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Parsons Festival AMT Openings and Highlights!

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To view the full list of events from all divisions involved in the Parsons Festival, please go to: http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/festival-events

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Friday, April 25, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Opening Reception – Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition “Before”
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, New York, NY 
On view 4/25-5/3
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 12:00-6:00 p.m.; Saturday, 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

The MFA Fine Arts program at Parsons presents Before, its 2014 thesis exhibition, curated by Niels Van Tomme. Presenting a reflection on a moment rather than a well structured, overarching curatorial statement, Before explores a state of perpetual yet-to-come and fragile anticipation. The exhibition playfully negotiates Jimmie Durham’s statement that the artist always works “Before Tomorrow,” before the crux of formation and before the advent of history, while laying out a provisional display of artistic gestures. Ranging from traces of transcendent encounters to explorations of social and individual memory, as well as the emergence of narrative structures and the breakdown of identity, the works featured in the exhibition reject official narratives in favor of a more open and exploratory approach to artistic processes. Taken together, they form temporal clusters that complicate a straightforward conceptualization of linearity and purpose. In doing so,Before suggests the continuous and multifaceted interplay between past, present, and future, as well as exemplifies the challenges and promises associated with graduating from an art academy in New York City.

For more information about the thesis exhibition at the Kitchen, please visit the Parsons Fine Arts site, or contact parsonsbefore@gmail.com.
Join us on twitter #parsonsB4.  A gallery walk-through with the exhibiting students will take place on May 3.

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Monday, April 28 – May 22
MFA Photography Exhibition
Hours: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
University Center, 6th Floor Library
63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

This exhibition features work by first and second year MFA Photography students. The program seeks to redefine the creative role of photographer within contemporary culture. As illustrated by this exhibition, these pieces represent a wide range of interests, inquiries, methodologies, and approaches. The artwork presented by these emerging photographic artists push the boundaries of the medium and the limits of creative vision.

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Tuesday, April 29, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Opening Reception – “Making Meaning”
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
2 West 13th Street, New York, NY 
On view from 4/28-5/23

Curated by graduate students at Parsons and presented under the thematic arc of Making/Meaning, this Parsons Festival exhibition showcases the work of undergraduate and associate’s degree students across Parsons, providing a lively snapshot of ideas and issues that inspire the students themselves. AMT is widely represented in this show by a number of talented artists across all our programs. See the full list here.

This exhibition takes place in both the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery and the Arnold and Shelia Aronson Galleries at the Shelia C. Johnson Design Center.

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Thursday, May 15, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
The Business of Illustration
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center

The BFA Illustration program presents a panel discussion focusing on established and up-and-coming artists with non-traditional career paths connected to the world of illustration. The event will demystify the ever-changing professional landscape of illustration, enabling students to identify with what they may encounter when they leave school.

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Friday May 16, May 17th, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
MFA Design and Technology Symposium
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall
55 West 13th Street, New York, NY
Room I202

The MFA Design and Technology Symposium is a two-day curated forum held in conjunction with the program’s thesis exhibition. Students will discuss both their individual processes and the intersections between projects.Please visit mfadt.parsons.edu for event schedule and details.

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Friday, May 16, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Open Studios Reception – MFA Photography
66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 
3rd floor

Three times a year, students in the MFA Photography program host informal gatherings to share their work-in-progress with their peers in the New York City photographic community and the general public. Open studios is an opportunity to celebrate new work and strengthen the ties between students, alumni, and working artists.

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Monday, May 19th – Friday, May 23rd 
Hours: Monday, Thursday, Friday – Noon – 6:00 pm
Tuesday and Wednesday – Noon – 8:00 pm
Words and Pictures: Illustration Pop Up Shop
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, conference room (lobby, next to Kellen gallery)
2 West 13th Street New York, NY

Browse and purchase editioned and one of a kind works from the Illustration program Seniors including prints, zines, toys, and other great stuff.

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Tuesday, May 20, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Opening Reception – BFA Fine Arts Senior Show
Parsons East, 4th and 5th floor
25 East 13th Street, New York, NY
On view: 5/20-5/23

The BFA program in Fine Arts exposes students to an array of studio practices, ideas, communities, and global relationships. Students learn to translate concepts into individual expression through composition, color, form, space, and performance while developing a solid set of skills and contemporary artistic strategies. They embrace interdisciplinary approaches to thinking about visual culture, and above all they cultivate the intellectual, conceptual, and critical thinking required to successfully launch their careers as professional artists.The BFA Fine Arts Senior Show celebrates and showcases the thesis work completed by our graduating students. The exhibition takes place in the Fine Arts studios, galleries, and classrooms and includes painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, photography, video, and performance-based work.

