Paula Scher: Designer as Educator
Apr
20
11:30 AM11:30

Paula Scher: Designer as Educator

Come see the launch of “Paula Scher: Designer as Educator,” a documentary about Paula Scher narrated by Debbie Millman, directed by Claudine Eriksson, commissioned by The School of Visual Arts BFA Design Department, and made possible by executive producer Richard Wilde. 

Paula Scher is one of the most acclaimed graphic designers in the world. She has been a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991, where she has designed identity and branding systems, environmental graphics, packaging and publications for a wide range of clients that includes, among others, Citibank, Microsoft, Bloomberg, the Museum of Modern Art, Tiffany & Co, the High Line, the Public Theater, the Metropolitan Opera, the Sundance Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

During the course of her career Scher has been the recipient of hundreds of industry honors and awards; she is a recipient of the National Design Award for Communication Design, the AIGA medal, the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, and the TDC Medal, among others. Scher has served on the Public Design Commission of the City of New York from 2006-2015. She is an established artist exhibiting worldwide, and her designs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Library of Congress, the Victoria and Albert Museum and other institutions.

She is the author of Make It Bigger (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002) and MAPS(Princeton Architectural Press, 2011). Scher holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and a Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, the Maryland Institute College of Art and Moore College of Art and Design.

The documentary features interviews wit aula’s co-teacher Courtney Gooch and previous students Noel Núñez-Caba, Maharani Putri, Hiroyasu Katayam an Jillian Oste.
Live music by Elias Meister. Read more about the project here

The viewing will be followed by a panel discussion. 

Moderator: Peter Ahlberg
Panel: Paula Scher, Gail Anderso, oe Marianek,and Zipen h

This event is sponsored by the Type Directors Club and the proceeds will be donated to: ACLU and Planned Parenthood.

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Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016
Oct
28
to Feb 5

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 focuses on the ways in which artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema—screen, projection, darkness—to create new experiences of the moving image. The exhibition will fill the Museum’s 18,000-square-foot fifth-floor Neil Bluhm Family Galleries, and will include a film series in the third-floor Susan and John Hess Family Theater. 

 

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Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers
Oct
14
8:30 AM08:30

Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers

In the course of this workshop the participants will reexamine the notions of beauty and ugliness by experimenting with expressive lettering using unfamiliar media and surfaces, including found objects and building materials. They will learn from the visual chaos of the vernacular, make an effort to take themselves and their work less seriously, and attempt to overcome their creative block by limiting their means. We will stress raw emotional impact over elegance, expressiveness over tidyness, and fitness of form to the message over conventional good looks. 

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Carmen Herrera
Sep
16
to Jan 2

Carmen Herrera

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Born May 31, 1915, in Havana, Cuba, Carmen Herrera is still actively working, painting every day in her New York studio. This presentation of approximately 50 works spans three decades of Herrera's work, beginning with the early abstractions she made while living in Paris in the years following World War II. During that time Herrera forged a geometric hard-edged style that she has retained to this day, employing a distilled palette of just two or three colors for each composition. The exhibition will include a selection of abstractions from Paris, a rare gathering of her important Blanco y Verde series, as well as a selection of later paintings, drawings, and several of her rare three-dimensional works. The show, Herrera’s first solo museum presentation in New York since the 1998 exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

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THE NY ART BOOK FAIR
Sep
16
to Sep 18

THE NY ART BOOK FAIR

Printed Matter presents the eleventh annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 16 to 18, 2016, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens.

Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines. The 2015 fair featured over 350 booksellers, antiquarians, artists, institutions and independent publishers from twenty-eight countries, and was attended by more than 35,000 people.

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Mirror Cells
Aug
21
7:00 PM19:00

Mirror Cells

This exhibition brings together artists Liz Craft, Rochelle Goldberg, Elizabeth Jaeger, Maggie Lee, and Win McCarthy, who often conceive of interconnected works that suggest strange invented worlds. While each artist creates discrete objects, these works act in direct dialogue with one another—at times alluding to furniture or other functional items—in order to generate a broader context that extends beyond their individual physical forms. They often make use of humble materials such as wood, resin, and ceramic clay, putting a renewed emphasis on the act of making and materiality. The exhibition’s installation on the eighth floor will take on an otherworldly quality by using the galleries as a single, surreal landscape yet drawn from ideas tied to a common social reality.

