Manga & graphic novels artists should read this Summer. #manga #graphicnovel #comicbooks #SVA #artis School of Visual Arts 2023-07-10 | ...
SVA Design students’ work on Madison Ave! #sva #SVANYC #SchoolofVisualArts #Fashion #Art #clothes School of Visual Arts 2023-07-06 | ...
Alicia Bruce - Photographer, Educator & Community Collaborator School of Visual Arts 2023-07-05 | MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with Alicia Bruce, an award-winning working-class photographer, community collaborator, educator and activist based in Scotland. Her photography sits between documentary and staged imagery focusing on communities, environments and human rights. Bruce is a member of the collective Women Photograph and a teaching fellow at University of Edinburgh. Her photographs are held in several private and public collections including National Galleries of Scotland, Martin Parr Foundation and St Andrews University. I Burn But I Am Not Consumed (Daylight 2023) is Bruce’s first monograph and documents 16 years of Donald Trump’s impact on the community and environment in the north east of Scotland during his quest to build “the greatest golf course in the world”. The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series has returned to in-person events. The series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. This summer, Daylight books co-founder Michael Itkoff is the guest curator and host.
Subway Series: Carol Fabricatore School of Visual Arts 2023-06-29 | MFA Illustration as Visual Essay alumnus and faculty member Carol Fabricatore (MFA 1992 Illustration as Visual Essay) discusses the many creative inspirations behind her fiery and vibrant new design for SVA’s long-running series of subway ad posters.
SVA’s march during this years NYC Pride Parade. #SVA #SVANYC #ArtSchool #pridemonth #pride #lgbt School of Visual Arts 2023-06-26 | ...
Devon Blue shows off her sketchbook! See more of her art @bluedelladraw on insta! #sketch #sva #art School of Visual Arts 2023-06-22 | ...
Gretchen Grace - Street Photographer & Artist School of Visual Arts 2023-06-20 | MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with photographer, artist and designer Gretchen Grace. For the last 30 years Grace has been photographing on the street, mostly in New York City, but also on streets around the world. Grace’s work is primarily lens-based, still and video, real and abstract. She also paints, collages and experiments with typography. Her work has appeared in the Aint Bad, Broad, Daylight, Eyeshot, Japan Camera Hunter, New York Times, Noice, Smithsonian Magazine, Strant, Shots, and Women in Street, among others. She has a children’s book—for adults too—titled Messy Hair. You can find more of her work on Instagram @_gretchengrace_.The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series has returned to in-person events. The series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. This summer, Daylight books co-founder Michael Itkoff is the guest curator and host.Click on the link for information about SVA's one-year master's degree program in Digital Photography. https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mps-digital-photography
Highlights from our 2023 senior animation class. #Animation #Cartoons #SVA #animators #Art #Comics School of Visual Arts 2023-06-17 | ...
PRIDE NEVER STOPS 🌈 HAPPY PRIDE YALL Video by Alumnus Zipeng Zhu #pride #SVA #Pridemonth #Art School of Visual Arts 2023-06-02 | ...
🎓Congrats to the SVA class of 2023. #graduation #commencement #Art #ArtSchool #artist #SVA School of Visual Arts 2023-05-31 | ...
Commencement Speaker 2023: Lynsey Addario School of Visual Arts 2023-05-24 | Pulitzer Prize-Winning photographer Lynsey Addario, who also received the 2022 SVA Masters Series Award/Exhibition, delivered the keynote speech to graduates and attendees of School of Visual Arts’ (SVA) 48th annual commencement exercises at Radio City Music Hall on May 21, 2023.
Curatorial Roundtable with Inga Lāce School of Visual Arts 2023-05-12 | MA Curatorial Practice presents Inga Lāce, current CMAP Central and Eastern Europe Fellow at MoMA.Lāce has been a curator at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art since 2012 and was curator of Daiga Grantina’s “Saules Suns” for the Latvian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale (co-curated with Valentinas Klimašauskas). She has also been co-curator of “Allied” at the Kyiv Biennial 2021 (as part of the East Europe Biennial Alliance) and co-curator of the 7th-10th editions of the contemporary art festival SURVIVAL KIT, Riga (with Jonatan Habib Engqvist in 2017 and Angels Miralda and Solvita Krese in 2018-19). She is also co-curator of a research and exhibition project, Portable Landscapes, with exhibitions at Villa Vassilieff, Paris, Latvian National Art Museum, Riga (2018) and James Gallery at CUNY, New York (2019) and an upcoming publication. She has curated the exhibitions “It Won’t Be Long Now, Comrades!” at Framer Framed, Amsterdam (co-curated with Katia Krupennikova, 2017) and “Performing the Fringe” at Konsthall C, Stockholm (co-curated with Jussi Koitela, 2020). Lāce was a curatorial fellow at de Appel, Amsterdam (2015-2016), where she organized a program and edited a publication on the intersection of art and ecology titled Instituting Ecologies.
