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  • The Art of Un-War: Screening & Discussion with Krzysztof Wodiczko

    The Segal Theatre The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    A special screening of the 60-minute award-winning documentary The Art of Un-War directed by Maria Niro. The film chronicles the life and work of artist and educator, Krzysztof Wodiczko, focusing on major themes in Wodiczko’s oeuvre such as war, trauma, and displacement. The event is hosted by Art Science Connect and supported by Social Practice Queens, Galerie Lelong, Polish Cultural Institute, New York, and the CUNY Central Office of Veteran Affairs. RSVP requested.

    Free

  • Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shah: 5 Ways to Look at Misinformation

    The Skylight Room Room 9100, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

    Digital media scholars Alexandra Juhasz (2022-23 SPCUNY Faculty Fellow) and Nishant Shah, authors of Really Fake (University of Minnesota and meson presses, 2021), discuss story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity, to explore socio-technological and politico-aesthetic emergences in a world where information overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing. Co-sponsored with Art & Science Connect.

    Free

  • Mapping & Photography Workshop presented by The Catcalling Project

    Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand St., New York, NY, United States

    Mapping and photography workshop asking participants to think about their relation to space in ways that are both familiar and unfamiliar, exploring themes of safety, community, and place making.

    Free

  • Image is a Seed: Student Addition

    Video Essays of Prof. Mottel's Brooklyn College, Digital Art Student's Final Projects, Broadcast Online & Archived via ESS.org. Image is a Seed: Student Addition is a group online broadcast of video artwork composed by the students of CUNY, utilizing the archived photography of Syeus Mottel. Mottel was a photojournalist who photographed 1960’s and 70’s political events, everyday people, ambient street scenes, and cultural events of music, theater, and art.

    Free

  • BARCELONA/MEDELLIN COMMUNITY WALK SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL PRACTICE with SITESIZE (Barcelona), Tierra ESPACIO PARA HABITAR (Colombia) and URBAN RESILIENCE THINKING INITIATIVES (New York)

    Barcelona and Medellin watersheds (contact for address)

    Join us for the Barcelona and Medellin watersheds community walk included in the Nomad Resilience Thinking Social-ecological Practice Actions. This event will be held between Medellin and Barcelona using multimedia tools discussing how local vulnerable communities are linked and affected by their ecological systems.

  • A Conversation with Chloë Bass

    Skirball Cultural Center 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Hear SPCUNY co-director Chloë Bass, the artist behind two concurrent projects in Los Angeles, in conversation with curators Cate Thurston, of the Skirball Cultural Center, and Taylor Renee Aldridge, of the California African American Museum (CAAM), about the roles of institutions and artists with respect to the creation and stewardship of memory, memorials, and the presentation of private feelings in public spaces.

    $10

  • The ABC of the Projectariat

    James Gallery CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC, NYC, NY, United States

    Gather in the James Gallery for a performative talk by Kuba Szreder concerning the precarious conditions of artistic labour followed by an open discussion about cultural resistance created and practiced by gig-economy workers, “the projectariat,” in Szreder’s words. The artistic projectariat--people who do projects to make a living--roam the global art world, where enthusiasm is paired with exclusion, mobility with poverty, self-entrepreneurialism with anxiety. The evening's discussion will be opened by SPCUNY Co-Director Greg Sholette.

    Free

  • Placeholder Poetry Readings #6

    Hope & Ruin 11 Queens Road, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Sam Solomon, Savannah Sevenzo, Claudia Treacher, Violet Marchenkova, Nehaal Bajwa respond to SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Alexandra Juhasz (My Phone Lies to Me).

    £3

  • Aesthetics, Resistance, and Memory: a double book launch and conversation with Andreas Huyssen and Gregory Sholette

    Printed Matter 231 11th Ave, New York, NY, United States

    Join us for a double book launch and conversation with Andreas Huyssen and Gregory Sholette, presented and co-sponsored by Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY). Approaching the politics of memory from two overlapping perspectives, Huyssen and Sholette will discuss their recent books, Memory Art in the Contemporary World and The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art.

    Free

  • Poetry Media Race

    The New School

    This special event celebrates the publication of My Phone Lies To Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops As Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News (Punctum Books, 2023) edited by feminist media theorist Alex Juhasz in conversation with poet Chet'la Sebree’s lyrical book Field Study.

    Free