The title Mirror Cells references mirror neurons, specialized brain cells that are activated when observing the behavior of others. Researchers have theorized that these cells allow us to feel the joy and pain of others and associate them with understanding human intention and feelings of empathy. Accordingly, the works presented in the exhibition are often made as empathetic responses to events such as the loss of a loved one, preoccupations of a particular community, or changes that impact the world more broadly. Referencing both fantasy and real-life experience, they address broad concerns like inequality and climate change as well as more personal narratives connected to trauma and loss.

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Sophia Al-Maria
Jul
1
to Sep 30

Sophia Al-Maria

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Sophia Al-Maria (b. 1983) is part of an emerging generation of international artists who are mining the intersections of technology, culture, and identity. In 2016, she will receive her first solo museum show in the country with the premiere of a new series of videos at the Whitney. Her exhibition is inspired by the Gruen Transfer, a phenomenon in which a controlled environment—combined with visual and auditory stimuli—is used to distract and manipulate consumers. Over the past nine years, Al-Maria has been finding ways to describe 21st-century life in the Arabian Gulf through art, writing, and filmmaking. Her first solo exhibition, Virgin with a Memory, was presented at Cornerhouse, Manchester, in 2014 and her memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth, was published by Harper Perennial in 2012.

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Danny Lyon: Message to the Future
Jun
17
to Sep 25

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future

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Danny Lyon: Message to the Future is the first comprehensive retrospective of the career of Danny Lyon (b. 1942) to be presented in twenty-five years. The exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and will premiere at the Whitney in June 2016 before traveling to San Francisco.

The exhibition assembles approximately 175 photographs and related films and ephemera to highlight Lyon’s concern with social and political issues and the welfare of individuals considered by many to be on the margins of society. The presentation includes many objects that have seldom or never been exhibited before and offers a rare look at works from Lyon’s archives alongside important loans from major public and private collections in the United States. This is also the first exhibition to assess the artist’s achievements as a filmmaker.

A leading figure in the American street photography movement of the 1960s, Lyon has distinguished himself by the personal intimacy he establishes with his subjects and the inventiveness of his practice. With his ability to find beauty in the starkest reality, Lyon has through his work provided a charged alternative to the bland vision of American life often depicted in the mass media.

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future is organized by Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) and Chief Curator at the de Young Museum. The installation at the Whitney Museum is overseen by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography.

 

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Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
Jun
10
to Sep 25

Stuart Davis: In Full Swing

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Stuart Davis (1892–1964) is one of the preeminent figures of American modernism. With a long career that stretched from the early twentieth century well into the postwar era, he brought a distinctively American accent to international modernism. Faced with the choice between realism and pure abstraction early in his career, Davis invented a vocabulary that harnessed the grammar of abstraction to the speed and simultaneity of modern America. By merging the bold, hard-edged style of advertising with the conventions of European avant-garde painting, he created an art endowed with the vitality and dynamic rhythms that he saw as uniquely modern and American. In the process, he achieved a rare synthesis: an art that is resolutely abstract, yet at the same time exudes the spirit of popular culture.

The exhibition is unusual in its focus on Davis’s mature career and on his working method of using preexisting motifs as springboards for new compositions. From 1939 on, Davis rarely painted a work that did not make reference, however hidden, to one or more of his earlier compositions. Such “appropriation” is a distinctive aspect of his mature art. This presentation will be the first major exhibition to consistently hang Davis’s later works side by side with the earlier ones that inspired them. With approximately one hundred works, from his paintings of consumer products in the early 1920s to the work left on his easel at his death in 1964, the exhibition will highlight Davis’s unique ability to transform the chaos of everyday life into a structured yet spontaneous order that communicates the wonder and joy that can be derived from the color and spatial relationships of everyday things. 

Stuart Davis: In Full Swing is co-organized by Barbara Haskell, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Harry Cooper, Curator and Head of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, with Sarah Humphreville, Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 

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A Sense of Place, How Graphic Designers Make Cities too
May
10
4:30 PM16:30
AIGA

A Sense of Place, How Graphic Designers Make Cities too

Taking recent AIGA/NY civic initiatives, including Identity Design Action: East New York(IDeA:ENY), Dumbo Fitness Loop, and Design/Relief, this panel will investigate similarities and differences in process and approach and compare notes around key issues such as community engagement, urban transformation, and community identity building.

