The School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design has announced its new "Intermedia Initiative" under the directorship of Associate Professor Coco Fusco. This new area of research and public programming will explore developments in the fields of New Genres and New Media and will foster increased cross-disciplinary exchange within Parsons. The Intermedia Initiative
will involve faculty, visiting scholars and guest artists whose work engages with photography, time based media, digital arts, contemporary art history and visual culture studies. During its first year, the Intermedia Initiative will sponsor a weekly interdisciplinary artists lecture series, a new transdisciplinary graduate seminar featuring a wide range of guest scholars, a symposium on Performance and Politics in Guatemala, and new undergraduate and graduate studio courses. The principle goal of the Intermedia Initiative will be foment cross-disciplinary exchange among faculty, students and guests and to expand the possibilities for interdisciplinary art practices at Parsons and The New School. Fusco will also convene a working group of faculty from AMT to explore possibilities for expanding interdisciplinary curricular offerings and degree offerings in the future.

"Parsons is pleased that Associate Professor Coco Fusco has agreed to become Director of Intermedia Initiatives," said Sven Travis, Dean of the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons. "With the new Intermedia Initative, AMT embraces the increasingly interdisciplinary orientation of all schools at Parsons and The New School. We are lucky to have an individual such as Coco already in our mids. I fully support her leadership of Intermedia Initiatives. I could not imaginesomeone more dynamic and well suited to lead this charge. During her year as Chair of Fine Arts, that program underwent a notable increase in its faculty, an important diversification of curricular offerings in time-based media, and a dramatic rise in MFA student enrollment. She will no doubt bring the same energy and creative thinking to this new initiative."

For over twenty years, Professor Fusco's work as an artist, writer and teacher has bridged many disciplines. She is a recent recipient of a Faculty Development Fund Grant from The New School for the creation of a new project in collaboration with professors Michelle Materre Media Studies and Veronica Lawlor in Illustration. As part of her duties as Chair of Parsons Fine Arts Department, Fusco initiated many of the projects that will serve as the foundation for Intermedia Initiatives.

Fusco herself is enthusiastic about the possibilities. "The most exciting changes in contemporary art of the past thirty years have come from the increasing diversity of the field, its locations, its manifestations and its participants. Art is now understood and celebrated as an interdisciplinary endeavor occurring on a global scale. Nonetheless, too many art schools remain wedded to structures that isolate disciplines rather than bringing them into dialogue. I am very pleased that such critical transformations in art can become palpable through the Intermedia Initiative at Parsons."

About Parsons The New School for Design Parsons The New School for Design is one of the premier institutions for art and design education. Founded in 1896, is has served as a pioneer in the field for more than a century. Based in New York but active around the world, the school offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the full spectrum of design disciplines. Critical thinking and collaboration are at the heart of a Parsons education. Parsons offers rigorous training that allows for interdisciplinary collaboration across five thematic schools. An integral part of The New School, Parsons builds on the university's legacy of progressive ideals, scholarship, and pedagogy. Parsons graduates are leaders in their respective fields, with a shared commitment to creatively and
critically addressing the complexities of life in the 21st century. For more information, please visit www.parsons.newschool.edu

International Sculpture Center Symposium Registration Deadline Extended

Due to Popular Demand - ISC Symposium Registration Deadline Extended Until September 17th.

Due to overwhelming last minute registration increase the International Sculpture Center has extended the registration deadline for their upcoming symposium, Strategies For Success in Challenging Times happening in Hamilton/Princeton, NJ, October 9-10, 2009. Register now - Don’t miss this final chance - on-site registration will not be available!

Geared towards those working in the sculpture community. Panels will address the current economic climate with an emphasis on creative solutions and positive strategies being implemented. The ISC’s 2009 Symposium will serve as a helpful tool to gather knowledge and ideas from leaders in the arts community.

Why Attend?
Artists: Invest in your Career - Network with presenters and attendees – Gain insight from others and information for the business aspect of your profession.

Get informed about strategies and tools that have proven to be productive and efficient – Interact with organizations you hope to work with - Make useful connections - Meet other artists - Hear how organizations are working through current climate and the affect on artists - Learn about resources available from organizations like keynote speaker Ruby Lerner’s Creative Capital and panelist Phong Bui’s The Brooklyn Rail and Hear what artists like Tom Otterness, Paul Villinksi, and Rona Pondick are experiencing.

