Art & Technology Lectures

Lecture series and web site with streaming video
Columbia University School of the Arts

 

I organized a series of lectures at Columbia on issues relating to art and technology. In Spring 2004 the series served as a general introduction to art and technology, with lectures by Mary Flanagan, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Paul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Manuel DeLanda, and Ricardo Dominguez. In Fall 2004, the series focused on Open Source Culture, exploring issues at the intersection of intellectual property, technology, and the arts, with lectures by Joy Garnett, Jeffrey Cunard, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jon Ippolito, and Cory Arcangel.

 

In order to make the lectures available to a broad audience, and to provide a pedagogical resource for future courses, I worked with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to put the lectures online. In addition to streaming video of the speaker, the web site offers a synchronized slide show representing the media shown by each speaker as well as an outline that serves as a navigation aid.

 

Fall 2004

 

Joy Garnett "Painting Mass Media"

 

Thursday, Sept 23, 2004, 6pm
702 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY

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Joy Garnett is a painter and editor of NEWSgrist, a blog focusing on art, politics and digital culture. In Riot, her most recent solo exhibition at Debs & Co. in New York, she presented paintings based on news photographs of figures in states of emotional or physical extremity. Garnett typically produces work where different media, idioms and paradigms converge. In 2000 she created The Bomb Project, a web resource conceived and designed for artists and activists interested in making politically relevant work about nuclear issues. She is currently working on a series of paintings about war and global nomadism. See http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy.html

 

 

Jeffrey Cunard "Making Art, Making Law: When Worlds Collide?"

 

Thursday, Oct 28, 2004, 6pm
702 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY

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Jeffrey Cunard is a partner at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton and a recognized practitioner in the field of the Internet and cyberlaw. He is a co-director of the clinical program at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and is an active participant in community activities and the arts. Cunard is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and serves on the boards of the College Art Association, for which he is Counsel, and Friends of Khmer Culture, Inc., which he founded.

 

 

Siva Vaidhyanathan "Hip-hop and Sampling Culture: How Copyright Stole the Soul"

 

Thursday, Nov 18, 2004, 6pm
702 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY

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Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library (Basic Books, 2004). He has written for many periodicals, including Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.com, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, and The Nation. Vaidhyanathan is an assistant professor of Culture and Communication at New York University. See http://www.sivacracy.net

 

 

Jon Ippolito "How to Hack Copyright for Fun and Profit"

 

Thursday, Dec 2, 2004, 6pm
702 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY

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Jon Ippolito is an artist, writer, and curator whose work explores the intersection of contemporary art and new media. As Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum he has organized several exhibitions, including Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice (2004). Ippolito co-founded the Still Water program for network art and culture at the University of Maine, where he is an assistant professor of New Media. His critical writing has appeared in periodicals ranging from Flash Art and Art Journal to the Washington Post. See http://newmedia.umaine.edu/stillwater

 

 

Cory Arcangel

 

Thursday, Dec 16, 2004, 6pm
Leroy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY

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Cory Arcangel is a computer artist whose work is concerned with technology's relationship to culture and the creative process. He is a founding member of BEIGE, a group of computer programmers and enthusiasts who recycle obsolete computers and video game systems to make art and music, and a member of RSG (Radical Software Group). Arcangel's work has been exhibited at the American Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam, Foxy Productions, Tate Britain, Team Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. See http://www.beigerecords.com/cory

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Spring 2004

 

Mary Flanagan

 

January 28, 2004, 6pm
LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall

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Mary Flanagan focuses on networked and computer based installation, popular culture, and computer gaming. Her work has been shown internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art 2002 Biennial, New York; SIGGRAPH, San Diego; Ars Electronica, Linz; Moving Image Centre, Auckland; Central Fine Arts Gallery, New York; University of Arizona, Tempe; and University of Colorado, Boulder. Her essays on digital art, cyberculture, and gaming have appeared in Art Journal, Wide Angle, Convergence, and Culture Machine, as well as in several books. She is also the creator of “The Adventures of Josie True,” the first web-based adventure game for girls, and is collaborating on a new project to teach middle school girls computer programming. Her projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. See http://www.maryflanagan.com/

 

 

Chris Csikszentmihályi

 

February 25, 2004, 6pm
LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall

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Chris Csikszentmihályi directs the Media Lab's Computing Culture group, which works to create unique media technologies for cultural applications. Prior to coming to MIT, he was assistant professor of electronic art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has worked in the intersection of new technologies, media, and the arts for nine years, lecturing, showing new media work, and presenting installations in both Europe and North America. Csikszentmihályi has taught at the University of California at San Diego, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and at Turku University. A recent piece, DJ I, Robot, was nominated for the Best Artistic Software award at Berlin's Transmediale, while a previous piece, Natural Language Processor, was commissioned by the KIASMA Museum in Helsinki, Finland. He has toured with DJ I, Robot, and he serves on the National Academy of Science's IT & Creativity panel. Csikszentmihályi received an MFA from the University of California at San Diego, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. See http://www.media.mit.edu/%7ecsik

 

 

Paul D. Miller

 

March 24, 2004, 7pm
Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street between Amsterdam and Morningside

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Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in NYC. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals. He is a co-Publisher along with the legendary African American downtown poet Steve Canon of the magazine "A Gathering of the Tribes" and he was the first Editor-At-Large of Artbyte: the Magazine of Digital Culture. His work as an artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture (year 2000), the prestigious Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries. Miller is most well known under the moniker of his "constructed persona" as "Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid," a character from his upcoming novel "Flow My Blood the Dj Said" that uses a wide variety of digitally created music as a form of post-modern sculpture. Miller has recorded a huge volume of music as "Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid" and has collaborated a wide variety of pre-eminent musicians and composers such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Butch Morris, Kool Keith a.k.a. Doctor Octagon, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth amongst many others. He also did the music score for the Cannes and Sundance award winning film "Slam" starring critically acclaimed poet Saul Williams. See http://www.djspooky.com

 

 

Manuel DeLanda

 

Thursday, April 8, 2004, 6pm
LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall

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Manuel DeLanda was born in 1952 in Mexico City and has lived in Manhattan since 1975. He began his career in the mid-seventies as an independent filmmaker, showing his films in cine-clubs and museums around the world. In 1980 he acquired an industrial-grade computer and became a programmer and computer artist, writing his own software for several years. His philosophical essays have appeared in many journals and he lectures extensively in the United States and Europe on nonlinear dynamics, theories of self-organization, artificial intelligence, and artificial life. He is author of the books War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, A Thousand years of Nonlinear History, and Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy.

 

 

Ricardo Dominguez

 

May 12, 2004, 6pm
Lifetime Screening Room (511 Dodge Hall)

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Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. EDT's SWARM action was presented at Ars Electronica's InfoWar Festival in 1998 (Linz, Austria). He is Senior Editor of The Thing (bbs.thing.net). Former member of Critical Art Ensemble (1987 to 1994 - developers of the theory of Electronic Civil Disobedience in the late 80's). Currently a Fake-Fakeshop Worker (www.fakeshop.com), a hybrid performance group, presented at the Whitney Biennial 2000. Ricardo has collaborated on a number of international net-art projects: with Francesca da Rimini on Dollspace and with Diane Ludin on the Aphanisis Project. His essays have appeared at Ctheory and recently in "Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas" (Routledge, 2000), edited by Coco Fusco. Editor of EDT's forthcoming book Hacktivism: network-art-activism, (Autonomedia Press, 2001). See http://www.thing.net/~rdom and http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

 

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