This panel is part of NYC Design Talks, a series which, during NYCxDESIGN offers inspiring topics featuring some of today’s most insightful design thinkers exploring the relationship between design and community, the affects of design on everyday life and how it is shaping our future. Produced by Shaw & Co. Productions.

Panel participants:
Introduction by Manuel Miranda, AIGA/NY VP and David Frisco, AIGA/NY Treasurer
Moderated by Laetitia Wolff, AIGA/NY Program Director

Guest Speakers:
Alicia Cheng, AIGA/NY board member and principal at mgmt. design
Jodi Terwilliger, Creative Director, HUSH
Alexandria Sica, Executive Director, DUMBO Business Improvement District
Vanessa Smith and Megan Marini, principals, 3×3 Design
Lauren Coakley-Vincent, Director, Neighborhood Development Division, NYC Small Business Services

SPEAKERS
Jodi Terwilliger is the Creative Director of HUSH, a design agency in Brooklyn, NY. For his commercial work, Jodi has won numerous awards from ADC Global Awards to the One Show, and has been published in global media outlets both online and in print. As a conceptual artist and extreme minimalist, his work has been included in galleries from the MoMA to the Tate Modern (UK). Jodi is dedicated to an experimental process across all types of design, from graphic and digital, to experiential and architectural. Jodi led the HUSH creative team on the Dumbo Fitness Loop project.

Alexandria Sica is the Executive Director of The DUMBO Business Improvement District, where she oversees the organization’s operations, marketing and advocacy efforts. Alexandria works with local stakeholders as well as government partners to increase investment in DUMBO; oversees programs such as street beautification, maintenance of public spaces, events programming and free public WiFi. Alexandria led the partnership with Parks Department and interfaced with DOT, DDC, MTA and SBS for the Fitness Loop.

Lauren Coakley-Vincent is Director of Capacity Building Initiatives at NYC Small Business Services (SBS). She joined the Neighborhood Development team after having spent two years overseeing operations and strategy for SBS’s NYC Business Solutions Centers, spearheading a number of important initiatives benefiting NYC’s small business community including the NYC Small Business Technology Coalition. She manages the Neighborhood Challenge grant program which supported Dumbo Fitness Loop in Year 2 and Identity Design Action: East New York in year 3.

Megan Marini and Vanessa Smith are the founders of 3×3 Design, a social innovation consultancy that works at the intersection of urban planning, design, and technology to create smarter programs and services for more livable cities. They apply human-centered, design research and engagement to improve urban planning programs, services and policies for diverse organizations including the World Bank, UN-Habitat, UNICEF, the City of Chicago, and the City of New York. Megan and Vanessa were the research and storytelling team on the IDeA:ENY project, collaborating with graphic designers Sarah and Jonathan Jackson, founders of WSDIA.

Alicia Cheng is an AIGA/NY board member and principal at mgmt. design, a Brooklyn-based design studio founded with Sarah Gephart. mgmt. design’s projects have focused on print, branding, exhibition design, and data visualization. Selected clients include The New York Times, Yale School of Architecture, Modern Farmer Magazine, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Chinese in America, and Vice President Al Gore. Alicia joined the board of AIGA/NY shortly after co-designing (with Anke Stohlmann) the Red Hook HUB for Design/Relief and has been advising on various Making the City initiatives.

Manuel Miranda is AIGA/NY Vice-President and a designer at MMP, whose recent work includes: exhibition design for the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at The New School and the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects; campaigns for New York City, including Office of the Mayor and the Department of Health; publication design for Center for Urban Pedagogy, Red Hook Initiative, and the Urban Justice Center; interactive design for the Nike Foundation; and institutional identity for Van Alen Institute. Manuel was instrumental in the creation of the Making the City platform and acted an advisor on the Design/Relief, Dumbo Circuit and IDeA:ENY projects.

David Frisco is AIGA/NY Treasurer and the principal of DFD: David Frisco Design, a collaborative design practice with an emphasis on clients with social purpose. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Undergraduate and Graduate Communications Design departments at Pratt Institute. David is Co-Creative Director of Design Corps at Pratt Institute, a pro-bono design program for non-profits, and Co-Coordinator of Public Project, a GradComD Initiative bringing public engagement opportunities to students. He founded IntraCollaborative, a socially minded design collective comprised of Pratt MFA graduates. David was the lead advisor on the IDeA:ENY project.