Alumni Rebecca Sugar talks about her time at SVA. #rebeccasugar #stevenuniverse #cartoon #animation School of Visual Arts 2023-05-12 | ...
The Algorithmic State: Artificial Aesthetics with Lev Manovich School of Visual Arts 2023-05-10 | MA Curatorial Practice presents Lev Manovich to discuss AI media transformation, drawing on the theoretical analysis being developed in his new book Artificial Aesthetics: Critical Guide to AI, Media, and Design, as well as his experience as an artist working with computers since 1984.Writing about the new AI image-making tools introduced in 2022, the Financial Times noted that we are experiencing “a pivotal moment in the history of art.”The New York Times has also proclaimed, “A.I.-based image generators like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have made it possible for anyone to create unique images.” Recently, the founder of Midjourney stated that the next three years will see more aesthetic innovation than the previous two hundred. While such claims may appear overly bold and unrealistic, something significant is undoubtedly taking place.How should AI generative media be understood in relation to previous media transformations? Can we expect any more aesthetic innovation after a century of modernism (1870-1970) and three decades of digital media (1990-)? How can artificial intelligence be used to rethink art histories and curatorial practices?
Allison Plass - Fine-Art Photographer School of Visual Arts 2023-05-09 | MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with New York City-based fine art photographer Allison Plass. Plass received her MA in art history at UC Santa Barbara where she explored issues of gender and representation in European art. After several years of arts writing and research, she went on to complete the Advanced Track Program at the International Center of Photography in New York in 2020. Her photographic practice is influenced by art history and the natural world and the intersection of cultural myths and stories we carry about our own lives. She has received numerous awards and has been featured in solo, group and juried competitions in the US, Europe and Australia. She is also a 2023 Lensculture Portrait Awards Series Finalist.The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series has returned to in-person events. The series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. This spring, book designer, curator and faculty member Elizabeth Avedon is the guest curator and host.Click on the link for information about SVA's one-year master's degree program in Digital Photography. https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mps-digital-photography
Echo Box: Artist Interviews School of Visual Arts 2023-05-05 | Interviews with MFA Fine Arts students included in the "Echo Box" exhibition at Latchkey Gallery. Filmed and edited by Katinka Huang and Tyson Houseman.LatchKey Gallery is proud to present, ECHO BOX a group exhibition of 12 emerging artists currently pursuing their MFA at the School of Visual Arts, NY. Over the course of this new year, artist, James O. Clark and Founder/Director of LKG, Amanda Uribe worked with the students to realize an exhibition and provide the business fundamentals for an artist working in this art world. ECHO BOX will be on view at LatchKey Gallery, 173 Henry Street NYC from Friday, February 10- February 26, 2023. An opening reception will take place on February 10 from 6-8pm. Chaos, displacement, and contemporary identities are interlaced in a group exhibition of 12 emerging artists. ECHO BOX dissects the group’s collective effort to grapple with the overstimulating era we live in. Each artist offers a glimpse into their cultural background while questioning how their unique identity interweaves with their societal experience of the present moment. The artists use the noise of our accelerating world to create space for contemplation, confrontation, and commemoration.This group exhibition assembles a range of mediums from paintings to installations that venture into materiality and everyday shapes. Abstraction takes on many forms in this exhibition; familiar motifs are fragmented in space, and the concept of language is repurposed and pushed beyond its boundaries. In between the abstract painting and installation stands a visceral body of figurative works that taps into the female psyche and collective trauma. The multifaceted body of work echoes between past and present, eastern and western, calm and chaos. Despite the diverse nature of works in ECHO BOX, an evocative and cohesive conversation is exchanged between each artist’s critical response towards contemporary matters. Artists include Capucine Bourcart, Simon Cooper, Chukwu Chukwuemeka (EmekaCkA), Tyson Houseman, Katinka Huang, Polin Huang, Yanmei Jiang, Hyuk Kwon, Yissho Oh, Yingyao Liang, Tianshu Zhang, and Yi Xu.
Please stop pretending like you’re in a Wes Anderson film at art school #svanyc #SVA #artist #NYC School of Visual Arts 2023-05-04 | ...
Curatorial Roundtable with Raimundas Malašauskas School of Visual Arts 2023-05-02 | MA Curatorial Practice presents Raimundas Malašauskas, an independent curator in Brussels. Malašauskas will speak about his most recent projects: “Mars Returns,” “914” and “trust & confusion.”The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by MA Curatorial Practice, the School of Visual Arts.
