<div dir="ltr"><div>This Saturday,<br></div>Apologizes for cross posting.<br><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px"><b>Panel series: Performing Change.</b></div><div style="font-size:13px">
<b><span><span>Saturday October 19th from 4–8pm</span></span></b>. <b>At EYEBEAM, Chelsea. New York City. </b></div>
<div style="font-size:11px"><b><b><br></b></b></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:17px">Live lectures and discussions on<b> Ontologies of Media Art Interventions; Tactical Fiction for Alternative Realities; The Art of Performing Political Innovation</b>; <b>Performing Alternative Art Economies. </b></span></div>
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Featuring speakers: <b>Vito
Acconci, Wafaa Bilal, Stephen Duncombe, Peter Macapia, Carne
Ross, George E. Sánchez, Denisse A. Arévalo, Mark Amerika, Marisa Jahn,
Lina Srivastava, Laurel Ptak, Carlo Zanni, Jose Serrano-McClain</b>.</div><div><i>Curated and organized by <b>Paolo Cirio</b>.</i></div></span></div><div style="font-size:11px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Details and full schedule of the panel series:</div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://eyebeam.org/events/performing-change" target="_blank">http://eyebeam.org/events/performing-change</a></div><div style="font-size:13px"></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><b>Performing Change</b> will be held in tandem with <b>What Do We Do Now? </b></div><div style="font-size:13px"><div style="font-size:13px">At EYEBAM on <span><span>October 18th and 19th</span></span>.</div>
</div><div style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.eyebeam.org/events/what-do-we-do-now-performing-change" target="_blank">http://www.eyebeam.org/events/what-do-we-do-now-performing-change</a></div><div style="font-size:13px">
The
Alternatives Fair offers direct access to and dialogue around numerous
resources in NYC that provide alternative economic models for artists,
art workers, and more—based on practices of mutual aid and
cooperation. Alternatives Fair organized by Arts & Labor Alternative
Economies Group. More details here: <a href="http://whatdowedonow.info" target="_blank">http://whatdowedonow.info</a></div><div style="font-size:13px"><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div></div><div style="font-size:13px">
<b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:13px"><b>Performing Change</b> features
panels intended to inspire alternative aesthetics, interventionist
tactics and economic models for critical art practices. In a time in
which the conventional economic, social and culture values are in
crisis, there is a need for new strategies and points of reference in
art and politics, while diversifying resources for living and producing
meaningfully.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><p><b>Ontologies of Media Art Interventions – <span><span>4:00PM</span></span></b><br>Speakers: <b>Vito Acconci</b>, <b>Stephen Duncombe</b>, <b>Wafaa Bilal</b>. Moderator: <b>Peter Macapia</b>.<br>
The
talk will consider the practice of media art interventions through the
lens of performance art – examining a number of Vito Acconci’s projects
and The First Work of Media Art in 1968, which was an art performance
consisting of pure information staged in the mass media. Wafaa Bilal’s
provocative performances with new media will make the case for today’s
expanded notions of space, body and audience, as flows of informational
entities orchestrated over digital networks still affect physicality.
