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ACT Fall 2017 Lecture Series: The Edge of Knowing and Un-Knowing
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The fall
2017 ACT Lecture Series invites renowned artists and philosophers to help us challenge our habits of perception and expand our margins of thought. Artistic intelligence is drawn to the fertile edges of knowledge, engaging radically anticipatory modes of
being, thinking, creating, and acting without certainty. The series will offer models for un-knowing science and technology as a way to dislocate and re-articulate knowledge production in proximity to technologies of planetary threat: how to navigate the camouflaged,
the unknown, the deceptive, the trumped.
Monday, September 11 at 7pm
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to
imagine alternative futures.
Monday, September 25 at 6pm
Following Cristina Ricupero's special interest in the mechanisms of contemporary secrecy, she will focus on espionage, a topic she is developing for an exhibition project with Alexandra Midal (independent curator and professor at the design program at HEAD-Haute
Ecole d'Art et Design, Geneva). With examples from contemporary art and design, sociology, philosophy, the spy novel, film and pop culture, Ricupero will show how espionage has evolved throughout time and played a major role in the political sphere of every
country.
Friday, October 20 at 2pm
David Reinfurt, an independent graphic designer in New York City, will report on his last six months in Rome as a fellow at the American Academy interrogating Bruno Munari's Tetracono, a small, industrially produced artwork-product from 1965.
Monday, November 13 at 6pm
Postcommodity will discuss their 2015 land art installation and socially engaged artwork Repellent Fence, and the implications of this work on their art practice, their future work, and the field of contemporary art as we approach the year
2043 (when the US transitions to a non-white majority).
Monday, December 4 at 6pm
Judith Barry utilizes a research-based methodology to explore a wide range of topics. Both the form and the content of her work evolve as the research proceeds. She often makes use of installation, in various forms and including exhibition design, as a way
to combine many of her disparate interests. These immersive environments are based on experiments incorporating architecture, sculpture, performance, theatre, film/video/new media, graphics, and interactivity.
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About the ACT Lecture Series
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ACT's lecture series draws together artists, scholars, and other cultural practitioners from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science, and technology.
ACT's Fall 2017 series is conceived by Gediminas Urbonas, ACT Director, and coordinated with Marissa Friedman, Senior Communications and Public Programs Assistant, and Laura Knott, Consulting Curator. This series is made possible with the generous support
of The
Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT).
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