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Tuesday, May 20, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Opening Reception – Printmaking Exhibition 
Kerrey Hall, Lobby
65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
On view 5/12-5/24

This exhibition presents etchings, screenprints, monoprints, woodcuts, lithographs, and examples of letterpress and book arts in a comprehensive show of printmaking work by students from across The New School. A workshop and on-going demonstrations will occur in the print shop, on the 4th floor of 2 West 13th Street, during the exhibition opening.

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Tuesday, May 20, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Opening Reception – Graphic Design Exhibition
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
7th, 10th, and 11th floor showcases
2 West 13th Street, New York, NY
On view: 5/20 – 5/29

The Big Talent Show(case) by graduating students in the AAS Graphic Design program will include a variety of work including editorial and publication design, brand identity, interactive and web design, typography, posters, and non-profit work, as well as printmaking and book arts.

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Tuesday, May 20, 6:00pm – 8:00 pm
Screening and Opening Reception and for BFA Communication Design / BFA Design and Technology 
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
10th floor classrooms (exhibition reception, on view: 5/20-5/23)
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, lobby level (screenings)
2 West 13th Street New York, NY

Experience an evening of multimedia works from seniors in the BFA Design and Technology and BFA Communication Design programs. Students with physical and/or experiential work will create select installations for public viewing, on the 10th floor of 2 West 13th St. Back down at the lobby level, enjoy narrative shorts, documentary, animation, kinetic type, sound, performance, and experimental videos screening in Kellen Auditorium. …

Tuesday, May 20, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Book/Web Launch Party for BFA Communication Design / BFA Design and Technology
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, lobby  
2 West 13th Street New York, NY

See the work and celebrate the launch of the 2014 catalog featuring more than a hundred graduating students. Projects address a wide range of practical and theoretical concerns across a variety of media, inflected with their shared optimism about the role of design in a global context.

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Tuesday, May 20, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Opening Reception – BFA Photography Exhibition
Milk Studios, Main floor
450 West 15th Street, New York, NY
On view 5/20-5/30 

Parsons The New School for Design and Milk Studios present an exhibition of photographs, installations, video projections, and magazine and book displays by graduating students in Parsons’ BFA Photography program, which challenges students to use analog and digital technology to create bodies of work influenced by film, design, fine art, video, and sound.

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Wednesday, May 21 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Opening Reception MFA Design and Technology Exhibition
Albert and Vera List Academic Center
6 East 16th Street, New York, NY
12th floor 
On view: 5/17-5/25

MFA Design and Technology presents its 2014 exhibition featuring projects from more than 70 graduating students. From installations to performances, objects to apps, games to video to interactive experiences, MFA Design and Technology students explore the dynamic role of technology in our lives.These projects are an interdisciplinary convergence of inquiry and application designed to traverse issues related to technology, including its value. We invoke the playful, the informative, the empowering, the critical, and the subversive to investigate emerging issues and provoke discussion.

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Opening Reception: 2×2 – A Curated Exhibition with Parsons Illustration Program
Space Ninety 8, 98 N. 6th St., Brooklyn, NY (Williamsburg)
On view 5/12 – 5/16 12:00pm-9:00pm

Space Ninety 8, a new concept store in Williamsburg will be hosting the Illustration senior show. Thesis, non-thesis work and work for sale will all be on view.

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Wednesday, May 21 9:00 am – 4:00 pm 
Pecha Kucha – BFA Illustration
Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Ave, New York, NY
ground floor 

The senior class present their theses projects in 3-5 minute slide talks followed by short Q&A’s for each. A faculty panel will rotate throughout the day to facilitate questions and challenges to the students on their ideas and work.

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Wednesday, May 21, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Book Release Party, Screening and Opening Reception for 12th Floor Exhibition – BFA Illustration
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center lobby (book release party)
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, lobby level (screenings)
12th Floor (exhibition, on view: 5/20-5/23)

2 West 13th Street New York, NY

The Illustration Program senior thesis class releases our second Illustration Annual featuring works by all class members. This book contains a diverse range of images and objects that span the many facets of the industry. Celebrate the accomplishments of the senior Illustration class at this fabulous event. In Kellen Auditorium, we’ll also be screening time based and animation works.  The animation focus within AMT covers a wide range of time based media from traditional animation to more experimental works. Illustration students show off their unique takes on this genre. On the 12th floor, we’ll be celebrating the works and ideas that lend themselves to a wide variety of careers including editorial illustration, comics and graphic novels, picture books, motion and animation, toy and product design, and gallery art through a variety of installations and gallery style exhibitions of senior class works.

