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On Wednesday, November 11, the BFA Illustration program at Parsons The New School for Design will present Moving Pictures, a symposium exploring ideas of motion in illustration. The evening will be divided into four presentations moderated by Lauren Redniss, New School Illustration faculty member, author of Century Girl and the forthcoming Radioactive, An Atomic Love Story. Redniss will talk about secret lives and invisibility. A conversation between writers Jody Rosen, music critic for Slate, and Joel Smith, curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, will consider real and imaginary map making: Rosen through his research on "The Knowledge," the exhaustive, mind-bending geographical training required of London taxi drivers and Smith, through the work of legendary cartoonist Saul Steinberg, best known for his work in The New Yorker. Richard McGuire, artist, musician, and current fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, will screen his recent film Fears of the Dark and give a sneak preview of his new book. Richard McGuire is an artist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, McSweeney’s, Le Monde, and other publications. He is the founder and bass player of the punk-funk band Liquid Liquid. Currently a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, McGuire is working on an illustrated book titled, HERE. His most recent animated film, Peurs du Noir, will be released on DVD this fall. Lauren Redniss is an artist and writer who recently joined the full-time faculty at Parsons The New School for Design. She is the author of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies. Redniss was a 2008–2009 fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Her new book, Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie & Other Stories of Love and Fallout will be published in fall 2010. Jody Rosen is the music critic for Slate and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Nation, and other publications. He is the author of White Christmas: The Story of an American Song and the compiler of Jewface, an acclaimed anthology of early 20th-century Jewish vaudeville recordings. Rosen is working on a new book, The Knowledge, about London, cartography, and taxi drivers. Joel Smith is the author of Steinberg at The New Yorker (2005) and Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, the catalog of a traveling retrospective of the artist that opened at the Morgan Library & Museum in 2006. Smith is the curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, where he is working on exhibitions about architecture and memory, pictures of pictures, and the history of photographs of nothing. Presented by the Illustration Program, Parsons The New School for Design, School of Art, Media and Technology, with support from Folioplanet.com
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