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Don’t Forget: Parsons Intern Fair Today!

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Parsons Internship Fair

We hope you can join us at the Parsons Internship Fair! This event is a great opportunity for students to find fall and winter semester internships. In addition, we encourage students to network with these top companies. We are pleased that in this challenging economic climate, employer interest in Parsons students continues to grow. A recent New York Times article reporting on the difficulty college students seeking internships are experiencing, stated, “Internships available to college students have fallen 21 percent since last year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.” But at Parsons, employer demand clearly remains strong.

Over forty top employers will be in attendance, including companies that are new to the event such as Stylecaster, Time Inc. Content Solutions, and Wieden+Kennedy.

The Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009

The Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

The Place: 55 West 13th St, Lang Hall, 2nd floor

Companies attending include:

Aéropostale, Inc.

Ann Taylor

Anthropologie

A|X Armani Exchange

Baron & Baron, Inc.

BCBG MAX AZRIA GROUP, INC.

Bloomingdale’s

The Brand Gallery

Brand New School East

Calvin Klein

CBS

Colette Malouf

Click 3X

Club Monaco

DKNY

Eileen Fisher, Inc.

Gucci Group

GyroHSR, Inc.

Hyperakt Design Group, Inc.

John Varvatos

JWT

Kenneth Cole

Large Animal Games

Li & Fung USA

Limitedbrands, Inc.

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L’Oreal Paris

Loyale

Marvel

Movado Group, Inc.

MTV Networks

NBC Local Integrated Media

Nielsen Business Media

Ogilvy

Payless Shoe Source

Penguin Group (USA)

Polo Ralph Lauren

Saatchi & Saatchi NY

Stark Design

Stylecaster

Time Inc. Content Solutions

Tommy USA

Victorinox Swiss Army, Inc.

Wieden+Kennedy

To participate, students must be currently enrolled in a Parsons degree program (Associates, Bachelors, or Masters program). Students must bring a student id to the event and also several resumes and a portfolio or reel, if applicable.

Event sponsored by Parsons Career Services, 2 West 13 Street, room 511, parsonscareers@newschool.edu, 212-229-8940.

Parsons Internship Fair on September 3rd

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Parsons Internship Fair

We hope you can join us at the Parsons Internship Fair! This event is a great opportunity for students to find fall and winter semester internships. In addition, we encourage students to network with these top companies. We are pleased that in this challenging economic climate, employer interest in Parsons students continues to grow. A recent New York Times article reporting on the difficulty college students seeking internships are experiencing, stated, “Internships available to college students have fallen 21 percent since last year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.” But at Parsons, employer demand clearly remains strong.

Over forty top employers will be in attendance, including companies that are new to the event such as Stylecaster, Time Inc. Content Solutions, and Wieden+Kennedy.

The Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009

The Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

The Place: 55 West 13th St, Lang Hall, 2nd floor

Companies attending include:

Aéropostale, Inc.

Ann Taylor

Anthropologie

A|X Armani Exchange

Baron & Baron, Inc.

BCBG MAX AZRIA GROUP, INC.

Bloomingdale’s

The Brand Gallery

Brand New School East

Calvin Klein

CBS

Colette Malouf

Click 3X

Club Monaco

DKNY

Eileen Fisher, Inc.

Gucci Group

GyroHSR, Inc.

Hyperakt Design Group, Inc.

John Varvatos

JWT

Kenneth Cole

Large Animal Games

Li & Fung USA

Limitedbrands, Inc.

Logo

L’Oreal Paris

Loyale

Marvel

Movado Group, Inc.

MTV Networks

NBC Local Integrated Media

Nielsen Business Media

Ogilvy

Payless Shoe Source

Penguin Group (USA)

Polo Ralph Lauren

Saatchi & Saatchi NY

Stark Design

Stylecaster

Time Inc. Content Solutions

Tommy USA

Victorinox Swiss Army, Inc.

Wieden+Kennedy

To participate, students must be currently enrolled in a Parsons degree program (Associates, Bachelors, or Masters program). Students must bring a student id to the event and also several resumes and a portfolio or reel, if applicable.

Event sponsored by Parsons Career Services, 2 West 13 Street, room 511, parsonscareers@newschool.edu, 212-229-8940.

Screening of Manufactured Landscapes today!

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Parsons School of Art, Media & Technology will host a screening of EDWARD BURTYNSKY: MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES tonight.

WHEN: Wednesday, August 26, 6PM

WHERE: Lab10 (room 1000, 2 W 13th St., 10th floor)

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.

In the spirit of such environmentally enlightening sleeper-hits as AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and RIVERS AND TIDES, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it, without simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions.

