ISCP Talk
May 26, 2020, 4–5pm

Artists at Work with Carlos Franco on Instagram Live: Tap to Add Media

Media is the trope of the twenty-first century. As our political bodies become part of digital ecosystems—unbound to geographical boundaries and negotiated through everyday interfaces—“media” should be reevaluated. In this Instagram Live event, current Ground Floor resident Carlos Franco will be joined by independent curator, writer and artist Vanessa Kowalski in an open conversation about some of these themes within the framework of Franco’s recent media work and the state of cultural production in what is being coined the “new normal.”

Tune into the Instagram Live here.

This program is also supported, in part, by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Hartfield Foundation; Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); VIA Art Fund and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

4–5pm

Participating Residents

ISCP Talk
May 12, 2020, 4–5pm

Artists at Work with Alison Nguyen: 'my favorite software is being here,' a lecture performance on Instagram Live

Artist-in-residence Alison Nguyen is too busy writing COVID-19 emergency grants to do her artist talk. Instead, she has digitally outsourced the talk to Andra8, a computer-generated woman whom she met on UpWork, a global freelancing platform. Andra8 is a simulacral subaltern working a variety of online jobs: as a virtual assistant, a data cleanser, a content creator, an emoji artist, and a life coach. For the first time in her virtual existence, Andra8 will be on “the main screen” with very few client parameters. She will speculate on the politics of digital labor, the role of women and minorities in today’s art economy, and the underlying systems of algorithmic control, topics she has not been invited to speak about in the past.

The lecture performance is an extension of Nguyen’s current work-in-progress my favorite software is being here which centers on Andra8’s isolated existence and labor in a photogenic and all-surveilled virtual void. It will be followed by a short talk with Nguyen and the technical director and cinematographer of Nguyen’s Andra8 video, Jonathan Beilin who has created the real-time animation set up for the lecture performance. Beilin is a digital artist and a professor of new and emerging media at Parsons School of Design.

This program is also supported, in part, by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Hartfield Foundation; Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); VIA Art Fund and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

4–5pm

Participating Residents

Event
May 1–May 31, 2020

2020Solidarity: Support ISCP

Posters were available for purchase through May 31 to support the International Studio & Curatorial Program. The campaign has now ended.

ISCP is honored to be one of the organizations invited to sell posters as part of 2020Solidarity, a Between Bridges project aimed at helping cultural venues, community projects, independent spaces and publications that are threatened by the COVID-19 crisis.

Posters feature artwork by ISCP alumni Melanie Bonajo, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Jacolby Satterwhite and artists Tomma Abts, Marlene Dumas, Nicole Eisenman, Thao Nguyen Phan, Wolfgang Tillmans, Betty Tompkins, Luc Tuymans, Carrie Mae Weems, and David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren.

Click HERE to purchase posters for $50 each. You will receive a post-sale email from ISCP asking you to indicate your poster selection.

Checks can be sent to the International Studio & Curatorial Program at 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211. 

All income from sales will go directly to helping the organization in these challenging times. ISCP’s essential mission to support artists and curators, to amplify their activities and raise their voices, to foster cultural exchange between them and back out to the world, continues to be crucial.

Posters will be available for pick-up in Brooklyn or mailed by USPS to buyers when stay-at-home restrictions are lifted – you will be contacted by ISCP to arrange pick-up and shipping. All posters are 16.5 x 23.4 in. (42 x 59.4 cm).

For more information, contact Juliana Cope at jcope@iscp-nyc.org.

Participating Residents

Michael Elmgreen / Ingar Dragset