TREVOR PAGLEN--TONIGHT!!!

TREVOR PAGLEN
September 30, 2011, 7 pm
The Other Night Sky: Destiny, Warfare, and Ruins among the Stars
An Artist Talk by Trevor Paglen
MIT Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St., Building E15
RED LINE TO KENDALL SQUARE STOP. SHORT WALK TO MIT: LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER. BARTOS THEATRE IN BASEMENT.
20 AMES STREET, CAMBRIDGE, 02142, 617-253-4680.

Artist-Writer-Provocateur
AT MIT SEPTEMBER 26 – 30, 2011
Visiting artist Trevor Paglen has earned international renown for uniting disparate worlds to create works that explore and document hidden worlds. The New York Times has described him as a “geographer by training, a conspiracy theorist by instinct, and an investigative reporter by avocation.” He uses photography, video, data, and other uncommon sources to create artworks that reveal the unexpected and the profound. His work has appeared in a number of the world’s most important museums and his writing, in the most influential media of our day.

During his residency at MIT, Paglen will research ultra-archival materials and aerospace design. Faculty, researchers, and students in engineering, materials science, and message encoding will work with Paglen, using their knowledge and skills in new and unexplored realms. Paglen will also deliver the lecture “The Other Night Sky: Destiny, Warfare, and Ruins among the Stars.”

Trevor Paglen’s residency is made possible by the Arts at MIT Visiting Artist Program in collaboration with the List Visual Art Center and the MIT Program is Art, Culture and Technology (ACT).

Visit Trevor Paglen’s website.




RESIDENCY SCHEDULE

September 26
Visit MIT research groups

September 27
Meeting with MIT Anthropology
MIT Art Scholars Event for students

September 28, 2011
Class visit to Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research 4.314
Lunch with ACT students
School of Architecture and Planning Tent

September 29, 2011
MIT researchers (tbd)
Class visit to Introduction to Visual Art 4.301
September 30, 2011, 7 pm
The Other Night Sky: Destiny, Warfare, and Ruins among the Stars
An Artist Talk by Trevor Paglen
MIT Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St., Building E15


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Slit-Scan Video Artworks

http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/

An interesting site with many different artists experimenting with Slit-Scan video artworks
compiled by Golan Levin.

Duchenne de Boulogne

Here is the 19th century photographer I couldn't think of in class
who deals with physiognamy and human emotion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchenne_de_Boulogne

http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/

An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks compiled by Golan Levin.

Caleb Charland

May be of interest to some of you.
calebcharland.com

One Last Thing!

Please look at the great photo montages of Hannah Hoch. Here is a small site with some of her work.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classes/readcult/
On Weds. bring scissors, glue, colored paper, fabric, etc to class. Also bring lots of scanned images to class.
We will make several LARGE wall size collages using your scanned pictures to create one or two large pieces.
So here is what you will need for class:
-A personal scanned project
- scanned body parts, human or animal
- lots of scanned images to add to class wall project
-scissors, tape, glue, fabric, wallpaper or whatever you would like to add.

HHMMM, Class Body Parts?

One last thought. If everyone wanted to scan one or more body parts and bring them to class we could also
construct/assemble some new humans to put on the wall. They could be clothed or unclothed along with other things
you might want to scan that relate to the body. This is in addition to your individual projects.