AWARDS

Best Documentary Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association
Best Canadian Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association
Best Canadian Feature – Toronto Film Festival
Best Documentary – Genie Awards

http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=manufacturedlandscapes
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/Introduction/Manufactured_Landscapes.html

NY Art Book Fair

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THE NY ART BOOK FAIR presents
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS BOOKS CONFERENCE
New York City | October 2-3 2009

http://nyartbookfair.com

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

In collaboration with Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, the Art Libraries Society of New York (ARLIS/NY) announces a conference on contemporary artists’ books. The program will include speakers, panels, artists’ presentations, and receptions. The conference focuses on recent developments in artists’ books. Sessions this year focus on zines, data-oriented artists’ books, reprints, print on demand, and criticism. These and other themes are intended to encourage dialog amongst scholars, collectors, artists, and librarians.

The conference opens with a free preview of the NY Art Book Fair on Thursday, October 1, from 6-8 pm. Over 150 exhibitors from 20 countries present contemporary art books, art catalogs, artists’ books, art periodicals, and ‘zines. The featured exhibition is a survey of books, posters and ephemera by RICHARD PRINCE. Don’t miss project rooms by the legendary super-school Werkplaats Typographie (Netherlands), and artist/designers Dexter Sinister (New York), together with JAPANESE POP THEN AND NOW, presented by Gallery 360 (Tokyo). And FRIENDLY FIRE is a no-holds-barred curated zone of the young and the restless, independent artist-producers and artist-activists.

The conference continues on Friday and Saturday with a series of eight conference sessions, including:
Print On Demand First-Hand: Artist-professor Andrea Robbins (University of Florida) shows how a student project took advantage of POD’s unique characteristics. Robbins, librarian-historian Jennifer Tobias (MoMA Libraries), and another commentator will then discuss POD in the larger context of artists’ books.

Zines, Institutional Collecting: Zine collections, conferences, & culture are percolating into large institutional collections and onto the radar of institutional curators and administration. Are Zines representative of a broader institutional interest in small-scale craft and artisanal book forms? Are there political ramifications to the authorship and production of Zines that make them anathema to library collections? Ryan Haley of the NYPL speaks with Jenna Freedman (Barnard College Library), Alycia Sellie (Pratt Institute Library), and Susan Thomas (City University of New York).

Redux, Reuse, Recycle: Artists’ Books Reprints and Digitizations: What do File Magazine, Avalanche, Sophie Ristelhueber, Walker Evans, and Interview have in common? They’ve all been reprinted or digitized. In this session, re-publishers will discuss the trend, specifically regarding the market for and reception of these blasts from the past.

…and much, much more.

LOCATION:

The NY Art Book Fair will be held at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long island City, Queens, with the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference situated on the third floor.

REGISTRATION AND OPENING:

The Conference opens with a preview of the NY Art Book Fair on Thursday, October 1, 6 to 8 pm. Registration will take place on the third floor. The Preview is free and open to the general public.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS (speakers to be announced shortly):

1. Keynote (TBA)
2. Criticism Panel / moderator: Tony White
3. Print On Demand First-Hand: / moderator: Jenny Tobias
4. Zines: Institutional Collecting / moderator: Ryan Haley
5. Zines: some artists speak / moderator: Deirdre Lawrence
6. Redux, Reuse, Recycle: Artists’ Books Reprints and Digitizations / moderator: Jenny Tobias
7. The Informational Book / moderator: Deirdre Donohue
8. artist session / moderator: Carol Rusk

TICKETS:

You may order conference tickets at http://nyartbookfair.com/conference
The NY Art Book Fair is FREE and open to the public.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:

Kate Adler, Frick Art Reference Library
AA Bronson, Printed Matter, Inc.
Deirdre Donohue, International Center for Photography
Ryan Haley, New York Public Library
Milan Hughston, Museum of Modern Art Library
Catherine Krudy, Printed Matter, Inc.
Deirdre Lawrence, Brooklyn Museum
James Mitchell
Christina Peter, ARLIS/NY President
Faith Pleasanton
Carol Rusk, Whitney Museum
David Senior, Museum of Modern Art Library
Jennifer Tobias, Museum of Modern Art Library
Tony White, Indiana University

Reminder–Lines on Paper: Drawing and Cartooning is tomorrow

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The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund proudly presents Conversational Comics: a new summer speaker series taking place on three separate Saturday afternoons at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Please join us for lively panel discussions with artists currently changing the face of comics, all moderated by comics critic (and Parsons Illustration Adjunct) Bill Kartalopoulos. Then stick around to get a book signed, hit the taco truck, and sip a summer drink with our featured cartoonists.

