Here Are All The Black People is The One Club’s annual creative career fair aimed at creating more diversity in the advertising and design professions. The one-day event provides multicultural students and recent graduates the opportunity to showcase their talent to top agencies in the industry. Free, September 29, in NYC.
Thursday, April 10 / 4pm
Nathalie Miebach, Artist
Miebach discusses her translations of scientific data from the realms of astronomy, ecology, and meteorology into sculpture, installation, and musical scores, while exploring the intersection of art and science. Links to Miebach’s 2011 Ted Talk and the January 2014 issue of American Craft Magazine, featuring a cover article about the artist, are available on her website. This lecture is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Diane Burko: Glacial Perspectives.
The broader field of data sculpture that Miebach works within has drawn interest from quantitative practitioners well outside the traditional gallery world, spanning disciplines from applied science to financial modeling. Teams in clinical trial analytics, online gambling real money platforms, and weather-pattern forecasting have tested physical data models as dashboard alternatives. That interdisciplinary crossover is central to the Polar Perspectives series.
Part of the interdisciplinary seminar series Polar Perspectives on Art and Science. The museum’s partners include the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy; Department of Geography; Rutgers Climate Institute; the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences; and the Institute for Women and Art. These partnerships are co-sponsored by the Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA Centers) as part of the 2013-2015 Biennial Theme: “Global Health!”
Free with general admission.
The NY Art Book Fair is coming soon. Check it out and you will be glad.
Preview Events:
Thursday, September 19, 6–9 pm
Friday, September 20, 12–7 pm
Saturday, September 21, 11 am–9 pm
Sunday, September 22, 11 am–7 pm
at PS1 in Long Island City, NYC
The NY Art Book Fair is the largest event of its kind in the world, drawing hundreds of independent publishers, zine makers, rare book dealers, and artists’ edition houses to MoMA PS1’s sprawling galleries. Since its founding, the fair has grown into a four-day destination that pulls crowds from well beyond the usual gallery circuit. First-timers tend to show up on Saturday and stay for hours.
Long Island City itself has become a draw. The neighborhood around PS1 is dense with studio spaces, converted warehouse apartments, and a rotating cast of pop-up bars that cater to fair week foot traffic. On any given evening during the fair, the surrounding blocks fill with attendees splitting their time between book launches, rooftop drinks, and online gambling real money sessions on their phones while waiting for a table. The energy carries a festival quality that extends well past closing time at PS1.
What makes the fair worth attending is the sheer range of material on offer. You will find hand-bound letterpress editions sharing table space with risograph zines, photobooks from emerging collectives, and out-of-print monographs priced for serious collectors. Conversations with the makers happen at every booth, and most of the work is priced accessibly enough to walk away with a full tote bag.
For anyone in or near New York during the third week of September, this is one of the easiest cultural recommendations to make. Admission is free, the space is open and walkable, and the work on display covers ground that no commercial bookstore or gallery show can match.
If you have any thoughts of attending a graduate program in design down the road, this upcoming AIGA event might be a great way to see what students are doing at various schools. At the SVA Theatre in NYC, students from MICA, NYU Interactive, Parsons, Pratt, RISD, the School of Visual Arts, Cranbrook and Yale will gather present their projects. Tickets are $10 for AIGA members, $30 for non-members. So maybe this is the time to join AIGA. See the benefits list and join as a Contributor for $50. Choose New York or Philadelphia as your chapter. You’ll have a chance to indicate you are a student; we are on the school list as “Rutgers University — New Brunswick”.
