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LORIE NOVAK Thursday, November 29, 2012 Lorie Novak is an artist and Professor of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Associate Faculty at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She uses various technologies of representation to explore issues of memory and transmission, identity and loss, presence and absence, shifting cultural meanings of photographs, and the relationship between the intimate and the public. "LORIE NOVAK"

SCOLI ACOSTA Tuesday, November 20, 2012 "I try to adhere to an "aesthetics of resourcefulness," which I've come to think of as the recycling, refurbishing, readapting and replicating of found and everyday objects. This decision is based in part on the necessity to reduce, reuse and recycle (for the sake of the planet) and as well on isolating and magnifying the poetics of the quotidian."   –Scoli Acosta "SCOLI ACOSTA"

TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Thursday, November 15, 2012  Internationally acclaimed artist Trenton Doyle Hancock spins ever-evolving personal, mythological narratives in a prolifically inventive practice that incorporate text, drawing, collage, and painting with installation and performance. A remarkably prolific artist, Hancock's exuberant marvels embody his singular vision and distinctive means of storytelling. "TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK"

Paul Rapp Tuesday, November 20, 2012  Paul Rapp has represented artists of every type, civic organizations, small businesses, and multinational corporations. He is a seasoned litigator, having represented various clients in state and federal courts in matters including copyright, trademark, the Visual Artists Rights Act, cybersquatting, defamation, civil rights, breach of contract, and commercial collections. Rapp lectures regularly on intellectual property issues, and in 2003 and 2004 was a featured speaker at the Visual Art and the Law conference in Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico. "Paul Rapp"

ANNETTE LEMIEUX Thursday, November 1, 2012 Annette Lemieux first came to prominence as a Pictures Generation artist; since then, her work has continued to delve into history, politics, and cultural experience with characteristic intelligence and humor. A conceptual artist who remains committed to a diversity of approaches, Lemieux's nimble use of varied mediums and practices, objects, language, and images allows her work to powerfully and eloquently express her chosen content. "ANNETTE LEMIEUX"

Buzz Spector Thursday, November 15, 2012  Buzz Spector is an artist and critical writer whose artwork has been shown in such museums and galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Mattress Factory. Spector's work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory and perception. He has issued a number of artists' books and editions since the mid-1970s, including, most recently, Time Square, a limited edition letterpress book hand altered by the artist. "Buzz Spector"

Terah Maher Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Terah Maher, Animator/Filmmaker/Designer/Dancer, received a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has been teaching experimental animation in Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies Department since 2006. Her design work investigates the potentials of constructing narrative experience within physical spaces. She has worked as production designer on internationally screened shorts and designed many exhibitions, including "Frame by Frame, Animated at Harvard" at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (2010). Maher's film work, influenced by her years as a modern dancer, explores the structural systems inherent in animation processes in her efforts to extend the expressive potential of the human body. "Terah Maher"

JOHN BROWN Wednesday, October 31, 2012 John Brown was born in Dumfries in the south west of Scotland and grew up on a large garden estate called Threave where his father worked. In 1985, he moved to Edinburgh to study for a degree in drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art and became one of the first to go on and graduate with a master's degree in painting in 1991. During this time, he was awarded a number of travelling scholarships that enabled him, after graduating, to make extensive tours of Europe and the United States. On returning to Scotland in 1994, he began teaching part time at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and Grays School of Art in Aberdeen. This has since led on to a more permanent position at ECA where John works with a wide range of students in the School of Drawing and Painting. "JOHN BROWN"

LUCY ORTA Tuesday, October 30, 2012  "As members of the community, we have been affected by various problems that our society is facing: loneliness, homelessness, forced migration, famine, water scarcity, climate and change. And as artists, we develop poetic strategies in an attempt to address these issues. Like Joseph Beuys, we support the idea that art can act as a catalyst for social change. Together we believe that the creative potential of every individual no longer needs to be proven, it needs to be fully recognized and converted into initiatives that will engage a wider range of community members, whether they are street sellers, passers-by, scientists, museum curators or visitors."  –Lucy and Jorge Orta, from an interview with Valerie Knochel Abecassis "LUCY ORTA"

JILL MCDERMID-HOKANSON + ERIK HOKANSON Wednesday, October 24, 2012 "Artist Talk: Jill McDermid-Hokanson and Erik Hokanson" features these two performance artists from Brooklyn, New York who have participated in many international performance art festivals as artists and curators in Europe, Asia, Central and South America and work together as a married team to run, curate and direct Grace Exhibition Space. The Brooklyn exhibition space is devoted exclusively to Contemporary Visual Performance and provides an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging performance works by the current generation of international performance artists. It presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, showcasing new work by more than 400 performance artists from across the United States and the world since opening in 2006. "JILL MCDERMID-HOKANSON + ERIK HOKANSON"

AMY JACOBS Thursday, October 25, 2012 Amy Jacobs, studio coordinator and Education Manager at Dieu Donné Papermill in New York City, presents a Print & Paper Area Lecture and discusses contemporary artists who have done innovative work in handmade paper at the Dieu Donné studio. "AMY JACOBS"

LEE BOROSON Tuesday, October 23, 2012 "This project was designed to be a narrative, experienced in four components, which can be understood in relation to each other. The components are "Ground Cover" a fabric sculpture that refers to a lava field, "Shade Cloth", a fabric cloud, "Water Feature" a torrent of 20,000 white rayon tassels pouring down from the ceiling above, and "Dynamo" a stainless steel sphere lit from within and casting its red/ orange glow on the surrounding walls."  –Lee Boroson "LEE BOROSON"

Ann Steuernagel Tuesday, October 23, 2012  Ann Steuernagel is an experimental video artist who creates "exuberant montages" out of found footage, skirting "cloying nostalgia. Instead, from a remove, Steuernagel dissects that nostalgia and hints at its dystopic underpinnings." (Kata Braciale, Director, Proof Gallery, Boston) Her work has been shown at festivals and galleries throughout the United States, including Boston, New York and San Francisco, as well as in Canada, Mexico and Europe. In 1994 Ann established boyrunning productions, and in 1999 she won the grand prize at the XX VideoArt Festival in Locarno, Switzerland for her video of the same name. She is the recipient of a Somerville Arts Lottery grant, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Media Fellowship, an LEF grant and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2011 Ann's video "The Garden" was awarded Best of Festival at the 30th Black Maria Film + Video Festival. Ann is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University. "Ann Steuernagel"

