{"id":2033,"date":"2016-08-11T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2016-08-11T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:39:09","slug":"filigrees-of-form-a-stitch-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/filigrees-of-form-a-stitch-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Filigrees of Form: A Stitch in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

In conjunction with the IFF’s exhibition Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at the Museum of Arts and Design in NY, please join us for a panel discussion<\/a> about the acceleration of time, environmental change, and interplays between art, science and nature.<\/p>\n

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Panel: Filigrees of Form: A Stitch in Time<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Museum of Arts and Design
\nThursday Sept 22, 2016, 7pm
\nThe Theater @ MAD
\n2 Columbus Circle, NYC, NY 10019
\n$10 general\/ $5 members and students<\/p>\n

Program Description
\n<\/strong>Time is being accelerated as new technologies and biological degradation bring forth rapid alterations in nature\u2014from genetic engineering to tissue culturing, from the incessant depletion of coral reefs and their ecology to botanical farming moving indoors. How can we adjust to these environmental changes? Can we propose a new arcadia, coupled with advances in mathematical models and their projections, or are some of nature\u2019s forms too complex to execute in that manner? Looking at biology as technology, our panel discussion will underscore the sensitivities inherent in forms of living entities and the roles these forms play in knowledge production through art and science.<\/p>\n

Panel Moderator:
\n<\/strong>Suzanne Anker<\/strong>\u00a0is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums, ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown under LED lights. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally, in museums and galleries including the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Ankar has hosted 20 episodes of The Bio-Blurb Show<\/em>, an Internet radio program originally on WPS1 Art Radio, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Chairing\u00a0the School of Visual Arts\u2019 BFA Fine Arts Department\u00a0in New York City, Anker continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department\u2019s new digital initiative and the SVA Bio Art Lab.<\/p>\n

Panelists:
\n<\/strong>Margaret Wertheim<\/strong> is a writer, artist and curator whose work focuses on the intersection of science and the wider cultural landscape. Founder and director of the Institute For Figuring, she and her twin sister Christine Wertheim have created the Crochet Coral Reef <\/em>project, which has been exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, London; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg; Science Gallery, Dublin; and the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Wertheim\u2019s work with the IFF has been shown at the Walker Art Center and is in the current MASS MoCA exhibition<\/a> Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Wonder. <\/em>She has authored six books, including The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace<\/em>\u00a0a history of Western concepts of space, and Physics on the Fringe<\/em>, about the scientific equivalent of \u201coutsider art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joseph DeGiorgis<\/strong> graduated with a Bachelor\u2019s in Oceanography and Marine Ecology from the Florida Institute of Technology and worked as a scuba diver for the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He spent time at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and at Harvard Medical School before obtaining a PhD in Neuroscience from Brown University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health and is now a Professor of Biology at Providence College and Adjunct Faculty in the MBL Cellular Dynamics Program. DeGiorgis teaches bio imaging at the School of Visual Arts, New York.<\/p>\n

Frank Gillette<\/strong> is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1984\u20131985. His work has been presented in solo\u00a0exhibitions at museums and galleries including Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Howard Wise Gallery, New York;\u00a0Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In addition, Gillette\u2019s work has been included in numerous group shows, including at Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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