Arts Administrators: Discover Useful Strategies For Success - Learn New Marketing Techniques - Network with Others in the Field - Hear success stories – Get information about strategies and tools proven to be productive and efficient - Improve efficiency and effectiveness – Save your organization marketing dollars - Launch into the technologically-driven era - Share experiences of adapting to the economy - Realize creative solutions - Leave with new, unique, and thought-provoking methods of endurance.

What have people been saying about ISC events? Here is a sampling of actual attendees’ testimony:

“Made many connections on a person-to-person level.”

“The panelists did their jobs! They posed questions and raised issues that generated additional questions and conversations that lasted beyond their session.”

“High level of expertise among the panelists.”

“The subject and panel talks were very inspirational.”

“Great conference. Thoughtfully prepared and structured. As an artist, it was good to meet people more on the administrative side of things.”

“Well organized. It was great to be around curators and administrators who were interested and available to talk to artists.”

“Exceeded my expectations. I look forward to future events.”

Join the ISC for this year’s symposium which promises to be a significant investment! For more information of questions contact events@sculpture.org or 609-689-1051 x302.
To register visit www.sculpture.org This is the final chance to participate as on-site registrations cannot be accepted.

ART AND SCIENCE MASTER'S – POITIERS
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Unique in Europe, this Master's permits motivated students who have a study project in art or science to do courses in art and epistemology and to :

- acquire a high level of competence in a specialization (art and science, epistemology, history of science, cybernetics, history and culture of techniques, cognitive sciences, phenomenology, text/image relationships, the use of digital devices in film making and live performances, in cinematography and in interactive writing and multmedia....)

- become independent in their research, with the possibility of developing a project in keeping with the main axes of the FORELL and XLIM-SIC laboratories, the European School of Visual Arts (ÉESI), the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), and the Centre de recherche en épistémologie appliquée (CREA, Paris) where they will attend team meetings, work presentations, meetings with researchers, seminars and meet visiting professors…

Applications must enclose a concise description of the project.

Deadline for application: August 31, 2009
Contact person: Sophie Chrzaszcz, s.chrzaszcz@eesi.eu
http://www.eesi.eu - http://www.univ-poitiers.fr

International Commissioning Opportunity

The Locative Cinema Commission is a joint project of ZER01: The Art and Technology Network, the Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre, and Sundance Institute's New Frontier Initiative.

We are soliciting proposals that can generalize the platform of specific places such as San Jose, California, Banff, Canada, or Park City, Utah to describe the world that you want people to see.

The commission will be realized via a residency at the Banff New Media Institute, to be completed by July 2010. The new work will be presented at the 2010 01SJ, the 2011 Sundance Festival, and the 2011 Banff Summer Arts Festival. As such, the work must be realizable in San Jose, Park City, and Banff.

There is a 4,500 USD artist commissioning fee, up to 5,000 USD for production and residency costs, plus substantial in kind support from The Banff Centre. In addition, reasonable presentation costs, including necessary travel, will be covered.

Proposal deadline: Monday August 3, 2009.

For further information and the specific application process:
http://zero1.org/01sj/Lccall

The Blue House presents International Symposium
Open call
Out of The Blue

An international symposium on Instant Urbanism, Hospitality and Accelerated History.

August 3rd - 9th 2009

The Blue House
IJburg - Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: 0031 (0) 6 385 953 79
Fax: 0031 (0) 1 021 342 74

www.blauwehuis.org

To register please contact:
Ria Hartley, production assistant at: info@blauwehuis.org

Deadline for registration: Monday, July 20th, 2009

Out of The Blue is an international symposium organized by The Blue House (Het Blauwe Huis) focusing on three main navigational strands in understanding experimental communities: Instant Urbanism, Hospitality and Accelerated History.

Out of The Blue is as a discursive forum where a number of investigative questions will be articulated via workshops, intense dialogues, in-conversations, study sessions, public deliberation plenaries, performances, and discussions with a number of guests on stage.

The initiator and main organizer is The Blue House, a four-year durational project initiated in IJburg, a new city extension of Amsterdam. IJburg is a major new urban district being developed on a cluster of man-made islands to the east of Amsterdam city centre. The whole development is governed by a highly detailed plan, the implementation of which is strictly regulated.

