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Faculty News

Krzysztof Wodiczko | The Veterans Project at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston from Nov.4, 2009-March 28, 2010.
Boston Globe review.

Krzysztof Wodiczko | 53rd Venice Biennale, June 7-Nov. 22, 2009, representing Poland. Read a compilation of press about Prof. Wodiczko's Biennale installation at: http://kwodiczko.com/
guests/press/

Krzysztof Wodiczko's War Veteran's Vehicle mobile video unit in the "Abandon Normal Devices" Film Festival. Review

Gold Gloria Artis Award presented to Kryzsztof Wodiczko by the Polish Minister of Culture for outstanding contribution to culture

Krzysztof Wodiczko partipated in a conversation with Teddy Cruz and Marjetica Potrc at the Architecture, Design, Art: Strategies for Survival Conf.
Roski School of Fine Arts, USC
Monday, April 6, 2009

Krzysztof Wodiczko completed a permanent responsive media public art project commissioned by the City of Cambridge Massachusetts at the Public Safety Building.

Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Veteran Vehicle Project,
Denver, Colorado, August 22, 2008, more info

Joan Jonas and Ute Meta Bauer at the 28th Bienial of Sao Paolo. Link to more info about Joan Jonas's performance. Link to more info about Ute Meta Bauer's participation.

Joan Jonas | Biennale of Sydney (Australia)
June 18 - August. 7, 2008
Reading of Dante more info

Visions

 

Joan Jonas will receive a Guggenheim Lifetime Achievement Award on October 29 at the The First Annual Art Awards at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Muntadas awarded 2009 Velázquez Prize from Spanish Culture Ministry

Joan Jonas | Begin Again at Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany. June 19-Aug. 1, 2009

The 2009 €16K Hans Molfenter Prize awarded to Joan Jonas by the city of Stuttgart for exceptional contribution to contemporary art. On the occasion of the award ceremony, July 21-22, 2009, Joan Jonas will perform "The Shape, the Scent and the Feel of Things" at the Staatstheater Stuttgart.

Jonas | Begin Again

Joe Zane wins Artadia Award
the Artadia Award 2009 Boston.
http://www.artadia.org/news.html

Joan Jonas | Making Words at the 53rd Venice Biennale

Gediminas Urbonas joined the faculty of the Visual Arts Program as assistant professor Spring 2009

Ute Meta Bauer presents Scripted Spaces: The Exhibition as an Architecture of Discourse on May 13 at High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia

Joan Jonas received a Francis J. Greenburger award, honoring those who have made important contributions to contemporary art.

Gediminas Urbonas is speaking at the Cities and the New Wars conference. Columbia University, NYC. Sept. 25-26

Wendy Jacob spoke at the Museum School's 4 Sculptors Lecture on Sept. 15. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Wendy Jacob, Waves and Signs, a conference and workshop on low-frequency vibration with a performance and dance party.
April 24-25, 2009
At the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA

Andrea Frank, Ports and Ships: Photographs by Andrea Frank at MIT Museum Compton Gallery
February 10 - June 14

Andrea Frank photo

Muntadas, The Construction of Fear. SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. Montreal, Canada. Opening on Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. http://www.sbcgallery.ca/

Muntadas, screening of On Translation: Miedo/Jauf followed by dialogue between Muntadas and Ibtissam Bouachrine. Feb. 11 at the King Juan Carlos Center, NYU, NYC.

Muntadas in the New Yorker "Talk of the Town" November 30, 2008

Muntadas
Conversations with Contemporary Artists
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Joan Jonas, Reading Dante
at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
November 20, 2008, 7:00pm, more info

Joan Jonas Reading Dante


Ute Meta Bauer and Joan Jonas | SITAC VI Book Launch at Americas Society, NYC. October 2 at 6:30pm

Bauer and Jonas SITAC Book

Joe Zane in Practice, Practice, Practice. Austin, TX.
http://www.lorareynolds.com/

Joe Zane in The Next One Will Be So Much Better. Boston, MA. http://www.carrollandsons.net/

Joe Zane, in MassMOCA group show called This Is Killing Me. May 23, 2009–Apr 15, 2010

Wendy Jacob - With Love from Haha book release parties.
December 18, 5-7PM
Printed Matter, 195 10th Ave, NYC
December 20, 5-7PM
2 Lamson Place, Cambridge, MA
http://www.hahahaha.org

Haha Book

Joe Zane, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
November 12, 2008 - March 1, 2009, more info

Amber Frid-Jimenez, presents "Leave Any Noise at the Signal / Participation Art Online" at HyperStudio, more info
Friday, Octorber 10, noon

Andrea Frank
Ports and Ships
Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany
July - September 2008

Joan Jonas
Winner of 2008 AICA Golden Globe for
Best Video Show
more info and here on Artnet

Joan Jonas
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA)

October 13, 2007 - July 31, 2008
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA) more info

Jae Rhim Lee, FEMA Trailer Project at RISD as part of Tricks of the Eye: History and Memory in Today's Shifting Social Landscape

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