Ben Fink and Arnaldo Lopez - Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater School of Visual Arts 2023-04-27 | BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program bring together artists and community organizers Ben Fink and Arnaldo López, to discuss the new edited volumes of Appalachian and intercultural grassroots plays, Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater.This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater’s first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays’ social, economic, and political circumstances; and a critical recounting of the theater’s history from 1975 through 2020. The plays in Volume 1 offer a people’s history of the Appalachian coalfields, from the European incursion through the American War in Vietnam.The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside’s intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as well as with residents on both sides of the walls of recently-built prisons. Roadside has spent 45 years searching for what art in a democracy might look like. The anthology raises questions such as, What are common principles and common barriers to achieving democracy across disciplines, and how can the disciplines unite in common democratic cause?Ben Fink worked with the Roadside ensemble from 2015 through 2020, as the founding organizer of the Letcher County Culture Hub in east Kentucky and the national Performing Our Future coalition, and as the cofounder of the cross-partisan dialogue project Hands Across the Hills. He has also served as dramaturg on the German premieres of two Broadway musicals, made theater with Turkish and Arab high school students, and chaired a Lutheran faith community in Minnesota. His work in theater, organizing, pedagogy, and economic development has been featured by Salon.com, the Brookings Institution, TDR/The Drama Review, Harvard Law School, Americans for the Arts, PolicyLink, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2020, Ben was recognized by Time magazine as one of “27 People Bridging Divides Across America.”Arnaldo J. López is a cultural worker with a Ph.D. in Latin/o American Literatures and Cultures from New York University. He first joined Pregones Theater when the company set out to transform a South Bronx warehouse into a vibrant performing arts center, and later helped engineer a merger with the historic Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in Manhattan. Versed in a broad set of creative, community, and nonprofit topics, he works with artists in mapping paths toward joyful and sustainable practice. His background also includes ten years in letterpress and graphic design.
Jeremiah Dine - Fine-Art Photographer School of Visual Arts 2023-04-25 | MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with fine-art photographer Jeremiah Dine.After attending The Cooper Union, Dine published his book Natural Selection (London/Stuttgart: Editions Hansjörg Mayer, 1983), featuring 104 photographs taken at the American Museum of Natural History. He spent two years as a studio assistant to Richard Avedon before working as a commercial and art photographer. His commercial clients included Conde Nast Publications, Simon & Schuster, and USA Today. His photographs have also been published in Esquire Japan, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Interview and The Village Voice, among others. Dine’s second book, Daydreams Walking, 196 photographs shot on the streets of New York City, was published by Damiani in the spring of 2020. Dine’s newest book project is Now is Tomorrow, three volumes of which were published by Understory Books in 2022. Dine’s work is in many public and private collections around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series has returned to in-person events. The series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. This spring, book designer, curator and faculty member Elizabeth Avedon is the guest curator and host.Click on the link for information about SVA's one-year master's degree program in Digital Photography. https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mps-digital-photography
The Algorithmic State: Digital Repair with Kader Attia School of Visual Arts 2023-04-21 | Natural, human and digital forms of repair are all based on a process of examination, reflection, feedback and correction. But unlike human repair, which typically has an ethical dimension as well as a physical one, digital repair is most often driven by the efficiency and acceleration of capital and profit. Corporate algorithms and AIs are routinely written, repaired and refined not toward a horizon of moral health, but—regardless of social impact—toward the astronomically increasing, divisive and polarizing accumulation of wealth.MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with artist Kader Attia on notions of repair, both in terms of physical objects and societies, that help us to reconsider damage, dysfunction and trauma in relation to the ways in which AIs are being deployed now and in the future. After all, AIs have already shown the traumas they can cause. To think of AIs as ethical actors rather than simply capitalist ones, and how digital repair might function with this mandate, is the challenging subject Attia addresses in this talk.Kader Attia is an award-winning artist and a cultural practitioner. In 2016, he founded La Colonie, a discursive space in Paris. In the same year, Attia was recognized with the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Paris, followed in 2017 by the Prize of the Miró Foundation, Barcelona, and the Yanghyun Art Prize, Seoul. He was the artistic director of the 2022 Berlin Biennial, “Still Present.”
Curatorial Roundtable with Farid Rakun School of Visual Arts 2023-04-20 | MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Farid Rakun, a member of the artists’ collective ruangrupa, with whom he co-curated documenta 15 (2022) in Kassel, Germany. With ruangrupa, Rakun also co-curated “SONSBEEK ’16: transACTION” (2016) in Arnhem, The Netherlands. As an instigator, he has intervened in various global institutions, such as Centre Pompidou, La Biennale di Venezia, Sharjah Biennial, Bienal de Sao Paulo and basis voor actuele kunst (BAK). Rakun will speak about his work in these various contexts.
