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Nina Katchadourian Lecture ?>

Nina Katchadourian Lecture

Image caption: Pretzel Meteor from Seat Assignment, 2010 and ongoing

 

Nina Katchadourian Lecture
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H
Join artist and educator Nina Katchadourian for a presentation and discussion of her work, including her most recent project, Seat Assignment. Improvising with materials close at hand, Seat Assignment consists of photographs, video, and digital images all made while in flight using only a camera phone. The project began spontaneously on a flight in March 2010 and is ongoing. At present, over 2500 photographs and video, made on more than 70 different flights to date, constitute the raw material of the project.

Seat Assignment was exhibited for the first time in February 2011 at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, a museum in the city of Dunedin on South Island in New Zealand. Since I had 22 hours of flight time from New York to get to the Dunedin I proposed to make the bulk of the work for the exhibition on the way there. In the exhibition, two of the three galleries focused on work made entirely en route. A third room contained works that functioned as a retrospective look on the first year of the project.

Click here for artist’s website

Biography: Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled “All Forms of Attraction.” The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. In February 2010 she was the artist in residence at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in Dunedin, New Zealand, where she had a solo show entitled “Seat Assignment.” She is currently at work on a permanent public piece, commissioned by the GSA, for a border crossing station between the US and Canada. Katchadourian is represented by Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.

For further information please contact: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

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Doug Dubois Photography Lecture

Doug DuBois
Book presentation and photography lecture
Thursday, October 13, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join photographer and educator Doug DuBois for a presentation and discussion of his most recent book Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights published by the Aperture Foundation.

Doug DuBois began photographing his family in 1984, prior to his father’s near-fatal fall from a commuter train and his mother’s subsequent breakdown and hospitalizations. While these events set a narrative backdrop to his work, the emotional freight is carried by the details as described by the artist: “the pallor of my mother’s skin, the glare of my father’s gaze and the tactile communion between my sister and nephew constitute a complex and resonant picture of family ties.”

More than twenty years later, DuBois’s project has developed in remarkable ways. Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights resonates with emotional immediacy, offering a potent examination of family relations, and what it means to subject personal relationships to the unblinking eye of the camera. Each photograph is rich with color, nuanced gestures and glances enveloping the viewer in a multivalent, emotionally tense world.

Links:
http://www.dougdubois.com

Biography:
DOUG DUBOIS (born in Dearborn, Michigan 1960) received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Parco Gallery, Tokyo, among other venues, and can be found in the collections of major institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2006, he received the John Gutman Photography Fellowship.

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

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Daniel Seiple Screening & Discussion

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Film screening and discussion: Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join artist and producer Daniel Seiple for a screening and discussion of his project Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011, 30 minutes plus extra footage.

Project synopsis:
On December 5th in the Tone River, just up from where it meets the Kinu River in Moriya, Japan, the president of the Joso Flying Club, Ono-san, ordered his technical specialist, Sugiyama-san, to crash his radio controlled airplane into my fishing boat, per my request. I had spent the previous month filming and becoming acquainted with two RC clubs who had airfields along the river. The hobby club, which flew scale models including WWII aircrafts such as the Japanese Zero and U.S. B29, talked openly about the Kamikaze. One mentioned its absence from school history books. Another gave an eyewitness account of a plane-to-plane Kamikaze attack. The other group, the Joso Flying Club, was semi-professional and showed more interest in making history, rather than discussing it. When asked if he was interested in real airplanes, one pilot responded, “For me, airplanes are a thing to look at rather than fly.” The hobby club declined to perform the crash for safety reasons, but more likely, because they were not capable. The Joso Club agreed and 8 Japanese RC operators witnessed the attack.

Links:
Travelhome.org
Arcus Residency Moriya, Japan

Biography:
Daniel Seiple was born in 1973. Daniel Seiple has been working on projects which reconsider various “borders” in contemporary society. Mimicking, crossing, shifting, destroying or redrawing boundaries…. They include physical / geographical markers as well as social and psychological territories. Each project is realized for a specific site and situation by employing various strategies and mediums.

Images:
One production still taken during the filming of Rajikon (Radio Control); three frames from Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011.

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu

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Matthew Bakkom Book Lecture

Matthew Bakkom
Book Lecture: The New York City Museum of Complaint
Tuesday, February 8
11:30 AM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join artist and producer Matthew Bakkom for a discussion of the project The New York City Museum of Complaint. Initially presented as publicly distributed newsprint edition in 2006, this collection of letters sent to the mayor of the city of New York (between 1751 and 1972) has subsequently been manifest as a fine art publication, designed by Peter Miles and released by Steidl-Miles in 2009.

Selected from the municipal archives and presented chronologically, the letters address a range of issues from dead animals in the street to swindles, capitalism, and corruption. From civil rights, adventuresses, bad luck, and broken hearts to noise and other people. These are the communiqués of dissatisfaction over the course of a city’s evolution.

