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BIO
Holly Crawford is cross media artist, behavioral scientist, economist and art historian. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Essex in Art History and Theory, B.A and M.A. in Economics and M.S. in Behavioral Science from UCLA. From 2004-2006, she was a non-clinical Fellow at NYU Medical School Psychoanalytic Center. Her art and poetry (www.art-poetry.info) give new meanings and draws categories themselves into question through transformative juxtapositions. Her projects include: Offerings (Ars Electronica, (.net Participant); Open Adoption, The Road, Hyphens, Voice Over, Found Punctuation (video) Tate Modern 2007, My I have your autograph? (unofficial, Basel Miami Art Fair 2007), Critical Conversations in a Limo, NY 2006 (VIP project, Armory), 2007 in Melbourne (MIAF) & San Francisco (The LAB & Sesnon Gallery UCSC), Sound Art Limo, NY and Melbourne 2007, Flatland Limo, NYC 2008. Many projects are ongoing, site specific and participatory. Publications: Artistic Bedfellows, ed., 2008, Attached to the Mouse, 2006 and catalogue essay, “Disney and Pop” in Once Upon a Time Walt Disney Studio; Artistic Bedfellows, edited, 2008. Some projects are created and curated through AC (Art Currents) which she created and directs, www.artcurrents.org She taught art at UCLA and SVA. She was born in California and now lives in New York City.
Lars Graugaard's and Hans Tammen's INFERNAL MACHINES
Dates:
Wed Oct 19, 2011 19:00 - Wed Oct 19, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Wednesday, October 19 at 7PM
Admission: $15
$8 Students and Seniors
“These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy ... in front of every house in the summer evenings you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or the old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left." (John Phillip Sousa, testifying before the US Congress 1906).
Lars Graugaard's and Hans Tammen's INFERNAL MACHINES are characterized by vicious beats, rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive noises, quiet pulses and bizarre timbres. They explore sonic spaces through codes for algorithmic rendering of basic artistic ideas, contrasting them with noises created from mechanical preparations of a conventional guitar, morphing them into a maze of infinite complexity.
When performing laptop music Lars Graugaard often uses the alias Lars from Mars. Releases under this alias have been released on the online netlabel Pueblo Nuevo. This music is characterized by an often very strong grounding in rhythms, combined with at times quite abstract sound-worlds. http://l--l.dk/
Hans Tammen creates sounds that have been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations – through means of his “Endangered Guitar” and interactive software programming. Signal To Noise called his works “…a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage”
http://tammen.org
Admission: $15
$8 Students and Seniors
“These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy ... in front of every house in the summer evenings you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or the old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left." (John Phillip Sousa, testifying before the US Congress 1906).
Lars Graugaard's and Hans Tammen's INFERNAL MACHINES are characterized by vicious beats, rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive noises, quiet pulses and bizarre timbres. They explore sonic spaces through codes for algorithmic rendering of basic artistic ideas, contrasting them with noises created from mechanical preparations of a conventional guitar, morphing them into a maze of infinite complexity.
When performing laptop music Lars Graugaard often uses the alias Lars from Mars. Releases under this alias have been released on the online netlabel Pueblo Nuevo. This music is characterized by an often very strong grounding in rhythms, combined with at times quite abstract sound-worlds. http://l--l.dk/
Hans Tammen creates sounds that have been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations – through means of his “Endangered Guitar” and interactive software programming. Signal To Noise called his works “…a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage”
http://tammen.org
Forest in NYC: Fred Forest and Holly Crawford
Dates:
Thu Sep 29, 2011 19:00 - Thu Sep 29, 2011
Join us Thursday, September 29, 7-9pm
Forest in New York City:
A Talk with Fred Forest and Holly Crawford
Moderated by Stéphanie Jeanjean
Concluding a six-month residency in New York City at Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn), French artist Fred Forest will be discussing his last project at the AC Institute on Thursday, September 29, 2011. The focus of this discussion will be Forest’s September 23rd Surprise Performance (Homage to Pierre Restany) held at a major museum in New York City and done in collaboration with artist and art historian, Holly Crawford. Information on the performance will be given by email and Twitter (please email fredforest@wanadoo.fr or follow on Twitter: @ACDirect)
Following a discussion of Forest’s project and its relationship to the mission of the AC Institute, savage performances, question of immateriality, relationships with the art market, and MoMA’s acquisition of Tino Sehgal, the floor will be opened to the audience for questions and discussion.