JULIE SISSIA Tuesday, October 23, 2012 Julie Sissia, a doctoral candidate at the Centre d'Histoire, Sciences-Po and Research Assistant at the Centre l'Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, will give the lecture "The Two Germanies at the Paris Biennale, 1967–1982" "JULIE SISSIA"

TOM RANKIN Thursday, October 18, 2012 "Photography, for me, is about doing something with and about what's immediately around us, even in the most mundane of places and times. It's about discovering words and ways of seeing that are new--this is the heart of making worlds visible, using photography to do rather than to merely say." -Tom Rankin "TOM RANKIN"

BRUCE KENNETT Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Bruce Kennett is a historian and biographer of W.A. Dwiggins: artist, illustrator, typographer, book designer and puppet maker. "BRUCE KENNETT"

DANIEL RICH Thursday, September 27, 2012 Daniel Rich's solo show "Platforms of Power" will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from September 29, 2012 - March 31, 2013. "DANIEL RICH"

JERED SPRECHER Thursday, October 11, 2012  Jered Sprecher's studio practice explores the "handwriting" of humankind. The vocabulary that he draws from is focused on the vast array of marks and images in one's surroundings. From this vocabulary he samples visual motifs and imports them into his paintings and drawings. These works continually focus on remnants and fragments that are captured in the midst of change, then edited and fused together in the space of painting. "JERED SPRECHER"

KATIE PETERSON Thursday, October 4, 2012 Katie Peterson is Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University. She is the author of a book of poems, This One Tree (New Issues, 2006) and the forthcoming collections The Accounts (University of Chicago, 2013) and Permission (New Issues, 2014), and the recipient of several fellowships including an individual artist grant, from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Radcliffe Fellowship. Presented by the SMFA English Program / Visual and Critical Studies. "KATIE PETERSON"

HEIDE FASNACHT Tuesday, September 25, 2012  "From 1940 to 1944 the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, headed by members of the Nazi party, and Sonderstab Bildende Kunst, its fine arts division, amassed over 22,000 artworks mainly from Jewish collections. They also seized degenerate art, which included many outstanding examples of early modernism. This collection was housed in the "Room of Martyrs" and sold and exchanged to finance the war."  – Heide Fasnacht "HEIDE FASNACHT"

CLAIRE ASHLEY + JOSEPH RAVENS Friday, September 21, 2012 Claire Ashley is from Edinburgh, Scotland. She lives and works in Chicago. She received a BFA from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland in 1993, and an MFA in 1995 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown in the U.S. at, among others, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hyde Park Art Center, The Chicago Cultural Center, The Chicago Public Library, Defibrillator Performance Space, Devening Projects, Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space, and Terrain Exterior Exhibition Space, Chicago; ACRE, Steuben WI; PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO; Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL; El Centro Community College Art Gallery, Dallas, TX; SideCar, Hammond, IN; Eggman and Walrus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; and Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL. And in Scotland at: gallerA1, Edinburgh; and The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Departments of Contemporary Practices, and Painting and Drawing. "CLAIRE ASHLEY + JOSEPH RAVENS"

PERRY BARD Thursday, September 20, 2012  Perry Bard works individually and collaboratively on media projects for public space addressing issues of representation, access, distribution and the collision of then and now. Her work has been presented at MoMA NY, IDFA, Toronto, Moscow, Rotterdam Film Festivals, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Montreal and Sao Paolo Biennials. "PERRY BARD"

NESTOR GARCIA CANCLINI Thursday, September 13, 2012 In conjunction with Boston University's Lectures in Criticism series, Néstor García Canclini of the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City will lecture on: "Creatividad Precaria: Los Jóvenes en una Cultura Postindustrial" ("Precarious Creativity: Youth in a Post-Industrial Culture," translated by Victoria Livingstone). Canclini is an Argentine-born academic and anthropologist known for his theorization of the concept of "hybridity." This concept is fundamentally associated with the emergence of postcolonial discourse and its critiques of cultural imperialism. The second stage in the history of hybridity is characterized by literature and theory that focuses on the effects of mixture upon identity and culture. "NESTOR GARCIA CANCLINI"

EMMA BOWKETT Thursday, April 19, 2012 Emma Bowkett is Picture Editor at the Financial Times FT Weekend Magazine. Prior to FT, she worked as first assistant to a London photographer. She is also a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths University of London where she teaches photography in the Media and Communications department. Bowkett has a masters degree in Image and Communication. "EMMA BOWKETT"

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR Thursday, March 15, 2012 Alison Elizabeth Taylor has become well known for reinvigorating the Renaissance craft of marquetry, or intarsia wood inlay, a medium once made popular during the unprecedented age of luxury in Louis XIV's Court of Versailles. By choosing a medium that is typically associated with wealth and power to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life, Taylor creates a tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness of the subject matter. "ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR"

LESLIE THORNTON Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Leslie Thornton has been at the very forefront of experimental film and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film and video works and installations. An acknowledged pioneer in media, Thornton's early film and video work first addressed the interplay between cinema, video, installation and improvisation in a manner that prefigured many contemporary media strategies. Her major projects include Peggy and Fred in Hell (a 26 year, multi-episodic work), Adynata (an early film dealing with Orientalism), Another Worldly (a found footage "musical" and critique), Let Me Count The Ways: Minus 10, 9, 8, 7... (a serial, modular video, addressing the exfoliations of war), and The Binocular Series (an ongoing installation project based upon imagery of animals). "LESLIE THORNTON"

EILEEN QUINLAN Thursday, March 29, 2012 "Eileen Quinlan describes herself as a still-life photographer. Born in 1972, she has become well known in recent years as one of a cohort of photographers—Walead Beshty and Liz Deschenes are notable others—who, following in the footsteps of practitioners from Moholy-Nagy to James Welling, have been disassembling the layered apparatus of photography (light, subject, optics, chemistry, bytes, the material image) and finding new means of expression. "EILEEN QUINLAN"