In 2005, artist Jeanne van Heeswijk arranged for a large villa in housing 'Block 35' to be taken off the private market and be re-designated as a space for community research, artistic production and cultural activities. In cooperation with Dennis Kaspori and Hervé Paraponaris The Blue House has acted as a centre for artistic and cultural production and research into what happens when such a radical approach to urban planning and community development is employed.

Out of The Blue will take place in the future 'Activity Centre' on the island presently under construction. The still concrete structure will be used as a temporal public faculty, a 50-room motel and an amphitheatre. The design is made by Maartje Dros and Francois Lombarts.

The curator of the symposium is Yane Calovski. It is part of Blue House project 'Parade of Urbanism' from Jeanne van Heeswijk and Dennis Kaspori in collaboration with Floris van Heynsbergen.

Blue House program content participants:

INSTANT URBAISM
Howard Chan, m7red (Mauricio Corbalán and Pio Torroja), Rudy J. Luijters, Jeanne van Heeswijk and Dennis Kaspori, Floris van Heijnsbergen, Bart Janssen, Ingrid Meus, Eveline de Munck Mortier, Peter van Keulen, Usha Mahabiersing, Nicoline Koek, Marthe van Eerdt.

HOSPITALITY
Igor Dobricic, Jo van der Spek, Inga Zimprich, Sonia Boyce, Nuno Sacramento, Roé Cerpac and Daniela Paes Leao.

ACCELERATED HISTORY
Pilot Publishing (Ella Gibbs and Amy Plant), Daniela Paes Leão, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Yane Calovski, Ria Jade Hartley, Silvia Russel.

Symposium program:

Instant Urbanism: All for the love of Instant Urbanism

Organized with Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen (STEALTH.unlimited, Rotterdam / Belgrade).

'All for the love of Instant Urbanism' brings together a group of people involved with and troubled by the necessity for a more future oriented instant creation and collectivity in the city. It blends a workshop, performance and discussions with a number of guests on stage, while setting out for the slippery grounds of even newer horizons.

Participants will include: Tor Lindstrand and Mårten Spångberg, International Festival, Stockholm, Emiliano Gandolfi, Cohabitation Strategies, independent curator and architect, Rotterdam, Dubravka Sekulic, Belgrade / Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Santiago Cirugeda, Recetas Urbanas, Sevilla.

Hospitality: Hospitality, Privacy, Place

Organized with Dr. Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London).

'Hospitality, Privacy, Place' is a two-day workshop that will explore the dialectic between these concepts in the context of the question what it means to build and develop a community that can be a mirror of Europe, both mediating and shaping its course.

Participants will include: Peter Thompson, Sheffield University (concrete utopias), Aneta Krzemien, University of Central Lancashire (public dialogue), Volker Schneider, Speedliner Co. and Ernst Bloch Assoziation, Bochum (concrete utopia, urbanization), Maaike Engelen, London (psychoanalysis as cultural critique).

Accelerated History: Is Time Enough? Duration, Location and Accelerated Histories

Organized with Dr. Paul O'Neill (artist - curator and GWR Research Fellow in Commissioning with Situations, University of the West of England, Bristol).

This strand of the symposium takes a speculative look at how duration and the evolutionary process of time is conceived of as part of new cumulative approaches to artistic, organizational and curatorial praxis in response to a specific locations and contexts. Centered around a series of intense dialogues and in-conversations, this strand aims to unpack key issues relating Durational approaches to Participatory Praxis, Collaboration and Play, Communities and Social Engagement, Organizational Models and Networks, Critical Writing and Pedagogy.

Participants will include: Sally Tallant (Head of Programmes, Serpentine, London) and Jonathan Banks (Chief Executive, ixia – the UK national public art think-tank), curator Sophie Hope (co-founder of curatorial duo B+B, London) and Amsterdam based writer-curator Eva Fotiadi, artists Barbara Holub & Paul Rajakovics (Transparadiso, Vienna), Christoph Schaefer (Park Fiction, Hamburg), Mick Wilson (Dean of GradCam, Dublin), writer and media theorist Ned Rossiter (author of 'Organized Networks'), Basak Senova (curator and designer, Nomad.tv. Istanbul and assistant professor, Kadir Has University ) and Paul O'Neill with a writing workshop on duration led by Maria Fusco (Writer and Director of Art Writing, Goldsmiths, London).

