31/05/2007
Cycle Ex-Courses. Geographies of Contemporary Art
Branden W. Joseph. 3 and 7 Seconds Cycles: The Video as a Program
Thursday, May 31. 19´30h.
Branden W. Joseph is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He is the author of Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (MIT Press 2003) and editor of Robert Rauschenberg (MIT Press 2002). He is also the author of Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works (ed. Christopher Eamon; Northwestern University Press/Steidl, 2005) and, most recently, Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (forthcoming Zone Books, 2008). His writings have also appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Art Journal, October, Critical Inquiry, Texte zur Kunst, and Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, as well as in such catalogues as CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (2002), X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s (2003), and Robert Rauschenberg: Combines (2005). He is, as well, a founding editor of Grey Room, a journal of architecture, art, media, and politics, published quarterly by MIT Press since 2000.