Monday, January 16, 7pm

Steve Winter

136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Photographer Steve Winter's world travels for National Geographic assignments have taken him to Brazil, where he was stalked by jaguars; Myanmar, where he was trapped in quicksand in the world's largest tiger reserve; the Himalayas, where he was camped for six weeks at 30 degrees below photographing snow leopards; and Iceland, where he flew over erupting volcanoes. Winter will discuss the strategies, skills and technology required to photograph the most elusive subjects in the toughest environments. His talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.

Thursday, January 19, 7pm

David Graeber: On Bureaucratic Technologies and the Future as Dream-Time

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
The twentieth century produced a very clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to imagine any sort of redemptive future. Anthropologist and writer David Graeber asks, "How did this happen?" One reason is the replacement of what might be called poetic technologies with bureaucratic ones. Another is the terminal perturbations of capitalism, which is increasingly unable to envision any future at all. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

Tuesday, January 24, 6:30pm

Jeremy Sigler: A Reading of Selected Poetry

133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Jeremy Sigler is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Crackpot Poet (Black Square Editions, 2010), Mallet Eyes (Left Hand Books, 2000) and To and To (Left Hand Books, 1998), as well as the digital book, Math. A senior editor at Parkett and a contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, Sigler was recently awarded a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas. He is a lecturer in the sculpture department at Yale University. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.

Thursday, February 2, 7pm

Kathe Burkhart

209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Kathe Burkhart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in painting, drawing, installation, photography, performance and video who is well known for her Liz Taylor Series of paintings. She has published three books of fiction and has been on the faculty of New York University since 2000. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

Monday, February 13, 7pm

Art Department

136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Lee Kyung Kim and Shawn Brydges discuss their approach to the business of photography and the roster of artists they represent at their agency, Art Department. Their talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.

Tuesday, February 14, 7pm

Anne Wagner: Time Lines: On the Drawings of Anthony McCall

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Art historian Anne Wagner will explore artist Anthony McCall's engagement with memory and loss. For McCall, time is of the essence. The question is how to represent it, now that the age-old tropes of skull, scythe and hourglass have had their day. Wagner will consider the artist's expansion of the means of time's depiction—an expansion that rested on his development of a new graphic language. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

Thursday, February 16, 7pm

The Case for Appropriation:
A Panel Moderated by Joy Garnett

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Artist and NEWSgrist blogger Joy Garnett is joined in conversation by curator Christopher Phillips, art historian and attorney Virginia Rutledge, critic and curator Robert Storr and artist Oliver Wasow to discuss the creative methods and ideas associated with appropriation art today, as issues of appropriation enter the broader public and legal debate and copyright infringement lawsuits between artists are on the rise. The panelists will discuss why appropriation and other forms of visual referencing are important elements in art making and how to defend these practices in and beyond the courtroom. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.

Tuesday, February 21, 6:30pm

Max Kozloff: As Luck Would Have It:
The Element of Chance in Photography

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Photography may be considered the ideal medium for fishing out things, appearances and events that don't make sense or otherwise defy reason. In this lecture art historian and critic Max Kozloff will discuss the havoc wreaked upon the notion of story in photography by writers sympathetic to the element of chance, maintaining that as an explanatory principle to explain what happens, chance explains nothing. This will be illustrated by various photographs featuring the smiles of women. Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.

Thursday, February 23, 6:30pm

Susan Bee: Recalculating:
Paintings and Collaborations

133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Susan Bee is a painter, editor and book artist living in New York City. Bee is the co-editor with Mira Schor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist's Writings, Theory, and Criticism, published by Duke University Press in 2000, and the co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. She has published many artist's books, including collaborations with Susan Howe and Johanna Drucker. In addition to numerous solo and group shows, her artwork is included in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The New York Public Library and Harvard University Library. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

Monday, February 27, 7pm

Amy Stein

136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Amy Stein is a photographer, educator and blogger based in New York City on faculty at SVA. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She will present an overview of her critically acclaimed monograph, Domesticated (Photolucida, 2008), and discuss her most recent work in progress, Stranded. Her talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.

Tuesday, February 28, 7pm

Fixing Shadows: Milagros de la Torre
in Conversation with Charles Traub
and Carla Stellweg

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
In conjunction with the exhibition "Observed: Milagros de la Torre" on view at the Americas Society Gallery, Peruvian artist Milagros de la Torre will will discuss the many facets of her research. She will be joined in conversation by photographer Charles Traub, chair of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at SVA, and art historian and curator Carla Stellweg, faculty member in the Art History program at SVA. De la Torre is one of the foremost conceptual photographers active today. Her images often project an eerie beauty and visual seduction that precedes their thoughtful and at times haunting proposal. "Observed: Milagros de la Torre" is on view at Americas Society Gallery, 680 Park Avenue, February 8 - April 14. Panel presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.

Monday, March 19, 7pm

Justine Reyes

136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Photographer Justine Reyes presents her most recent body of work, Vanitas, which takes its inspiration from Dutch vanitas paintings and incorporates personal artifacts within the traditional construct of still life. Vanitas explores the power of objects to bear witness to intangible ideas and emotional truths. Her talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.

Monday, March 26, 7pm

Sasha Wolf

136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Gallerist Sasha Wolf, owner of Sasha Wolf Gallery in New York City, specializes in contemporary photography with a special emphasis on documentary and post-documentary work. She is also co-founder of the Exhibition Lab, a modern-day salon and study center for people interested in engaging with the diverse photographic community of New York City. Her talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.

