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Vera List Center For Art And Politics
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is an American nonprofit research organization and public forum for art, culture, and politics, established in 1992. Vera List was an American art collector and philanthropist. The Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice, formerly known as Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, honors an artist or group of artists who has taken great risks to advance social justice in profound and visionary ways History The Vera List Center for Art and Politics was established at The New School, a private research university in New York City, in 1992. It was named after Vera G. List, a an American art collector and philanthropist (who died in 2002). She was a life trustee of the university, and provided an endowment for the center. It had its orginas in the annual Vera List Lecture, which began in 1986 at the New School's Human Relations Center, which was soon afterwards renamed the Vera List Center for Adult Studies. This center's mission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Located near the southern tip of New York State, Manhattan is based in the Eastern Time Zone and constitutes both the geographical and demographic center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. Over 58 million people live within 250 miles of Manhattan, which serves as New York City’s economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and the city’s historical birthplace. Manhattan has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, is considered a safe haven for global real estate investors, and hosts the United Nations headquarters. New York City is the headquarters of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Hunt
Ashley Hunt (born April 3, 1970 in Los Angeles) is an American artist, activist, writer and educator, primarily known for his photographic and video works on the American prison system, mass incarceration and the prison abolition movement. Hunt’s work is often embedded within the activism and organizing of community organizations, tracing the histories, systems and proliferation of prisons throughout the US, while also exploring vision itself and how people fail to see the extent of incarceration’s impact, the relationship of captivity to the persistence of racism in the U.S., and with what Hunt considers the visual politics of mass incarceration. Hunt’s art and documentary works are known to push the boundaries between art and activism, often trying to bring the two together. His map-based artworks accompanied a growth in mapping and cartography in contemporary art and activist strategies in the mid-2000s.Mogel, Lize, and Alexis Bhagat. ''An Atlas of Radical Cartography' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Hiller
Susan Hiller (March 7, 1940 – January 28, 2019) was an American-born artist who lived in London, United Kingdom. Her art practice included installation, video, photography, performance and writing. Early life and education Born in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1940, Susan Hiller was raised in and around Cleveland, Ohio. She later moved to Coral Gables, Florida, in 1950 where she attended Coral Gables Senior High School, graduating in 1957. She attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and received a B.A. in 1961. After spending a year in New York City studying photography, film, drawing and linguistics, Hiller went on to pursue a post-graduate degree at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology. She completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1965.Cornelia H. Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark eds., ''WHACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution',(Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press, 2007)'' After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman MBE FBA (born 1970) is a British Israeli architect. He is the director of the research agency Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and a founding director there of the Centre for Research Architecture at the department of Visual Cultures. In 2019 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. Biography Eyal Weizman was born in Haifa, Israel. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London, and completed his PhD at the London Consortium. Architecture career In 2007 he was a founding member of the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture (DAAR) in Beit Sahour in the West Bank, Palestinian territories. Weizman has been a professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and has also taught at The Bartlett (UCL) in London at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He lectured, curated and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. Weizman's most know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Godfrey (curator)
Mark Benjamin Godfrey is a British art historian, critic, and curator. He was a curator at Tate Modern from 2007 to 2021. Early life and education Godfrey was born in the Hampstead Garden Suburb of London. He is Jewish; his father was from Leeds and his mother was from South Africa. Godfrey pursued art curation from a young age. His father regularly took him to art galleries, while his mother taught him a tradition of collecting Judaica. He joined the Habonim Dror youth movement and went to Israel in 1992 to work for Habonim. Godfrey earned his PhD in art history at University College London. His dissertation, titled ''Abstraction and the Holocaust'', analysed the works of American artists and architects to "see how they addressed the Holocaust in an abstract way, without using direct images." With the support of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, he published his work in book form in 2007. He was also a lecturer in art history and theory at the Slade School of Fine Art. Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omer Fast
Omer Fast (born in Jerusalem 1972) is an Israeli video artist. Early life and education Born and raised in Israel, Fast spent much of his teenage years in Jericho, New York while his father pursued a medical degree in both countries. He received his BFA from a dual-degree program at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1995, majoring in English and painting, and an MFA from Hunter College in 2000. He subsequently got a job doing magazine layout. Work and controversy According to ''New York Times'' art critic, Roberta Smith, Fast is one of several contemporary artists who restages existing films, including Pierre Huyghe, Robert Melee, and Yasumasa Morimura. ''August'' (2017) In 2017, Fast was met with protests and allegations of racism by the Chinatown Art Brigade and others in the Asian and Asian-American art community, including the Korean American artist and 47 Canal gallery owner Margaret Lee, for his August exhibition in the James Cohan g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Bordowitz
