April 27, VW Dome Composing Differences Following a weeklong program of workshops, talks and encounters at MoMA PS1, MoMA AV Recording Studios and e-flux, Composing Differences participants and their guests convene at MoMA PS1 for a Sunday Session navigating across various fields of knowledge to review possible methods and address art's relations with pedagogy, activism, representation and commoning.

COMPOSING DIFFERENCES Sunday April 27 COMPOSING DIFFERENCES The Political Stakes of Knowledge An afternoon of talks and discussions And a temporary display of positions At MoMA PS1, New York Open from Noon to 6pm Discursive program from 2 to 5.30pm Within today's "crisis of education", driven by privatization, many artists, curators and art organizations attempt to reinvent the relations between art and research outside of the academic world, and to experiment, often in a collaborative manner, on possible models of knowledge production and exchange.

Prior to its 2015 launch, Glass Bead inaugurates a year of inquiry in New York with a weeklong radio series addressing how art practices can explore new geometries of knowledge and initiate different modes of instituting.

I'm the sort to equate convergence with insight, even though I know it's wrong. Rather, I don't know it's wrong. I only know it's a sin against rationality. That doesn't make it wrong, just irrational, which means 'wrong' according to certain narrow and wholly defensible points of view.

The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950) is a classic novel of science fiction by A. E. van Vogt in the space opera subgenre. The novel is a " fix-up" compilation of four previously published SF stories: "Black Destroyer" (cover story of the July, 1939, issue of Astounding magazine-the first published SF by A.

Les Figuiettes is a large house built and designed patiently over the years by its owners, Cecile and Nordine, who now want to make it available to artists as PAF. We will run a pilot period in 2014/2015 to evaluate whether PAF Morocco will become a permanent annex to PAF or whether this is a temporary project.

Topos Theory in a Nutshell John Baez April 12, 2006 Okay, you wanna know what a topos is? First I'll give you a hand-wavy vague explanation, then an actual definition, then a few consequences of this definition, and then some examples.

Triple Canopy is pleased to announce Speculations ("The future is ______"), fifty days of lectures, discussions, and debates about the future, as part of EXPO 1: New York at MoMA PS1. Speculations will take place from May 12 to July 28, in a structure created by artist José León Cerrillo and in an installation designed by artist Adrián Villar Rojas.

Le nexialisme (du latin qui signifie " lien ", " articulation " et de , " lier "), est un terme inventé par l'écrivain de science-fiction A. E. van Vogt dans son livre la Faune de l'espace. Cela désigne une méthode scientifique consistant à articuler les savoirs de manière composite pour trouver des solutions originales aux problèmes posés et dégager de nouvelles pistes.

Galerie Chantal Crousel - The Chantal Crousel Gallery is proud to present the biography of Tarek Atoui.

The book Public Sphere by Performance results from a two-year research projectPerformance and the Public that Ana Vujanović, Bojana Cvejić and Marta Popivodacarried out in 2011 and 2012, during the residency of TkH (Walking Theory)platform (Belgrade) at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervillier. The part of theresearch of Marta Popivoda gave rise to the documentary film Yugoslavia: HowIdeology Moved Our Collective Body.

table of contents reviews excerpts book discount where to buy lectures Astrophysicists describe dark matter (and dark energy) as forming an invisible mass predicted by the big bang theory, yet so far only perceived indirectly by observing the motions of visible, astronomical objects such as stars and galaxies.

Gregory Sholette Materials As early as 1984 art historian Carol Duncan pinpointed a fundamental, though typically overlooked feature of high culture: that the majority of professionally trained artists make up a vast surplus whose redundancy is the normal condition of the art market.

In the framework of the "edu-factory" discussion we want to share some reflections on two concepts that have been central to the debate: the edu-factory and cognitive capitalism. We agree with the key point of the "edu-factory" discussion prospectus: As was the factory, so now is the university.

Edited by Valérie Mavridorakis and Christophe Kihm. Texts by Jean-Pierre Greff, Christophe Kihm and Valérie Mavridorakis, Leszek Brogowski, Jeffrey Saletnik, Antje Kramer, Jean-Philippe Antoine, Cyrille Bret, Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Katia Schneller, Géraldine Gourbe, Raphaël Pirenne, Valter Rosa, microsillons, John C. Welchman, Victor Burgin; interviews with Dennis Adams, Silvie Defraoui, Sarkis, Pierre Joseph.

Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts, responds to the WWTF Art(s)&Sciences call by interrogating the very conditions of the current upsurge of the art/research articulation. The project shifts attention from defining (and eventually solving) a problem to that of rendering a "problematic".

A former library in Hackney may seem an unlikely venue for London's most talked-about new art school. The 1970s Rose Lipman building lacks the architectural wow factor of Central Saint Martins King's Cross campus, but demand for places on the postgraduate Open School East in De Beauvoir town is high.

Luis Camnitzer As of next September, Emory College is closing its Visual Arts Department. Dean Robin Forman wrote a letter dated September 14, 2012 communicating this to the faculty. The news recently hit Facebook via an Art and Education announcement of March 2014.

When we posit in our project transform the provisional thesis that, following the two phases of institutional critique in the 1970s and the 1990s, a new phase will emerge[1], this thesis is based less on empirical findings than on a political and theoretical necessity, which a look at the deployment of institutional critique makes evident.

LaborinArt Önder Özengi & Pelin Tan (LaborinArt): You wanted to speak about the European crisis, especially its effect on the Mediterranean, the Near East, and the Middle East. What does the collapse of social welfare mean for these territories and countries?

In the essay "Turning," published by e-flux in 2008, theorist, curator, and organizer Irit Rogoff responded to the proliferation of art making that engages themes of pedagogy or education-what had recently been termed the "educational turn" in contemporary art. Rogoff's writing was not wholly celebratory, though she clearly affirmed the potential of this expanded production.

Artquest supported a series of 3 workshops, where OSE associates worked with AND publishing to developed a reader that reflected on their time at Open School East and the models of learning experienced there. PDFs of the final publication are downloadable below.

Stephen Wright The task of the day is to "revive art's transformative potential within the broadest possible frame," to use Alexander Alberro's expression. By all means; I certainly endorse the thrust of that remark. But what, exactly, is to be understood by "the broadest possible frame"?

Blog partagé des cours "Comment faire d'une classe une œuvre d'art ?", de Marie Preston et Gwenola Wagon, "Historiographie du design graphique" de Catherine de Smet et " Design graphique, édition et art contemporain", de Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié. Second semestre 2014-2015, département Arts plastiques de l'Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

'What does it mean to think personally about one's critical investments, especially for those of us who are not artists but who have had intimate relationships with artist-run projects?' Art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson posed this question during a session at 'Institutions by Artists', a three-day conference that brought over fifty speakers from around the world to Vancouver, Canada on 12-14 October 2012.

Produire de la subjectivité, produire du commun Trois difficultés et un post-scriptum un peu long sur ce que le commun n'est pas par Judith Revel Contribution pour la séance du 15 décembre 2010 de Judith Revel Séminaire "Du public au commun"

This work brings together the major thinkers in the field of critical pedagogy. It is arranged thematically around such issues as class, racism, gender and sexuality, language and literacy and social change. The editors offer critical questions at the end of each section and a short teaching vignette at the beginning of each section that connects the given critical pedagogy theory to a practical classroom situation.

Shelter Press works as a nomadic artist-run organization building up dialogues between contemporary art, poetry and experimental music through publications, pedagogical experiences, and exhibitions. Bartolome Sanson + Felicia Atkinson

In the past decade the architect's role, and consequently the way knowledge about architecture is shared, have undergone a radical shift. Several pedagogical experiments that have emerged in the past years can be understood as a clear response to the generalised - and problematic - economic, social and political situation.

by Andy Merrifield* I've been revisiting the great maverick radical Ivan Illich, who died in 2002, aged 76. Illich was an Austrian who had no real homeland, a Jew who became a Catholic, a Priest who denounced the Vatican, a global intellectual who toured continents on foot.

Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance illuminates the relationship between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and experimental dance and performance in the works of leading European choreographers, Xavier Le Roy, Jonathan Burrows, Boris Charmatz, Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, Jefta van Dinther, and Jan Ritsema.

About the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster The Another Roadmap Africa Cluster are a group of scholars and practitioners of artistic and cultural education who are working in both formal and informal contexts across the African continent. They have come together to pursue a joint programme of research into arts educational practice in Africa that is critically informed and grounded in historical analysis.

This year the Àsìkò programme comes to Maputo, Mozambique for its 5th edition. Using the same format in previous years of part art laboratory, part residency and part informal art academy, over the course of