2023 SVA Accepted Students Day - BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects School of Visual Arts 2023-04-19 | 2023 SVA Accepted Students Day with chair Jimmy Calhoun of the BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects
2023 SVA Accepted Students Day - BFA Animation School of Visual Arts 2023-04-19 | 2023 SVA Accepted Students Day with chair Hsiang Chin Moe BFA Animationhttps://sva.edu/academics/undergraduate/bfa-animation
2023 SVA Accepted Students Day - BFA Film Presentation by Acting Chair Mary Lee Grisanti School of Visual Arts 2023-04-16 | 2023 SVA Accepted Students Day - BFA Film Presentation by Acting Chair Mary Lee Grisanti
Digital Imaging Center (DIC) Virtual Tour School of Visual Arts 2023-04-14 | 00:00 Reception Area01:13 Multi-Use Rooms 506, 508, 510, 511, 512, 60502:35 Riso Room03:03 Green Screen Room
Kaitlin Pomerantz - Artist, Educator and Writer School of Visual Arts 2023-04-13 | Kaitlin Pomerantz is an artist and educator working betweenPhiladelphia and Greenport, NY. Pomerantz’s interdisciplinary projects span mediumsand forms, and ask questions about land use and mis-use, how earthly matter becomes“material”, and ecosocial memory and grief. Pomerantz’s engagement with wastemanagement, marine aquaculture, neighborhood groups, place-based teaching andlearning-- are integral to their practice.Pomerantz currently teaches in the graduate program at the Pennsylvania Academy ofthe Fine Arts, and is piloting a site-based materials-ecology class called MATTERS atthe University of Pennsylvania, through funding from the Sachs Arts Foundation.Pomerantz is a member of the United Academics of Philadelphia, and a vocal advocatefor more equitable systems in higher education. In fall 2020, Pomerantz received agrant towards the completion of a Masters in Education (Ed. M) from the HarvardGraduate School of Education, and also holds an MFA from the University ofPennsylvania and BA from the University of Chicago.Pomerantz will be completing a residency at Officina Stamperia in Sicily this summer touse printmaking techniques to explore the Acanthus plant (which adorns muchAmerican currency); and is curating a show called Paper Road at the Rittenhouse TownPaper Mill, North America’s first papermill sited on the Moshone watershed. Pomerantzhas two forthcoming essays through Palgrave-MacMillan and Columbia TeachersCollege. Exhibition, residency and grant record can be seen at kaitlinpomerantz.comPresented by MFA Fine Arts.
Joni Sternbach - Artist, Photographer & Filmmaker School of Visual Arts 2023-04-11 | MPS Digital Photography presents American artist, photographer and filmmaker Joni Sternbach. Over the course of her career, Sternbach’s work has explored a variety of themes, including domesticity, the family, sexuality and the body. Issues of gender, identity and feminism are the most critical themes in her work from the 1980s–1990s, where the female figure is the central voice.Sternbach has experimented with a variety of photographic media and is best known for her series Surfland, a collection of wet plate collodion tintype portraits of surfers made around the globe. She uses both large format film and early photographic processes to explore the present-day landscape and create environmental portraits.The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series has returned to in-person events. The series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. This spring, book designer, curator and faculty member Elizabeth Avedon is the guest curator and host.Click on the link for information about SVA's one-year master's degree program in Digital Photography. https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mps-digital-photography
Erin M. Riley - Tapestry Weaver School of Visual Arts 2023-04-05 | Riley is a tapestry weaver living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a MFA from Tyler School of Art, both in Fibers. Riley is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY, and had solo exhibitions there in 2018 and 2021. Riley is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow, and her work was collected as part of the 2021 Academy of Arts & Letters Purchase Prize. She is a current artist in residency at Sharpe Walentas Studio Program and a past resident artist at Dieu Donné Workspace Program, The Corporation of Yaddo, MacDowell (’10, ’18), and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2012 and 2021 as an alumni AIR.
Curatorial Roundtable with Marina Reyes Franco School of Visual Arts 2023-04-03 | MA Curatorial Practice presents Marina Reyes Franco, curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC).In 2010, Franco co-founded La Ene, an itinerant museum and collection. Her past projects include De Loiza a la Loiza, a MAC en el Barrio public art commission by Daniel Lind Ramos (2020); “Resisting Paradise” at Publica, San Juan and Fonderie Darling, Montreal (2019); “Watch your step / Mind your head” at ifa Galerie-Berlin (2017); the 2nd Grand Tropical Biennial, co-curated with Pablo León de la Barra, Stefan Benchoam, and Radamés “Juni” Figueroa (2016); “A Summer in Puerta de Tierra,” an exhibition and day outing in a San Juan neighborhood in response to the policies of population displacement and tourism focus in the area (2015); “Calibán,” a selection of Puerto Rican contemporary artists at the MAC in San Juan (2014); “Sucursal,” an exhibition of the collection of La Ene, at the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, (co-curated with Gala Berger, Sofía Dourron, and Santiago Villanueva, 2014); and numerous exhibitions at La Ene while she was director. Her research interests include the work of Esteban Valdés, artistic and literary manifestations on the frontier of political action, new museology and the impact of tourism on cultural production. She received the 2017 CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean, and was nominated for ICI’s 2014 Independent Vision Curatorial Award. She received a BA in art history from the University of Puerto Rico and a MA in Argentine and Latin American art history at IDAES-UNSAM.
