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NEW YORK, February 27, 2013 — The New School, including Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, has announced additional art and design public programming for this winter and spring. The Shelia C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons continues its winter/spring exhibition The Public Private (through April 17), hosting an artist-led gallery tour featuring Luke DuBois, Eva and Franco Mattes and curator Christiane Paul (March 13). The exhibition is New York’s first retrospective of art addressing the issue of privacy in the age of social media. The works— several presented for the first time in the United States— include Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico’s Face to Facebook, which appropriates one million Facebook profiles to create a custom-made dating website, as well as multimedia pieces by Jill Magid, Luke Dubois, Carlo Zanni, James Coupe, Eva and Franco Mattes, and Ben Grosser. The New School will also present several major conferences including Negotiating the Terrain of Design Studies (March 1-2), which explores the evolution of the field in connection with the launch of a new MA Design Studies program at Parsons. The Revolution Re-Codified (March 15-17), co-organized by artist, writer and Parsons faculty member Coco Fusco, investigates the impact of digital technology in Cuban culture and society. Gender Play (March 28-29) explores the impact of gender on art and design production, featuring Paola Antonelli, Laurene Leon Boym, and Ernesto Pujol. The Photographic Universe II (April 10-11), organized in collaboration with Aperture Foundation, brings together a range of leading practitioners, scientists, theoreticians, historians, and philosophers to consider and reflect on current discussions in photography at a pivotal moment in its history. The New School will also participate in the Season of Cambodia Festival, is a citywide event celebrating Cambodian arts and culture, with a two-day colloquium Living Arts City (April 6-7) that explores art and urbanism in Phnom Penh and New York, as well as two exhibitions Cambodia: Experience and Encounter (April 11-24), and Water, Politics and Art (April 5-May 10). In addition, the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons continues it Visiting Artists series, with lectures by Wu Tsang (March 6), Hans Haacke (March 13), Jack Whitten (March 20), Martin Kersels (April 3), Dolores Zinny (April 10), Nayland Blake (April 17), Pedro Lasch (April 24), and Fia Backström (May 1). The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons presents its annual Kalil Lecture with acclaimed environmentalist David Orr (March 7), who will address the role that universities can play in addressing the devastating effects of climate change, such as Hurricane Sandy; and a lecture by Interboro Partners (April 18). The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, celebrating its 20th anniversary year, continues its yearlong series Thingness, with lectures presented in collaboration with the Public Art Fund by artists Thomas Schütte (March 4) and Ugo Rondinone (May 8). The center also presents the conference Who Builds Your Architecture? (April 22), a roundtable discussion examining the ethics of contemporary architecture. The New School also presents a series of dialogues conceived in conjunction with the Jewish Museum exhibition, As it were… so to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom (April 4, May 2, May 16); and Design and Social Development: Art, Design and Action in Latin America (April 10), which brings together designers and social scientists to discuss the impact of design on social development in Latin America. Public programs are subject to change; please visit the New School events calendar for the most up-to-date information at www.newschool.edu/events. EDITOR’S NOTE: FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS IS AVAILABLE BY CLICKING HERE About The New School The New School, a leading progressive university in New York City, was founded in 1919 as a center of intellectual and artistic freedom. Today The New School is still in the vanguard of innovation and experimentation in higher education, with more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students in design and the social sciences, liberal arts, management, the arts, and media, and thousands of adult learners in continuing education courses. Committed to public engagement, The New School welcomes thousands of New Yorkers yearly to its celebrated public programs and maintains a global presence through its online learning programs, research institutes, and international partnerships. Learn more at www.newschool.edu. |
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