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Mid-Manhattan Library
presents
 
An Artist Dialogue Series Event

Marianne Petit, Matthew Belanger and Nancy Hechinger

Saturday December 18, 2010
2:30 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
directions

Elevators access the 6th floor after 2:00 p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.

The artists and Nancy Hechinger, New York University professor of Interactive Telecommunication and the founding Director of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, discuss the installation Ada’s Shop: Computing through the Ages, their inspirations and the impact of the work of Ada Lovelace. Belanger and Petit also address and demonstrate the technologies (sensors, microcontrollers and telephony) at the core of its interactivity. Petit will also talk about her Art Wall on Third exhibition Struwwelpeter: Contemporary Handmade books.

Marianne Petit is an Associate Arts Professor at New York University 's Interactive Telecommunications Program. At ITP she teaches courses in digital media, animation and storytelling, in addition to overseeing the assistive technology and social justice curriculum. Petit is the co-founder of Greylock Arts, a non-commercial art space dedicated to interactive new media and emerging arts practice. Her pop-up books, animation, video, comics, and online projects have appeared in festivals and exhibitions both nationally and internationally, and have been featured in numerous publications and networks including Wired Magazine, WGBY and the Independent Film Channel.

Matthew Belanger is an artist, developer, educator, and curator residing both in New York City and the Northern Berkshires. His photography, digital imaging, interactive installations and net art commissions have been exhibited internationally and have been featured in numerous publications including La VanGuardia, Boing Boing, The Boston Globe and The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes. Belanger is a lecturer at Borough of Manhattan Community College where he teaches courses in web development. Additionally, he is the co-founder of Greylock Arts, a non-commercial art space dedicated to interactive new media and emerging arts practice.

Nancy Hechinger, currently full-time faculty at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program, has a diverse background in education -- including multimedia and film production, the development of interactive museum exhibits, and publishing-- and in the strategic uses of information and telecommunication technologies, focusing particularly on how technology might make science more accessible, and also promoting the teaching and learning of essential twenty-first-century skills. She was the founding Director of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Previously she was a founding partner and Director of Technology for the Edison Project, a private company that manages public schools using a comprehensive new school design with technology at its core. She was on the Senior Design Team of Apple’s Multimedia Lab (1988-1990). She has lectured widely at schools and to education and public-policy groups about the potential of technology to enhance education and inspire children to learn, and participated in many of the seminal national conferences on education and technology; including, the Department of Education, NSF, Office of Technology Assessment, and The Getty Museum. She sits on the Advisory Committee of the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, and is a board member of Words Without Borders, an online magazine of literature in translation. She received her B.A. in 1969 from Sarah Lawrence College , and an MFA in Writing (Poetry) in 2009.

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni in 2004, Artist Dialogues Series provide a forum for understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, gallerists, writers or other artists to converse about art and the potential of exploring new ideas.