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Today: Book launch and panel discussion: 'Ctrl [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother'. Published as documentation of the exhibition at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, October 12, 2001-February 24, 2002, 'Ctrl [Space]' offers a survey of panoptic art from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
SUMMER 2002 EVENTS
Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 6-8 pm
Book launch and panel discussion: "Ctrl [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from
Bentham to Big Brother," edited by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, and Peter
Weibel, MIT Press, 2002
Dia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) celebrate the launch of
"Ctrl [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother," published
as documentation of the exhibition at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, October 12,
2001-February 24, 2002. "Ctrl [Space]" offers a survey of panoptic art from the
eighteenth to the twenty-first century, including architecture, video, painting,
photography, conceptual art, cinema, installation work, television, robotics,
and satellite imaging. Included in the exhibition are works by Diller +
Scofidio, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Bruce Nauman, and Andy Warhol, among
others. Participants in the evening's panel discussion include Beatriz Colomina,
Peter J. Cornwell, Laura Kurgan, Thomas Y. Levin, and Julia Scher.
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Dia bookshop
Dia's Chelsea bookshop, designed by Jorge Pardo as an element of his
installation Project (2000), features 2,500 square feet of browsing and reading
room amidst 700 linear feet of shelving. The bookshop provides a major resource
in New York City for lovers of art publications. In-depth holdings span aspects
of contemporary art and cultural history.
Dia publications
Dia produces titles to accompany selected exhibitions, scholarly volumes on the
permanent collection, compilations of the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary
Art, and multimedia works. Recent publications include "Diana Thater: Knots +
Surfaces" (2002), in association with Thater's 2001-2003 exhibition at Dia;
"Roni Horn: Saying Water" (2001), an audio CD made in connection to her
2001-2002 exhibition; and "Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance" (2001), in association
with Riley's 2000-2001 exhibition. These and other Dia publications are
available for purchase at Dia's bookshop and on the internet at
http://www.diabooks.org.
Dia
Founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation plays a vital and singular role among visual
arts institutions nationally and internationally by initiating, supporting,
presenting, and preserving art projects, and by serving as a primary locus for
interdisciplinary art and criticism.
Dia presents a program of exhibitions at Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea, New
York City. Supplementary programming at Dia Center for the Arts includes
artists' projects for the web, lectures, poetry readings, film and video
screenings, performances, scholarly research and publications, symposia, and an
arts education program that serves area students. Dia is currently constructing
a new museum in Beacon, New York, sixty miles north of New York City, to house
its permanent collection. Dia:Beacon will open in May 2003.
Summer hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm, through July 27, 2002
(closed July 3-6).
For additional press information about Dia:Beacon, Dia's future museum in
Beacon, New York, please contact Lisbeth Mark at Jeanne Collins & Associates,
tel. 646 486 7050; fax 646 486 3731, email info@jcollinsassociates.com.
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