Refreshments will be served.
French artist and theorist Fred Forest (born in 1933) is one of the pioneers of video, media, and new media art. His work with interactive environments using computer and video components began as early as 1968. At the forefront of sociology and institutional critique, his work frequently immaterial and relational raises questions about the nature and function of art in a market-driven economy at the age of information. A retrospective of his work was held at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia in 2007. Forest has exhibited and presented at institutions and venues including the Venise and São Paulo Biennales, Documenta in Kassel, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Holly Crawford, Ph.D., Director, Editor of AC Institute, is a cross media artist, behavioral scientist, economist and art historian. Her art and poetry give new meanings and draws categories themselves into question through transformative juxtapositions. She examines mass media and pop culture and its relationship to art. She has exhibited internationally. 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird site specific installations in Florence, Valencia, Berlin, London, New York City and Southern California. Offerings project was a participating .net project at Ars Electronica & Found Punctuation was screened at the Tate Modern in 2007. Sound Art Limo and Critical Conversations in a Limo were part of Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2007. She has written and edited books and papers that include: Attached to the Mouse, 2006 and catalogue essay, "Disney and Pop" in Once Upon a Time Walt Disney Studio; Artistic Bedfellows, edited, 2008. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Essex in Art History and Theory, B.A and M.A. in Economics and M.S. in Behavioral Science from UCLA. From 2004-2006, she was a non-clinical Fellow at NYU Medical School Psychoanalytic Center. She has taught at UCLA in the Art Department and SVA. She founded and is the director of AC Institute, a non-profit space for experimental work in NYC (Chelsea). She is President of the American Friends of the University of Essex. She was born in California and now lives in New York City.
Stéphanie Jeanjean is an independent curator, critic, and art historian. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in Art History (CUNY, Graduate Center in New York), where she is completing her dissertation on the evolution of the relationship between the viewer and the screen in French art using video, television, and the project image from the late 1960s to the present day. Her research includes a study of Fred Forest’s early works in the context of the French art scene and institutional history. Also based on her current research, her most recent publications “Disobedient Video in France in the 1970s, Video Production by Women Collectives appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of Afterall Journal (London). In addition, Stephanie teaches Modern and Contemporary Art History at Pace University and is Gallery Educator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Forest in New York City:
A Talk with Fred Forest and Holly Crawford
Moderated by Stéphanie Jeanjean
Concluding a six-month residency in New York City at Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn), French artist Fred Forest will be discussing his last project at the AC Institute on Thursday, September 29, 2011. The focus of this discussion will be Forest’s September 23rd Surprise Performance (Homage to Pierre Restany) held at a major museum in New York City and done in collaboration with artist and art historian, Holly Crawford. Information on the performance will be given by email and Twitter (please email fredforest@wanadoo.fr or follow on Twitter: @ACDirect)
Following a discussion of Forest’s project and its relationship to the mission of the AC Institute, savage performances, question of immateriality, relationships with the art market, and MoMA’s acquisition of Tino Sehgal, the floor will be opened to the audience for questions and discussion.
Refreshments will be served.
French artist and theorist Fred Forest (born in 1933) is one of the pioneers of video, media, and new media art. His work with interactive environments using computer and video components began as early as 1968. At the forefront of sociology and institutional critique, his work frequently immaterial and relational raises questions about the nature and function of art in a market-driven economy at the age of information. A retrospective of his work was held at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia in 2007. Forest has exhibited and presented at institutions and venues including the Venise and São Paulo Biennales, Documenta in Kassel, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Holly Crawford, Ph.D., Director, Editor of AC Institute, is a cross media artist, behavioral scientist, economist and art historian. Her art and poetry give new meanings and draws categories themselves into question through transformative juxtapositions. She examines mass media and pop culture and its relationship to art. She has exhibited internationally. 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird site specific installations in Florence, Valencia, Berlin, London, New York City and Southern California. Offerings project was a participating .net project at Ars Electronica & Found Punctuation was screened at the Tate Modern in 2007. Sound Art Limo and Critical Conversations in a Limo were part of Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2007. She has written and edited books and papers that include: Attached to the Mouse, 2006 and catalogue essay, "Disney and Pop" in Once Upon a Time Walt Disney Studio; Artistic Bedfellows, edited, 2008. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Essex in Art History and Theory, B.A and M.A. in Economics and M.S. in Behavioral Science from UCLA. From 2004-2006, she was a non-clinical Fellow at NYU Medical School Psychoanalytic Center. She has taught at UCLA in the Art Department and SVA. She founded and is the director of AC Institute, a non-profit space for experimental work in NYC (Chelsea). She is President of the American Friends of the University of Essex. She was born in California and now lives in New York City.