LEIGHTON PIERCE Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Leighton Pierce uses film, video, and sound to create experiences in transformative time. He creates multi-channel site-specific installations as well as single channel works. Pierce studied ceramics and music composition, especially jazz and electronic music, before making films. In fact, his first move into filmmaking came about from his frustration with the lack of a visual component to taped music. It is a continuation of this early interest in music and the construction of emotional experiences in time that continue to guide his work. Perhaps partly due to this background in ceramics and music, Pierce executes all aspects of his works himself including the conception, the cinematography, the editing, and of course the sound design and composition. While widely recognized for his stunning cinematography, he considers his editing and sound design to be the core of his art. "LEIGHTON PIERCE"

DAVID HUMPHREY Thursday, April 12, 2012 David Humphrey has long been interested in the intersection of desire and consumerism in middle-class America. At times both humorous and disturbing, his work employs vernacular imagery drawn from the ephemera of American consumer culture. His canvases are populated with images of kittens, poodles, flowers, vacuum cleaners, peanut butter and other objects that elicit feelings of familiarity and nostalgia. "DAVID HUMPHREY"

STEVE ALMOND Thursday, March 8, 2012 Author Steve Almond joins us for an evening of art and politics. A widely acclaimed short story writer and essayist, Almond's recent books include the collection of stories God Bless America and non-fiction titles Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life and Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America. Almond writes for the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times, and he taught creative writing at Boston College until 2006 when his open letter of resignation was published in the Globe as a response to the college's selection of Condoleeza Rice as commencement speaker. "STEVE ALMOND"

RANDY WRAY Thursday, March 1, 2012 "Traces of Randy Wray's Southern upbringing abound in his meticulously created paintings, sculptures, and installations, along with hints of the supernatural and the alien as well as of an age long passed. Describing his sculptures as "psychic architecture," he uses found objects as points of departure to create ghostly assemblages that can be seen alternately as organic and architectural. Wray's work evokes the sense of ruin found in much Southern Gothic literary tradition, as well as intimations of the haunted, the grotesque, and the everyday supernatural." - Michele Yun, MoMA PS1 "RANDY WRAY"

JANIE GEISER Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Janie Geiser is an internationally recognized experimental filmmaker and visual/theater artist whose work is known for its sense of mystery, its detailed evocation of self-contained worlds, and its strength of design. Her films are "as extravagantly beautiful as they are difficult, and as allusive as they are elusive" (Cinemascope, Spring 2001). Geiser's films have been screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archives, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Cinematheque, Los Angeles Filmforum, and at numerous festivals, including six New York Film Festivals, the Toronto Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her film The Red Book was selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, and her film The Fourth Watch was selected by Film Comment as one of the top ten experimental film of the last decade. Geiser's films are in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, the Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library, and numerous universities, including CalArts. "JANIE GEISER"

JOHN DIVOLA Thursday, March 8, 2012 "Divola's series is titled 'Dark Star,' a point of light in the universe too faint for direct observation. His domestic ruins suggest social collapse, but these quietly alarming photographs also resonate within our cold cosmos of hidden black sites and secret renditions. They suggest something sinister as well as sad, brilliantly illuminating our conflicted recent history." – Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2009 "JOHN DIVOLA"

MIKE PERRY Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Mike Perry is a designer and artist working in a variety of mediums, including—but not limited to—books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawing, painting and illustration. Mike Perry is compelled by the ways in which the hand-drawn informs and deepens contemporary visual culture. Perry works regularly for a number of editorial and commercial clients including Apple, the New York Times, Dwell, Target, Urban Outfitters, eMusic and Nike. In 2004, he was chosen as one of Step magazine's 30 under 30, and, in 2007, as a "Groundbreaking Illustrator" by Computer Arts Projects. In 2008, he received Print magazine's New Visual Artist award and the ADC Young Guns 6. His work has been exhibited around the world including the two recent, solo shows in Tokyo, Japan, "We are the Infinity of Each Other" and "B Gallery and Color, Shapes and Infinity" at Public Image 3d Gallery. "MIKE PERRY"

MOHAMED ABLA Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Mohamed Abla (b. 1953, Belqas, Egypt) is an artist and educator and founder of the Fayoum Art Center, Fayoum, Egypt. Abla exhibits and teaches internationally and has been exhibiting since 1979. His most recent exhibition sites include: The British Museum (2005); Gallery Hohman, Germany (2006); Zamalek Gallery, Cairo (2005, 2004, 2002); Havana Biennial (2003), Cairo Biennial (1996). He received first prize at the Alexandria Biennial in 1997. "MOHAMED ABLA"

SARA VANDERBEEK Thursday, February 16, 2012 "Sara VanDerBeek is every historicist's dream: an artist whose biography and practice seem so symmetrical that it's tempting to skip all of the written arguments and simply draw a diagram... Most obvious is the curatorial quality of her work: each assemblage is like an exhibition space, the pictures that adorn it are like objects carefully selected for the show, and the photographs themselves serv as a monograph of what once was."  – Excerpt from "Sara VanDerBeek: Biography, autonomy, portals and portholes; photographs, assemblages and scuptures," Graham T. Beck, Frieze, Issue 130, April 2010 "SARA VANDERBEEK"

CHEYNEY THOMPSON Thursday, February 16, 2012 Cheyney Thompson is a New York-based artist whose work in painting and sculpture centers on issues of abstraction and representation. His work is the subject of a survey exhibition on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center on February 10 - April 8, 2012. Alongside recent exhibitions at Sutton Lane (Brussels and Paris), Galerie Daniel Bucholz (Berlin and Köln), and Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York), Thompson's work has been featured in significant exhibitions such as Slow Painting, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (2009), Collatéral, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers Cedex, France (2009), Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009), and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008). Thompson teaches in the MFA Program in Visual Art at Bard College, New York. "CHEYNEY THOMPSON"

MICHAEL ALMEREYDA Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Michael Almereyda (born 1960) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet (2000), starring Ethan Hawke. Born in Overland Park, Kansas, Almereyda studied art history at Harvard University, and dropped out his senior year to move to New York to pursue screenwriting. He has worked with Museum School alum David Lynch, as well as Tim Burton, Warner Brothers and HBO as a director for the original series, Deadwood, among several other accomplishments. His documentary profiling William Eggleston premiered at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York in 2005. Almereyda recently completed filming of New Orleans, Mon Amour, a twisted love story set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, featuring stunning use of the apocalyptic destruction of the city. "MICHAEL ALMEREYDA"