The strength of this collection lies in its striking ability to capture the spirit of the city as defined by its critics and crusaders. New York City has long been perceived as a place where personal expression flourishes. These civic documents are historical embodiments of the language, wit and energy that helped forge the City’s reputation. From the passionate defense of street musicians to dedicated battles with drycleaners, police officers, pushcart peddlers and hooligans, a chorus emerges that articulates the challenges and inherent absurdity of metropolitan life.

Links:
Steidl Edition
City Room Guest Blogger compendium
Newsprint Edition

Matthew Bakkom was born in 1968. Starting in the early 1990’s, working as a visual artist in North America and Europe, he has created projects and participated in exhibitions cities such as New York, Paris, Dublin, Philadelphia, Eindhoven and Minneapolis. The creative investigation of collections and archives often serves as the basis for his work.

Image:
Cover image from The New York City Museum of Complaint
Curated by Matthew Bakkom
Book design by Peter Miles Studio
304 pages, 217 colour plates
24.5 cm x 32 cm
Hardcover
Steidl Miles
ISBN: 978-3-86521-745-5
Publication date: August 2009

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu

Bill Burke Photography Lecture ?>

Bill Burke Photography Lecture

Bill Burke

Photography Lecture
Wednesday, December 8
6 PM
Room SL24H
Bill will lecture on his latest book: Autrefois, Maison Privée, Powerhouse Books 2004, printed by Steidl

In Autrefois, Maison Privée—the title means “once a private house,” and refers to the prevalent reappropriation of once private houses for municipal and government use—Burke captures the dramatic history of Indochina, from the influence of French colonialism through the rise of communism and the devastating effects of the Vietnam War, to the repopulation of Cambodia after the fall of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and the opening of the area to capitalism. Burke’s first entrée into the region occurred during the period of Soviet control, a period of recovery that allowed for the current explosion of capitalism, which has already begun to devastate an architectural heritage that had been well preserved in the deep freeze of socialism.

In this selection of pictures of architecture and portraits all made on Polaroid Positive/negative pack film between 1988 and 2000, Burke pays tribute to Eugene Atget and August Sander.

For more information please visit his website.

Additional contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu

MICHEL AUDER Senior Seminar Lecture Series ?>

MICHEL AUDER Senior Seminar Lecture Series

Michel Auder talks about his work and his over-40-year career in filmmaking. A member of the 1960s Zanzibar French filmmaker collective and married to Warhol superstar Viva and later to Cindy Sherman, Auder has spent his career voyeuristically documenting his own life and the downtown New York art scene with both poignancy and irony. Auder’s work has been included in numerous prestigious film festivals and collections and has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, the Anthology Film Archives, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

TUESDAY, OCT 21
6 – 7:30 pm
SL24H

Open to the public and all students

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NYC D.O.T directional compass design competition

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Navigating our city’s streets can be a confusing experience when traveling to unfamiliar neighborhoods for residents and visitors alike. Subway riders face a special challenge as emerging from the station to the street can prove disorienting to even seasoned New Yorkers. To help improve the situation, NYCDOT is requesting design proposals for orientation elements to aid pedestrians on route to their destinations as they exit from below grade subway stations or descend to the street from above ground platforms.

A total of sixteen sites (three in the Bronx, four in Queens, five in Brooklyn, and four in Manhattan) have been pre-selected by NYC DOT with input from some of the participating schools (the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons The New School of Design, and Pratt Institute). Fordham University used the exercise for a spring class, and will be also included in the final exhibit). in NYC to be invited to participate in this design competition for the NYC Department of Transportation.

Above: examples of student proposals from Cathcart’s and Goldstein’s design and architecture classes, Spring 2008.

Imaging Black Culture ?>

Imaging Black Culture

Imaging Black Culture 
A lecture by Deb Willis (NYU)
November 12 11:30 am LL 816
presented with the generous support of a 2008-09 Dean’s Challenge Grant
reception to follow the lecture

ALL ARE WELCOME

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Visual Arts Events

DESIGN CONVERSATIONS

Rick Frankel and Fred Krughoff discusses the Semantic Web and Standards — why should you care?

Monday, Sept. 29th at 6:30 in the Visual Arts Crit room

The Semantic Web is about structuring the content of web pages — extending xhtml to make web pages accessible to users and other computers. From a designer’s standpoint the most important part is separating the look of a website from the content. Rick’s presentation will discuss the how and why this is important for the future of the web.

“The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content”. Wikipedia said that.

Rick Frankel is a brilliant programmer, who has over 30 years experience in information technologies planning, data systems design and development, his expertise includes XML/XSLT, SOAP, /RPC, HTML, Java, C/C++, Perl and Ruby. Rick began his career earning an M.F.A. in Electronic Visualization from the University of Illinois, Chicago, then at Bally Corp. where he designed and worked on many coin-op video games including Professor Pac-Man and GORF (Galactic Orbiting Robot Force).
He is a former Senior Principal Consultant for such giants in the industry as Sun Microsystems, and the Oracle Corporation. Rick is currently President of cyberCode consulting.

Fred Krughoff is a Visiting lecturer at Fordham University Lincoln Center on the Design and the Web.