Lecture Series
Peter Brant and Dan Colen in Conversation with Mark Tribe
The School of Visual Arts, New York September 23rd, 2014
The Brant Foundation Lecture Series and The School of Visual Arts Presents:
Peter Brant and Dan Colen in Conversation with Mark Tribe
Coinciding with Dan Colen’s exhibition at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, this discussion between Peter Brant and Dan Colen, moderated by Mark Tribe, offers insight to a number of topics, including:
The experience of putting together the first survey of an artist’s work
A collector and artist co-curating a major exhibition
How critical reception impacts both the artist’s work and the collector’s vision of the collection
Mark Tribe is an artist whose work explores the intersection of media technology and politics. His photographs, installations, videos, and performances are exhibited widely, including solo projects at Zhulong Gallery in Dallas, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Momenta Art in New York, the San Diego Museum of Art, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
He is the author of two books, The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), and numerous articles. Tribe is Chair of the MFA Fine Arts Department at School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1996, he founded Rhizome, an organization that supports the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.