Dan Peterman Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Dan Peterman's work explores the intersection of art and ecology, eschewing didacticism in favor of poetics. He embraces a wide variety of formal and situational strategies, and employs a range of materials including recycled plastic and metals, as well as organic and post consumer waste. Peterman's art simultaneously reveals the human capacity for ingenious problem solving, indifference toward others and the environment, and tragic hubris and greed. His projects have included a sod covered VW bus doubling as a traveling homeless shelter, collections of discarded objects retrieved from abandoned buildings and presented in vitrines that parody archeological practices, and paving stones and shelving units fashioned from reconstituted industrial products. "Dan Peterman"

Carla Herrera-Prats (Students only) Thursday, November 17, 2011 Through archival research Carla Herrera-Prats' work comments on the cultural and economic transactions that flow, often invisibly, in the context of a transnational world. Her projects juxtapose photography and material from different sources questioning the documentary value of both images and text. Herrera-Prats was co-director of the gallery Acceso A in Mexico City. She has shown her individual work in venues such as Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Centro de la Imagen, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City; Darb, Egypt; Centre Vu, Canada; Artists Space, Art in General and the Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, United States. "Carla Herrera-Prats (Students only)"

Phil Fryer Friday, November 18, 2011 Philip Fryer is a performance, sound and video artist living and working in Boston, Massachusetts.  His work is a meditation on mortality, chaos/order, and the body as a circuit.  His recent exploration has been focused on using lo-fi technologies such as circuit bending and cassette tape loops, both as individual pieces and as elements of performances and videos. "Phil Fryer"

William Powhida Thursday, November 17, 2011 Reflecting his background as an art critic, the work of William Powhida displays a concentrated fascination with the politics of access and the powers that control the assignment of value in the art world. He frequently uses an alter ego (also named William Powhida) to enact the worst excesses of this world – and, by implication, of broader, consumer-driven culture. This fictional Powhida exhibits many of the worst traits imaginable in any coddled enfant-terrible art star. In his revealing, mocking, and often hilarious drawings, Powhida depicts his take on the machinations of the art world; he has also recently expanded his practice to include performance and video. "William Powhida "

Waldemar Tatarczuk Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Waldemar Tatarczuk, born in 1964 in Siemiatycze, Poland, lives and works in Lublin, Poland. He is a performance and installation artist, art curator, was the founder and curator of Performance Art Centre in Lublin (1999–2010) and is currently the director of Labyrinth Gallery in Lublin (since 2010). He has been active as a performance artist since 1988. He has taken part in performance art events throughout Europe and Asia including: Infr'action Paris, in France; Navinki Festival in Minsk, Belarus; Asiatopia Festival, in Bangkok, Thailand; KIPAF, in Seoul, South Korea, and Differences Festival, in Warsaw, Poland. "Waldemar Tatarczuk"

Claire Fontaine Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Alfond Auditorium "Claire Fontaine"

Naomi Uman Monday, November 7, 2011 Over the past two decades Naomi Uman has produced an accomplished body of contemporary 16mm films. A hybrid of lyrical and documentary forms, her is a cinema equally attuned to the unique textures of a small-gauge celluloid and the subtleties of cultural difference. "Naomi Uman"

Jacqueline Goss Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Jacqueline Goss makes movies and web-based works that explore how political, cultural, and scientific systems change the way we think about ourselves. For the last few years she has used 2D digital animation techniques to work within the genre of the animated documentary. Her most recent videos are How To Fix The World—a look at Soviet-sponsored literacy programs in 1930's Central Asia, and Stranger Comes To Town—an animated documentary about the identity-tracking of immigrants and travelers coming into the United States. A native of New Hampshire, she attended Brown University and Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute. She teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College in the Hudson Valley of New York. She is a 2008 Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellow and the 2007 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in film and Video. "Jacqueline Goss"

Steve Subotnick Thursday, November 10, 2011 Steven Subotnick has been making independent animations since the 1980's. His films have screened in festivals, galleries, and curated shows around the world. Steven treats each film as an intuitive essay on a particular subject or character. His techniques are varied, but the expressive potential of materials and the poetry of the viual image are his primary concerns. He has worked as an animator, director, illustrator, author, and has taught animation at numerous institutions, including Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University. "Steve Subotnick"

David Sherman Wednesday, November 9, 2011 David Sherman is a filmmaker and media artists, whose appropriation and collage based, experimental films and videos have been exhibited extensively at film festivals, museums and alternative venues throughout the world. Sherman's 2010 feature cine-essay Wasteland Utopias premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. His 2002 experimental documentary To Re-edit the World premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Sherman's Tuning the Sleeping Machine was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial and The New York Film Festival. He co-founded Total Mobile Home the world's first Microcinema in San Francisco in 1993 and was a Professor of Media Arts at California College of the Arts. He currently resides in Bisbee, AZ. "David Sherman"

Ann Steuernagel Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Ann Steuernagel is an experimental video and sound artists. Her visual work accentuates the gestures and quotidian rhythms of her subjects; her sound work—a blend of music, ambient sound, and noise—stems from her on-going collaboration with choreographer Caitlin Corbett. Her films have been represented throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, and Europe. She is the recipient of the grand prize at the XX VideoArt Festival in Locarno, Switzerland, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Media Fellowship, a LEF grant and Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University. "Ann Steuernagel"

David Kelley Thursday, November 3, 2011 David Kelley was born in Portland Oregon. He received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California in Irvine, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2009. He is currently a professor of photography at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. His videos, photographs and installations have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, MassMoCA, and Moderna Museet. His most recent video project Route 3 made together with Patty Chang in Laos will be showing in Utrecht, Holland bat BAK, and at Gallerie Gabrielle Maubrie in Paris in October 2011. "David Kelley"

Fausto Grossi Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Fausto Grossi studied sculpture with Nicola Carrino at the Academy of Fine Arts of Frosinone, where he graduated in 1992. That same year, he moved to Bilbao (Spain) where he still resides. He has participated in several initiatives, projects and activities in Bilbao, Salamanca, Mallorca, Valencia, St Jacques de Compostela, Barcelona and San Sebastian. Grossi took part in the poetic project "Buncher" at the Venice Biennale in 2001. In 2002, he organized an exhibition at Windsor in Bilbao. "Fausto Grossi"