Stéphanie Jeanjean is an independent curator, critic, and art historian. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in Art History (CUNY, Graduate Center in New York), where she is completing her dissertation on the evolution of the relationship between the viewer and the screen in French art using video, television, and the project image from the late 1960s to the present day. Her research includes a study of Fred Forest’s early works in the context of the French art scene and institutional history. Also based on her current research, her most recent publications “Disobedient Video in France in the 1970s, Video Production by Women Collectives appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of Afterall Journal (London). In addition, Stephanie teaches Modern and Contemporary Art History at Pace University and is Gallery Educator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Chess with Duchamp, Readymade Art
Dates:
Thu Oct 27, 2011 18:00 - Thu Oct 27, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Chess with Duchamp, Readymade Art
A Project by Holly Crawford
“…the metaphysical chess game called ‘art history’…” Adam Gopnik, New Yorker 6/27/11
What’s your position? What do you want to be? Do you have a gambit?
We invite all comers to participate in, or observe, a game of chess with living chesspersons. People will move around the big board on the floor. Two computers battle it out with your body at play. Come in costume, if you wish! All participation and participants will be documented.
"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. ... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists."— Marcel Duchamp
Groups are welcome. Some props will be available, such as crowns and swords.
Where: AC Institute, 547 West 27th Street, 6th floor
When: Thursday October 27 6-8 pm.
RSVP to chess@artcurrents.org
Walk-ins Welcome!
Anyone wishing to produce this project elsewhere may do so, so long as (1) there is no charge for the event; it is free; and (2) you to send information about place and time before the event , and documentation after the event, to Holly Crawford (chess@artcurrents.org)
A Project by Holly Crawford
“…the metaphysical chess game called ‘art history’…” Adam Gopnik, New Yorker 6/27/11
What’s your position? What do you want to be? Do you have a gambit?
We invite all comers to participate in, or observe, a game of chess with living chesspersons. People will move around the big board on the floor. Two computers battle it out with your body at play. Come in costume, if you wish! All participation and participants will be documented.
"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. ... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists."— Marcel Duchamp
Groups are welcome. Some props will be available, such as crowns and swords.
Where: AC Institute, 547 West 27th Street, 6th floor
When: Thursday October 27 6-8 pm.
RSVP to chess@artcurrents.org
Walk-ins Welcome!
Anyone wishing to produce this project elsewhere may do so, so long as (1) there is no charge for the event; it is free; and (2) you to send information about place and time before the event , and documentation after the event, to Holly Crawford (chess@artcurrents.org)
UCLA FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE 2011
Dates:
Thu Oct 20, 2011 18:30 - Thu Oct 20, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
OREN PELEG Presents
The UCLA FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE 2011
With Special Guest DAVID KOEPP
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20TH
6:30 PM -- Reception with Filmmakers
7:30 PM -- Screening
Seating is limited. Please RSVP at http://www.artcurrents.org/Proform2011.html
Sponsored by
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Pinewood Creek Media
Stella Artois
The UCLA FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE 2011
With Special Guest DAVID KOEPP
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20TH
6:30 PM -- Reception with Filmmakers
7:30 PM -- Screening
Seating is limited. Please RSVP at http://www.artcurrents.org/Proform2011.html
Sponsored by
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Pinewood Creek Media
Stella Artois
GRIDLOCK: A Graduate Student Conference hosted by Stony Brook University
Dates:
Thu Oct 13, 2011 18:00 - Sat Oct 15, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
GRIDLOCK | October 14-15, 2011 | New York City
Keynote Address: Eugene Thacker
Welcome! GRIDLOCK is a 2-day graduate student conference and 3-day art
exhibition (October 13-15) hosted by the Department of Cultural Analysis
and Theory (previously the Department of Comparative Literary and
Cultural Studies) at Stony Brook University. This year, we have the
amazing opportunity to host our conference in collaboration with the AC
Institute, a premier gallery space in
the Chelsea arts district of Manhattan. Our entire conference will take
place on-site in the gallery location, surrounded by the works of
emerging artists and graduate students.
