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Special Projects Archive

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.

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: 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

Ultra-red: School of Echoes

Speculating on Change: An Annotated Bibliography

For the next few months, Switchboard features an annotated bibliography in development, related to the center’s theme for 2009-1010, Speculating on Change. The project is initiated by 2009-2010 fellow Robert Sember, a member of the sound art collective Ultra-red, and…

Posted on September 20, 2009

martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll

Part Three

This is the final post in a three-part series by Martha Rosler. Read the first post here and the second post here; Vera List Center director Carin Kuoni introduces Rosler’s blogroll project here.

The blogroll

The political blogosphere is, as I have suggested,…

Posted on December 11, 2009

martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll

Part Two

This is the second post in a three-part series by Martha Rosler. Read the first post here and the third post here; Vera List Center director Carin Kuoni introduces Rosler’s blogroll project here.

Jostling for position, and who pays?

In the wider spheres…

Posted on December 9, 2009

martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll

Part One

This is the first post in a three-part series by Martha Rosler. Read the second post here and the third post here; Vera List Center director Carin Kuoni introduces Rosler’s blogroll project here.

Introduction

The political “blogosphere” is a dynamic reticulation whose many…

Posted on December 7, 2009

martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll

Introduction

Opinionated but practical, the Switchboard blogroll is curated by artists or academics we admire and turn to when looking beyond the confines of our own disciplines. Their selections identify stakeholders in political or cultural debates while sketching a portrait of…

Posted on December 7, 2009

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