#34 with guest speaker JUDITH BARRY

From the Panoptic to the PantopicJudith Barry will discuss some of her installations and projects in relation to a broadly defined notion of surveillance and through questions of ‘spectatorship’ and ‘viewer participation’.  Some of the issues she will address include voyeurism and its relation to models of vision (including surveillance) and the scopic drive; tropes of interiority and subjectivity as they appear in the figure of the ‘flaneur/detective/female flaneuse/stalker’; observation as the model for identity/visioning/representation/responsibility/control along side the paradigm shifts posed through the ‘imaging’ of the ‘invisible’, remote sensing and nano technology.Judith Barry is an artist/writer whose work crosses a number of disciplines: performance, installation, film/video, sculpture, architecture, photography, new media. Trained in architecture, film and literary theory, she received her MA in Computer Graphics from NYIT in 1986. She has exhibited internationally/nationally at such venues as the Berlin Biennale (‘03), several Venice Biennale(s) of Art/Architecture (‘88, ‘90, ‘01), Sao Paolo Biennale (‘94), Nagoya Biennale,(‘93)  Carnegie International(‘01), Whitney Biennale (‘87), Sydney Biennale (‘82), and two InSites (San Diego/Tijuana) (‘97, ‘00), among many others. In 2000, she was awarded the Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts and in 2001 her piece, “Voice off”, received “Best Pavilion” and “Audience Award” at the 8th Cairo Biennale. Public Fantasy, a collection of Barry’s essays, was published by the ICA, London, edited by Iwona Blazwick (1991). Other publications include Projections: mise en abyme, with an essay by Brian Wallis and interview between Judith Barry, Mark Wigley and Brian Wallis, Presentation House, Vancouver 1997; the catalogue for the Frederich Kiesler Prize, Vienna 2000, the catalogue for the 8th Cairo Biennale 2001, essay by Gary Sangster, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore and Study for the Mirror and Garden, Diputacion Granada, Spain with essays by Jan Avgikos and Jean Fisher (2003). Recent exhibitions include “Playback”, Musee d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (07), “Evidence of Movement”, Getty Museum (07) “Queens International”, Queens Museum, (’06), Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich (’06) “SHOP 1V” Whitechapel Gallery (‘06), “Dark Places”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, (‘06), “Wall to be Destroyed”, Frac Lorraine, Metz (‘05), “Baroque/Neo Baroque”, DA2, Salamanca (‘05), “Phonorama”, ZKM, Karlsruhe (‘04), “East Village USA”, New Museum (‘04). In April 2008 a survey of her work will open in Domus Atrium 2, Salamanca, Spain and will travel in Europe.  She has taught and lectured extensively in the USA, Japan, and Europe. Currently, she is Director of the MFA Program at the Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University.