Alex Kitnick: On Normal Art School of Visual Arts 2023-03-30 | BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program present art historian Alex Kitnick to discuss what “normal art” is and if it is something we want to make.We are living in an age when the normal seems suddenly up for grabs. In the art world we are typically told to scorn all that is normal (right?), but in the wider culture today we hear more and more about “new normals” in contexts ranging from politics to the weather. This talk will look at some of the ways in which the idea of the normal has been treated in contemporary art both in terms of subject matter and stylistic conventions, and it will wonder out loud if there’s not something we want to salvage there after all.Alex Kitnick is assistant professor of art history and visual culture at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and a frequent contributor to publications including Artforum, Art Journal and October. He edited issue 136 of October on New Brutalism and a collection of John McHale’s writings, The Expendable Reader: Articles on Art, Architecture, Design, and Media, 1951–1979. His book Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde was published by University of Chicago Press in 2021. He is the recipient of a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Whiting, Hyde and Helena Rubinstein fellowships.
Ignacio Ayestaran - 3D Artist & Lifestyle Photographer School of Visual Arts 2023-03-28 | MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with photographer Ignacio Ayestaran. Ayestaran received his master’s degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1994. He’s been involved in the commercial industry as a 3D artist for the last 20 years and has received many accolades, including an Emmy award for his work on the Discovery Channel. Photography has been a part of Ayestaran’s life as far back as he can remember. His father, an avid photographer, instilled on his children the sense of adventure, travel and appreciation for life. Ignacio received his first camera at the age of 9 and has been shooting ever since. He was a contributing artist for Getty Images for over 10 years and his images formed part of the exclusive Getty Images Prestige Collection. The list of companies that have used his photographs included Apple, BBC Worldwide, Conde Nast Digital, Lonely Planet Publications, The New York Times Magazine, Peter Luger Steak House, Smithsonian Magazine, Viacom and Volkswagon Do Brasil.A relatively new part of Ayestaran’s practice has included research into artificial intelligence image generators (OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 and MidJourney) . In this i3 Lecture Ayestaran discusses his use of AI tools and experiments with prompt writing in his current image-making.The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series has returned to in-person events. The series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. This spring, book designer, curator and faculty member Elizabeth Avedon is the guest curator and host.Click on the link for information about SVA's one-year master's degree program in Digital Photography. https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mps-digital-photography
Curatorial Roundtable with Bernardo José de Souza School of Visual Arts 2023-03-24 | MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Bernardo José de Souza. In a time when AI seems to have suddenly captured the global imagination, Bernardo José de Souza will talk about three curatorial projects he has curated that share a common interest in science fiction: “The negative hand” (2015), “After the end” (2017) and “The devil to pay in the backlands” (2022). In these exhibitions, science fiction operates as a political platform to travel in time, at once allowing us to devise future scenarios and landscapes, revise historical accounts and reflect on the reality of the present.The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts, New York City.
SVA Alum VivziePop talks about her time at SVA #helluvaboss #hazbinhotel #vivziepop #Animation #Art School of Visual Arts 2023-03-21 | ...
The Algorithmic State: Abuse of Power and AI Today School of Visual Arts 2023-03-17 | MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Maithu Bu, Payton Croskey and Rebecca Stein on AI security and ways to address socially harmful uses of AI. While AI has been utilized in recent years for various security efforts—like locating landmines at sea—it has also been used for monitoring and tracking down civilian populations. Abuse of power is all the more possible when code is invisible. In this panel, the speakers will present their research on AI security, touching on technological borders, bioluminescent landmine locators and cybersecurity economic ties.Maithu Bui is an artist and gaming designer; Payton Croskey is a visual artist and works on tech justice and designing liberatory tools at Princeton University; and Rebecca Stein is a cultural anthropologist, scholar and educator at Duke University.Rebecca Stein's presentation is not included in this recording.
Timothy Smith - Photographer & Director School of Visual Arts 2023-03-14 | MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with Brooklyn-born fashion and portrait photographer Timothy Smith (MPS 2016 Digital Photography). Graduating with a master’s from the School of Visual Arts, Smith has worked with top international agencies featuring global brands such as Casio, ESPN x New York Marathon, Espy’s, Gucci x Far Fetch and UGG. In addition to his editorial work, Smith is passionate about curating personal photography projects that creatively embody rich culture and tell authentic stories of style and triumph. His aesthetic is described as timeless with a “polished grit vibe.”The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series has returned to in-person events. The series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. This spring, book designer, curator and faculty member Elizabeth Avedon is the guest curator and host.Click on the link for information about SVA's one-year master's degree program in Digital Photography. https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mps-digital-photography
Rodrigo Valenzuela - Conceptual Artist School of Visual Arts 2023-03-09 | Rodrigo Valenzuela lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he is the Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela has been awarded the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors; Art Matters Foundation grant; and Artist trust Innovators Award. Recent solo exhibitions include: New Museum, NY; Lisa Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, AU; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene; Orange County Museum; Portland Art Museum; Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Recent residencies include: Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; MacDowell Colony; Bemis Center for contemporary arts; Lightwork; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.Presented by MFA Fine Arts.