This Sat. 4/26 – Illustration Faculty Robert Sikoryak hosts CAROUSEL: Cartoon slide shows and other projected pictures

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Saturday, April 26, 2014    12:00 – 12:45 PM
The New School, Theresa Lang Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

RE/Mixed Media Festival presents: CAROUSEL Cartoon slide shows and other projected pictures 

Drawn and performed by:
Jason Little
(Shutterbug Follies, Motel Art Improvement Service)
Lauren R. Weinstein
 (Girl Stories, The Goddess of War)
Kriota Willberg 
(Pictorial Anatomy of the Cute, (NO) PAIN!)
and host R. Sikoryak
(Masterpiece Comics)

DISCOUNT CODE for HALF PRICE passes to all RE/Mix events:
http://remixnyc.eventbee.com/event?eventid=186011033&code=ARTFAN
The code is: ARTFAN. Apply the discount by registering at:  www.remixnyc.com/2014/register and then typing in the code into the promo code box.
The code gives you a 50% discount off any festival pass except for student tickets and VIP w/ Hotel pass.
The RE/Mixed Media Festival is a celebration of collaborative art-making and creative appropriation. It’s the artists’ contribution to the ongoing conversation about remixing, mashups, copyright law, fair use, and the freedom of artists to access their culture in order to add to and build upon it. RE/Mixed Media Festival IV will be held on April 26-27, 2014 at The New School, in cooperation with the School of Media Studies, and Parsons The New School for Design; and at CultureHub, in NYC’s East Village.

Other RE/Mixed events all day, Saturday & Sunday.  The Festival schedule is posted on line at http://remixnyc.com/2014/schedule/

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R. Sikoryak‘s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Nickelodeon Magazine, Drawn and Quarterly, Raw, Fortune, Esquire, GQ, among many other publications, and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is the author of the graphic novel Masterpiece Comics (Drawn and Quarterly), and the co-author, with Michael Smith, of The Seduction of Mike (Fantagraphics), a comic book funded by the NEA. He was awarded an Artist’s Fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts for his comics adaptations of classic literature. He is in the Speakers Program of the New York Council of the Humanities. In his spare time, he creates performances, slide shows, and animation for downtown theater and independent films. Since 1997, he has presented his cartoon slide show series, “Carousel,” around the U.S. and Canada. He teaches in the Illustration program at Parsons The New School For Design.

NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium April 1 at 7pm

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The eightieth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public. PLEASE NOTE: There is no meeting March 25th. It’s  Spring Break.

Ernie Gehr will present and discuss a selection of his films emphasizing the “animation” of the moving image.  In non-technical terms  one could interpret that as meaning “what have you got between the eyes, and is it of any use”.

Ernie Gehr began to work with film in 1967, and with digital media in 1999.  He has completed approx. 70 works, ranging in duration from 3 to 74 minutes.  For his innovative work, Gehr has received various awards and fellowships, including The Maya Deren Award  from The American Film Institute, The Stan Brakhage Vision Award from the Denver International Film Festival as well as a Guggenheim fellowship.  Over the years Gehr has taught at various schools, including the San Francisco Art Institute, U.C. Berkeley, and most recently at Harvard.  In October of last year a program of his recent works were shown at the New York Film Festival, and an essay on those pieces was published in the January 2014 print issue of Artforum.

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still from Serene Velocity (1970) by Ernie Gehr

 

Faculty Nora Krug selected for a Sendak Fellowship

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Parsons Faculty Nora Krug was selected for a Sendak Fellowship, a 5-week residency that Maurice Sendak (author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’) initiated when he was still alive a few years ago, and that continues to be awarded to a small group of visual narrative artists through anonymous nomination annually. The residency will take place on his estate in upstate NY during the summer.

 

SENDAK FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCES 2014 SENDAK FELLOWS

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 MARCH 20 2014

The Sendak Fellowship nominating and judging committee is happy to announce the 2014 Sendak Fellows: Nora Krug and Harry Bliss. You’ll find their full bios below.

The Sendak Fellowship was established in 2010 as a residency program for artists who tell stories with illustration. The Fellowship offers the time for artist to explore their craft outside the limitations of everyday life and in the relative isolation of a rural setting.

