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Otto Piene: Lichtballett 2011, MIT List Visual Arts Center A leading figure in multimedia and technology-based art, Otto Piene was a founder, with Heinz Mack, of the influential Düsseldorf-based Group Zero in the late 1950s. This publication highlights the artist's ongoing exploration of light as an artistic and communicative medium. Piene's Lichtballett (light ballet) performances, first produced using hand-operated lights directed through perforated stencils, became mechanized in the 1960s. The artist's light sculptures consisted of motorized lamps, grids, and discs producing a flow of projected light; these machines evolved into kinetic sculptural environments of mechanized effects through the 1960s and '70s. Featuring Piene's own writings on light as an artistic medium, an essay by art historian Michelle Y. Kuo, and an interview with curator João Ribas, Otto Piene: Lichtballett documents the artist's pioneering investigation of art and technology. $20 ISBN 9780938437772 96 pages, b/w, features a die-cut cover |
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Hans Haacke 1967 2011, MIT List Visual Arts Center When invited to do a solo exhibition at MIT in 1967, Hans Haacke was known as a “kinetic” artist—yet he made it clear upon arriving that his works were now to be called “systems,” produced with the “explicit intention of having their components physically communicate with each other, and the whole communicate physically with the environment,” according to the artist’s statements in 1967. These early works involved provoking and staging time-based events: wind in water vs. water in wind; the cycles of feedback systems of organic life; the dynamism of water in its solid state—freezing, evaporating, and melting; and the production of artificial climates. The exhibition Hans Haacke 1967 brought together from Haacke’s solo 1967 exhibition together again for the first time in fourty-four years. The exhibition was organized for MIT’s List Visual Arts Center by Caroline A. Jones, professor in the History,Theory, and Criticism Program at MIT. This catalogue publication features an essay by Jones, writings by Haacke, and the first English publication of a text written by art historian and curator Edward F. Fry. Fry’s text served as the introduction to the catalogue accompanying his cancelled survey of Haacke’s work which was planned for the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum in New York in 1971. $20 ISBN 9780938437772 80 pages, color and b/w |
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Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect 2011, MIT List Visual Arts Center and Bronx Museum of the Arts Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect is the first US museum survey of Juan Downey. A fellow at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1973 and 1975, Downey played a significant role in the New York art scene of the 1970’s and ‘80s. The exhibition was organized by curator Valerie Smith, Head of the Department of Visual Art, Film, and Media at the Hausder Kulturen der Welt, in Berlin, Germany. The accompanying catalogue publication features essays by Gustavo Buntinx, Julieta Gonzalez, Valerie Smith, and Michael Taussig as well as interviews with: Carmen Beuchat (choreographer,dancer); Marilys Belt de Downey; Eugenio Dittborn (artist); Rick Feist, (artist and online editor); Carlos Flores Delpino (filmmaker); Stephen Fried (architect); Ismael Frigerio (artist); Frank Gillette (artist); Eva Hanhardt (Pratt Institute Professor, Center for Sustainable Design Studies); John Hanhardt (Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum); Jim Harithas (artist, Director of the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX); Kirk von Heflin (filmmaker); Alfredo Jaar (artist); Beryl Korot (artist); Cristóbal Lehyt (artist); Les Levine (artist); Antoni Muntadas (artist); David Ross (curator, writer); and Bill Viola (artist). $35 ISBN 9780938437765 238 pages, color and b/w |
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Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom 2011, MIT List Visual Arts Center and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Published on the occasion of the first museum survey of artist and filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom is the first monograph to consider his pivotal contribution to postwar media art. Exploring his investigation into the links between art, technology, and communication, the publication brings together scholarship on VanDerBeek's pioneering films and immersive projection environments, as well as documentation of site-specific and telecommunications projects, and a critical assessment of his writing on technology and media. Essays by the exhibition's co-curators João Ribas and Bill Arning, and VanDerBeek scholars Mark Bartlett, Jacob Proctor, Gloria Sutton, and Michael Zryd provide an overview of the artist's influence on contemporary media practices. $24.95 ISBN 9781933619330 216 pages, color and b/w |
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