Stephen Duncombe will present others form of performative media
interventions for socially engaged art that he studied and fostered for
decades. Artist, scholar and curator Peter Macapia will facilitate a
discussion among the speakers to define informational bodies and arenas
through post-structuralist theories.</p><div><b>Tactical Fiction for Alternative Realities – <span><span>5:00PM</span></span></b><br>Speakers: <b>Lina Srivastava</b>, <b>Marisa Jahn</b>, <b>Mark Amerika</b>. Moderator: <b>Paolo Cirio</b><b> </b>. <br>
The
talk will explore the potential of inventive forms of storytelling to
penetrate and change reality. Captivating plots and characters who
perform via pervasive media can actively engage the public in
alternative scenarios that inform, educate and inspire. Lina Srivastava
will introduce Transmedia Activism in order to design social change
through storytelling in NYC. Mark Amerika, a pioneer of interactive
fiction, will explain the critical qualities of mediated realities and
his recent transmedia fiction within the art world and its fads. Writer
and artist Marisa Jahn will tell the story of the living legend of El
Bibliobandido, which was produced in a region of Honduras with an 80%
illiteracy rate.<b><br><br>The Art of Performing Political Innovation – <span><span>6:00PM</span></span></b><br>Speakers: <b>Carne Ross, George E. Sánchez, Denisse A. Arévalo</b>. Moderator: <b>Paolo Cirio</b>.<b> </b><br>
The
talk will examine forms of political innovation as a potential art
form. During accelerated ideological and economic crises, society still
possesses powerful tools and knowledge that can be applied towards
radical social change as never before. Today, reinventing social
structures is a crucial creative challenge, which is a process of
experimentation dedicated to a renewed political project. Carne Ross
will discuss a form of participatory radical democracy through
decentralized leadership and alternative banking. Performer George
Emilio Sánchez will present projects that engage with participatory
budgeting and learning through performances as a means to foster social
engagement. Curator Denisse A. Arévalo will talk about art practices
that, from a critical standpoint, evoke collectivity and suggest an
engagement with - directly or indirectly - oppositional movements.<b> </b></div><div><b><br>Performing alternative art economies – <span><span>7:00PM</span></span></b></div>
<div>Speakers: <b>Laurel Ptak</b>, <b>Jose Serrano-McClain</b> of Trust Art, <b>Carlo Zanni</b>. Moderator: <b>Paolo Cirio.</b></div><div>The
talk will look at cases of alternative economic models for contemporary
art. In a time of high speculation in the secondary art market and with
a shortage of funding for young artists, new models are emerging that
challenge the notion of consuming and collecting art. Laurel Ptak will
present ideas regarding mutual aid for art labor and critique of art
economies, while Jose Serrano-McClain will introduce a new platform for
sharing resources and means of production among artists. Carlo Zanni
will present his project <a href="http://PeopleFromMars.org/" target="_blank">PeopleFromMars.org</a> to
experiment new distribution models for media art and to share revenues
on the sale of artworks among the artists involved in the platform.</div><p><br></p><div><hr noshade size="1"></div><p><b>Bios speakers:<br></b><br><b>Ontologies of Media Art Interventions – <span><span>4:00PM</span></span><br>
<br></b><b>Vito Acconci</b>’s
design & architecture comes from another direction, from
backgrounds of writing & art. His poems in the late 60’s treated
language as matter (words to look at rather than through) & the page
as a field to travel over; his performances in the early 70’s helped
shift art from object to interaction; later in the 70’s, his
installations turned museums & galleries into interactions between
spaces & people; in the early 80’s, his architectural-units were
meant to be transformed by users. Most of his early work incorporated
subversive social comment. His performance and video work was marked
heavily by confrontation and Situationism. By the late 80’s his work
crossed over & he formed Acconci Studio, a design firm that mixes
poetry & geometry, computer-scripting & sentence-structure,
narrative & biology, chemistry & social-science. The Studio uses
computers to give form to thinking; they use forms to find ideas. They
make not nodes so much as circulation-routes, they design time as much
as space. His work has been shown and collected by the major art museums
worldwide.</p><p><b>Wafaa Bilal</b> is Iraqi-born artist and
Associate Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the
Arts, is known internationally for his on-line performative and
interactive works provoking dialogue about international politics and
internal dynamics. For his 2010-2011 project, the 3rdi, Bilal had a
camera surgically implanted on the back of his head to spontaneously
transmit images to the web 24 hours a day. Bilal’s 2007 installation,
Domestic Tension, also addressed the Iraq war. Bilal spent a month in a
Chicago gallery with a paintball gun that people could shoot at him over
the internet. The Chicago Tribune called it “one of the sharpest works
of political art to be seen in a long time” and named him 2008 Artist of
the Year. Bilal suffered repression under Saddam Hussein’s regime and
fled Iraq in 1991 during the first Gulf War and spent two years in
refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. His work can be found in the
permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; MALTAF:
Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; amongst others.</p><p><b>Stephen Duncombe</b> is
an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of
Media, Culture and Communications of New York University where he
teaches the history and politics of media and culture. He is the author
of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy and
Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Underground Culture
amongst other books. He is a life-long political activist, co-founding a
community based advocacy group in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and
working as an organizer for the NYC chapter of the international direct
action group, Reclaim the Streets. In 2009 he was a Research Associate
at the Eyebeam where he helped organize The College of Tactical Culture.
