M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y

presents   

An Artist Dialogue Series Event

Perry Bard and Lenore Malen  

Wednesday April 21, 2010
6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor

Mid-Manhattan Library
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York , NY 10016
212-340-0871
www.nypl.org

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Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation. 

Artists Lenore Malen and Perry Bard will present their award winning projects that examine the meaning of community from ecological and technological perspectives. The artists will engage the audience in a conversation about their findings while video clips from their projects stream in the background.

Perry Bard is an artist living in New York. She works individually and collaboratively on interdisciplinary projects for public space. She has exhibited video   and   installations internationally, in New York at   the Museum of Modern   Art, P.S.1 Museum, Sao Paolo Biennial, Montreal Biennial, Reina Sofia Museum Madrid . Her project Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake creates a platform for participation, inviting people around the world to remix a 1929 film which belongs to world cultural history. It won Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category at Ars Electronica ’08. It was presented at Transmediale ’09, File ’09, Media Forum at Moscow International Film Festival ’09, and Doclab at IDFA '09. Man With A Movie Camera has also been installed in museums, galleries and on public screens worldwide. The work has received numerous grants including a NYFA Award in 2009.

Lenore Malen uses the lens of history and humor to examine utopian longings and the sciences and technologies that inform them. Working across diverse media she creates historical restagings that incorporate subjects such as Mesmerism, the social structure of ideal and imaginary communities, and most recently the social organization of the beehive.   A native New Yorker, she has exhibited in NY, Berlin, Paris, and Venice. In 2005 she performed as Doctor Mesmer for the BBC. An installation Harmony As   A Hive was recently on view at Wesleyan University and the EcoArt Center , NYC. Her film The Animal That I  Am was screened at the RIW Semiotics-Media Conference, University of Michigan in March 2010. Malen received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a NYFA grant in 2009.

“Perry Bard and Lenore Malen are 2009 Artist Fellowship recipients of The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audience Exchange, a NYFA public program.”