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Chrissie Iles Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art @ The Stony Brook University Department of Art | Monday, April 24th | 12pm – 1pm | 2nd Floor Staller Seminar Space

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Chrissie Iles Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art @ Stony Brook University Department of Art | Monday, April 24th | 12pm – 4pm | 2nd Floor Staller Seminar Space: Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her exhibitions include co-curating the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennials, and curating major survey exhibitions of Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, Dan Graham, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Yoko Ono. She also curated several group exhibitions including “Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977″; “Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art”; and “Signs of the Times: Film, Video and Slide Installation and Britain in the 1980s.”

 

Takahiko Iimura @ Nobi’s Studio in Manhattan Saturday, April 22 from 7pm

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Film Viewing Event with Takahiko Iimura: Saturday, April 22 from 7pm

Location: 315 7th Avenue 19D/corner of west 28th (Nobi’s studio) 5 min. walk south from Penn Station 7th ave. exit

Refreshments and discussion to follow after the viewing. Please sign up-so that I can get the headcount. http://doodle.com/poll/5czddkan8tnupbc6

George Maciunas, Jeff Perkins and critic Jerry Saltz may join us.

A pioneering figure in the New York and Japanese film and video undergounds, Taka iimura has had a tremendous impact upon the development of experimental cinema in both the U.S. and Japan. iimura’s work in video has concentrated on deconstructing the language of video, especially video’s power to obscure the author of the image, through the audience’s immediate acceptance of what is shown on screen as true. iimura establishes a relation between the self-reflexive nature of language and the simultaneous feedback characteristic of video, exploiting this relation to investigate the shifting position of video’s subject (who is behind the camera) and object (who is in front of the camera). Through his videos, which read like elaborate semiotic riddles, iimura has educated audiences to the structure of video in a way that has profoundly changed the way the medium is viewed.

He is a widely established international artist, having had numerous solo exhibitions in major museums such as the Musem of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Centre Georges Pompidou, the National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Reina Sofia National Museum, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, in addition to artist residencies at the German Academy of Arts and Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation Study Center. Recently he has been involved in using computers, publishing more than 20 DVDs/CD-ROMs, and writing several books on film, video, and multimedia, including a book published in English, “The Collected Writings of Takahiko iimura”. “I am concerned with the whole system of video, not just what you see on the screen, but including the camera, monitor, the whole system.”
—Takahiko iimura

Jorge Fernandez Torres, curator, art critic, and professor based in Havana, Cuba. @ Stony Brook University Art | Tuesday, October 25th | 12pm – 2pm

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
12pm-2:00pm
Staller Center for the Arts 2nd Floor Art Seminar Room

Jorge A. Fernandez Torres is a curator, art critic, professor at the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana, Director of the National Fine Arts Museum of Cuba, and the Havana Biennial. He is a former director of the Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art, member of the Commission for Cuban Cultural Development of UNESCO, and the Advisory Council for the Arts on the National Library of Cuba. He curated and authored exhibition publications including: “Art Practices and Social Imageries” for the 2012 Havana Biennial, “Polaridad Complementaria: Recent Works from Cuba” (Havana), and “El Lugar Construido” (Spain). Jorge A. Fernandez Torres will be speaking about contemporary art in Cuba today, and present artists and projects he experienced while staging the Havana Biennial.

Guest Critic: Murtaza Vali @ Stony Brook University | Monday, March 28th, 2016 2pm – 6pm

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Monday, March 28th, 2016  |  2pm – 6pm

The Department of Art at Stony Brook University Studio Art MFA invites guest critic Murtaza Vali.

Murtaza Vali is a Brooklyn-based writer, art historian, and curator. An independent critic since 2005, his reviews, essays, profiles, and interviews have appeared regularly in Artforum.com, ArtReview, Art India, Bidoun Magazine, and ArtAsiaPacific, where he is contributing editor and was co-editor of their 2007 and 2008 Almanac, a year-end review of contemporary art across Asia. He has written essays for nonprofits and galleries around the world, most notably for monographs on Emily Jacir, Reena Saini Kallat, and Laleh Khorramian. He has been a visiting critic at Yale’s School of Art and Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning. As winner of the Winter 2010 Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellowship, Vali curatedAccented at Brooklyn’s BRIC Rotunda Gallery (2010) and recently edited Manual for Treason, a multilingual publication commissioned bySharjah Biennial X (2011). He holds an MA in art history and archaeology from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.