Lecture by Lev Manovich in NYC, April 7, 2006
Posted by Lev Manovich on April 4, 2006 11:02 pm
time: 7 pm
date: Friday April 7, 2006
who: Lev Manovich
what: lecture
title: Understanding Metamedia
where:
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011
[ Lecture in room Room 213, adjacent to the gallery ]
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Lecture is held in conjunction with the exhibition
Media Miniature
March 17-April 20, 2006
NEW YORK, N.Y., March 2, 2006 Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present an
exhibition titled Media Miniature, on view from March 17 through April 20,
that tests the conceptual frame of narrative, film, text, and visual art
with the work of seven artists who create intentionally miniature work with
monumental implications. The exhibition and opening reception are free and
open to the public.
Media Miniature charts a specific line through the last ten years of art
and technology experiments during which an extraordinary group of artists
working in digital moving image and sound, some for portable devices, have a
accomplished an astonishing range of new work, according to Christina Yang,
guest curator for the exhibition. The artists whose work will be represented
in the exhibition are Marc Lafia, Lev Manovich, Jane Philbrick, Charlene
Rule, Dave Simonds, Grahame Weinbren, and the-phone-book Limited.
This exhibition aligns itself with a discourse on older forms of literary
invention such as the printing press. What was once a mass social
experience, whether in cathedrals or theaters, became possible to carry in a
pocket, says Yang. Equally, laptops, cell phones, and iPods have become
the matrix of expanded social networks nevertheless human in scale and
contact, she adds.
Visitors to the exhibition will interact with the installations to see and
hear pioneering Internet mini-movies from the 1990s, films and ring tones on
cell phones, a voice recording reconstructed using speech synthesis
techniques, and an artists Internet diary, among other works. A
Philmphest of cell phone films made by Pratt students in a workshop with
the-phone-book Limited will be shown during the opening reception.
About Pratt Manhattan Gallery:
Pratt Manhattan Gallery is a public art gallery affiliated with Pratt
Institute. The goals of the gallery are to present significant innovative
and intellectually challenging work in the fields of art, architecture,
fashion, and design from around the world and to provide a range of
educational initiatives to help viewers relate contemporary art to their
lives in a meaningful way.
About Pratt Institute:
Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is one of the largest independent colleges
of art and design in the United States, offering undergraduate and graduate
degree programs in the schools of architecture, art and design, information
and library science, and liberal arts and sciences. Pratt is located on 25
landscaped acres in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn and has a Manhattan
campus in a large, newly renovated building on West 14th Street.
date: Friday April 7, 2006
who: Lev Manovich
what: lecture
title: Understanding Metamedia
where:
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011
[ Lecture in room Room 213, adjacent to the gallery ]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lecture is held in conjunction with the exhibition
Media Miniature
March 17-April 20, 2006
NEW YORK, N.Y., March 2, 2006 Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present an
exhibition titled Media Miniature, on view from March 17 through April 20,
that tests the conceptual frame of narrative, film, text, and visual art
with the work of seven artists who create intentionally miniature work with
monumental implications. The exhibition and opening reception are free and
open to the public.
Media Miniature charts a specific line through the last ten years of art
and technology experiments during which an extraordinary group of artists
working in digital moving image and sound, some for portable devices, have a
accomplished an astonishing range of new work, according to Christina Yang,
guest curator for the exhibition. The artists whose work will be represented
in the exhibition are Marc Lafia, Lev Manovich, Jane Philbrick, Charlene
Rule, Dave Simonds, Grahame Weinbren, and the-phone-book Limited.
This exhibition aligns itself with a discourse on older forms of literary
invention such as the printing press. What was once a mass social
experience, whether in cathedrals or theaters, became possible to carry in a
pocket, says Yang. Equally, laptops, cell phones, and iPods have become
the matrix of expanded social networks nevertheless human in scale and
contact, she adds.
Visitors to the exhibition will interact with the installations to see and
hear pioneering Internet mini-movies from the 1990s, films and ring tones on
cell phones, a voice recording reconstructed using speech synthesis
techniques, and an artists Internet diary, among other works. A
Philmphest of cell phone films made by Pratt students in a workshop with
the-phone-book Limited will be shown during the opening reception.
About Pratt Manhattan Gallery:
Pratt Manhattan Gallery is a public art gallery affiliated with Pratt
Institute. The goals of the gallery are to present significant innovative
and intellectually challenging work in the fields of art, architecture,
fashion, and design from around the world and to provide a range of
educational initiatives to help viewers relate contemporary art to their
lives in a meaningful way.
About Pratt Institute:
Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is one of the largest independent colleges
of art and design in the United States, offering undergraduate and graduate
degree programs in the schools of architecture, art and design, information
and library science, and liberal arts and sciences. Pratt is located on 25
landscaped acres in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn and has a Manhattan
campus in a large, newly renovated building on West 14th Street.
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