Franklin Evans Thursday, October 27, 2011 Franklin Evans is an artist whose room-sized, walk-in, 3-D "painting" drew critics' attention at last year's Greater New York show at PS1. According to Evans, his work "explores forms and ideas that consider the near-infinite cycle of recombination. Through painting, text, performance, and collaboration, I present open system environments that are both symbiotic and cannibalistic. Moreover, through the abundance of simultaneous open systems, I explore the shifting nature of knowledge. My work suggests the not-quite-finished, the in-transition, the nearly-emerging, the slowly-evolving, the near-end, and the move-toward-erasure." Evans will be speaking about his own past and current work in this presentation. Franklin Evans lives and works in New York. "Franklin Evans"

Andrew Stanbridge Thursday, October 13, 2011 Andrew Stanbridge has been photographing the beaten and unbeaten streets, dirt roads and superhighways of Asia for the past 12 years. He enjoys moving from place too place by any means possible. Along the way he is always looking, photographing the arcane, the banal, the believers and disbelievers and most of the things in between. Published and exhibited internationally, his work has addressed issues including westernization, post-conflict rehabilitation, the sex industry and environmental tragedies. He often redresses his more arcane imagery with various inks, stickers and other items he collects along the way. He will be talking about work from these exploits as well as recent images from Ethiopia. "Andrew Stanbridge"

Angela Dufresne Thursday, October 13, 2011 Angela Dufresne's work has been referred to as a kind of painterly Parkour, energetically improvised action in which she acts as a conductor between two reference points: found images (mostly cinematic or architectural) and friends to unleash her own expansive responses that are by turns irreverent, politically biting, self-mockingly melodramatic, and hilarious. In past works, Dufresne employed hypothetical guidelines in the creation of her "bastard portraits" -- portraits that, indicated by their titles, were meant to illustrate what the progeny of such unlikely pairings as Julia Child and Kris Kristofferson might look like. Angela Dufresne was born in Hartford, CT. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. "Angela Dufresne"

Karyn Olivier Tuesday, October 4, 2011 "Karyn Olivier is a conceptual artist who creates site-specific installations employing space itself as the ultimate medium. Her work, which draws from cultural and social memory, uses minimalist language in its construction, providing the viewer with a direct and intimate interaction. Whispering Domes (2001) is constructed from sheetrock and two circular skylights. The cylinders create a low-tech parabolic chamber, which enables viewers to amplify their voices architecturally." "Karyn Olivier"

Jedediah Caesar Tuesday, October 11, 2011  "Caesar's sculptures have an ancient, unearthed aspect, like strange artifacts dislodged from history. He alternately amasses and digs, accumulates and excavates. He makes contemporary fossils in resin, sedimentary deposits, casts of excavated ditches, burial mounds and impossible tunnels. In his process and product, the archaeological crosses over into the architectural and the anatomical through real and metaphorical acts of cross-section, quarrying, and mining. Caesar works to create a visceral sense of density and out-of-control accumulation that speaks of the passage of historical time. Density and thickness offer much desired resistance and blockage—something to push on and knock your head against—but they also provide the promise of depth, something to dig really, really deep into. The image of digging is also the pursuit of knowledge." "Jedediah Caesar"

Katarina Burin Thursday, September 29, 2011 Katarina Burin uses historical architecture and design imagery and documentation; engaging with these sources, she plumbs their psychological depths and re-casts their forms and techniques in as her drawings, structures, larger installations and collages. Burin is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. She has had recent exhibitions with Grimm in New York and Munich, with Lucile Corty in Paris, the Clockwork project in Berlin, Form/Content in London, and Ratio 3 in San Francisco. Born in the US. She has lived most recently in Berlin, where she is represented by Andreas Grimm Gallery. "Katarina Burin"

Sunil Gupta and Anna Fox Thursday, September 22, 2011 Sunil Gupta is an artist, curator, writer and cultural activist. In 1989 he co-founded Autograph: the Association of Black Photographer and also set up the Organisation for Visual Arts (OVA) in 1992, both in London, to promote a greater understanding of culturally diverse practises in the visual arts. His latest book Queer Sunil Gupta was published by Prestel/Vadehra Art Gallery in March 2011. His latest art project, Sun City about a gay Indian man in a Paris bath house was commissioned and is currently being exhibited by the Centre Pompidou, Paris in May-Sept, 2011 as part of their "Paris-Delhi-Bombay..." exhibition. Gupta currently lives in Delhi and London. "Sunil Gupta and Anna Fox"

Coco Fusco Monday, April 25, 2011 Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for Design. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. "Coco Fusco"

Sinéad O'Donnell Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Sinéad O'Donnell is a dyslexic artist originally from Dublin and based in Belfast since 1995. Her work has been presented in Asia, Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, North and South America and supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Socrates Erasmus, the Arts & Humanities Research Council, and the British Council. Her performance practice is nomadic, where patterns of travel have broadened her cultural perceptions and influenced her artistic sensibilities regarding time and space. She is also highly active in the Belfast performance art scene, working with local organizations to foster performance art activity and support emerging artists in the community. "Sinéad O'Donnell"

Tauba Auerbach Tuesday, April 12, 2011 "...on first look it seems [Tauba] Auerbach has dispensed with the concerns of her earlier work with typography, alphabets, and codes in favor of the even brainier bailiwicks of logic and physics. She, however, identifies a through-line: A previous interest in how language can embarrass and even violate its governing principles has developed into a preoccupation with what the show's press release described as "the collapsing of two conflicting states." Paintings, photographs, sculptures, and a musical instrument were marshaled into a meditation on the standoffs between, and ultimate implosion of, two- and three-dimensionality, pattern and accident, past and present. "Tauba Auerbach"

Tina Barney Thursday, March 31, 2011 Tina Barney was born in 1945 in New York. Since 1975, she has been producing large-scale photographs of family and friends. Her meticulous tableaux chronicle the complexity of interpersonal relationships. These lush color prints have been exhibited and collected by major institutions around the world. Barney was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Her monographs include Tina Barney: Theatre of Manners, The Europeans and her new book from Steidl, Players. She lives in New York and Rhode Island.  "Tina Barney"