Laetitia Wolff is AIGA/NY program director for civic initiatives. As a design curator and creative strategist self-described as a cultural engineer, her work focuses on creating projects that build bridges between design and the city, and in the process generate new discourses and experiences around design’s potential as a tool for change. She directed the creative placemaking program Design/Relief, subsequently helped build Making the City, brokered a pop-up annex in the Seaport Cultural District, raised funds from the city for Identity Design Action and oversaw the DUMBO Circuit and Identity Design Action: East New York.

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Design x Fashion
May
5
7:00 PM19:00
AIGA

Design x Fashion

Three influential creative directors come together to explore the explosive intersection between Design and Fashion in AIGA/NY’s 3rd Annual Design x Fashion Panel.

Whether you’re flipping through a magazine or browsing your social media channels, the imagery created for the fashion industry continues to shape popular culture and greatly influence society in a time, when more than ever, content is king.

From editorial art direction to brand storytelling, from social media to advertising campaigns, Greg Foley, Kristen Naiman and Nicola Formichetti share their unique perspectives on the powerful visual culture of fashion, the ever evolving industry and where they have found success throughout their careers.

Moderated by Piera Gelardi of Refinery29.

SPEAKERS

Greg Foley is a founding member and creative director of Visionaire, V Magazine, VMAN and VFiles. He has collaborated with brands like Adidas, Calvin Klein, Dior Homme, Gap, Givenchy, Karl Lagerfeld, Kidrobot, Lacoste, Levi’s, Sony Music and Warner Bros Records. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA, New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. He has received awards from I.D. Magazine, and the Art Directors Club. Foley is the author and illustrator of eight children’s books including the award winning Thank You Bear series and contributes cover illustrations for The New Yorker. He is an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design and is a visiting lecturer at RISD, Columbia University and Yale. He is currently developing a book on international style and subcultures for Rizzoli.

Kristen Naiman, is the Senior Vice President of Brand Creative at Kate Spade, where she is responsible for creating the voice of the brand through seasonal print and film campaigns, branded content, fashion shows, digital, ecommerce, event and in-store experience. Prior to joining Kate Spade, Kristen spent seven years at Isaac Mizrahi, first as Fashion Director and then as Vice President Creative Director where she was responsible for establishing the brand voice and seasonal point of view for both product design and marketing creative. Kristen began her career as a fashion stylist shooting for Harper’s Bazaar, Teen Vogue, In Style, Paper, Nylon, New York Times Magazine, Domino, Spin, Rolling Stone and Index among others and has consulted for brands such as Gap, Madewell, and Liz Claiborne. In addition, Kristen is a founding partner of Apiece Apart, a luxury lifestyle brand of elevated basics that marry the classic and modern.

As Global Artistic Director for Diesel, Nicola Formichetti has positioned himself at the center of the fashion industry by engaging with millennials through his unique use of digital culture and social media. Formichetti was raised between Tokyo and Rome, followed by a formative period at the heart of London’s club-driven magazine culture – where he began his fashion career with British style bible Dazed & Confused. As fashion editor for Another Magazine, Vogue Homme Japan and V Magazine, it was Formichetti’s V Magazine cover story with Lady Gaga that led to an enduring 3 year partnership of now cult-proportions, where he co-created some of the star’s most memorable looks – from the infamous MTV meat dress to her arrival at the 53rd Grammy Awards encased in an egg. Formichetti’s eponymous brand, Nicopanda, was launched 2 years ago to critical acclaim from both retailers and press – ushering in an affordable genderless high concept streetwear brand, the punk Hello Kitty. In its third season, Nicopanda is now available in over 50 global retailers and launching accessories, gaming and beauty in the coming year.

MODERATOR
Piera Gelardi is Executive Creative Director and co-founder of Refinery29, the award-winning global media company that empowers and inspires women around the world. Since launching Refinery29 in 2005, the company has grown from 4 to 400+ employees, received three Webby awards, numerous American Photography and American Illustration awards, brought home a CLIO, and secured a spot for four consecutive years on Inc. 500’s Fastest Growing Companies in the U.S.

