Maria Lind

Kelly Dobson is an artist and engineer. Working in the realms of technology, medicine, art, and culture, her projects involve the parapraxis of machine design — what machines do and mean for people other than the purposes for which they were consciously designed. Her areas of research include voice, prostheses, re-appropriation and performance with domestic machines, machines in public space, and companion projects. She is currently working with machines that call into question our shiftable notions of being and care. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, including at Eyebeam in New York, The Kitchen in New York, Future Film Festival in Bologna, ISEA in Helsinki and Tallinn, Witte de With in Rotterdam, and the Millennium Museum in Beijing among others. She has been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, a Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art award, and a research affiliation at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. She received a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the MIT Visual Arts Program and a PhD from the MIT Media Lab.  Kelly Dobson is 2009-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor in Digital+Media at RISD.

(in collaboration with FAV and the Year of Sound)

Ed Osborn’s sound pieces take many art forms including installation, sculpture, radio, video, performance, and public projects. His works combine a visceral sense of space, aurality, and motion with a precise economy of materials. Ranging from rumbling fans and sounding train sets to squirming music boxes and delicate feedback networks, Osborn’s kinetic and audible pieces function as resonating systems that are by turns playful and oblique, engaging and enigmatic. Osborn has performed, exhibited, and lectured, and held residencies throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. The recipient of many awards including a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Stipendium and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, Galerie Haferkamp in Cologne, and is on the faculty of Brown University.

This lecture will be held at the RISD Museum/Metcalf Auditorium.

Krzysztof Wodiczko has created more than seventy public projections that have been displayed throughout the world. Since 1985, he has been honored with eight major retrospectives at such institutions as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum Stuki, Lodz; Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. His work has appeared in many international exhibitions, including the São Paulo Bienale (1965, 1967, 1985); Documenta (1977, 1987); the Venice Biennale (1986, 2000); and the Whitney Biennial (2000). Wodiczko received the 1999 Hiroshima Art Prize for his contribution as an artist to world peace, and the 2004 College Art Association Award for Distinguished Body of Work. Currently, Wodiczko heads the Interrogative Design Group and is Director of the Center for Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT.

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Natalie Bookchin is an artist with a background in photography and film. Her recentrent conditions of global connectivity and the impact of everyday uses of new technologies on how we see, represent, and understand ourselves and the world around us. Her work has been exhibited at PS1, Mass MOCA, the Generali Foundation, the Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Centre, MOCA Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum, the Tate, and Creative Time. She has received grants from Creative Capital, California Arts Council, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Durfee Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, California Community Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, Daniel Langlois Foundation, and a COLA Artist Fellowship. Bookchin studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Independent Study Program, and SUNY Purchase. She lives and works in Los Angeles, where she is co-Director of the Photography & Media Program in the Art School at CalArts.

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in collaboration with Brown MCM

Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and writer. He received his Ph.D. in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor of communications at Media, Culture, Communication department of Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development at New York University. He worked as an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam in NYC and was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe, Dublin. He received his Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU)and was an Interval Research Fellow. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of “Deconstructing Networks” which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Neural, Rhizome.org, Art Asia Pacific, Gizmodo and more, and his work has been shown at events such as  SIGGRAPH,  Transmediale, ISEA, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Whitney Museum of American Art’s ArtPort, Ars Electronica, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and others.

The lecture will be held at Smith-Buonanno, 201 Meeting Street, Pembroke Campus.

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Betsey Biggs is a composer and interdisciplinary artist working with music, sound, video, interactivity, installation and performance. Her work aims to expose the beautiful in the mundane, to actively engage the audience, and to transform the city into a creative interface through psychogeographic practice. Recent projects include a theatrical work with flutist and performer Margaret Lancaster, an outdoor mixer powered by people’s shadows and a series of downloadable soundtracks meant for walkers to engage with their surroundings. Betsey recently received her Ph.D. at Princeton University, writing about public sound art, and is currently a Cogut Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Music in Music at Brown University.

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Maria Lind is the director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. In January 2009, Lind received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, an award that recognises curators who have made a significant contribution to the field of contemporary art. From 2005 to 2007 Lind was the Director of IASPIS (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) in Stockholm, where she co-curated a series of symposia, including “Taking the Matter into Common Hands: On Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art,” “Citizenship: Changing Conditions,” and “Why Archives?”. Previously, she was director at the Munich Kunstverein (2002-2004) and curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1997-2001). Lind will talk about her recent exhibition at Bard, The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art

This lecture will be held at the RISD Auditorium