Gregg Bordowitz (born August 14, 1964) is a writer, artist, and activist currently working as a professor in the Video, New Media, and Animation department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Biography Gregg Bordowitz was born August 14, 1964 in Brooklyn, NY. In 1982, Bordowitz began his academic career at the School of Visual Arts, then studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program from 1985 to 1986, and at New York University from 1986 to 1987. In 1987, Bordowitz dropped out of school to become a full-time video artist, guerilla TV director, and activist with the direct action advocacy group ACT UP. During this time, Bordowitz was central to the formation of the notable video activist collective, Testing the Limits, who produced work documenting AIDS activism that were distributed through television, museums, schools, and community centers. He also wrote prolifically on the topic of AIDS activism, contributing heavily to the 1987 "AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Aghion
Anne Aghion (born 1960) is a French-American documentary filmmaker. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Mac Dowell Colony Fellow and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellow. In 2005, she won an Emmy Award for her documentary film, documentary ''In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies''. In 2009, her film "My Neighbor My Killer" was Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival and a nominee for Best Documentary at the Gotham Awards. Filmmaking career Aghion is best known for her documentary films on post-genocide Rwanda. Her feature film ''My Neighbor My Killer'', an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, poses the question of "How do you make it right again?" after the end of the genocide. This film as well as the three installments of the Gacaca trilogy are the result of nearly ten years of footage gathered in a small rural community in Rwanda. In Aghion's first Rwanda film ''Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda?'', the first installment o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Buckingham
Matthew Buckingham (born 1963) is an American filmmaker and multimedia artist. He is a full-time faculty member at Columbia University and is the chair of the visual arts department. Life and work Buckingham studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Iowa, Bard College and the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. Utilizing photography, film, video, audio, writing and drawing his work questions the role that social memory plays in contemporary life. By examining ways that the past appears in the present Buckingham also scrutinizes the power and effects of historical representation. His projects work with space, real and imaginary, to create physical and social contexts where viewers are encouraged to question received ideas—often the things that are most familiar. His works have investigated the Indigenous past and present in the Hudson River Valley; the ‘creative destruction’ of the city of St. Louis; the inception of the first English dictionary and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (Subotica 1967 - Novi Sad 2022) was a Harvard educated research architect from Serbia, artist and theorist living and working from New York and Berlin. He was an Ex-Head of Research o co-founder of ''School of Missing Studies'' for spatial research and founder oNAO.NYCfor spatial design at all scales needed, based in New York. Jovanovic Weiss was born in Subotica and lived in Novi Sad and Belgrade until 1995 completing his degree in architecture and engineering. His previous degree was at Advanced Mathematics at Gymnasium Jovanovic Jovanovic-Zmaj in Novi Sad in 1986. After Belgrade experience he moved to the United States for graduate studies at Harvard University on 1995. After two years at Harvard studying with Richard Gluckman, Jane Wernick, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Adriaan Geuze and Rem Koolhaas Jovanovic Weiss moved to New York where he started practicing architecture with Richard Gluckman and Robert Wilson. In 1998 he won the Second Prize i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Kurgan
Laura Kurgan is a South African architect and an associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). She directs the interdisciplinary Center for Spatial Research at GSAPP, which she founded as the Spatial Information Design Lab in 2004. Since 1995, the architect has operated her own New York City based interdisciplinary design firm called Laura Kurgan Design. She has been awarded the Rockefeller Fellowship and a Graham Foundation Grant. Kurgan's work has been presented at prestigious institutions including the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum and the Venice Architecture Biennial. Projects Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology and Politics In 2013 the MIT Press published her book "Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology and Politics." The book explores the impact of modern spatial visualization technology including GPS, democratized dissemination of data through the internet, and Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Berger
Maurice Berger (May 22, 1956 – March 22, 2020) was an American cultural historian, curator, and art critic, who served as a Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Berger was recognized for his interdisciplinary scholarship on race and visual culture in the United States. He curated a number of important exhibitions examining the relationship between race and American art, including the critically acclaimed ''For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights'' co-organized in 2011 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, which focused on the role visual imagery played in shaping, influencing, and transforming the modern struggle for racial equality and justice in the United States. On March 22, 2020, he fell ill and di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