Piera leads an ever-expanding team of creatives who bring the R29 brand to life online and IRL through original content, branded campaigns, and experiences. One of her favorite projects to date was the massively ambitious 29Rooms—an artistic, multi-sensory event that became a social media sensation reaching 45million people worldwide. She is an active member of the design and entrepreneur communities who speaks frequently on topics of leadership, design, style, and creativity.

In 2014, Piera co-authored her first book, the New York Times best seller Refinery29: Style Stalking. Prior to the launch of Refinery29, Piera was Photo Director at CITY magazine, which won an ASME for Best Photography as well as numerous SPD awards under her direction.

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Mix: Designers + Drinks = _____
May
4
7:00 PM19:00
AIGA

Mix: Designers + Drinks = _____

GIFs forever! Come hang with GIPHY and AIGA/NY for a night of cool tunes, drinks, and free pizza* to celebrate the GIF!

GIF Photos by John McLaughlin
Music by Le Chev with guest set by ME
GIF VJ-ing by Dark Igloo

*Free pizza is on a first come basis, so make sure you arrive on time!

GIPHY is GIFs.
The first and largest GIF search engine, where thousands of artists, brands, and pop culture moments make today’s expression, entertainment, and info a little more moving.

Search, Share, and Make All The GIFs

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Open Plan: Steve McQueen
Apr
29
to May 14

Open Plan: Steve McQueen

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From February 26 through May 14, 2016, the Whitney Museum of American Art will present Open Plan, an experimental five-part exhibition using the Museum’s dramatic fifth-floor as a single open gallery, unobstructed by interior walls. The largest column-free museum exhibition space in New York, the Neil Bluhm Family Galleries measure 18,200 square feet and feature windows with striking views east into the city and west to the Hudson River, making for an expansive and inspiring canvas.

Steve McQueen (b. 1969) is a visual artist and filmmaker, whose films include Hunger, Shame, and 12 Years a Slave, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. McQueen’s project for Open Plan will center on a newly expanded version of his work End Credits, which presents documents from the FBI file kept on the legendary African-American performer Paul Robeson. 

In conjunction with End Credits, McQueen will be exhibiting Moonlit (2016), a recently created sculptural work which is being shown for the first time in the U.S. Moonlit will be on view in the adjacent Kaufman Gallery during Open Plan: Steve McQueen. 

Open Plan: Steve McQueen is organized by Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator Donna De Salvo, with curatorial assistant Christie Mitchell

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Human Interest: Portraits
Apr
27
to Feb 12

Human Interest: Portraits

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Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection offers new perspectives on one of art’s oldest genres. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s holdings, the more than two hundred works in the exhibition show changing approaches to portraiture from the early 1900s until today. Bringing iconic works together with lesser-known examples and recent acquisitions in a range of mediums, the exhibition unfolds in eleven thematic sections on the sixth and seventh floors. Some of these groupings concentrate on focused periods of time, while others span the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to forge links between the past and the present. This sense of connection is one of portraiture’s most important aims, whether memorializing famous individuals long gone or calling to mind loved ones near at hand.

Portraits are one of the richest veins of the Whitney’s collection, a result of the Museum’s longstanding commitment to the figurative tradition, which was championed by its founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Yet the works included in this exhibition propose diverse and often unconventional ways of representing an individual. Many artists reconsider the pursuit of external likeness—portraiture’s usual objective—within formal or conceptual explorations or reject it altogether. Some revel in the genre’s glamorous allure, while others critique its elitist associations and instead call attention to the banal or even the grotesque.

Once a rarefied luxury good, portraits are now ubiquitous. Readily reproducible and ever-more accessible, photography has played a particularly vital role in the democratization of portraiture. Most recently, the proliferation of smartphones and the rise of social media have unleashed an unprecedented stream of portraits in the form of snapshots and selfies. Many contemporary artists confront this situation, stressing the fluidity of identity in a world where technology and the mass media are omnipresent. Through their varied takes on the portrait, the artists represented in Human Interest raise provocative questions about who we are and how we perceive and commemorate others.

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection is curated by Dana Miller, Richard DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Permanent Collection and Scott Rothkopf, Deputy Director for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator with Mia Curran, Curatorial Assistant; Jennie Goldstein, Assistant Curator; and Sasha Nicholas, consulting curator.

