Each year, the VLC identifies a topic of urgency and resonance that becomes the subject of various public programs – Speculating on Change is the annual theme for 2009-2010, in response to the Obama call for “change we can believe in.” The discussions probe perceptions, descriptions, measurements, and meanings of change that inform collective action, whether political, scientific, or cultural. Speculating on Change also entails projection, prognosis and risk, and embodies the fluid and divergent time space continuum of contemporary existence. The programs are tied to the previous cycle on democracy as an eternally deferred state. Both program cycles received the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll
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, full of interlocking circles, and I have found myself browsing mostly within a particular ambit, which I think of (following…
Posted on December 11, 2009
martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll
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 of public consciousness, the soi-disant grassroots blogs have been overshadowed by media heavyweights who use their celebrity status derived from…
Posted on December 9, 2009
martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll
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 skeins are formed by the different ways in which people organize communications about politics and the public sphere – occasional,…
Posted on December 7, 2009
martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll
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 the blogroll curators themselves.
The inaugural edition is written and presented by Martha Rosler, artist, writer, and member of the Vera…
Posted on December 7, 2009
Michael A. Cohen, “Four Paradoxes of Our Urban Future”
Michael A. Cohen discusses the economic welfare and political stability of cities both as sites of the greatest impacts of global change, but also as sites providing solutions to some of the challenges that result from such change.
Cohen will deliver the inaugural lecture for “Speculating on Change,” the Vera List Center annual theme for 2009-10, at The New School on Friday,…
Posted on October 8, 2009
Bill Gaskins
Photographer, essayist and Parsons faculty member Bill Gaskins introduces “Birth and Rebirth of a Nation,” a colloquium and screening event taking place at The New School on Saturday, September 26, 2009.
Posted on September 20, 2009
Miriam Petty Presentation – Synopsis
Petty’s remarks provide some historical context for D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, in terms of its sweeping and enduring cultural significance. She will also explore the way in which the visual and ideological representation of Black/mulatto women in The Birth of a Nation is explicitly countered and revised by Oscar Micheaux in his 1920 film Within Our Gates.
In D.W. Griffith’s…
Posted on September 20, 2009
Suggested Reading
Colloquium participants submitted this list of suggested readings to create a context for the discussion:
Blackmon, Douglas. Slavery By Another Name. Anchor Books, 2008.
Blight, David. “Fifty Years of Freedom and Reunion” in Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Harvard University Press, 2001.
Wallace, Michele. “The Good Lynching and The Birth of a Nation: Discourses and Aesthetics of Jim Crow,”…
Posted on September 20, 2009
Stephanie Rothenberg, 10 Steps To Your Own Sweatshop
Posted on September 23, 2009
The Internet as Playground and Factory, web-based artist projects
The Vera List Center is pleased to host a number of web-based artist projects as a prelude to The Internet as Playground and Factory, a conference organized by Eugene Lang faculty member Trebor Scholz that will take place at Eugene Lang College (The New School), from November 12 to 14, 2009 (www.digitallabor.org).
Burak Arikan, Meta-Markets (2007)
Ursula Endlicher, Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited…
Posted on September 23, 2009
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