With funding from the Open Societies Foundations he co-created the
School for Creative Activism in 2011, and is presently co-director of
the Center for Artistic Activism. Duncombe is currently a Senior
Research Fellow of Theatrum Mundi, an international consortium of
artists, designers and scholars.</p><p><b>Peter Macapia</b> is
an architectural designer and artist, founder of labDORA, and adjunct
assistant professor at Pratt. He focuses on advanced computational
design and the politics of urban space. He has taught at Columbia
University and Sci-Arc, as well as ESA Paris, TUS Tokyo, and TU Delft.
His work is collected by such institutions as FRAC Orleans and published
in Architectural Record, Log, Domus, A+U, and PinUp. He is currently
preparing exhibitions in Guadalajara Mexico on immigration and space and
Zagreb Croatia on economies of borrowing and robbing space. He is
completing a book on the history of force in the work of Foucault and
Deleuze. Macapia studied at RISD and Harvard, and received his PhD from
Columbia.<br><br><b><br>Tactical Fiction for Alternative Realities – <span><span>5:00PM</span></span></b></p><p><b>Mark Amerika</b> is
a pioneer of net art and hypertext fiction since 1992. His work has
been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Whitney Biennial of
American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts
in London, and the Walker Art Center. In 2009-2010, The National Museum
of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, hosted Amerika’s comprehensive
retrospective exhibition entitled UNREALTIME. He is the author of many
books including remixthebook (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and
his collection of artist writings entitlesd META/DATA: A Digital Poetics
(The MIT Press, 2007). Amerika is a Professor of Art and Art History at
the University of Colorado at Boulder.</p><p><b>Marisa Jahn</b> is
an artist, writer, and activist of Chinese and Ecuadorian descent. Jahn
is the Executive Director of REV- (as in to rev an engine), a nonprofit
studio whose public art projects combine creativity, bold ideas, and
sound research to address critical issues. REV- is a women and
minority-led team of artists, techies, media makers, low-wage workers,
immigrants, and teens seeking to impact the immediate and long-term. A
2013 Open Doc Lab Fellow at MIT and former MIT graduate, Jahn’s work has
been presented at venues such as The White House, Studio Museum of
Harlem, Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center; received grants and
awards such as Tribeca Film Institute’s New Media Fund, Rockefeller
Cultural Innovation Fund; and received reviews in media such as
ArtForum, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, and more.</p><p><b>Lina Srivastava</b> is
a social innovation strategist, working at the intersection of social
impact, transmedia storytelling, and design. Lina has been involved in
social engagement campaigns for several documentaries, including Oscar-
winning Born into Brothels, Emmy-nominated The Devil Came on Horseback,
Oscar-winning Inocente, and Sundance-award winning Who Is Dayani
Cristal?. The former Executive Director of Kids with Cameras, and the
Association of Video and Filmmakers, Lina has taught design and social
entrepreneurship at Parsons, The New School of Design, and is on faculty
in the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Design and Social Innovation at
the School of Visual Arts.<br><br><br><b>The Art of Performing Political Innovation – <span><span>6:00PM</span></span></b></p><p><b>Carne Ross</b> is
a writer and political activist. A former British U.N. diplomat who
resigned over the Iraq war, Carne founded and now leads Independent
Diplomat, an expert team of former diplomats which advises democratic
but marginalized governments and political groups so that their views
are heard internationally. His recent book, The Leaderless Revolution,
analyzes the current failure of governments and alternative forms of
political organization, including anarchism. Carne has also been heavily
involved in an Occupy Wall Street initiative to offer a new kind of
banking – The Occupy Money Cooperative.<br><br><b>George Emilio Sanchez </b>is
a writer, performance artist and educator. For the past six years he
has directed Henispheric Institute's Emergenyc program that aims to
explore the intersection between arts and activism. Since 2011 he has
worked with New York City Council Member Brad Lander's Participatory
Budget Committee as a delegate and facilitator. He is the chairperson of
the Performing and Creative Arts Department The City University of New
York/College of Staten Island. He is currently collaborating with
Patricia Hoffbauer on her piece, "Para-Dice" which will premiere at St.
