REBEKAH MODRAK i NICK TOBIER
lecture and talk with artists
Tuesday the 27th February 2024 at 4 pm, Cinema lecture room, Gripe, UMAS / Film and Video Department
Rebekah Modrak creates websites to parody and disrupt exploiting ads from companies that try to extract value from marginalized groups. Her work, at the crossroads of art, activism, and critical design, offers alternative perspectives on commerce.
Rebekah Modrak is an artist, writer and professor at Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in the United States. Her work has been published in Arshake, Neural, The Journal of Curatorial Studies, Hyperallergic, Curating the Contemporary, The Creators Project, WIRED, Core77, The New York Times, and Design Observer. She is co-editor of the book “Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Acts” (Belt 2021), in which twenty authors from philosophy, psychology, consumer culture and other fields consider humility as a state of being during the Trump era. She is also the lead author of the book “Reframing Photography” (Routledge 2011), which critically explores photographic representation, ethics, reconstructions, the mediated view and other problems within the world of images.
Nick Tobier – “Artist as a stranger: Misunderstandings and artistic disturbance in the public sphere”
Nick Tobier studied sculpture and landscape architecture and worked at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Storefront for Art & Architecture in New York, and as a designer at the New York Department of Parks and Recreation, Bronx branch. As an artist-designer-educator, Nick focuses on the social life of public places, both in structures and events ranging from bus stops to kitchens and boulevards in Detroit, Tokyo, Toronto and San Francisco. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian, the Queens Museum in New York, the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, the Prague Quadrennial, and Somerset House in London, and he has received support from the Goethe Foundation 2023), NEA (2021, 2016, 2014), The Graham Foundation for the Advanced Study of Visual Art (2021) and the Harpo Foundation (2014).
The lectures are open to the public.
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