Out of The Blue has been developed by The Blue House and a number of partner institutions including: Locating the Producers - an on-going collaborative research initiative between Situations at the University of the West of England, Bristol, ProjectBase in Cornwall and Dartington College of Arts / University College Falmouth and led by Dr. Paul O'Neill (www.situations.org.uk/research_ltp.html) and ECREA – European Communication Research and Education Association - Philosophy of Communication.

The symposium has been generously has been made possible by Moes Bouwgroep, De Key - De Principaal and with the support of AFK, Mondriaan Stichting, European Union, SNS REAAL Fonds and Stichting DOEN. The Blue House is also supported by AFK, de Alliantie, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Digitale Pioniers, Fonds BKVB, ECF, SKOR, Stadsdeel Zeeburg, VSB Fonds and Waterstad 3.

The full schedule of the event will be available online at www.blauwehuis.org from Monday 13th July. Please also check this site for any additional information, as we will be updating this regularly.

Datos del evento:
Fecha: julio de 2009
Lugar: intervenciones en el espacio público en la Ciudad de México
Organiza: Antimuseo de Arte Contemporáneo
Patrocina: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo

Datos de contacto:
Antimuseo de Arte Contemporáneo:
Tomás Ruiz-Rivas: tomas@ojatomico.com
Maria María Acha: mariamaria@ojoatomico.com
Para más información, visite: www.ojoatomico.com

Presentación:
El Centro Portátil de Arte Contemporáneo es un dispositivo museístico transportable y de bajo coste creado por el Antimuseo de Arte Contemporáneo. Está diseñado para intervenciones breves y puede ser desplazado e instalado por una sola persona. Su función es tanto la de mostrar obras de arte y servir de infraestructura de apoyo para actividades culturales - performances, conferencias, conciertos...- como la de marcar y regenerar el espacio público en la ciudad.

El C.P.A.C. crea una conexión entre las estrategias de re-apropiación de la ciudad de colectivos marginados y prácticas artísticas que inciden directamente en el tejido urbano. El C.P.A.C. pretende contextualizar la obra de arte y activar nuevas situaciones sociales en torno a la misma. Durante el mes de julio de 2009 el C.P.A.C. va a atravesar literalmente la ciudad de México desde Tláhuac hasta Tlanepantla, sin más recursos que sus propias ruedas y los colaboradores que ayuden a empujarlo. En el largo trayecto, diversos colectivos y artistas presentarán sus proyectos artísticos y desarrollarán actividades culturales, estableciendo diálogos insólitos con la sociedad.

Objetivos:
Este proyecto pretende impulsar procesos creativos abiertos y de carácter colectivo, donde los sectores subalternos de la sociedad desarrollen formas de auto-representación.
Es también un proyecto de regeneración del espacio público, que va a replantear el valor y significado del espacio público, a atravesar fronteras sociales y culturales y a poner en escala humana la inconmensurabilidad de la ciudad de México. Como resultado trazaremos un nuevo mapa de la metrópoli, una cartografía inédita del
tejido social que mantiene viva nuestra ciudad.

Por último, el C.P.A.C. promueve formas alternativas de institucionalidad, y plantea una pregunta clave para el arte: ¿Con quién dialogan los museos?

Colaboran:
Centro Cultural de España en México, Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del distrito Federal, FARO DE ORIENTE, FARO TLÁHUAC, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Casa Talavera, Martes de Arte de Tepito.

Entre otros artistas participan Eder Castillo, Ilana Boltvinik, Arturo Ortiz, Sandra de la Loza, Taniel Morales y Alejandro Rincón.

In a critical panorama where energetic efficient buildings fail to match contemporary architectural concepts, ars09berlin - the summer academy for architecture, reurbanization and sustainability of the University of Applied Sciences Berlin - offers the opportunity to rethink the existing city under sustainable values. EXPERIMENT TRANSIT is a program aiming the issue of reorganizing and restructuring the urban fabric of the city.

As part of the University of Applied Sciences, where technological research and multidisciplinary working methods are carried out together, technical support from renamed experts on sustainable development field will be offered for the students. A combination of an architectural and urban design studio along with lectures of renowned capacities of the field will set up the frame to create ideas and strategies for the sustainable development of the site.

