d.i.y. public art

Title:HighWaterLine
Location:Graduate School of Design,Harvard University
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Description:The panel discussion will be sponsored by LandGSD and Green Design. The focus of the event will be a presentation by artist Eve Mosher of her project,High Water Line (http://www.highwaterline.org/),which visualizes the impact of climate change on coastal cities. A panel of three —a scientist,a critic and a designer —will then respond to her presentation,informing their responses according to their various expertise. Ed Morris and or Susannah Sayler,Loeb Fellows from the Canary Project,will serve as moderators. Some ideas of names of who might be on that panel include Katherine Parsons,who has taught in the Landscape Architecture department at the GSD,and is a scientist at the Manomet institute,and Bill Fox,a writer and critic with a focus on land art.
Start Time:18:30
Date:2009-03-10
End Time:20:00

Title:But Does it Work?
Location:EFA Project Space
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Description:Artists/activists Joseph DeLappe and Steve Lambert join writer/activist/media scholar Stephen Duncombe to discuss what happens when artists interfere with existing structures of media in order to manipulate and use them as vehicles for political and social commentary. How do these forms of intervention compare to straight-forward art activism,and what are these artists hoping to achieve? How does one even measure success when utopia is the goal? The talk will focus on the artists’ works “dead-in-iraq”,“iraqimemorial.org” and the recent faux New York Times “Special Edition” announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Start Time:18:30
Date:2009-02-24