Erin Shirreff Thursday, April 14, 2011 Erin Shirreff lives and works in New York City. Her work was included in recent exhibitions at MoMA P.S.1, Sculpture Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ballroom Marfa in Texas, White Flag Projects in St. Louis and the Power Plant in Toronto. She recently mounted a solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and will be exhibiting this summer at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and the Aspen Art Museum. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New Yorker, Frieze, The New York Times, Modern Painters and Time Out New York; her works are included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Guggenheim. "Erin Shirreff"

Dasha Shishkin Tuesday, March 29, 2011 "The Moscow-born, New York-based painter and printmaker Dasha Shishkin's work has been in the spotlight since her inclusion, as a Columbia University MFA student, in the 2005 edition of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center's "Greater New York." The show's co-curator (and current P.S.1 director) Klaus Biesenbach compared her work to that of Goya and Brueghel. Others have conjured Egon Schiele, Brice Marden, Henry Darger—even Japanese wood prints. But Shishkin's pieces belong in a category of their own. Her abstract landscapes, bizarre scenes, and images of borderline-perverse human interactions—which tap into the viewer's own thoughts, dreams, or fantasies—are devised with bold, rich colors and tactile textures, using domestic materials like wallpaper and unique media like Conté crayons and Sumi ink." —Gio Marconi, Modern Painters "Dasha Shishkin"

McCallum Tarry Thursday, March 10, 2011 A collaborative artist team since 1998, Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry have worked and exhibited globally, seeking to surface and discuss issues revolving around marginalized members of society. Their work, which moves fluidly between large-scale public projects, performative sculpture, painting, photography, video and self-portraiture, challenges audiences to face issues of race and social justice in communities, history and the family. Embedded within their work, whether it is of an historical, personal or civic-based nature, is their standing as an interracial couple. "McCallum Tarry"

Daniel Dove Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Daniel Dove's recent paintings depict structures in states of transition, either half-ruined or partially reconstructed. The subjects of Dove's pictures range from suburban landscape detritus to charged contemporary artifacts (such as reconstructed bombed airplane fuselages), which are meticulously re-built to understand or reinvent their original trauma. In this rebuilding, Dove's objects reveal a longing for completeness that can never be restored, much the way that his highly composed canvases offer distilled, ordered fictions based on chaotic and often dangerous real-world events. "Daniel Dove"

Marlene McCarty Monday, March 7, 2011 Marlene McCarty's practice involves drawing, politics, activism and commercial work. "Marlene McCarty"

Cara Starke Monday, February 28, 2011 Cara Starke is assistant curator in the department of media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art. Starke recently co-organized "Projects 93: Dinh Q. Lê (2010) and "William Kentridge: Five Themes" (2010). She has collaborated on numerous other exhibitions including "Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)" (2008), "Take your time: Olafur Eliasson" (2008), "Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s" (2008), "Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers" (2007), "RAW-WAR" (2007), "Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker" (2007), "Eija-Liisa Ahtila's The Wind" (2006) and "Douglas Gordon: Timeline" (2006). She is currently co-organizing "Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception," which will open at the Museum of Modern Art in spring 2011. "Cara Starke"

Matt Saunders Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Matt Saunders is a Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Grounded in painting, his work crosses boundaries between that medium, photography, and short animated films. "Matt Saunders"

Brian Knep Thursday, February 10, 2011 Brian Knep is a new-media artist who uses science and technology to explore change, healing, struggle and acceptance. Often his works are dynamic and respond to changes in their environment. Some are simply aware of the passage of time while others are interactive, sensing and reacting to the people around them. Knep has had solo shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art, the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Arizona State University and has been part of group shows at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Laval Virtual (France), MobileArt (Sweden) and the Insa Art Center (Korea), among others. His works have won awards from Ars Electronica, Americans for the Arts, AICA/New England and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2005, Knep became the first artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School in a program co-sponsored by Harvard's Office for the Arts. Knep lives and works in Boston and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York and Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston. "Brian Knep "

Michael Rees Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Michael Rees, Social Object: sculpture and software (installation view). Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum. "Michael Rees"

Patty Chang Monday, February 7, 2011 Patty Chang was born in 1972 in San Francisco. Originally trained as a painter, she graduated with a BA from the University of California at San Diego in 1994 and shortly after moved to New York, where she became involved with the Performance scene. Chang has had solo shows at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2000), Baltic Art Center in Visby, Sweden (2001), Jack Tilton Gallery in New York (1999 and 2001), Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2005) and Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine (2008), among others. "Patty Chang"

Chris Verene Thursday, November 18, 2010 Chris Verene, Candi, Cody and Caity, 2005. Type-C Archival print, ed. of 6, with handwritten caption in oil by the artist. 30 x 36 inches. Copyright 2010 Chris Verene. "Chris Verene"

Martha Colburn Friday, November 19, 2010 Colburn is a filmmaker well-known for her extraordinary animation films which are created through puppetry, collage and paint on glass techniques. She has made over 40 films since 1994and has also been fervently involved in playing music. Recently Colburn has made sculptural/video installation work and experimented with integrating her films with musical performance. Her work shows in festivals and she is represented by James Cohen Gallery (New York). "Martha Colburn"

Adam Cvijanovic Tuesday, November 16, 2010 [Cvijanovic] appears as a natural successor to Eric Fischl; or better yet, Eric Fischl mixed with a little Mark Tansey, as Cvijanovic's take on the American scene is more cerebral, less confrontational than Fischl's fantasies of consumption and possession played out against suburban backyards and beaches. Cvijanovic's American landscape is a place of exalted and iconic beauty that we cut and paste to suit our own personal desires: American wallpaper for American Dreams. —Justin Spring, Artforum  "Adam Cvijanovic"

David Hilliard Thursday, October 28, 2010 For years I have been actively documenting my life and the lives of those around me, recording events and attempting to create order in a sometimes chaotic world. While my photographs focus on the personal, the familiar and the simply ordinary, the work strikes a balance between autobiography and fiction. Within the photographs physical distance is often manipulated to represent emotional distance. The casual glances people share can take on a deeper significance, and what initially appears subjective and intimate is quite often a commentary on the larger contours of life. —David Hilliard "David Hilliard"