Brian Whiteley - Visual Artist School of Visual Arts 2023-03-06 | Brian Andrew Whiteley is a visual artist creating works that incorporate painting, sculpture, video, new media and performance. He is known for having had Justin Bieber sue him and for his political works the "Trump Tombstone" and “The Vladimir Putin Painting at Trump’s DC Hotel”, for being the original “creepy clown”, haunting cemeteries across the U.S. and for being the performer behind several urban Bigfoot sightings. He has also snuck his work into the Museum of Modern Art, proudly displaying it between the men’s and women’s bathrooms. His large-scale projects manifest themselves as interactive installations, incorporating several forms of media.His work has been shown at experimental venues and larger institutions, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; The Invisible Dog, NYC; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Spring / Break Art Show, NY; Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago; The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston; Satellite Art Show SXSW, Austin, TX; David Owsley Museum of Art, Indiana; Joshua Liner Gallery, NYC; Bushwick Open Studios, NYC; Art on Paper Fair, New York; and Bakehouse Art Center, Miami. Recent projects have garnered press from The New York Times, The NY Daily News, Village Voice, Daily Mail UK, Gothamist, Brooklyn Magazine, Art Net, BBC, Time, Esquire, GQ, Fox, ABC, NBC and NY Magazine,among many, many others.He received his masters from the School of Visual Arts and his bachelors at Ball State University. Whiteley is widely heralded as the originator of the creepy clown pandemic that swept across the United States (soon to be a movie).Presented by MFA Fine Arts
Curatorial Roundtable with Su Wei School of Visual Arts 2023-03-02 | MA Curatorial Practice presents Su Wei, an art writer and curator based in Beijing. Wei was the senior curator of Inside-Out Museum Beijing from 2017–2019. His curatorial projects include the seventh Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale “Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World,” OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen (2012); and “No References: A Revisit of Hong Kong Media and Video Art from 1985” at Videotage, Hong Kong (2016); among others.At the Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Wei curated “The Lonely Spirit” (2019), “Community of Feeling: Emotional Patterns in Art in Post-1949 China” (2019) and “Crescent: Retrospectives of Zhao Wenliang and Yang Yushu” (2018). In 2015, he participated in the symposium “Dislocations: Remapping Art Histories” at Tate Modern, London. He also co-organized the symposium “Transcultural Research and Curatorial Practice in China’s Contemporary Art” at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester (2019). He has published a number of articles in local and international art journals, including YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Journal of Contemporary Art, and Kunstforum. His recent work focuses on re-depicting and deepening the history of Chinese contemporary art, exploring the roots of its legitimacy and rupture. In 2014, he was awarded first place at the first International Awards for Art Criticism.
MFA Fine Arts Alumni Panel: Jay Elizondo, María Dusamp and Carlos Rosales-Silva School of Visual Arts 2023-03-01 | MFA Fine Arts presents a panel discussion with alumni Carlos Rosales-Silva, Jay Elizondo and María DusampCarlos Rosales-Silva was born on the border of the United States and Mexico in El Paso, Texas. His studio practice considers the vernacular culture in the American Southwest, the western canon of art history, and the political and cultural connections and disparities between them. Carlos has exhibited throughout Texas, and in Mexico City, New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Kansas City. He has been an artist in residence at Abrons Art Center in New York, NY (2021), Residency Unlimited in New York, NY (2020), Artpace in San Antonio, Texas (2018) and at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY (2017). Recent exhibitions include group shows at the Latinx Project at NYU, Texas Tech University, Beverlys in New York, Ny and Left Field Gallery in Los Osos, CA. A forthcoming solo exhibition of new works will be shown at Sargent's Daughters new location in Los Angeles, CA. Carlos graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Masters in Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in New York, NY.Jay Elizondo is an artist whose work seduces viewers into visceral confrontations with the trans body. She was born in Columbus, OH in 1996. She received an MFA from School of Visual Arts in 2020 and a BFA from COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & Design in 2018. Elizondo’s work has been featured in exhibitions in New York including Idol Worship at Smack Mellon, Artist in Focus at Baxter St, The Unspeakable: A Dark Show and Whore Haus at Pfizer Building, Crashing the Party at Plaxall Gallery, Criminalize This! at Amos Eno Gallery, in Miami for 2018 and 2019 Satellite Art Fair and in Columbus for her solo exhibition preMATURE at Byers Gallery. Her curatorial projects include (UN)FIXED at SoMad in New York, NY, You Remember How Lonely Everything Was in The Beginning at Please Don’t Come to This Show (online) and Talented, Brilliant, Incredible, Amazing, Showstopping, Spectacular, Never The Same, Totally Unique, Completely Not Ever Been Done Before, Unafraid To Reference Or Not Reference, Put It In A Blender, Shit On It, Vomit On It, Eat It, Give Birth To It at SVA Chelsea Gallery in New York, NY. She was a resident artist at The Chautauqua School of Art residency in Chautauqua, NY. In 2020 and at The New York Studio Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY in 2016. Elizondo is currently a featured artist for Smack Mellon’s 2022-2023 Hot Picks, following her feature the year before. She is a recipient of The 2020 Edward Zutrau Memorial Award, The Jeff F Hilson Memorial Fund, The Edith Smilack Fund and a nominee of The 2018 Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts. Her work has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Daily Lazy, Sidewalkkilla, Front Runner Magazine, Nobody’s Fashion Week Zine “Issue 1”, That Way Zine “Issue 1” and Hiss Mag “Issue 3”. Elizondo lives and works in New York.María Dusamp (b. 1993) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings and sculptures examine the loss of innocence, memory, and the body following transgressed intimacy. Dusamp has an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (2020) and a BFA with Distinction and Honors in Communication Design at the Pratt Institute (2017). She has exhibited in New York and near at Project for Empty Space, Wassaic Project, Winston Wächter Fine Art, La Mama Galleria, Artlot, Wassaic project, and O'Flaherty's, and presented a solo show at 24EBroadway. She has shown virtually in Dear Artists, Tutu Gallery, SVA Galleries, and the Flatfile Gallery. Dusamp's works and writing have been published in Artzealous, 24EBroadway, and Dear Artists.
