MondaysNovember 09, 2004Tuesday/Wed Night 11.09.04 -- Field Trip to Cooper Union + Pace UniversityTuesday/Wed Night 11.09.04 -- Field Trip to Cooper Union + Pace University Contents: PLEASE NOTE: Neither of these events will take place at 16Beaver. http://www.16beavergroup.org/monday ___________________________________________________ This week, we really found two good events going on in the city and felt that it would be nice to direct people to them as fruit for thought and discussion. One of the events will take place at Cooper Union and the other at LMCC. On Wed will also be a great event at Pace University with Raqs Media Collective. If you are or are not familiar with their work, this should be an interesting evening. Hope to see you at one of the events!
What: Panel -- Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib PUBLIC PROGRAM Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib Tuesday November 9, 2004 7:00 pm The Great Hall – Cooper Union 7 East 7th In Conversation: Seymour Hersh, Luc Sante, David Levi Strauss Moderated by Brian Wallis Seymour Hersh, Luc Sante, and David Levi Strauss will participate in a major symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib, which is on view at the International Center of Photography through November 28, 2004. The symposium, moderated by ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis, will take place on Tuesday, November 9 at 7:00 pm, in The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street at 3rd Avenue in New York City. This panel will bring together these outstanding writers and critics who will address the part that photography has played in the international debate on the events of the past year, and will speak to a range of ethical and political issues, the function of electronic media, and photography’s role in documenting truth. Few photographs in recent years have had the explosive impact of the images of detainees being abused by U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. First revealed on CBS’s “60 Minutes II” on April 28, 2004, the photographs quickly began to proliferate on a number of Internet sites, and were subsequently published in the May 5, 2004 issue of The New Yorker with Seymour Hersh’s article entitled “Torture at Abu Ghraib.” From the covers of weekly news magazines to the front pages of national and Organized by the International Center of Photography in conjunction with The Seymour Hersh, Writer; author, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu David Levi Strauss, Writer and critic; essays and reviews have appeared Luc Sante, Visiting Professor of Writing and Photography, Bard College; Brian Wallis, ICP Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator. Organizer of ___________________________________________________ Please join us for a panel discussion with India’s Raqs Media Collective, moderated by Singapore art theorist Gunalan Nadarajan Wednesday November 10th, 7:00pm The Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) is a group of media practitioners that works in new media & digital art practice, documentary filmmaking, photography, media theory & research, writing, criticism and curation. The collective has been working together since 1991. Their work explores the power of the unregulated communications of city life: the experience of movie theater audiences in Delhi, the illegal posters on the sides of constructions sites, the traffic on websites and chatrooms, or the illegal bootlegging of the latest Hollywood DVD's. Based in New Delhi, India, Raqs is one of the initiators of Sarai: The New Media Initiative, (www.sarai.net) a program of interdisciplinary research and practice on media, city space and urban culture at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. The artists will discuss their past work, including their multi-media installations exhibited at Documenta 11, the Walker Art Center, and their current installation at Bose Pacia gallery in Chelsea. Gunalan Nadarajan, an art theorist, curator and writer from Singapore who has written and lectured extensively on contemporary art, architecture and cyberculture, will moderate the discussion. Mr. Nadarajan is the author of Ambulations, based on the notion of walking, and has recently contributed a chapter on 'Ornamental Biotechnology' for Biotechnology, Art and Culture (MIT Press, 2003). The Raqs Media Collective Artists Dialogue is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Imposter in the Waiting Room on view from November 9 – December 30, 2004 at the Bose Pacia gallery (http://www.bosepacia.com) in Chelsea. The talk is also part of Downtown Digital Futures, LMCC's multi-year platform for artists, cultural planners, urban developers, and technologists to creatively explore the role of art and technology in the transformation of Lower Manhattan and other urban centers. Downtown Digital Futures includes public art installations, artists' talks, large scale commissions, and a research and policy think tank. For more information, please visit http://www.lmcc.net/ddf
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