Ridley Howard Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Ridley Howard, Leaves, 2009. Oil on linen. 72x93.75" Courtesy of the artist. "Ridley Howard"

Bruce McClure Thursday, October 21, 2010 McClure's film performances have been featured (and culturally coveted) in film festivals, galleries, cinematheques and in various screening programs throughout the United States, in Rotterdam and Toronto. He has twice been featured in the Whitney Biennial. McClure has been called a pa-ra-cinema artist, a proto-cinema artist, an expanded-cinema artist and even a vaudevillian. A practicing architect whose draftsmanship has led to a fascinating excursion into sound experimentation, McClure's performances are experiments in the ephemera of light and sound. "Bruce McClure"

Arthur Jafa Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Jafa is a cultural critic/worker, visual artist and African diasporic organic intellectual of the first order. His thinking around questions of black cultural politics, black cultural nationalism and film is published in Michele Wallace's Black Popular Culture (1992). A s cinematographer, he has hone work with Julie Dash, on Daughters of the Dust as well as Spike Lee's Crooklyn and Manthia Diawara's Rouch in Reverse. "Arthur Jafa"

Stephanie Barber Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Barber's work is most notable for her (often) strangely narrative and poetic soundtracks and the tensions these create when married with her mysterious and pain-stakingly composed images. Ms. Barber has had solo exhibitions of her film work at the Museum of Modern Art and her film it fell possum was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition "The American Century." "Stephanie Barber"

Florencio Gelabert Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Florencio Gelabert, Birth, 2008. Plywood, Aqua Resin, artificial plant & flowers, plexiglass, pleximirror, clear resin. 6'x 3' x 1'. Courtesy of the artist. "Florencio Gelabert"

Dana Frankfort Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Dana Frankfort, Stuff, 2007, Oil on panel. © Courtesy the Artist. "Dana Frankfort"

Beckwith Lecture with Jen Mergel Monday, September 27, 2010 Join us September 27, 6 pm for an evening with Jen Mergel, the Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal and Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), as she delivers the lecture "Message Received? How Contemporary Art Can Communicate—and Connect." "Beckwith Lecture with Jen Mergel"

Neeta Madahar Thursday, September 23, 2010 "Camp is a certain mode of aestheticism. It is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. That way, the way of Camp, is not in terms of beauty, but in terms of the degree of artifice, of stylization." From Notes on Camp, by Susan Sontag (1964). "Neeta Madahar"

Jennifer Dalton Tuesday, September 21, 2010 "Nowadays, information about the art business is circulated and consumed like baseball statistics. Rather than becoming hamstrung by the onslaught, Dalton turns these tidbits into art. A wall of miniature action figures laden with shopping bags details the tastes ("old masters," "contemporary," "tribal art") of prominent collectors. A slide show of graphs and charts asks, "How Do Artists Live?" (Answer: twenty-five per cent get money from their parents; eight-hundredths of a per cent report income from illegal sources.) A case filled with gray rubber bracelets offers viewers a chance to identify themselves as "losers" or "pigs," reiterating how, in the art-plus-business equation, no one comes out clean." —The New Yorker, October 02, 2006 "Jennifer Dalton"

Eve Sussman Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Whether she is meticulously recreating a scene from art history, retelling a myth from the ancient world or reflecting on failed utopias and the passage of time, Eve Sussman's work reinterprets familiar images or stories through video, film and installation. "Eve Sussman"

Kendall Buster Tuesday, April 13, 2010 With a background in microbiology and an interest in architecture, Kendall Buster creates sculptures that reference both built environments and the structures of the organic world. Ideas of interiority, systems of growth, permeable and impermeable boundaries and parasitism operate both structurally and metaphorically in her pieces, which are often scaled to emphasize a bodily interaction with the viewer, becoming elements of architecture or landscape. "Kendall Buster"

Denis Romanovski Wednesday, March 31, 2010 In conjunction with the Visiting International Performance Artists class, Denis Romanovski discusses his work. "Denis Romanovski"

Kate Gilmore Tuesday, March 30, 2010 In her performance-based video works, Kate Gilmore, dressed in cardigans and lipstick, struggles to complete a variety of difficult and nonsensical physical challenges: freeing her own foot from a bucket of hardened plaster; kicking her way through a wall wearing a pair of high heeled shoes; squeezing herself through a narrow passageway. "Kate Gilmore"

Aziz + Cucher Thursday, March 11, 2010 "Reminiscent of the voices ideal city-scapes of the Renaissance, these empty rooms seem to suggest an infinitely expandable, mensurable universe, abstracted from the phenomenological hexis of life. But the fleshy enclosures subsume this rational geometry, absorbing it into the body, reclaiming, as it were, the corporeality of spatial experience." Adrian R.B. Randolph, Hide and Seek: Aziz + Cucher's Poetics of Skin, FKW, Dec. 2000. "Aziz + Cucher"

Myriam Laplante Wednesday, February 24, 2010 In conjunction with the Visiting International Performance Artists class, Myriam Laplante discusses her work. "Myriam Laplante"

Laurel Nakadate Thursday, November 19, 2009 Laurel Nakadate is a photographer, video artist and filmmaker. She was born in Austin, TX in 1975 and raised in Ames, IA. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and an MFA from Yale University. Her work has been exhibited at P.S.1/MoMA, The Yerba Buena, The Getty Museum, and The Reina Sofia. In 2009, her first feature film, Stay The Same Never Change premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be featured in "New Directors/New Films" at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center. "Laurel Nakadate"

Elana Herzog Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Elana Herzog begins many of her installations by affixing a found object—a bedspread, curtain, or length of cloth—to the gallery wall with hundreds of staples. She then pulls threads and bits of fabric from around these staples, creating dematerialized compositions that evoke natural processes of erosion while containing the evidence of the artist's purposeful destruction. With their abstract patterns and familiar referents, Herzog's work contains allusions to painting, the history of modernism and issues of domesticity. "Elana Herzog"

Melati Suryodarmo Wednesday, February 10, 2010 In conjunction with the Visiting International Performance Artists class, Melati Suryodarmo discusses her work. "Melati Suryodarmo"

Drew Cameron and John Turner Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Combat Paper, Through papermaking workshops, veterans use their uniforms worn in combat to create cathartic works of art. The uniforms are cut up, beat, and formed into sheets of paper. Veterans use the transformative process of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to embrace their experiences as soldiers in war. "Drew Cameron and John Turner"