Lola Flash - Photographer & Activist School of Visual Arts 2023-02-28 | MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with photographer Lola Flash. Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics for more than four decades, Flash’s work challenges stereotypes and gender, sexual and racial preconceptions. An active member of ACT UP during the time of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, Flash was notably featured in the 1989 “Kissing Doesn’t Kill” poster. Their art and activism are profoundly connected, fueling a life-long commitment to visibility and preserving the legacy of LGBTQIA+ and communities of color worldwide.They received their bachelor’s degree from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and their master’s degree from London College of Printing. Flash works primarily in portraiture, engaging those who are often deemed invisible.Flash has work included in collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum and the National African American Museum of History and Culture. They are currently a member of the Kamoinge Collective and on the board at QueerIArt.The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series has returned to in-person events. The series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. This spring, book designer, curator and faculty member Elizabeth Avedon is the guest curator and host.Click on the link for information about SVA's one-year master's degree program in Digital Photography. https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mps-digital-photography
The Algorithmic State: God Is AI with Zach Blas and Christiane Paul School of Visual Arts 2023-02-23 | MA Curatorial Practice presents a virtual discussion with artist Zach Blas and curator Christiane Paul about the artist’s work and its ramifications for contemporary society under the regime of the digital.Blas uses research-based and artistic practices to scrutinize the relationship between digital technologies and systems of power and the beliefs that they advance. Critical of today’s big technological corporations and their use and abuse of theological narratives and symbolism, Blas extensively considers the fictions, desires, fantasies, histories and icons increasing in today’s technological language, PR and mediation. Looking into three of his recent works that include representations of digital divine entities, which deal with judgment (processing), prophecy (prediction) and immortality (the data self), Blas points to both the liberatory potentialities and political challenges of the present posed by the deployment of religious signifiers.Zach Blas is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice spans moving images, computation, theory, performance, and science fiction. Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Professor of Media Studies at the New School, New York.
Radical: A Political Graphic Novel – with artist Sofia Warren & New York State Senator Julia Salazar School of Visual Arts 2023-02-22 | BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program present cartoonist and writer Sofia Warren and New York State Senator Julia Salazar to discuss Warren’s new graphic novel, Radical: My Year With a Socialist State Senator.In early 2018, cartoonist Sofia Warren was not paying attention to New York state politics. But that summer, her Brooklyn neighborhood began buzzing about Julia Salazar, a 27-year-old democratic socialist running for state senate whose grassroots campaign was inspiring an army of volunteers. When they beat the odds and won, Warren found herself wondering what would happen next. How does it work when an outsider who runs on revolutionary change has to actually do the job? So she decided to find out.Using the graphic memoir format, Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator is a remarkable firsthand account of Warren’s experience embedded with Julia Salazar and her staff during their first year in office. From candid conversations and eyewitness experiences, Warren builds a gripping and intimate portrait of a scrappy team of community organizers battling entrenched power structures, particularly to advance Julia’s marquee issue of housing rights.At every key point during the year—setting up an office, navigating insider politics, public pushback, testy staff meetings, emotional speeches, protest marches, setbacks and victories—Warren is up close and personal with Salazar and her team, observing, questioning and drawing, as they try to translate their ideals into concrete legislation. Along the way, Warren works toward answers to deeper questions: what makes a good leader? What does it mean to be a part of a community? Can democracy work? How can everyday people make change happen?Sofia Warren has been a cartoonist for The New Yorker since 2017, contributing print cartoons and comics and essays for the digital humor section. Her comics have also run in MoMA Magazine, Narrative Magazine and Catapult, among other places. Illustration and animation clients include Cartier, Phillips Auction House, HBO, Shopify, Squarespace and L’Uomo Vogue. Radical is her first book, published in 2022 through Top Shelf Productions. She is a visiting professor at Wesleyan University.New York State Senator Julia Salazar represents District 18 in Brooklyn and is the Chair of the Senate’s Committee on Crimes, Crime Victims and Corrections. Upon her election in 2018, she became the first member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the youngest woman elected in the history of the New York State Senate. Previously, she worked as a community organizer and began her advocacy during her time as a college student at Columbia University, where she advocated for the rights of fellow tenants and service industry workers.