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June Leaf
Apr
27
to Jul 17
Whitney

June Leaf

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For nearly seven decades, June Leaf (b. 1929) has created a deeply imagined world of unreal creatures and settings that metaphorically probe the human condition. She has worked in a long tradition of visionary art, one especially prominent in the work of the Symbolists of the nineteenth century and which has continued more recently with Surrealism and beyond. Born in Chicago, Leaf developed a connection in the 1950s to an important artistic group in the city, Monster Roster, who explored expressive figuration and had an interest in mythic narratives. She moved to New York in 1960 and established a studio in the remote town of Mabou, Nova Scotia, around the same time. Her style has evolved as she has expanded her range of materials over the years, while steadfastly mining and extending her canon of symbols and archetypes.

This presentation focuses primarily on Leaf’s works on paper and spans her entire career. The dense installation is meant to evoke the atmosphere of her studios, in which she works seamlessly in multiple mediums. Indeed, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and collage effortlessly coalesce as the artist creates and develops her imagery from one surface or object to the next. Her technique reflects her interest in transformation and metamorphosis, with many of her pieces seeming to capture a moment seized out of a state of flux.

June Leaf: Thought Is Infinite is organized by Carter E. Foster, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing, with artist Alice Attie.

The exhibition will be on view through July 17, 2016 in the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Gallery, on the Museum's first floor, which is accessible to the public free-of-charge.

Major support for June Leaf: Thought Is Infinite is provided by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation.

 

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Apr
17
11:00 AM11:00
TDC

TDC Type Walk with Paul Shaw: North Bronx

This lettering walk will take in several neighborhoods in the northern part of the Bronx, between the New York Botanical Garden and Westchester: Norwood, Williamsbridge, Wakefield and Woodlawn Heights. We may even stray into Mt. Vernon or Yonkers, if the weather is good and we are not too tired. These neighborhoods are rich in ethnic stores and restaurants, churches and schools, and small businesses. Much of the lettering will be more humble and vernacular than that found in midtown Manhattan.…

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Paint Pixel Pencil
Apr
14
6:30 AM06:30
TDC

Paint Pixel Pencil

In this talk, Jeff, a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator specializing in custom lettering, will present a selection of his work and walk us through a personal account of how having a variety of experiences can develop a strong singular voice.

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Mar
10
6:30 PM18:30
AIGA

Slow Hot Computer

“The future is there looking back at us.”  — William Gibson

According to a recent Fast Company article, design has “matured from a largely stylistic endeavor to a field tasked with solving thorny technological and social problems.” Designers are no longer relegated to the downstream position of making things look pretty. We now have a seat at the table. No longer makers, we now aspire to be leaders. Design is everywhere, yet is now called upon to respond to constantly changing technological, demographic, and environmental conditions.

In this space between ubiquity and obsolescence, how can designers develop ways of working and collaborating that respond to our contemporary world? Join us for a monthly series of provocations at MAD where practitioners and critics discuss the changing nature of design and visual culture and its impact on the also changing fields of music, education, fashion, and more.

Technology

Technology plays the dual role of being instrumentalized as both an impartial tool and critical monitor of progress, security, and connection in our society. In this talk we look at how design, programming, and writing work together to express alternative perspectives on startup culture, surveillance, and automation.

Speakers
Sam Lavigne is an artist, programmer and journalist. His work deals with data, cops, surveillance and automation. He is currently a research fellow at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and a contributing editor at The New Inquiry. In 2015 he co-founded Useless Press, an independent online publisher of esoteric internet projects. He is also the co-founder of the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon.

Rob Horning is an editor of The New Inquiry and author of Marginal Utility, a blog on consumerism and technology. He has written for such publications as Art in America, Dissent, and DIS Magazine.

Moderator
Juliette Cezzar is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the BFA Communication Design program at Parsons / The New School, where she was the Director of the BFA Communication Design and BFA Design & Technology programs from 2011-2014. She established her small studio, e.a.d., in 2005. While books anchor the practice, her work has spanned a variety of media for clients such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, RES Magazine, The Museum of Modern Art, Vh1, The New York Times, Eleven Madison Park, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the co-author of Designing the Editorial Experience(Rockport) and author-designer of Office Mayhem (Abrams), Paper Pilot, Paper Captain, and Paper Astronaut (Universe / Rizzoli). She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a professional degree (B. Arch) in Architecture from Virginia Tech.

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