Ellen Driscoll Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Ellen Driscoll's work, including sculpture, drawing and public art, comes from diverse sources such as architecture, the ancient memory arts and primitive imaging techniques such as shadow play. The artist makes her work through a bricolage process, incorporating the happy unpredictable chances that materials, sites and social histories can suggest. "Ellen Driscoll"

Chie Fueki Lecture Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Chie Fueki's work interweaves a contemporary take on Japanese scroll painting with traditional American cultural narratives and obsessions such as football and bodybuilding. The resulting work is finely crafted, luscious and heroic. "Chie Fueki Lecture"

Moyra Davey Thursday, November 5, 2009 Moyra Davey is a New York-based photographer and video artist. "Moyra Davey"

Beverly Semmes Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Beverly Semmes is an internationally-recognized artist who has been exhibiting since 1990 and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants. Her work was included in several important group shows early in her career, such as Plastic Fantastic Lover at the Blum Helman Warehouse in New York City; Bad Girls at New York City's New Museum; and Bad Girls West at the UCLA Art Museum in Los Angeles. "Beverly Semmes"

Karl Baden Thursday, October 22, 2009 Karl Baden is a photographer living in Cambridge, MA. His photographs have been widely exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally and are in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Addison Gallery of American Art. He has taught at Harvard University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Clark University, Phillips Academy at Andover, and has been on the faculty at Boston College since 1989. "Karl Baden"

Hamra Abbas Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Hamra Abbas' is a versatile practice, one that straddles a range of media, from paper collage and painting to ephemeral soft Plasticine sculpture and video. Her works often take a playful look towards widely accepted traditions. By appropriating culturally loaded imagery and iconography, and transforming them into new works that may be experienced spatially and temporally, she creates new platforms from which to view notions of culture, tradition and exchange. "Hamra Abbas"

Sanford Biggers Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Sanford Biggers is a New York artist. His 2007 work BLOSSOM was shown at the Portland Art Museum in 2009. Biggers' work is a fusion of East meets West, Buddhism meets African American Hip Hop, taking place from the train yards of Los Angeles to the Zen temples of Japan, to the galleries of New York. In 2008 he organized an improvised bell-ringing at a Zen temple in Japan where a number of the bells were fabricated from melted-down hip-hop jewelry. The video of this event, ILLUMINATIONS, was shown at the Tate Modern in 2008. "Sanford Biggers"

Ingrid Calame Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Ingrid Calame is renowned for her large-scale abstractions. Her works visually reference action painting but then turn the process on its head, revealing themselves to be meticulously constructed from delicate tracings of stains found on streets and sidewalks. Calame has shown widely nationally and internationally, including at the 2000 Whitney Biennial in New York; UCLA/Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Instituzione del Comune di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. She is represented by James Cohan Gallery in New York. "Ingrid Calame"

Laida Lertxundi Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Laida Lertxundi (Bilbao, 1981) works on the film making non-stories with non-actors that explore the terrain of diegetic space, creating a sound and image syntax in response to the way desire and expectations are manufactured and imbedded in the language of cinema. She is interested in the histories of experimental film, the possibility of a feminist language and the play between found environments and constructed situations. Her work has been shown internationally in museums, festivals and venues such as MoMa, Lacma, Viennale and the New York Film Festival views of the Avant Garde, Rotterdam, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and Anthology Film Archives. She teaches film at the University of California San Diego and lives in Los Angeles, California. "Laida Lertxundi"

Josephine Halvorson Tuesday, September 29, 2009 "Inside Halvorson's small rectangles, we feel the ground beginning to shift as the possibility of another way of being in the world subtly weaves itself into our consciousness---sometimes long after the viewing experience itself." -Litia Perta, Brooklyn Rail. "Josephine Halvorson"

Steven Subotnick Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Steven Subotnick's animated films are associative explorations of themes found in history, folklore and his own unconscious. Steven treats each film as an intuitive essay on a particular subject and though his techniques are varied, the poetic quality of the visual image is always his primary concern. "Steven Subotnick"

Michael Collins Thursday, September 24, 2009 Michael Collins is interested in Record Picture photography: the highly detailed, matter-of-fact genre that was traditionally commissioned by government and industry for technical documentation. This application draws on the most fundamental property of photography: its ability to depict with great precision. The aim is to produce a photograph that is faithful to the subject, where the emphasis is placed on description rather than interpretation. "Michael Collins"

Beckwith Lecture: Kim Berman Wednesday, September 23, 2009 A Museum School alumna, Kim Berman (MFA '89) will discuss the role of the artist as activist, generating social change through creativity and imagination. Berman will draw from her experiences working with artists in South Africa at the Artist Proof Studio and the University of Johannesburg, with examples of their collaborative printmaking, murals, papermaking, and AIDS Action interventions. "Beckwith Lecture: Kim Berman"

Wendy Jacob Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Artist Wendy Jacob's work includes sculpture and installation that explores the relationships between architecture and animate bodies. These projects include breathing walls and ceilings, tightropes through living rooms and chairs that embrace. "Wendy Jacob"

William Powhida Friday, September 9, 2011 Reflecting his background as an art critic, the work of William Powhida displays a concentrated fascination with the politics of access and the powers that control the assignment of value in the art world. He frequently uses an alter ego (also named William Powhida) to enact the worst excesses of this world – and, by implication, of broader, consumer-driven culture. This fictional Powhida exhibits many of the worst traits imaginable in any coddled enfant-terrible art star. In his revealing, mocking, and often hilarious drawings, Powhida depicts his take on the machinations of the art world; he has also recently expanded his practice to include performance and video. "William Powhida"

Sinéad O'Donnell Monday, September 26, 2011 Sinéad O'Donnell is a dyslexic artist originally from Dublin and based in Belfast since 1995. Her work has been presented in Asia, Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, North and South America and supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Socrates Erasmus, the Arts & Humanities Research Council, and the British Council. Her performance practice is nomadic, where patterns of travel have broadened her cultural perceptions and influenced her artistic sensibilities regarding time and space. She is also highly active in the Belfast performance art scene, working with local organizations to foster performance art activity and support emerging artists in the community. "Sinéad O'Donnell"