Thursday, June 12, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 pm
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About This Event
Sundaram Tagore will offer introductory remarks on the seismic shift that globalization has created in the art world. Ten years ago, New York was the center of the art world—in terms of galleries, museum shows, and the market. A handful of arts institutions, curators, gallerists, and critics dictated the terms of any critical discussion about art. Today, cities around the world have their own developing and thriving markets. The age where a few artists commanded worldwide recognition is over and today, each country is developing its own artistic movements and stars. In the absence of a “central authority” how does one go about distinguishing what’s relevant? This introduction will be followed by a question-and-answer conversation with Mr. Tagore.
Following the discussion with Sundaram Tagore, German artist Fré Ilgen will present:
Art = Brain + Hand +Technology
Technology is continuing to lead to new methods and new machines to support man in his ambitions and pursuits. Technology does this in part by specializing in the intermediary function between man and his environment, wherever that environment might be. For more than a decade, high tech companies and technology developers, aware of the fact that better technology is that which can be intuitively used by the end-user for as-yet-to-be-determined purposes, have spent millions in research into the creative process and specifically that process which involves man using principally his hands to interact with the environment.
Artists are peculiarly specialized in “thinking with their hands” and, while their knowledge of craft plays a crucial role in the creative process, artists also trust their intuition. Intuition (or brain) can be understood as a complex system of partially conscious and partially unconscious thoughts, urges or drives, which are knowledge/experience-based.
This cutting-edge presentation will focus on:
the importance of manipulation as a process of self-argumentation; and some basic considerations in context with the importance of interaction, manual handling in human functioning; and
the creative process of artists, including aspects of technology.
Both points will be presented with reference to slide images, including some insight into the complexity of site specific and large scale sculptural projects (manipulation requiring great effort) often a collaboration of the artist with engineers and computer specialists, and very often challenging the limits of current technological capabilities for enlarged production.
DATE:
6:30 PM, June 12, 2008
TIME:
6:30pm - 7:00pm: Reception
7:00pm - 7:30pm: Discussion with Sundaram Tagore
7:30pm - 8:00pm: Presentation by Fré Ilgen
8:00pm - 8:30pm: Networking
PLACE:
Sundaram Tagore Gallery - DIRECTIONS
547 West 27th in Chelsea
New York, NY 10001
REGISTRATION:
Free to members of MIT Enterprise Forum
$50 non-members, $10 extra at door
All members and guests are welcome