Mark's Church and Danspace in November. His most recent solo
performance, "Buried Up To My Neck While Thinking Outside The Box" will
be presented at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in fall 2014.</p><p><b>Denisse Andrade Arévalo</b> is
an activist, and an independent curator currently pursuing a PhD in
Geography at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She also teaches at Hunter
College. In 2012 Denisse co-curated the exhibition Creative Destruction
at The Kitchen in NYC, regarding the economic recession and related
global outcries.<br><br><br><b>Performing alternative art economies – <span><span>7:00PM</span></span></b></p><p><b>Laurel Ptak</b> employs
curatorial, artistic and pedagogical modes to critically attend to
social and political dimensions of contemporary art and technology.
Based in New York City, she is currently a fellow at Eyebeam, teaches in
the Art, Media and Technology department at The New School and together
with artist Marysia Lewandowska is co-editor of the recent book Undoing
Property? which explores artistic practices in relationship to
immaterial production, political economy and the commons, published by
Sternberg Press in 2013.</p><p><b>Jose Serrano-McClain</b> is
an organizer and artist interested in the economics of the creative
spirit. He started his career as an economic analyst at the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York. In 2009 he co-founded Trust Art (<a href="http://trustart.org/" target="_blank">trustart.org</a>)
to experiment with economic models for public and socially-engaged
artistic practice. In 2010, he joined the Queens Museum of Art in a
unique role that reports to both the curatorial and community engagement
departments of the museum, identifying opportunities for commissioned
artist projects to make meaningful connections with community
organizations in Corona. Through the museum, he is also one of the lead
visionaries of Social Practice Queens, a partnership with Queens College
to develop an MFA concentration in Social Practice. Jose has presented
at the TED Conference in California, the Feast Conference in New York,
and the Open Engagement conference in Portland. Jose graduated with a BA
from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, where studied literature,
theater, politics, philosophy, economics. Jose has done graduate work in
architecture at Columbia University and is currently completing his MFA
in Social Practice at Queens College.</p><p><b>Carlo Zanni</b> is
an Italian new media artist. Since the early 2000’s his practice
involves the use of Internet data to create time based social
consciousness experiences investigating our life. Carlo Zanni has shown
worldwide in galleries and museums including: Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles; New Museum, New York; Tent, Rotterdam; MAXXI, Rome; P.S.1, New
York; Borusan Center, Istanbul; ACAF Space, Alexandria; PERFORMA 09, NY;
ICA, London; Science Museum, London.<br><br><b> </b></p><p><b>Curator's bio:</b></p><p><b>Paolo Cirio </b>is
a media artist known for his controversial and innovative artworks.
Cirio explores the idea of information’s power through rearrangements of
flows and structures of social, legal and economic networks. His
artworks unsettled Facebook, VISA, Amazon, Google, Cayman Islands and
NATO, among others. He won several awards such as Ars Electronica,
Transmediale, Eyebeam fellowship among others and his projects are often
covered by global media such as CNN, La Fox, Toronto Standard, The Age,
Der Spiegel, Libération, Apple Daily HK, among many others. Cirio
artworks has been presented in major art institutions such as at Museum
of Contemporary Art Museum of Sydney and Denver, 2013; Museum of Modern
Art, Rio de Janeiro, 2012; Wywyższeni National Museum, Warsaw, 2012,
SMAK, Ghent, 2010; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2009;
Courtauld Institute, London, 2009; PAN, Naples, 2008; MoCA, Tapei, 2007;
Sydney Biennial, 2007; NTT ICC, 2006 Tokyo; among others.</p></div></div>
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