Critical Information Conference 2013
Sponsored by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing program
Respondent: Alexandra Nicolaides (Student) and Kurt Ralske (School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Faculty)
Art is produced as part of an intricate, global, and often unnoticed network. Increasingly, artists have used that system in their artworks. This panel investigates artists exposing and subverting the institutional structures of art as art.
• John A. Tyson, Afterlives of “Systems Esthetics” (Emory University, Art History, PhD Candidate (ABD))
• Jonathan Frey and Amanda Sepanski, Transformation Design (Pratt Institute, Graphic Design, 2nd year MFA)
• Elizabeth S. Hawley, Art, Activism, and Media Manipulation: WochenKlausur’s Social Interventions (City University of New York: Graduate Center, Art History, Level II PhD)