Urban planers, architects, designers, historians, engineers and critics will bring forth lines of perspective and open up the debate, rethinking the role of energy waste in contemporary design. Speakers like Fritz Reusswig from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, Thomas Lechner from Transsolar, Berlin Architects dealing with public interaction like Raumlabor and members of the winning Solar Decathlon team will be part of the team.

The airfield of Tempelhof Airport, inside Berlin's beltway, was shut down in October 2008. The size of the airfield, the economical and demographics situation call for different means of revitalizing this area. The challenge is unprecedented; other redevelopment procedures for the center of Berlin after reunification can't keep up with it and no investor is offering any idea.

As a result, only time appears to be part of the solution. However, in most parts of Berlin, spontaneous urban users have achieved more suitable solutions rather than top-down development could ever accomplish; offering opportunities to individuals taking on their initiative and living their dreams instead of over imposing authoritarian plans.

As a whole method, rather than looking at one solution, we do investigate scenarios. We consider scenarios as tools to explore future – or even different possible futures. This approach allows us to focus on critical uncertainties.

Starting with fieldtrips to explore similar situations and to get familiar with the city of Berlin, this program offers an academic environment for learning in an international context, referencing different cultural backgrounds to new perspectives, fostering intercultural understanding.

This year the summer academy for architecture, reurbanization and sustainability, ars09berlin will take place from May 30th to July 2nd. Due to academic schedules the deadline for applications of international architecture and urban design students is postponed to 15th May. Applicants interested on alternative strategies for the city and reuse of derelict urban sites, open for creative solutions with skills on developing new approaches are highly encouraged to participate.

For additional information contact demel@beuth-hochschule.de, check our blog at www.ars09berlin.blogspot.com of visit our website www.summer-academy-berlin.eu

Convocatoria Décima Bienal de La Habana

INTEGRACIÓN Y RESISTENCIA EN LA ERA GLOBAL
10ma Bienal de La Habana.
Marzo-Abril del 2009
Veinticinco Aniversario

La Décima Bienal de La Habana tendrá lugar durante los meses de marzo y abril de 2009 coincidiendo con los veinticinco años de su fundación. Esta es una circunstancia propicia para estimular la reflexión sobre su propia historia, específicamente sobre aquellos presupuestos que sirvieron de base para convocar a creadores de América Latina y el Caribe, Asia, África y el Medio Oriente, en un clima genuino de acercamiento entre nosotros y respecto al resto de la comunidad internacional.

Desde 1984 hemos dirigido nuestra atención hacia los artistas del Sur cuyas obras representan preocupaciones y conflictos comunes de nuestras regiones, muchas veces de alcance universal. En este sentido han devenido temáticas de particular interés las tensiones existentes entre tradición y contemporaneidad, el desafío a los procesos históricos de colonización, las relaciones entre arte y sociedad, el individuo y su memoria, la comunicación humana ante el desarrollo tecnológico y las dinámicas de la cultura urbana, sin distinción entre las múltiples manifestaciones de la visualidad que operan en la cultura como sistema.

www.bienalhabana.cult.cu

GABRIELA GUTIÉRREZ OVALLE
PELAJE
pintura, instalación

Comisario: Rafael Pérez y Pérez
Museo de la SHCP, Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado / México, D.F.

Inauguración: jueves 19 de de marzo de 2009; 19:30 hrs.
hasta mayo de 2009

Gabriela Gutiérrez © Lingam, 2008 (detalle) / mixta sobre tela

MUSEO DE LA SECRETARÍA DE HACIENDA Y CRÉDITO PÚBLICO
Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado
moneda 4, centro histórico, méxico, d.f.

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PELAJE

La Sala vestibular del Museo de la SHCP, Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado, presenta, en el marco del XXV
aniversario del Festival de México en el Centro Histórico, la muestra Pelaje. Gabriela Gutiérrez.

La selección de obra está basada en la más reciente etapa de la creación de la artista. Gabriela Gutiérrez
busca caminos propositivos dentro de su propio trabajo y encuentra en la materia orgánica que conforma el
pelo o cabello humano un elemento que integra primeramente al soporte formal de su pintura, y que después
adquiere un carácter autónomo para conformar piezas tridimensionales con diversas lecturas asociadas a la
construcción mental colectiva o a la íntima y personal.

www.arteven.com/gabriela_gutierrez
www.arteven.org/GabrielaGutierrezOvalle