Angela Dufresne - Painter School of Visual Arts 2023-02-21 | Angela Dufresne is a painter originally from Connecticut, raised however in the town in Kansas (Olathe-Suburbs) that Dick and Perry stopped in before they killed the Clutters (In Cold Blood), and now based in Brooklyn. Through painting, drawing, printingmaking, performative works, and community building she wields heterotopic narratives that are both non hierarchical and unapologetically perverse, conjuring the rage, piss and vinegar and passion of being female in America in 2022. She is a founding member of The Fragile Institute, a nomadic platform for exhibitions, publications and social actions including the exhibitions Density’s Glitch at the Fine Arts Work Center , Augurhythms at Hesse Flatow, NY in 2022 and Density Betrays Us at the Hole , NY in 2021. She is a founder of ADVICE VOTE an active civic engagement platform for teachers and art students across America.She’s held museum solo exhibitions at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City “Making Scene ‘ , the Dorsky Musuem at SUNY New Paltz “Just my Type” and a solo project at the UCLA Hammer Museum. She held two gallery solo exhibitions at Yossi Milo and M & B in Los Angels in 2021. Selected group and collaborative exhibitions include Re-Representation , organized by Dan Cameron Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Where I End, We Begin, Richard and Dolly Maas Gallery SUNY Purchase, NY with Mala Iqbal; OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture, Curated by Avram Finkelstein, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, Visionary New England, Curated by Sarah Montross, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Paint, also known as Blood, Curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, American Genre, Curated by Michelle Grabner, ICA at MECA, Portland, ME Stranger than Paradise, Curated by Dominic Molon, RISD Museum, Providence, RI. She’s exhibited in P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, The National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York annual, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, The Cleveland Institute of Art, The Aldridge Museum in Connecticut, Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, the Rose Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, Mills College in Oakland, California, and the Minneapolis School of Art and Design. She is currently Associate Professor of painting at RISD. She joined the National Academy of Arts and Design induction 2018, won a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, residencies at McDowell, Yaddo, a Purchase Award at The National Academy of Arts and Letters, two fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, and an affiliate residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and a Jerome Foundation Fellowship. Her work is in numerous private collections and the public collections of The Nerman Museum of Art, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, KS The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO, Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.Presented by MFA Fine Arts.
Portraits of Identity - Wayde McIntosh School of Visual Arts 2023-02-20 | Portraits of Identity is a video series lifting up voices from SVA's diverse, global and multicultural community. Hear from a range of students, staff and faculty, each invited to share aspects of their lived experience at SVA and to talk about what it's like to be a part of our inclusive learning community in New York City. Learn more about SVA's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office at sva.edu/dei
Curatorial Roundtable with Andrea Lissoni School of Visual Arts 2023-02-17 | MA Curatorial Practice presents Andrea Lissoni, artistic director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Before coming to Munich, Lissoni was the Senior Curator of International Art at Tate Modern. At Tate Modern, he launched a yearly Cinema Program conceived as an exhibition unfolding throughout the year, he co-curated the display and the live program at the opening of the Blavatnik Building (2016), the BMW Live Exhibition (2017 and 2018), the Hyundai Turbine Hall Commission by Philippe Parreno (2016) and the expanded exhibition “Joan Jonas” (2018.) He was also Curator at HangarBicocca, a lecturer at both the Brera Academy and Bocconi University and the Co-Founder of Vdrome, an online screening program for artists and filmmakers.
Adebunmi Gbadebo - Multimedia Artist School of Visual Arts 2023-02-16 | BFA Fine Arts presents an online artist lecture with Adebunmi Gbadebo (BFA 2017 Fine Arts).Adebunmi Gbadebo is a multimedia artist who uses culturally imbued materials to investigate the complexities between land and memory in the American South. Centering on deeply resonant materials like indigo dye, soil hand dug from plantations and human Black hair collected throughout the diaspora, Gbadebo has formed a visual vocabulary entirely her own. Born in New Jersey and based between Newark and Philadelphia, Gbadebo earned her BFA at School of Visual Arts, NY.Gbadebo’s ceramic works are currently on exhibition in the show, “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will tour nationally, traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in March. She is currently a 2022 Pew Fellow and has been written about in notable publications, including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Hypebeast, Papermaking Magazine and the American Craft Council magazine. Gbadebo has been broadcasted on BBC Newsday and has given talks at the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Newark Museum.Gbadebo’s works are included in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, South Carolina State Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Newark Museum of Art amongst others. Gbadebo has presented in exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally at the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh, and 1-54 African Art fair, London.
