RE:GROUP this week: Hacking Couture, Homelessness Mapping, Networked Solidarity, and WPA 2010

Posted July 12th, 2010 by surplus

Below is the line-up for this week’s events organized as part of the exhibition Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus, which examines participation as a model and models of participation in art and activism. Re:Group proposes that with participation now a dominant paradigm, structuring social interaction, art, activism, the architecture of the city, the internet, and [...]

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Participationism and the Limits of Collaboration

Posted July 6th, 2010 by surplus

Thursday, July 8, 7:30pm-9pm (free)
Eyebeam Art & Technology Center
540 W 23rd St, btw 10th & 11th
Organized by Not An Alternative, moderated by Astra Taylor
Discussants:
Professor/author Jodi Dean; non-profit organization Not An Alternative; artist John Hawke
Today everyone sings the praises of participation: leading academics hail active audiences who remix commercial culture, established curators wax poetic about relational [...]

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