Between 2010 and 2013, the Sendak Fellowship was run at a house on Maurice Sendak’s property in Ridgefield, Connecticut. There, four resident artists received instruction and support from Mr. Sendak as well as from visiting artists of note.

This summer the fellowship is moving to Scotch Hill Farm, formerly owned by Mr. Sendak, in upstate Cambridge, New York. Two fellows will be provided their own fully equipped cottage with kitchen and studio space and receive a fellow’s stipend. At the same time, the two resident fellows will receive occasional inspiration from visiting artists in the field.

Maurice Sendak bought the 150-acre Scotch Hill Farm in the 1990’s, where he planned to run workshops for the Night Kitchen National Children’s Theatre. He was drawn to the area because of its beauty and proximity to the nearby Monks of New Skete (from whom he bought his German Shepherd, Runge). Long-time Sendak companion and assistant, Lynn Caponera, now owns the farm where she grows food for donation to local food banks and pantries. The farm is located in Washington County, New York, thirty minutes from both Saratoga Springs, New York, and Manchester, Vermont.

For many years Sendak wanted to create a formal program for what he’d been doing informally his whole career: helping promising illustrators As a young beginning illustrator himself, Sendak was nurtured in the Connecticut home of the artists Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson. He saw the Sendak Fellowship as his “school”—a way to help others, and in 2009 enlisted the help of Caponera, as well as photographer and community activist, Dona Ann McAdams (now the fellowship’s director) to help realize his vision.

The goal of the Sendak Fellowship, in Maurice’s words, was for fellows to “create work that is not vapid, stupid, or sexy, but original. Work that excites and incites. Illustration is like dance; it should move like—and to—music.”

Former Sendak Fellows include: 2010: Antoinette Portis, Aaron Renier, Paul Schmid, Robert Weinstock.  2011: Ali Bahrampour, Frann Preston-Gannon, Sergio Ruzzier, Denise Ann Saldutti Egielski. 2012: Gerardo Blumenkrantz, Tor Freeman, Alice Lickens. 2013: Jessica Ahlberg. Ian Andrew, Marc Rosenthal, Sara Varon.

 

The 2014 Sendak Fellows:

Nora Krug is a writer and artist whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, le Monde Diplomatique and A Public Space, and in anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Chronicle Books. She is the creator of the graphic novel,Red Riding Hood Redux, and of Shadow Atlas, an encyclopedia of ghosts and spirits, and the illustrator of the children’s book, My Cold Went On Vacation, published by Penguin/Putnam. Krug is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright, DAAD, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her work is included in the Library of Congress and has been recognized by American Illustration. It received three gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and was awarded with merits and a silver cube by the Art Directors Club. Krug’s story, Kamikaze, about a surviving Japanese WWII pilot, was included in Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics and Best Non-Required Reading. Krug’s work has been exhibited internationally, and her animated guide to Japanese business etiquette, How To Bow, was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. She is an associate professor in the Illustration Program at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.

Harry Bliss is an internationally syndicated cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. His self-titled single panel gag cartoon, ‘BLISS’ appears in major newspapers across the United States and Japan. Growing up in upstate New York amidst a family of successful painters and illustrators, Bliss went on to study painting at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Illustration at The University of the Arts (BFA) and Syracuse University (MA). Bliss also illustrates books for children. Bliss’s first children’s book, A Fine, Fine School by Newbery-award-winning author, Sharon Creech, was a New York Times bestseller. Bliss went on to illustrate Which Would You Rather Be? by William Steig, Countdown To Kindergarten and Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teethboth by Alison McGhee. Bliss has also created the pictures for Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, and Diary of a Fly by Doreen Cronin, all New York Times bestsellers. Other bestsellers include Don’t Forget To Come Back by Robie H. Harris and A Very Brave Witch by Alison McGhee and Louise: The Adventure of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo.
Bliss’s first cartoon collection, Death By Laughter, with an introduction by Christopher Guest was published by Abrams in the Spring of 2008. Luke On the Loose, Bliss’ debut award-winning comic book for early readers (edited by Francoise Mouly) was published by Toon Books in the Spring 2009. Recentlly published by Harper Collins is Invisible Inkling by Emily Jenkins with pictures by Harry Bliss. Bailey (A Parent’s Magazine award-winner) was published by Scholastic in September 2011 followed by Bailey at the Museum 2012.Bliss’s next picture book, Anna and Solomon by Elaine Dillof will be published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in September 2013. Harry Bliss lives in Vermont.

