Multimedia artist Robert Whitman will discuss his two latest projects: Swim (2015) and Local Report (2012). Whitman’s career spans multiple decades and disciplines. In the 1960s, he associated with a group of artists, including Alan Kaprow, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg, who staged innovative theatrical performances on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. In 1966, Whitman joined ten other New-York-based artists to work with Billy Klüver at Bell Laboratories, creating artwork which utilized computer media and other emergent technologies. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in 1976, and has been the subject of retrospectives at such prominent institutions as DIA and MoMA. His recent theatrical performances employ telecommunications networks and multisensory elements to conceive new communities of spectatorship in the theater and gallery alike. For more information on LOCAL REPORT you can visit the projects’s website: http://whitmanlocalreport.net

This event celebrates the 50^th anniversary of the Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) founded by Robert Whitman among others. It is a vibrant community of artists that redefined what constituted art in the twentieth century.

Stony Brook Manhattan is located in midtown 387 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10016. Please use the entrance around the corner at 101-113 East 27th Street.

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Lev Manovich, “Instagram as a Medium and Message: Art History Meets Data Science”

Lev Manovich will discuss his latest project SELFIECITY, a data science investigation of self-portraiture in five cities around the world. For more information on SELFIECITY you can visit the project’s website: http://selfiecity.net

Stony Brook Manhattan is located at 387 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10016. Use entrance around the corner at 101-113 East 27th Street.

For more information, please contact: SbArhLectureSeries@gmail.com or find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StonyBrookArtHistoryCriticismLectureSeries

Renowned art critic and curator Robert Storr derives his lecture from his forthcoming book, Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois (2014). Storr was curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1990 to 2002, where he organized exhibitions on Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Max Beckmann, Tony Smith, and Robert Ryman. In addition to writing for numerous art publications, he has taught at the Institute of Fine Arts, CUNY graduate center, and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, as well as the Rhode Island School of Design, New York Studio School, and Harvard University. He is currently Professor of Painting/Printmaking and Dean of the School of Art at Yale University.

Stony Brook Manhattan is located at 387 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10016. Use entrance around the corner at 101-113 East 27th Street.

Stony Brook Art History & Criticism Lecture Series presents
PAUL CHAN: Odysseus as Artist
Friday, October 17, 2014
7pm at Stony Brook Manhattan
3rd Floor, Room 321, 101-113 East 27th Street, New York, NY 10016

© Paul Chan, Sade for Sade’s Sake, three-channel animation projection, 5hr45mins. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali Gallery; Image reposted from initiartmagazine.com

Paul Chan is a renowned artist and founder of the publisher Badlands Unlimited. Working in drawing, video, installation, and collaborative performance, Chan targets sites of societal conflict such as war, religion, and pornography. His book, Paul Chan: Selected Writings 2000-2014, was recently published in conjunction with his exhibition Selected Works at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland (April 11–October 19, 2014).

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Saturday, September 20th, 3-4pm at the Stony Brook University Pollock Krasner House in East Hampton on Long Island, New York. Pollock Krasner House Google Map

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are Russian-born, American-based artists that collaborate on environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those of the conceptual. Ilya Kabakov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union, in 1933. He studied at the VA Surikov Art Academy in Moscow, and began his career as a children’s book illustrator during the 1950’s. He was part of a group of Conceptual artists in Moscow who worked outside the official Soviet art system. Emilia Kabakov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union, in 1945. She attended the Music College in Irkutsk in addition to studying Spanish language and literature at the Moscow University. She immigrated to Israel in 1973, and moved to New York in 1975, where she worked as a curator and art dealer. Their work has been shown in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Documenta IX, at the Whitney Biennial in 1997 and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg among others. In 1993 they represented Russia at the 45th Venice Biennale with their installation The Red Pavilion. The Kabakovs have also completed many important public commissions throughout Europe and have received a number of honors and awards, including the Oscar Kokoschka Preis, Vienna, in 2002 and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, in 1995. The Kabakovs live and work in Long Island.