[Nettime-bold] Lecture

[Robert Atkins <robertatkins@earthlink.net>]

The Artworld, Community and Activism: A Meditation Inspired by the Events of
September 11th
 
A lecture by Robert Atkins,  art critic and author, online producer and
activist. 

George Mason University, Johnson Center Cinema, Fairfax, Virginia, April 1,
2002, 1:30 p.m.

Modern art emerged two centuries ago from social crisis and this activist
impulse lives on in recent public art by artists and organizations such as
Joseph Beuys, Group Material, Gran Fury and Visual AIDS.  In an age of
sensationalistic mass media and the theme-parking of museums, can the
artworld promote the emergence of independent and critical voices? Is there
a tradition of community-based and political art in the U.S.? Is the
internet the last, best hope for artists pursuing social change? As with the
numbing, post-Sept 11th rhetoric about "patriotism," "sacrifice," and
"change," are the appropriate issues even being addressed?  In his
illustrated lecture, Mr. Atkins will raise such questions -- and even
provide a few answers.


Robert Atkins, a New York-based art historian, is the initiator of 911‹THE
SEPTEMBER 11 PROJECT: Cultural Intervention in Civic Society
(http://rhizome.org/911) and a founder of Visual AIDS, the group that
originated Day Without Art and the Red Ribbon. He has taught at various
universities and art schools; most recently at the Rhode Island School of
Design.  The author of books including ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contempory
Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords and a former columnist for The Village Voice,
he has received awards for art criticism from the NEA, Manufacturers Hanover
Bank, and the Penny McCall Foundation. A research fellow at Carnegie
Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry, he is media arts editor of The Media
Channel (www.mediachannel.org) and editor in chief of Artery: The AIDS-Arts
Forum (www.artistswithaids.org/artery).  He is currently working on an
anthology of his work called Eye/I Witness: Art Writing as Activism,
Criticism and Reportage.


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