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GRAD NEWS

Jaekyung Jung
Project 'Interrupted' exhibiting in the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2008
June 17th - Octobr 19th, 2008
Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic

Caitlin Berrigan
Biological Agents: Artistic Engagements in Our Growing Bio-Culture
October 14-November 22, 2008
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit-upcoming.htm

Haseeb Ahmed
Des-Comp.08 / The Design & Computation Group Exhibition 2008: Student Projects
Wolk Gallery
Department of Architecture, (7-338)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
http://www.des-comp.net

Caitlin Berrigan, receives MIT Schnitzer Award - http://saa.mit.edu/schnitzer.html - and Schlossman Research Fellowship

Jaekyung Jung
2008 Spark Design Silver Award for "interrupted"
Exhibit October 3rd at the Autodesk Design Gallery
San Francisco, CA
http://www.sparkawards.com/

Caitlin Berrigan, received a residency at Skowhegan School of Art for Summer 2008

ALUMNI NEWS

Oliver Lutz '06 | Pleinairism
Sept 12 - Oct 26, 2008
Group show
Reykjavík, Iceland
http://www.i8.is

Marisa Jahn '07 | “I, Interloper: Espionage and the Contingency of Identity” and Dave Rankin, National Lawyer’s Guild, “Infiltrants, Informants – Gathering Information from the Other
Wednesday, Sept 24, 2008, 7 pm – Free!
The Armory
643 Park Avenue & Lexington
New York City

Max Goldfarb '06
Incident Report Viewing Station
http://www.incidentreport.info/

Alia Farid Abdal '08, accepted to the Programa de Estudios Independientes by MACBA

Jill Magid, '00 |'Article 12'
Stroom Den Haag, May 20 - June 15, 2008
more info - link

Jill Magid show

Sung Hwan Kim '03, participating in the Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art
April 5, 2008 - http://www.berlinbiennial.de

Oliver Lutz make top 10 list, Boston Globe Article

Michael Rakowitz, SMVisS '98,won a Creative Capital Grant

EVENTS

Monday Nights @ VAP Lecture Series

THIS IS TOMORROW:
Urban Utopia - Dystopia - Heterotopia

The Right to the City
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Philippe Rekacewicz

October 20 from 7-9 pm
Joan Jonas Performance Hall
Building N51-337
265 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-5229
Link to blog - http://urbanutopias.mit.edu
more info - pdf

VAP Mondays Sengupta

Interaction, Intervention, Transformation - pdf
Two day audio workshop with Fender Schrade
N51-315a Sound Studio
10am - 6pm, October 3-4, 2008

Audio Workshop


Exchange with Adel Abdessemed
- a four-part multi-disciplinary workshop will challenge students to act as “five second revolutionaries” - pdf
Oct. 17, 24, 31 and Nov 7 from 1-5 pm

Abdessemed Workshop


FACULTY NEWS

Muntadas
Conversations with Contemporary Artists
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 6:30 p.m
Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Andrea Frank
Ports and Ships
Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany
July - September 2008

Andrea Frank - Venice 1

Joan Jonas
Winner of 2008 AICA Golden Globe for
Best Video Show
more info and here on Artnet

Wendy Jacob
Book release, With Love from Haha: Essays and Notes on a Collective Art Practice, Spring 2008

Andrea Frank
Visions - MIT Interviews

Exhibition and book launch
Reception: Tuesday March 18, 2008, 5-7 pm
The Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery
MIT MUSEUM
Bldg. N51, 265 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
http://www.andreafrank.net/VISIONS.html

Visions


Jae Rhim Lee
The FEMA Trailor Project kicks off at MIT, read more about it here - pdf

Joan Jonas
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA)

October 13, 2007 - July 31, 2008
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA) more info

Joe Zane
Finalist for ICA Foster Prize - more info

Joan Jonas
Biennale of Sydney (Australia)

June 18 - August. 7, 2008
Read of Dante more info

Joan Jonas
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA)

October 13, 2007 - July 31, 2008
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA) more info