant with dangerous, utopian or
messianic expectations.

Round Table Discussion with Anthony Vidler, Ben Kafka, McKenzie Wark, Joe Milutis
Moderated by Paul North (NYU)

(Part of the Spring 2009 Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University "Waiting Time")

Anthony Vidler is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of
Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York. He is the author of Warped
Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000), and
The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1992), both
published by The MIT Press, and other books.

McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born media theorist and heterodox
Marxist scholar. Wark is the author of several books, including 50
Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International (2008), Gamer
Theory (2007), A Hacker Manifesto (2004), Celebrities, Culture and
Cyberspace (1998), The Virtual Republic (1997), and Virtual Geography
(1994). He is the Chair of the Culture and Media program at Eugene
Lang College, New School, New York.

Ben Kafka teaches media history and theory at NYU. His articles and
essays have appeared in Representations, Book History, Bookforum, and
Cabinet. His first book, The Demon of Writing, Paperwork and the
Making of Modern France, will be published by Zone. He is also working
on a book about graphology. In 2009-10 he will be a member of the
School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton.

Joe Milutis is a writer, media artist and Assistant Professor of
Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Washington, Bothell. He
is author of Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything (2006). His
work has appeared in Cabinet, Film Comment, Leonardo Music Journal,
Ctheory, Wide Angle, ArtByte, and Afterimage, among other places.