The School of Visual Arts Announces Lectures
January 26, 2010

The School of Visual Arts Announces Lectures

New York, N.Y. - The School of Visual Arts has announced the school's event listings for February and March 2010.
LECTURES/EVENTS

Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman: Iconic Shows: A Talk with Exit Art's Founders
Starting in 1982 with "Illegal America," which used mimeographs, Xeroxes and other radical means to present multimedia artwork, Exit Art founders and creative directors Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman have mounted more than 100 groundbreaking presentations of art, theater, film and video. They will discuss some of the most iconic shows of this historic, independent New York City cultural space. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Thursday, February 4, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public

Resiliency in Bereavement
Joseph Jaworek, MS-CT, ATR-BC will discuss his work with individuals living with different types of loss--such as that of a loved one, sight, mobility or memory--as well as recent models of understanding in how people cope with life's complexities. Presented by the MPS Art Therapy Department.
Friday, February 5, 6:30 - 8pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2610 or arttherapy@sva.edu

The Entrepreneurs
The MFA Interaction Design Department at SVA presents the second lecture in its spring Dot Dot Dot lecture series, which explores interaction design, business and aesthetic inspiration. Practitioners and leaders in the field give short talks in an informal environment intended to satisfy both social and scholarly pursuits. This month's theme is "The Entrepreneurs."
Wednesday, February 10, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn
Admission is $6; free to SVA students, faculty and staff. RSVP opens two weeks before the events at http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/events

Ann Lauterbach: The Given and the Chosen
Ann Lauterbach is a poet and critic who serves as co-chair of writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a visiting critic at the Yale University School of Art. Her talk will focus on how the work of art mediates the given and the chosen, taking its place between fixities of received orders and possible forms that simultaneously confirm and escape those fixities. Lauterbach's most recent book, Or to Begin Again (Penguin, 2009), was nominated for the National Book Award. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Thursday, February 11, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Megan Craig
Megan Craig is a painter and an assistant professor of philosophy and art at SUNY Stony Brook. Her most recent solo exhibition, "Lines of Flight," was presented at New York's Sundaram Tagore Gallery in December 2008. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments.
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public

The Camera Club of New York Presents: Penelope Umbrico
New York-based artist and SVA faculty member Penelope Umbrico examines typologies found in sales catalogs, search engines, photo sharing sites and online classified communities. Umbrico is a faculty member in the BFA Photography and MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Departments at SVA and is the chair of MFA Photography at Bard College.
Thursday, February 18, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty and staff; General admission is $5; $3 for other students with ID.

Pzza Chronicles: Talking About Film: Chris Walters and Robyn Bennett
In anticipation of its fall 2010 launch, the MPS Live Action Short Film Department at SVA presents a series of monthly conversations with distinguished members of the New York film community, hosted by Department Chair Bob Giraldi. This month, a panel of industry professionals, including director of photography Chris Walters and producer Robyn Bennett (Somebody's Hero), will speak about the state of the independent film industry.
Monday, February 22, 6:30 - 9pm
Tonda, 235 East 4th Street
Free and open to the public. There will be discounted food and drinks. RSVP by Wednesday, February 17 to mpsfilm@sva.edu

Zoe Ryan: Contemporary Constructions: Design at The Art Institute of Chicago
Zoe Ryan, the Neville Bryan curator of design at The Art Institute of Chicago, will discuss her role at the Institute as the first curator of design and the Institute's recent exhibition "Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design," as well as upcoming exhibitions and programs. Ryan is the author of numerous publications including the forthcoming Building with Water: Concepts, Typology, Design (Birkhäuser Verlag, 2010). Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Tuesday, March 2, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu

Between Paradigms: Invention, Interface and Intuition
Paola Antonelli, senior curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Aimee Morgana, artist and interspecies communication researcher; and artists Frank Gillette and Michael Joaquin Grey will discuss experimental systems and their application in art, design and research projects. The panel discussion will be moderated by artist and BFA Fine Arts Department Chair Suzanne Anker. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Tuesday, March 2, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public

Working with Inhibitions to Creativity
Marilyn LaMonica, MPS, NCPsych, will discuss how psychoanalytic theory provides a unique explanation of impediments to creative work. Clinical cases of a filmmaker, a painter and a writer will be used to demonstrate how explorations of fantasized object relations lead to freer access to creative potential. Presented by the MPS Art Therapy Department.
Friday, March 5, 6:30 - 8pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public. RSVP to 212.592.2610 or arttherapy@sva.edu

Deborah Marton
Deborah Marton is executive director of Design Trust for Public Spaces, an organization that brings together neighborhoods, public agencies and design professionals to find innovative opportunities for change and make New York City more beautiful, sustainable, functional and accessible to all. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
Tuesday, March 16, 6 - 8pm
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu

Robert Lazzarini
With emphatically lowercased titles like guns, knives and brass knuckles, the wall-mounted sculptures by artist and SVA alumnus Robert Lazzarini (BFA 1990 Fine Arts) describe violence and anxiety. Currently a fellow at the Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, Lazzarini is represented by Deitch Projects, New York. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments.
Tuesday, March 23, 6:30pm
133/144 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public

Alfredo Jaar: The Ashes of Pasolini
Alfredo Jaar is an architect, artist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. He has created more than 50 "public interventions" around the world, and more than 40 monographs have been published about his work. Following a screening of Jaar's new short film The Ashes of Pasolini, he will discuss the film--and Pier Paolo Pasolini's importance as poet and critic--with MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department Chair David Levi Strauss. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department and Aperture.
Thursday, March 25, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public