Trevor Paglen (MFA 2002) chosen by LightWork for installation for the Urban Video Project

Light Work, Urban Video Project announce new programming

The Connective Corridor, in collaboration with Light Work, has announced the next round of installations for the Urban Video Project, which will be on view at all three sites from April through June. The curators for this selection of work are Blake Carrington, Christopher Gianunzio and Colin Todd, collectively known as Avalanche Collective.

Carrington, Gianunzio and Todd are the co-founders of the Urban Video Project. Avalanche Collective navigates contemporary urban space and systems through the historical lens of a polar expedition. Using performance and sculpture, the group creates scenarios where anachronistic and modern forms of spatial exploration collide. Everyday spaces become theaters for the romantic and obsolete.

MONROE SITE (April 1–June 30)
333 E. Onondaga St.
Trevor Paglen, "Code Names.” Video projection.

Trevor Paglen’s "Code Names” exists as a list of words, phrases and terms that designate classified military programs. These include classified exercises and units, intelligence programs, information compartments and Pentagon "Special Access Programs.” Installed in downtown Syracuse, "Code Names” functions as a meditation on language and advertising whose product is foreign to the general population. The contents of the piece become metaphors for the unknown and ask the audience to ponder what exactly they mean.

Paglen is an artist, writer and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched, ways to see and interpret the world around us. His visual work has been exhibited at Transmediale Festival, Berlin; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); the 2008 Taipei Biennial; and the Istanbul Biennial 2009. It has been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Wired, Newsweek, Modern Painters, Aperture and Art Forum. Paglen has received grants and commissions from Rhizome.org, Art Matters, Artadia and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. He is the author of three books and holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. in geography from UC Berkeley. Paglen lives and works in Oakland, Calif., and New York City.

for more info on Paglen and the two other picks check out:

http://insidesu.syr.edu/2010/03/09/urban-video-project/