CMU - McConomy Auditorium
JEFFREY KASTNER is a New York-based critic and journalist and senior editor of the award-winning quarterly Cabinet. An unorthodox magazine of art and culture that confounds expectations of what is typically meant by the words “art,” “culture,” and sometimes even “magazine,” Cabinet—like the 17th-century cabinet of curiosities to which its name alludes—is as interested in the margins of culture as its center. Presenting wide-ranging content in each issue through regular columns, essays, interviews, and artist projects, Cabinet merges the popular appeal of an arts periodical, the visually engaging style of a design magazine, and the in-depth exploration of a scholarly journal to create a sourcebook of ideas for an eclectic readership that includes artists, philosophers, scientists, and historians. Now in its eight year, Cabinet’s circulation is more than 13,000, with subscribers in some two dozen countries around the world. Kastner, who has been a member of Cabinet’s editorial group since 2001, is a former senior editor of ARTnews and a former contributing editor of Art/Text and Art Monthly. A regular contributor to Artforum, his writing has appeared in art magazines ranging from Art + Auction and Art Issues to Flash Art and Frieze, and in general-interest publications including The Economist and The New York Times. Kastner is the author of catalog essays on artists such as Doug Aitken, Jeremy Blake, Luca Buvoli, Willie Doherty, and Sarah Sze, a contributor to recent books such as Land, Art (London: Royal Society of Arts, 2006) and Experimental Geography (New York: ICI/Melville House, 2008), and the editor of Land and Environmental Art (London: Phaidon, 1998).
Wed Nov 12 at 7:30 PM
Pitt - Frick arts bldg auditorium
FREE
Spanish with English subtitles
CENIZAS DEL PARAÍSO
Argentina, 1997
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro
This a top of the line police thriller, crossed with sibling/father rivalry drama, criminal who-done-it, and psychological character study. Quite unique really, the film is worthy of its impressive Argentine pedigree: directed by one of the country's greatest, and starring an ensemble of its best players. They range from its eldest living legend in the father/dead judge role to its most promising and popular young ones as the three sons. In between, the talent is just as impressive.
Thu Nov 13 at 4:30 PM
CMU Art Gallery
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
4:30 PM, MILLER GALLERY 2ND FLOOR
Presentation by Julia Christensen with Book Launch and Signing of Big Box Reuse (MIT Press, 2008) In the “Your Town, Inc.” exhibition at the Miller Gallery.
JULIA CHRISTENSEN’s work has been featured in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Preservation Magazine for the National Trust, and other publications; her new media, video and installation work has shown recently at the Lincoln Center, DUMBO Arts Center, and the Walker Art Center. Her book, Big Box Reuse, will be published by MIT Press this fall. She is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio, where she teaches in the Studio Arts and TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) Departments. She has also taught at Stanford University and California College of the Arts, among other universities.
Fri Nov 14 at 5 PM
Yes Men meeting
CMU Art Gallery
If you haven't yet heard of The Yes Men -- the outrageous artist-activists who infiltrate corporate conventions posed as scheduled presenters, announced the World Trade Organization's (faux) dissolution to shift focus to helping the poor, and crafted a hoax official Web site for candidate George W. Bush -- you can learn about and meet some of them this weekend at Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery.
At 5 p.m. Friday a free "How to Be a Yes Man Workshop," including film clips from the upcoming "The Yes Men Movie," will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. It will be followed by a "Business Casual Reception," with Yes Men Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, to open the first Yes Men survey exhibition, "Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism With The Yes Men."
5 PM, MILLER GALLERY 2ND FLOOR
WORKSHOP“How To Be a Yes Man”
The YES MEN have gained international notoriety for impersonating World Trade Organization spokesmen on international TV and at business conferences around the world. They describe what they do as Identity Correction. Unlike Identity Theft, which criminals practice with dishonest intent, Identity Correction is the art of impersonating a powerful criminal to publicly humiliate them for conspiring against the public good. Their targets have included big bad bureaucracies like the World Trade Organization, nasty world leaders such as George Bush, ugly right-wing think tanks like The Heritage Foundation, and heartless corporations such as Dow Chemical.
Sat Nov 15 at 1 PM
Frick Park - Blue Slide Playground entrance
Scavenger Hunt
Organized by the Playground of the Future graduate
student team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie
Mellon University. Our team will be hosting a Scavenger Hunt Event in
Frick Park on Saturday, November 15th from 1-4 pm.
Pictures of futuristic playgrounds
This event is a free event in which teams of 1-6 people will compete
for prizes in a photo scavenger hunt across Frick Park.
The prizes are:
First place: 1 GB Nano ipods for each member
Second place: 30 dollar gift certificates to local restaurants
Third place: Free movie passes
Players will use their own digital cameras (or borrow one of ours),
to collect pictures of a variety of different items around the park.
The event will be fast paced and competitive, with team members
competing to reach a variety of landmarks around the park within
given time limits. The event is free, but a team RSVP to
khliving at cmu dot edu is required by Friday, November 14th.
Here are some details on the event:
What: Scavenger Hunt Event
Who: Pittsburgh Adults and Young Adults
Where: Frick Park, at the corner of Nicholson and Beechwood Blvd,
near the entrance to the Blue Slide Playground
When: November 15th, 1-4 pm
Our team at Carnegie Mellon is sponsored by the Grable Foundation,
and is working closely with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. We are
focused on researching, envisioning, designing, and prototyping ideas
for playgrounds in the future. We believe that active play and
engagement with the outdoors is important for people of all ages.
This event is one of several we are hosting at Frick Park aimed at
finding fun ways for visitors to engage with the nature and the park.
Sat Nov 15 at 3:30 PM
Pitt, school of music, 132 Music Building, free
John Adams Speaks About His Recent Compositions
Internationally acclaimed composer John Adams will give a free lecture at the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday, November 15 at 3:30 p.m. Adams will discuss his recent compositions, including his latest opera Dr. Atomic, based on the life of J. Robert. Oppenheimer. John Adams is this year’s Pittsburgh Symphony Composer of the Year and his lecture at Pitt is part of an ongoing collaboration between the PSO and local universities, a collaboration which also includes performances of his music by university ensembles and opportunities for him to mentor young composers.
One of America’s most admired and respected composers, John Adams is a musician of enormous range and technical command. Over the past 25 years, Adams’ music has played a decisive role in turning the tide of contemporary musical aesthetics away from academic modernism and toward a more expansive, expressive language, entirely characteristic of his New World surroundings.
Sat Nov 15 at 5 PM
CMU Alumni Concert Hall
Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble
Performed Works List not Available
Free
Sat Nov 15 at 7 PM
Regent Square art gallery
photographers who have documented the city's architecture -- Clyde Hare, Mark Perrott, Dylan Vitone, Richard Kelly and the late Luke Swank -- are featured in the exhibition "Pittsburgh: A Century of Photography" that opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Concept Art Gallery, 1031 S. Braddock Ave., Regent Square.
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