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Join us at e-flux, on Tuesday, March 26 at 7pm for Art Tech & Media Curation: From the "Never-Was" to American Medium, a talk with Elizaveta Shneyderman, Travis Fitzgerald, & Evan Calder Williams organized in the context of e-flux journal #143, forthcoming in March 2024.
The talk will focus on author Elizaveta Shneyderman's analysis in her forthcoming essay on operational images & specialized institutions of new media art. Moderated by e-flux journal contributing editor Evan Calder Williams, the talk provides two presentations-one theoretical & the other practice-oriented-concerned with the spectralizing of digital ecosystems within the art world. Shneyderman theorizes on fringe or glitch art worlds, such as videogame speedrunning communities, as well as on curatorial already-seenness, among other terms, to describe the complicated & enmeshed digital and/or art-tech art world, while Travis Fitzgerald offers an account of American Medium gallery, which operated from 2012 through the end of 2018 in New York, as one of the notable galleries that focused on new media art.
Contributing editor Serubiri Moses will introduce the event.
Elizaveta Alexandrovna Shneyderman is a Belarusian-American curator, writer, & publisher. She is Curator at the Riga Technoculture Research Unit & Curator-at-Large at Kim? Contemporary Art Center(Riga, Latvia). Shneyderman's interdisciplinary research focuses on the history & philosophy of media materialities & the techniques that emerge from them, including their influence on contemporary art. Her essays on contemporary art & visual culture have been published in Artforum, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyundai Artlab, PIN-UP Magazine, Rhizome, & White Cube, among others. Shneyderman has previously held curatorial positions & contributed research to exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, EMPAC, PARTICIPANT INC, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, KAJE, Kunsthalle.Ost, & Mana Contemporary, among others. She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Bard College & is Adjunct Professor of Art History at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a psychoanalyst in formation at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics.
Travis Fitzgerald is an artist, curator, & former gallerist based in Brooklyn. He is the co-founder of American Medium, which operated from 2012-2019 in Bed-Stuy & Chelsea. Before opening American Medium, he served as co-director of Appendix Project Space, a short-term residency & exhibition space in Portland, Oregon from 2010 until its closing in 2014. His work has been shown at Interstate Projects, Ditch Projects, 12128 Boatspace, Portland State University, & the 2014 Portland Biennial. Press for his work & the galleries can be found in The New York Times, ArtForum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, & VICE.
Evan Calder Williams is an associate professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies for Bard College, where he also teaches in the Human Rights program. He is the author of the books Combined & Uneven Apocalypse; Roman Letters; Shard Cinema; and, forthcoming with Sternberg Press in 2024, Inhuman Resources. He is the translator, with David Fernbach, of Mario Mieli's Towards a Gay Communism & is a Contributing Editor to e-flux journal, as well as a former member of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine.
Serubiri Moses is a curator & author based in New York City. He currently serves as adjunct faculty in art history at Hunter College, & is a member of the editorial team of e-flux journal. He is the author of a poetry book THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK (Pntano Books, 2023) & the lead curator of an upcoming mid-career retrospective of Taryn Simon.
For more information, please contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
-Two flights of stairs lead up to the building's front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
-For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
-e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space & this bathroom.
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