9th
Last Week. Panel Discussion: “At Odds: The Law and Public Art”
in conjunction with Art in Odd Places 2009: SIGN on 14th Street through October 26
Art in Odd Places & Pratt Manhattan Gallery
present
Panel Discussion
“At Odds: The Law and
Public Art”
Thursday, October 15 at 7pm
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street btwn Sixth & Seventh Avenues
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
212 647 7778
Free and open to the public
Participating panelists include Amy Guggenheim, filmmaker; Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, artist, writer, and legal practitioner; Christina Ray, founder of Conflux ; Leon Reid IV, public works artist.
PANELISTS’ BIOS:
Pratt film professor Amy Guggenheim’s solo plays and short films have screened internationally, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, and the American Embassy.She is founder of Global Cinemas Salon, an international program for filmmakers from seven continents. Guggenheim, who previously served as an Information Specialist with the United States Cultural Council, recently returned from an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in Japan where she developed a dramatic feature film with Japan’s Koi Pictures.
Christina Ray is the founder of Glowlab, an innovative art gallery and creative catalyst located in New York focused on the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment. Ray is also the founder of Conflux, the annual art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, and has led the festival as Director since its inception in 2003. She is currently serving as Key Artistic Advisor for Times Square Public Art Planning with the Times Square Alliance and recently became a founding member of the Advisory Committee of the new 92YTribeca arts and entertainment venue. She is a frequent speaker on the intersection of art and emerging technology in public space.
Leon Reid IV is a public works artist and Pratt alumnus who entered the world of public art as a teenage graffiti writer on the streets of Cincinnati using the street tag of “Verbs.” His move to Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1998 signaled a transformation from traditional graffiti work as
“Verbs” to a more contextual and humorous style under the name “Darius Jones.” His collaboration with a fellow street artist is featured in The Adventures of Darius and Downey published by Thames and Hudson in 2008. Reid’s current public work under his own name has become increasingly sensitive and relevant to the environments he inhabits.
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is an artist, writer, and legal practitioner interested in the relationship between art and law. His main areas of focus are intellectual property, law and film, and nonprofit organizations, with a particular emphasis on contemporary art. His work has been shown in international exhibitions, including Mexico, Germany, and Spain, and nationally in Dallas, New York City, and Los Angeles. He has published essays and projects in Five Continents and One City Exhibition (catalogue essay, Mexico), Capital Art: On the Culture of Punishment (catalogue essay, US), Cabinet Magazine (US), Law Text Culture (Australia), and Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left. He is currently Associate Director for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York City and Adjunct Instructor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School, creator of CLANCCO, www.clancco.com, as well as a mentor with the Kennedy Center’s Arts in Crisis program.
For more information on the festival, please visit www.artinoddplaces.org. For more information about Pratt Manhattan Gallery exhibitions visit www.pratt.edu/exhibitions
