Bruce Nussbaum, Visiting Professor of Innovation and Design at The New School and contributing editor at BusinessWeek, will lead two discussions on design as social practice, including a panel on social entrepreneurship (Sept. 21) featuring Paul Polak and Billy Parish, and a conversation with with IDEO President Tim Brown (Sept. 30). A number of notable artists, designers, and critics will discuss their craft, including New York Times senior art critic Roberta Smith (Nov. 5), and large-scale public installation artist Eve Mosher (Sept. 22), who is Lang’s Fall Visiting Artist. As part of the School of Art, Media and Technology’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Parsons will present lectures by visual artist Shirin Neshat (Sept. 23), painter Kurt Kauper (Oct. 7), Amorphic Robot Works founder Chico MacMurtrie (Oct. 28), media artist Walid Raad (Nov. 4), conceptual artist Fred Wilson (Nov. 18), and composer Marina Rosenfeld (Dec. 2). The Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents a full season of events around the theme “Speculating on Change,” including By Any Name (Oct 19-24), a mobile exhibition produced in conjunction with the Parts and Labor Gallery which examines the New School’s founding principles through a reimagining of its archives. The programming series also includes Birth and Rebirth of a Nation (Sept. 26), a symposium on race and representation in the media with DJ Spooky, and Where We Are Now Launch, a reception celebrating the second issue of the online journal Where We Are Now. EDITOR’S NOTE: CLICK FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS. All public programs are subject to change. ABOUT THE NEW SCHOOL |