From Jonathan Vatner at The New York Times:
A typical room at the Thompson LES, a hotel on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that opened last summer, has the look of an industrial-chic loft, with exposed concrete columns, a floor-to-ceiling window and a platform bed. But it’s the room’s art that is most startling: a giant lightbox that floats above the bed. Inside is a photo of a tree from the photographer Lee Friedlander’s “Apples & Olives” series. Seen one way, the art adds a much-needed organic element to the room; seen another, the black-and-white image seems to meld perfectly with the bleak streetscape below.
The forward-thinking placement of art doesn’t stop there. Down in the restaurant, an installation by Peter Halley sets glitzy metallic rectangles against a smoky background. And on the third-floor terrace, three consecutive film stills of Andy Warhol, taken from “Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man,” by Gerard Malanga, lie submerged at the bottom of a swimming pool. More…
Mario Minichiello, Birmingham City University BIAD, Birmingham, UK
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Mario Minichiello is the Head of Department and Chair of Visual Communications programmes at Birmingham City University BIAD, faculty of Art and Design, Britain. He is also a visiting research Fellow at the University of Sydney, School of art. An award winning artist and designer producing both inspirational and often controversial reportage artwork for broadcast media including television, broadsheet newspapers and magazines. Professor Minichiello has recently been a guest on a number of broadcast debates on the role of art in society and has most recently taken part in an interview with Press TV, this was broadcast on a number of international channels including al-Jazeera. More…
Accommodation for the 2009 Arts Conference in Venice, Italy may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.
Colin Rhodes, Professor, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Rozelle, NSW, Australia,
Leoni Schmidt, Academic Director: Research & Postgraduate Studies, School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Tomasz Wendland, Dr. Wendland is a practicing artist who works in various media: Video, installation, drawing, sculpture, photography, object and performance, Poland
Judy Chicago, Artist, Author, Feminist, Educator, and Intellectual, New Mexico, USA
Barbara Fischer, Barbara Fischer, Director/Curator of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto; as well as Senior Lecturer in Curatorial Studies in the Department of Art at University of Toronto, Canada
Aaron Levy, Teacher, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nancy Mithlo, Assistant Professor, Art History and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
28-31 July 2009
Venice, Italy
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