Thursday, March 29, 6:30pm

Michael Sappol: How to Be Modern
with Scientific Illustration: Fritz Kahn, Popular Medicine and the Visual Rhetoric
of Modernity, 1916-1960

133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer, was one of the first proponents of modernist scientific illustrations, which were conceptual, metaphorical and self-consciously modern in their aesthetics. Historian Michael Sappol will situate Kahn's illustrations and larger agenda within Weimar cultural politics, analyze key images and genres and discuss the global diffusion of modernist conceptual scientific illustration. Sappol is a curator and historian at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in 19th-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2002), Dream Anatomy (National Institutes of Health, 2006) and co-editor of A Cultural History of the Body in the Age of Empire, 1800-1920 (Berg Publishers, 2010). Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

Monday, April 2, 7pm

Timothy Sexton

136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Timothy Sexton's retouching work graces the covers of the world's top fashion magazines. His clients include Patrick Demarchelier, Mario Gadlewiski, Collier Schorr and David Sims, among many other leading photographers in the fashion industry. His talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.

Monday, April 2, 7pm

The Gertrude Stein Paradox: Michèle Cone heads a panel of renowned Stein scholars

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Coinciding with the exhibition "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, historian and SVA faculty member Michèle C. Cone will lead a roundtable discussion on the sometimes problematic and mercurial figure of Gertrude Stein as a writer, thinker and patron of the arts. Dr. Cone will be joined by Mary Ann Caws, distinguished professor of English, French and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Catharine Stimpson, professor and dean emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University; and Barbara Will, professor of English at Dartmouth College. With each panelist weighing in on a particular aspect of what Dr. Cone calls the "Stein Paradox," the discussion will range from Stein's early embrace of Picasso and Gris and her own cubist writings to her later collecting of works by theater designer neo-Romantics, her absorption in detective stories and her attraction to the fascist regime of Marshal Pétain during WWII. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.

Tuesday, April 3, 7pm

Carrie Moyer

209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor Amphitheater
Carrie Moyer is a painter and writer. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively both in the US and Europe in such venues as MoMA PS1; the Tang Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum and the American University Museum. Her first solo museum show, "Carrie Moyer: Interstellar," will open at the Worcester Museum in February 2012. With photographer Sue Schaffner, she co-founded one of the first queer interventionist projects, Dyke Action Machine!, a public art project which ran from 1991-2008. Moyer is a contributor to Art in America, Artforum, Modern Painters and The Brooklyn Rail. She serves as a governor for the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is an associate professor in the art department at Hunter College. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

Thursday, April 12, 7pm

Joan Richardson: Into the Cosmic Weather: Imagination as Value

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Scholar Joan Richardson, whose work reflects an interest in the way that philosophy, natural history and science intersect with literature, will give a talk on the influence of Darwin on Ralph Waldo Emerson and those following him into newly imagined territories of becoming. The title of the talk is from a 1948 Wallace Stevens lecture, where he called mind "the most terrible force in the world,""a violence from within that protects us from a violence without." Stevens also said imagination "creates images that are independent of their originals." Richardson will consider these aspects by tracing Stevens back to Emerson. Joan Richardson is professor of English, comparative literature and American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and the author of numerous books and essays on Wallace Stevens, Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James, among others. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

Monday, April 16, 7pm

Gerald Cyrus

136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Photographer and SVA alumnus Gerald Cyrus (MFA 1992 Photography and Related Media) is best known for his body of work exploring the nightclubs and jazz musicians of Harlem, which was published in the monograph Stormy Monday: New York's Uptown Jazz Scene (2008). He will present an overview of past and recent projects, including new works from Camden, New Jersey and Bahia, Brazil. His talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department.

Tuesday, April 17, 7pm

Yes, You Don't Know Me—Susan Hefuna in Conversation with Bettina Mathes

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
If truth is never naked and facts are always dressing up, what does it mean to be an expert? If to find ourselves we must get lost, what do the patterns, grids and notations we invent to navigate our inner and outer worlds look like? If space is a corporeal map, where do we draw the lines? Author and cultural critic Bettina Mathes will talk with German-Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna about disguise and dis/orientation as formal strategies and about Hefuna's collaboration with choreographer Luca Veggetti for the dance performance "point-move-line" at The Drawing Center. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.

Saturday, May 12, 10am – 6pm   CANCELLED

335 West 16 Street
First theorized by cultural critic Mark Dery, the "pathological sublime" is a kind of fascinated revulsion inspired by medical grotesqueries and anatomical oddities – from taxidermy gone wrong to the Anatomical Venuses of the 18th century to operating-room photos of living bodies. This event brings together cultural theorists, medical historians, artists and curators of private cabinets of curiosities for a day-long conference and a companion exhibition of artworks, oddities and curiosa, the first devoted to this burgeoning field of study and artistic activity. Speakers include Mark Dery, author of The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink (Grove Press, 1999) and Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century (Grove Press, 1996); Joanna Ebenstein, multidisciplinary artist and founder of the blog Morbid Anatomy and the Morbid Anatomy Library; and Suzanne Anker, visual artist, theorist and chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.

Friday, June 1, 9am

TEDxChelsea Conference:
Ideas Worth Spreading

335 West 16 Street
TEDxChelsea is the first TEDx conference to engage with the art world. TEDx conferences are independently organized events held throughout the world which focus on the convergence of technology, entertainment and design and aim to stimulate dialogue at the local level. TEDxChelsea will bring together three key art constituencies: gallerists, emerging artists and academia. The event is organized by Suzanne Anker, chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA, artist Phil Buehler (MFA 2003 Photography and Related Media) and photographer Reven Wurman, producer of the original TED conferences. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department. Tickets will be available at http://tedxchelsea.org. Registration on the day of the event begins at 8am.