The event takes place at 2:00 pm in the back room at Union Pool. Union Pool is located at 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211, one block from the Lorimer-Metropolitan G and L stop.

August 15 @ 2:00 pm
Lines on Paper: Drawing and Cartooning

Austin English (Windy Corner, Christina and Charles), Lisa Hanawalt (Stay Away From Other People, I Want You), and Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, Bodyworld) will discuss the relationship between image-making and drawing for comics. How do pictures work differently in comics than they do on gallery walls?

Suggested donation is $5. All proceeds go to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Bill Kartalopoulos teaches classes about comics and illustration at Parsons. He is a Contributing Editor at Print Magazine, where he frequently writes about comics.

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community.

For additional information, donations, and other inquiries please visit www.cbldf.org

Conversational Comics–Lines on Paper: Drawing and Cartooning

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The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund proudly presents Conversational Comics: a new summer speaker series taking place on three separate Saturday afternoons at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Please join us for lively panel discussions with artists currently changing the face of comics, all moderated by comics critic (and Parsons Illustration Adjunct) Bill Kartalopoulos. Then stick around to get a book signed, hit the taco truck, and sip a summer drink with our featured cartoonists.

The event takes place at 2:00 pm in the back room at Union Pool. Union Pool is located at 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211, one block from the Lorimer-Metropolitan G and L stop.

August 15 @ 2:00 pm
Lines on Paper: Drawing and Cartooning

Austin English (Windy Corner, Christina and Charles), Lisa Hanawalt (Stay Away From Other People, I Want You), and Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, Bodyworld) will discuss the relationship between image-making and drawing for comics. How do pictures work differently in comics than they do on gallery walls?

Suggested donation is $5. All proceeds go to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Bill Kartalopoulos teaches classes about comics and illustration at Parsons. He is a Contributing Editor at Print Magazine, where he frequently writes about comics.

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community.

For additional information, donations, and other inquiries please visit www.cbldf.org

Plethora of Pinocchio-related items!

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Via Les Kanturek, here’s a cornucopia of Pinocchio-related goodies to keep all of our summer readers inspired as they read.

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From “Pinocchio–1001 Uses,”we have a set of cards available to teachers to be used as a measuring exercise for elementary school.

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From the Cooper-Hewitt art/design collection, we have a delightful pop-up version of the Pinocchio book.

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From “Pinocchio/The Dark Side,” we have a giant (Pinocchio-inspired?) skeleton at The Palazzo Reale in Milan by artist Gino De Dominicus  titled  “Calamita Cosmica.”

Keep up with Les’s research as the summer progresses–check out his Sophomore concepts blog!

Thanks, Les and keep reading everyone!

Conversational Comics–Telling Stories: Fiction in Comics

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The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund proudly presents Conversational Comics: a new summer speaker series taking place on three separate Saturday afternoons at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Please join us for lively panel discussions with artists currently changing the face of comics, all moderated by comics critic (and Parsons Illustration Adjunct) Bill Kartalopoulos. Then stick around to get a book signed, hit the taco truck, and sip a summer drink with our featured cartoonists.

The event takes place at 2:00 pm in the back room at Union Pool. Union Pool is located at 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211, one block from the Lorimer-Metropolitan G and L stop.

July 11 @ 2:00 pm
Telling Stories: Fiction in Comics

Jessica Abel (Artbabe, La Perdida), Jason Little (Shutterbug Follies) and Matthew Thurber (1-800-Mice, Kramers Ergot) will talk about the nature of narrative and fiction in comics. We�ll consider forms of storytelling that comics can adapt, and others that comics can generate.

Suggested donation is $5. All proceeds go to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Bill Kartalopoulos teaches classes about comics and illustration at Parsons. He is a Contributing Editor at Print Magazine, where he frequently writes about comics.

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community.

For additional information, donations, and other inquiries please visit www.cbldf.org

Call for Submissions: Pinocchio Thursdays!

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Our goal is to create and post an image of Pinocchio each week on the departmental blog. If you are an Illustration student–we need your contributions!!! Your Pinocchio can be a photo, an assemblage, a drawing, a doodle…any visual representation of Pinoke that was created, altered conceived by you.

Specs: 72 dpi jpeg, file appropriately named with the image is (not an incomprehensible string of numbers/letters)

Include: Your name, what year you are, and if you have a website/sketchblog/etc that we can link to

Due: by Weds of every week starting next week!

Send to: illustration@newschool.edu

Hope to get your submission soon!