We are very excited to
welcome Eugene Thacker as this year's keynote speaker, presenting his
talk "Frozen Thought; or, the Horror of Philosophy". Dr. Thacker is an
Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School. This talk is
related to his upcoming book, In the Dust of This Planet: The Horror of
Philosophy, Vol. 1. A small number of these books will be on sale at our
conference.
Artist Talks and Kick-off Reception | Friday | October 14, 2011
6:00pm - 7:30pm | Artist Talks
Moderator: TBA
Presentations by John Gourley, Mauricio Herrero, Jonathan Jackson, Anna Kell + Jon Frey, Nobi Nagasawa
7:30 - 8:30 | Kick-off Reception
All-Day Conference | Saturday | October 15, 2011
8:15am - 9:15am | Welcome Breakfast + Registration
Light pastries, fruit salad, juice and coffee will be provided.
9:15am - 10:40am | Grids and Gridlock in Contemporary Art
Moderator: Megan Craig | Assistant Professor | Department of Philosophy
Banksy, Street Art and the Outlaw in the Logic of Late Capitalism
Jarrod McCartney | University of Oklahoma | Department of English
Tracing the Horizontal and the Vertical in Agnes Martin's Paintings, Prints, and Film
Berit Potter | New York University | Institute of Fine Arts
Traveling Indexicality: The Auto-Centric Photography of Ed Ruscha and William Eggleston
David Smucker | Stony Brook University | Department of Art
10:50am - 12:30pm | The Technologies, Politics, and Poetics of Gridlock
Moderator: Lisa Diedrich | Associate Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Co-opting Individuality, Aestheticizing Responsibility: A Poetics of Starbucks
Darla Migan | Stony Brook University | Department of Philosophy
The Triumph of the Individual within the Failure of the Political:
Towards a ‘Post-Political’ Reading of J.M. Coetzee, Pat Barker, and Don
DeLillo
Yoav Fromer | New School for Social Research | Politics Department
Stretching the Stutter: Towards the Unmeaning of Language
Erin Mizrahi | University of Southern California | Department of Comparative Literature
Database Normalization: Technologies of Self-Storage
Rory Solomon | New School for General Studies | Department of Media Studies
12:30pm - 2:10 | Lunch Break
A list of local restaurants will be provided.
2:10pm - 3:30pm | "Reading" the Grid
Moderator: E.K. Tan | Assistant Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
'A Manhattan of Your Own Devising': Strategies for Repurposing Urban Space in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City
Jeffrey Nathan Mickelson | CUNY Graduate Center | Department of English
Getting Off The Grid: ‘Unhoming’ and the Space of Critique in the Novels of W.G. Sebald
Aengus Woods | New School for Social Research | Department of Philosophy
3:40pm - 5:20pm | The Grided Globe, Urban Gridlock
Moderator: Raiford Guins | Associate Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Highgate Cemetery: Providing Eternal Rest and Rational Recreation
Marisa Balsamo | Stony Brook University | History
Distributed Intelligence, Dispersed Power: Experiments on the Azorean Electric Grid
Canay Ozden | MIT | Department of History, Anthropology, and Science
A New Model for Postmodern Urbanism
Brian Irwin | Stony Brook University | Department of Philosophy
High-Speed Collisions: Grand Army Plaza and Conflicting Urban Mobilities
Meg Rooney | New York University | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
5:45pm - 7:00pm | Keynote Address
Frozen Thought; or, the Horror of Philosophy
Eugene Thacker | The New School | Department of Media Studies
Keynote Introduction by Andrew Uroskie | Assistant Professor | Department of Art
Introductory Remarks by Laine Nooney
7:00pm - 8:30pm | Reception
Keynote Address: Eugene Thacker
Welcome! GRIDLOCK is a 2-day graduate student conference and 3-day art
exhibition (October 13-15) hosted by the Department of Cultural Analysis
and Theory (previously the Department of Comparative Literary and
Cultural Studies) at Stony Brook University. This year, we have the
amazing opportunity to host our conference in collaboration with the AC
Institute, a premier gallery space in
the Chelsea arts district of Manhattan. Our entire conference will take
place on-site in the gallery location, surrounded by the works of
emerging artists and graduate students.
