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Artist Projects

These projects are specifically created for Switchboard and expand on our annual theme. Different from the individual public programs, the special projects develop over the course of the year and provide a continuing presence.

300+ Million Year Old Coal from Kayford Mountain, West Virginia (Kanawha Coal Field). Approximately 67% of The New School's energy is supplied by fossil fuels. From "Carbon Trading Across the Eons (Thingness of Energy)", Jamie Kruse 2011-2012 (photo Elizabeth Ellsworth)

Jamie Kruse: Thingness of Energy

* Artist Project

February 2 through April 24, 2012
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, lobby
Parsons The New School for Design
2 West 13th Street (off Fifth Avenue)

Exhibition hours: Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Exhibition reception
Thursday, February 2, 2012,…

Posted on January 18, 2012

Lin + Lam: Change Encounters

Change Encounters” is a new project by Lin + Lam, conceived in response to the Vera List Center’s focus theme “Speculating on Change.” Lin + Lam have collected an interdisciplinary array of cultural and historical predictive devices, appropriations from popular culture, historical sources, and…

Posted on September 9, 2010

Melanie Crean, The Shape of Change, 2009.

Melanie Crean: Shape of Change

The Shape of Change project is a navigable archive of American and Iraqi visions of change. Consisting of two projects, it investigates how U.S. and Iraqi citizens perceive and represent personal and political change. The first is an online archive that…

Posted on September 20, 2009

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