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In addition to attending regularly scheduled lectures, students were encouraged to participate in the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) lecture series by attending four lectures. In this series, artists speak about their recent work. Video of their presentations are available below.
Terminal Air, Tad Hirsch and Trevor Paglen, October 2, 2006. (RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)
Tad Hirsch (Institute for Applied Autonomy) and experimental geographer Trevor Paglen will present early research for their new project, Terminal Air, an interactive installation that enables audiences to track a fleet of CIA-operated aircraft around the world. These airplanes, which were first uncovered by an international network of amateur aviation enthusiasts and later reported on by various investigative journalists, are known to be involved in "extraordinary rendition" - the practice of illegally transporting terrorism suspects to secret overseas military bases for torture and interrogation. Andrew Woods of Harvard Law School and other speakers TBD. Terminal Air is supported by 2006-2007 commission from Rhizome.org.
Dexter Sinister, October 18, 2006. (RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)
Dexter Sinister is the compound name of New York-based designers David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey. Currently experimenting with a 'Just-In-Time' model of economic production in an underground workshop in the Lower East Side, DS will relate how this thinking resonates through new projects and address topics including heraldic design, print economics, Henry Ford, distribution, and painting by telephone with Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. Over the next year, David will also research and write a long-form article examining the work of graphic designer Muriel Cooper (1926-1994), who, following her tenure as Design Director of MIT Press, co-founded (with Ron MacNeil) the Visible Language Workshop at the MIT Media Lab.
N55, November 13, 2006. (RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)
Hosted at the Center by the Interrogative Design Group (Head: Krzysztof Wodiczko), N55's simple, often mobile tools and situations for everyday living include a workplace, a modular boat, a shop, a factory, a clean air machine, a commune, and more. Art and function, personal utopias, and self-sufficiency are some of the themes that surface in their work.
Damon Rich, Center for Urban Pedagogy, December 11, 2006. (RM - 56K) (RM - 220K)
Damon Rich, cofounder and creative director of design and public policy non-profit CUP, presents the first stage of their project on redlining and the representation of risk. CUP's innovative work in design tackles alienating or intimidating systems - urban housing legislation, New York's garbage disposal system, and now risk management - head-on and with humor. For CUP, who "believe in the legibility of the world around us," design has a fundamental role to play in building a stronger democracy.