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HASKINS LABORATORIES
300 George Street, 9th Floor,
New Haven
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Status Update, an exhibition that
explores the use of emerging social networking technologies,
featuring works by Kevin Van Aelst, Cat Balco, Sharon Butler,
Heather Freeman, Greg Garvey, Matt Held, Keith Johnson, Katie
Ring, Jeremiah Teipen, Lee Walton, Rachel Perry Welty and
An Xiao.
Curated by Debbie Hesse and Donna Ruff
April 29-August 1
Artists’ reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7 pm;
panel discussion at 5 pm
Big Love: Artists and Social Networking Technology,
a panel discussion organized to complement Status Update.
As part of the May 14 artists' reception for Status Update,
Sharon Butler (Two
Coats of Paint) has organized what is sure to be a compelling
panel discussion featuring Matt
Held, Paddy Johnson,
Sharon Kleinman (editor of Displacing
Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century),
and An Xiao.
The panel discussion will take place on Thursday,
May 14, at 5pm, as part of the artists’ reception
for Status Update.
Butler, who organized the panel discussion, is an associate
professor in Eastern Connecticut State University’s
Department of Visual Arts, and maintains the art blog Two
Coats of Paint. Butler says online social networks such as
Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter represent a “new undefined
territory in the art community.”
About the panelists:
Matt Held’s Facebook group, “I’ll have my
Facebook portrait painted by Matt Held,” has more than
3,000 members, each of whom hopes to have his or her portrait
painted as part of a collection of 200 works.
Paddy Johnson is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has been
published in numerous art journals in this country and abroad.
Her blog, artfagcity.com, has been linked to by The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine, among
others.
Sharon Kleinman, a professor of communications at Quinnipiac
University, earned her B.A. degree in English and American
literature from Brandeis University and her M.S. and Ph.D.
in communication from Cornell University. She is the editor
of Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first
Century (2007, Peter Lang Publishing).
An Xiao is a conceptual artist who uses online social networks
as her medium. The Guardian’s (London) Ruth Jamieson
recently included her in a “who’s who” of
the Twitter art world alongside Yoko Ono, the Brooklyn Museum,
and the Tate.
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Matt Held |
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, in collaboration with
Haskins Laboratories, presents Status Update at Haskins
Laboratories, 300 George St., 9th floor, New Haven. This exhibition
will be on display from April 29 to August 1, 2009. Regular
viewing hours are Wednesday through Friday, 10 am to 4 pm.
An artists’ reception is scheduled for Thursday, May
14, from 5 to 7 pm, with a panel discussion at 5 pm. The public
is invited to attend.
Curated by Debbie Hesse and Donna Ruff, Status Update
explores the use of emerging social networking technologies
in art. Featured artists include Kevin Van Aelst, Cat Balco,
Sharon Butler, Heather Freeman, Greg Garvey, Matt Held, Keith
Johnson, Katie Ring, Jeremiah Teipen, Lee Walton, Rachel Perry
Welty, and An Xiao. Social networking platforms such as Facebook,
MySpace, and Twitter offer artists unique forums for communication
and expression.
Philip Rubin, chief executive officer and senior scientist
at Haskins Laboratories, a nonprofit research institute that
studies speech, reading, and related technologies, talked
about the connection between the research conducted at Haskins
Laboratories and Status Update.
“One area of interest to us is … literacy in a
digital age,” Rubin said.
Haskins Laboratories, Rubin said, has always been interested
in what exists at the intersection of human communication,
literacy, and technology. With funding from The Teagle Foundation,
Rubin said, Haskins Laboratories is developing plans for a
project that will explore the impact of social networking
tools, technologies, and practices such as Facebook, hand-held
devices, and text messaging on how we read and whether or
not the act of reading has changed.
Exhibitions are presented by the Arts Council, in collaboration
with Haskins Laboratories, an independent, international,
multidisciplinary community of researchers conducting basic
research on spoken and written language. Exchanging ideas,
fostering collaborations and forging partnerships across the
sciences, Haskins Laboratories produces groundbreaking research
that enhances our understanding of — and reveals ways
to improve or remediate — speech perception and production,
reading and reading disabilities, and human communication.
If you would like to be considered for an exhibition at Haskins
Laboratories, please send images, résumé and
bio to: Arts Council of Greater New Haven, 70 Audubon St.,
New Haven, CT 06510. For more information, call Debbie Hesse
at 203-772-2788 or send e-mail to dhesse@newhavenarts.org.
Past Exhibits
Intricacies
Technical support provided by Odonnell
Company.
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