Required Orientations for Use of the AMT / SCE Facilities

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The available weekly time slots are:

Monday 3:50pm
Wednesday 12pm
Wednesday 3:50pm

Reserve your time slot by emailing Vinny Gargiulo at GargiuV@newschool.edu.

The Orientations to the new E4 Facilities include a tour of new facilities available to AMT students in 2 west 13th street including, rubber and resin casting facilities, sewing facilities, new machinery such as mills and lathes as well as plastic bending and polishing tools, vacuuformers and additional spray booths.

In 25 East 13th these will include the new E4 facilities and all related tools and machinery, the new tool check out system and a lesson on table saw usage for the attending students. It will take approximately 1.5 hours and is required for students wanting to use the facilities or to check out tools.

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium: Special Event for 3/3 at 7pm

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A special Will Eisner Week event will be held on Monday, March 3, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.

Will Eisner Week event: “Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel.” Writer Paul Levitz (former president/publisher of DC Comics) will read from Will Eisner: The Dreamer and the Dream, Levitz’s work-in-progress (to be published in 2015 by Abrams ComicArts), about Eisner’s unique role in the evolution of the American Graphic Novel, and a discussion of the factors that came together to create the preconditions that finally made the form successful.

Paul Levitz is a comic fan (The Comic Reader), editor (Batman, among many titles), writer (Legion of Super-Heroes, Worlds’ Finest, and many others including four NY Times Graphic Books Best Sellers), executive (30 years at DC, ending as President & Publisher), historian (75 Years of DC Comics: The Art Of Modern Myth-Making (Taschen, 2010)) and educator (including teaching The American Graphic Novel at Columbia).  He won two consecutive annual Comic Art Fan Awards for Best Fanzine, received Comic-con International’s Inkpot Award, the prestigious Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, and the Comics Industry Appreciation Award from ComicsPro. His Taschen book won the Eisner Award, the Eagle Award and Munich’s Peng Pris, and is being released in revised form as five volumes in 2013-20144. Levitz also serves on the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium 3/4 at 7pm

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The seventy-seventh meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at 7:00 PM at The New School, Room A404 at 66 West 12th St., New York City. Free and open to the public. PLEASE NOTE: This event is taking place at Johnson/Kaplan Hall of The New School.

Presentation: Matthew Thurber on “Secrets of INFOMANIACS, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud.” Matthew Thurber started posting a webcomic about the internet in February 2011, starring Ralph, an online-addicted youth with a hard drive in his forehead, and Amy Shit, an activist rapper whose parents have mysteriously vanished. INFOMANIACS quickly developed into a densely layered spy thriller dealing with issues of privacy and control. Eerily foreshadowing headlines with Snowden and Wikileaks soon to be splattered everywhere, INFOMANIACS was released in October 2013 by PictureBox (soon to cease publishing…coincidence?) Learn the intriguing backstory of this comic strip: the shadowy meetings with librarians, the influence of unlikely muses such as  Dave Berg, the dropboxes that “fell off a truck”, clandestine schemes for embedding real people into the strip, and plotting techniques which nearly caused a nervous breakdown!

Matthew Thurber is an artist and musician living in Brooklyn. He is the author of numerous comics including 1-800-MICE and INFOMANIACS. Thurber is the co-founder of Tomato House gallery and of the Potlatch, I Gather books-on-tape label. He performs as Ambergris, and with Brian Belott as Court Stenographer and Young Sherlock Holmes. http://www.matthewthurber.com

 

Parsons Festival Undergraduate Exhibition Deadline EXTENDED to 3/11

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If you are one of Parsons exceptional artists, designers, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, technologists, scholars, strategists, design thinkers and makers and are interested in being considered for the Parsons Festival Exhibition, please submit an application. This year’s exhibition has an undergraduate focus and is open to students currently enrolled in Parsons BFA, BBA, BS, and AAS degree programs only.

The exhibition, curated for the first time by a graduate-level curatorial class, will focus on the relationship between making and meaning, and will be presented in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center for the run of Parsons Festival.

Submission Deadline
March 11, 2014, at 11:00 PM (Note: works in progress are acceptable for entry)

Application Process
To be considered, submit a project that is either finished or in development in a current class (one project per application), providing documentation and a description of the project. All applications must be submitted using the online form. For application guidelines and to submit a project for consideration, visit festival.parsons.edu

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