We are very excited to
welcome Eugene Thacker as this year's keynote speaker, presenting his
talk "Frozen Thought; or, the Horror of Philosophy". Dr. Thacker is an
Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School. This talk is
related to his upcoming book, In the Dust of This Planet: The Horror of
Philosophy, Vol. 1. A small number of these books will be on sale at our
conference.
Artist Talks and Kick-off Reception | Friday | October 14, 2011
6:00pm - 7:30pm | Artist Talks
Moderator: TBA
Presentations by John Gourley, Mauricio Herrero, Jonathan Jackson, Anna Kell + Jon Frey, Nobi Nagasawa
7:30 - 8:30 | Kick-off Reception
All-Day Conference | Saturday | October 15, 2011
8:15am - 9:15am | Welcome Breakfast + Registration
Light pastries, fruit salad, juice and coffee will be provided.
9:15am - 10:40am | Grids and Gridlock in Contemporary Art
Moderator: Megan Craig | Assistant Professor | Department of Philosophy
Banksy, Street Art and the Outlaw in the Logic of Late Capitalism
Jarrod McCartney | University of Oklahoma | Department of English
Tracing the Horizontal and the Vertical in Agnes Martin's Paintings, Prints, and Film
Berit Potter | New York University | Institute of Fine Arts
Traveling Indexicality: The Auto-Centric Photography of Ed Ruscha and William Eggleston
David Smucker | Stony Brook University | Department of Art
10:50am - 12:30pm | The Technologies, Politics, and Poetics of Gridlock
Moderator: Lisa Diedrich | Associate Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Co-opting Individuality, Aestheticizing Responsibility: A Poetics of Starbucks
Darla Migan | Stony Brook University | Department of Philosophy
The Triumph of the Individual within the Failure of the Political:
Towards a ‘Post-Political’ Reading of J.M. Coetzee, Pat Barker, and Don
DeLillo
Yoav Fromer | New School for Social Research | Politics Department
Stretching the Stutter: Towards the Unmeaning of Language
Erin Mizrahi | University of Southern California | Department of Comparative Literature
Database Normalization: Technologies of Self-Storage
Rory Solomon | New School for General Studies | Department of Media Studies
12:30pm - 2:10 | Lunch Break
A list of local restaurants will be provided.
2:10pm - 3:30pm | "Reading" the Grid
Moderator: E.K. Tan | Assistant Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
'A Manhattan of Your Own Devising': Strategies for Repurposing Urban Space in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City
Jeffrey Nathan Mickelson | CUNY Graduate Center | Department of English
Getting Off The Grid: ‘Unhoming’ and the Space of Critique in the Novels of W.G. Sebald
Aengus Woods | New School for Social Research | Department of Philosophy
3:40pm - 5:20pm | The Grided Globe, Urban Gridlock
Moderator: Raiford Guins | Associate Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Highgate Cemetery: Providing Eternal Rest and Rational Recreation
Marisa Balsamo | Stony Brook University | History
Distributed Intelligence, Dispersed Power: Experiments on the Azorean Electric Grid
Canay Ozden | MIT | Department of History, Anthropology, and Science
A New Model for Postmodern Urbanism
Brian Irwin | Stony Brook University | Department of Philosophy
High-Speed Collisions: Grand Army Plaza and Conflicting Urban Mobilities
Meg Rooney | New York University | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
5:45pm - 7:00pm | Keynote Address
Frozen Thought; or, the Horror of Philosophy
Eugene Thacker | The New School | Department of Media Studies
Keynote Introduction by Andrew Uroskie | Assistant Professor | Department of Art
Introductory Remarks by Laine Nooney
7:00pm - 8:30pm | Reception
