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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 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, 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

Situationist Films by Guy Debord, Ernie Larsen, and Sherry Millner

Woodbine 585 Woodward Avenue, Queens, NY, United States

Screening series presents "Situationist Film: Now and Then,  Then and Now", with films by Guy Debord, SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Sherry Millner & Ernie Larsen. Millner and Larsen will join us for a discussion following the screening.

Book Release and Show at 411 Kent

411 Kent 411 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States

March 16th book release and show (organized by SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Matt Mottel): Cisco Bradley's "The Williamsburg Avant-Garde" / Andrea Wolper, Virg Dzurinko, Talibam! with Yuko Otomo (Recreate the Levitation of Vice Media into the East River 2015), Tamio Shiraishi, Marc Edwards' Slipstream Time Travel

Newburgh is a Broadcast

Newburgh is a Broadcast is a community project where together we create media in the format of "live radio" broadcast online via youtube. In a partnered storefront at 163 Broadway, a pop up ‘radio station’ will transform and activate the empty storefront. The radio programs will be a mix of interviews documenting the lives and day-to-day reality of living in Newburgh and showcasing local musicians by giving them a timeslot to play their own productions and/or their favorite records. Multi-lingual and intergenerational, educational and artistic Newburgh is a Broadcast aims to showcase the broad and diverse city that is Newburgh.

MY PHONE LIES TO ME: Los Angeles Book Launch and Reading

Get Lit 672 S. La Fayette PL #10, Los Angeles, CA, United States

A reading of new poems by Get Lit poets in conversation with My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy, ed. Alexandra Juhasz with a foreword by Tara McPherson and afterword by Margaret Rhee (punctum books, 2022). Audience members are enthusiastically invited to read their own or another’s writing from the collection or new work engaging with the project’s themes.

Free

AI Care and Art: Chloë Bass & Hannah Zeavin

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

A conversation between artist and SPCUNY co-director Chloë Bass and scholar and critic Hannah Zeavin about the greater recognition of the need for care in our social infrastructure, our relationships with each other, and our relationships with ourselves, while facing the simultaneous reality that modes of care have become increasingly technological and at screen’s length from our embodied lives. The follow-up to a talk hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Art World Conference in 2021, this talk brings Bass and Zeavin together for continued conversation about the many meanings of care, care’s potential violence both in IRL and AFK arenas, and the ongoing importance of translating between digital and material form. The conversation builds on Zeavin's engagement with technology as a simultaneous mediating support and form of surveillance with respect to familial care (her book Mother's Little Helpers is forthcoming from MIT Press), dovetailing with Bass' ongoing artistic research project Obligation to Others Holds Me in My Place, a study of intimacy at the scale of the immediate family