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New Media Lecture Series: Fall 2008
The New Media program and Neuberger Museum of Art are pleased to announce the New Media Lecture Series for Fall 2008. Lectures are Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Neuberger Study and free to the public. Please join us!
La Americana Screening
Wednesday, Oct 8, 4:00 p.m.
www.la-americana.com
In commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month, a film screening of La Americana, directed and produced by three Purchase College graduates: Nicholas Bruckman, director (B.A., New Media '06); John Mattiuzzi, co-director (B.F.A., Visual Arts '05); and Jesse Thomas, co-producer (B.A., Political Science '07). La Americana is an intimate documentary following an undocumented immigrant's journey from Bolivia to New York City and back as she struggles to save the life of her ailing daughter. Her unforgettable story is woven into the current immigration crisis in the United States, putting a human face on this timely and controversial issue.
La Americana took the best documentary prize at the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City and received a special jury mention for Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. The film will be followed by a Q&A session in which all three alumni will be present. This event is co-sponsored by Student Affairs, the New Media Program, and the Neuberger Museum of Art.
Burak Arikan
Wednesday, November 5, 6:30 p.m.
http://burak-arikan.com
Arikan will speak about the flaws in the architecture of participation, living physical/digital processes, and aesthetics of extreme use in networks and their relation to contemporary art making, presenting instances from his own projects: “MYPOCKET,” “Meta-Markets,” and “User Labor Markup Language (ULML).”
Arikan has been presented and performed at such institutions and venues as Ars Electronica in Linz, the Venice Biennale, Sonar in Barcelona, DEMF in Detroit, and the Amber Festival in Istanbul, and online at Upgrade! International and Turbulence. He completed his master’s degree at the M.I.T. Media Laboratory in the Physical Language Workshop (PLW) led by John Maeda. He received an M.A. in visual communication design from Istanbul Bilgi University and a B.S. in civil engineering from Yildiz Technical University. Arikan serves on the advisory board of Prix Arts Electronica Digital Communities in Linz and Amber Generative Arts Foundation in Istanbul. He currently is an adjunct professor in the NYU Tisch Interactive Communications Program.
Kristin Lucas
Wednesday, December 3, 6:30 p.m.
"If Lost Then Found (update)"
www169.pair.com/klucas/archive/
A paradoxical and insubstantial explanation of the inherent problem of simplifying a complex set of concerns about the phenomenon of over-identification with an inanimate object, such as a computer, and its consequent animations and manifestations. The artist will present recent work including "Refresh," in which she becomes the most current version of herself in a court of law, and "More Melting," a beeswax-cast memorial about an electronic medium's finite reality.
Kristin Lucas is a recent transplant from California's Bay Area to the Hudson Valley. Transformations and portraiture are the focus of her work as she investigates visions of future; the effects of an accumulation of rapid-spread, flash-in-the-pan technology on the human condition and the environment; and the impact of the digital medium on perception of time and space.
Lucas's work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and Artists Space, New York; San Jose Museum of Art; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville; ACC Weimar; ICA, London; [Plug in], Basel; ZKM, Karlsruhe; and at festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Mexico City, Montreal, Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. Solo exhibitions of her recent work have been held at And/Or Gallery, Dallas; Postmasters Gallery, New York; Or Gallery, Vancouver; and JEMA, a location variable museum. She is a 2008 recipient of the Edith Russ Site for Media Art "New Work Stipend."
