Presents­­

 

An Artist Dialogue Series Event

 

Heather Dewey-Hagborg

 in conversation with

Lindsay Howard

 

Saturday February 1, 2014

2:30 p.m.

 

The Corner Room
1^st Floor

 

The New York Public Library

Mid-Manhattan Library

5^thAvenue at 40^th Street

New York, NY 10018

 

917-275-6975

 www.nypl.org

(Directions)

 

All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation

First come, first served

Join us for a conversation between artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg and curator Lindsay Howard, exploring the intersection of art, science, and technology. Inspired by Dewey Hagborg's Stranger Visions project, on display as part of the Art Wall on Third and Art in the Windows exhibition series, the conversation will address her process of collecting and analyzing genetic material from public spaces, as well as broader themes such as privacy, genetic determinism, and interdisciplinary approaches to research.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an information artist who is interested in exploring art as research and public inquiry. Traversing media ranging from algorithms to DNA, her work seeks to question fundamental assumptions underpinning perceptions of human nature, technology and the environment. Examining culture through the lens of information, Heather creates situations and objects embodying concepts, probes for reflection and discussion. Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the Poland Mediations Bienniale, Jaaga art and technology center in Bangalore, and the Monitor Digital Festival in Guadalajara. She has exhibited nationally at PS1 Moma, the New Museum, Eyebeam, Clocktower Gallery, 92Y Tribeca, Issue Project Room, and Splatterpool in New York City, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, and CEPA Gallery in Buffalo. In addition to her individual work she has collaborated with the collective Future Archaeology and with video artist Adriana Varella. Her work has been featured in print in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, Il Sole 24 Ore, Science Magazine, and Time Out New York, on television on the BBC World Service, ZDF in Germany, CNN, Dan Rather Reports and Fuji Television in Japan, on the radio on Public Radio's Studio 360, and CBS News, and online in the New York Times Magazine, TED, the Guardian, Reuters, the New York Post, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Smithsonian, Le Monde, Haaretz, The Creators Project, Art Ukraine, Designboom, Capital New York, Artlog, Fast Company, The Verge, Motherboard, the Boston Globe, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Gizmodo and the Daily Beast, among many others. Heather has received grants or residency awards from Eyebeam, MOMA PS1, Clocktower Gallery, Jaaga, I-Park, Sculpture Space, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, CEPA Gallery, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Heather has a BA in Information Arts from Bennington College and a Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is currently a PhD student in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Lindsay Howard is a curator exploring how the Internet is shaping art and culture. In 2010, she founded the exhibition program at 319 Scholes, which has since supported twenty group and solo exhibitions featuring the work of over three hundred artists working at the intersection of art and technology. She also works as an independent curator and has produced exhibitions for various institutions both nationally and abroad, including Fe Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (New York, NY), Internet Week New York (New York, NY), Art Micro Patronage (online), Tumblr (New York, NY), Phillips (New York, NY), and MU (Eindhoven, NL). 

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni in 2004, Artist Dialogues Series provide an open 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.