Film @ BLM Teach-in
FILM SCREENING + DISCUSSION
FEBRUARY 24, 6-9 PM
MEMORIAL HALL
COORDINATOR:
SASHA SUMNER
PARTICIPANTS:
CISCO BRADLEY, MAHOGANY BROWNE, SHOLA LYNCH, MAYA WILEY, DAN WRIGHT
DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS:
BLACK LIVES MATTER PRATT, FILM/VIDEO, MATH AND SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Screening of the film Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners and a follow-up discussion. Part of the Pratt Black Lives Matter Teach-In on the Pratt Brooklyn campus Feb 23-25, 2017.
Bringing Virtual and Augmented Reality Technology to Curriculum
WORKSHOPS + PRESENTATIONS
THROUGHOUT AY 2016-17 + APRIL 13 FOR LARGER WORKSHOP
CURATOR/COORDINATOR:
DAVID MARCINKOWSKI
PARTICIPANTS:
BASEM ALY, DEAN DALFONZO, CRAIG MCDONALD, DAVID MARCINKOWSKI, MARK O’GRADY, AND STUDENTS FROM THE ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM AND THE SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
DEPARTMENTS AND OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED:
ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
Two types of events were undertaken in this episode: class visits and presentations, and a major workshop.
The presentations and workshops within classes were spread across different types of courses: The first category were classes where VR/AR production techniques could be explored and taught as part of the curriculum, or where VR/AR technologies could be used as tools to supplement the existing curriculum.
The second category were more traditional drawing and painting courses where VR/AR technology could be used as a tool to create further works—almost like introducing a sponge as a tool for painting. Our goal was to introduce students to a very popular drawing and painting VR experience called Google Paint Brush using the HTC Vive VR headset.
A final workshop was designed to introduce students from all departments and especially from the School of Information to virtual reality technology in a variety of forms. The workshop offered students the opportunity to try out three different types of VR hardware; the HTC Vive, the Oculus Rift, and the Microsoft Hololens.
Still/Moving
PANEL DISCUSSION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017, 6:30-8:30 PM
ARC BUILDING E2 LECTURE HALL
COORDINATOR:
CARRIE SCHNEIDER
PARTICIPANTS:
KATHLEEN KELLEY, CARRIE SCHNEIDER, KAJA SILVERMAN
DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS:
PHOTOGRAPHY, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
STILL/MOVING was a panel discussion featuring esteemed art historian Kaja Silverman, Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, in conversation with two Pratt Institute faculty: Photography Department Visiting Associate Professor Carrie Schneider and Social Science and Cultural Studies Adjunct Professor Kathleen Kelley.
Art as Resistance: Told and Untold Stories
ARTISTS’ TALKS + PRESENTATIONS + DISCUSSIONS + PERFORMANCES
DECOLONIZING ART HISTORY
ARTISTS’ TALK AND DIALOGUE
THURSDAY APRIL 13, 2017 1-2:30 PM
PRATT MANHATTAN
144 W 14TH STREET, RM 213
SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCES
THURSDAY APRIL 13, 2017, 7 PM
STARR BARR, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN
PRESENTING ARTISTS:
RUBY CHACÓN AND MARIA DE LOS ANGELES
COORDINATOR:
CAITLIN CAHILL
PARTICIPANTS:
CAITLIN CAHILL, JANICE ROBERTSON, STUDENTS FROM VARIOUS CLASSES
DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS:
FINE ARTS, HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND CULTURAL STUDIES, MAKE THE ROAD NY
Art as Resistance: Told & Untold Stories engaged questions about the relationship of art and social movements, which are particularly urgent in the current political context. At this political and historic moment, where the calls for building walls ring in our ears and the militarized securitization of everyday life is imminent, there is an urgency to art-making that centers the experiences of those most affected by this ongoing and heightened crisis. Painting stories of migration, displacement, identity, family and heritage, Chicana artist Ruby Chacón and Maria de los Angeles render the lived experiences of the Latino community in all of its complexity—documenting the struggle for survival and right to exist alongside intimacy, desire and joy. Offering a counter narrative to xenophobic rhetoric, Chacón and de los Angeles each explore the relationship between the personal and the political as viable terrain for cultural production and building community.