From Discs to Downloads: New Directions in the Music Industry

Broadway and 4th street

Tuesday January 26th

Public Art/Alternative Spaces: Reconsideration in a New Economic Climate

Moderator Manon Slome

433 w 16th Street, NYC.

September 23rd at 6:30pm

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A panel discussion will discuss how technology has transformed art, addressing how contemporary gadgets and the Internet have on twenty-first century music production, listening and consumption.

Panelists

Tom Finkelpearl, Director, Queen's Museum of Art
Lauren Ross, Curator, High Line Park
Peter Marcuse, Professor Emeritus Urban Planning, Columbia University
Anita Durst, Director, Chashama
Steve Evans, Assistant Director to Dia Beacon
Sean Slemon, Featured Artist, "Reflecting Transformation"

This panel discussed the changing notion of public art amidst this national economic recession. A variety of panelists offered different standpoints on how public art and alternative spaces may become more sustainable models (or not) in today's economic climate.  Also in the discussion was the nature of audiences to whom the art is addressed, community relations, and art as a medium of urban regeneration. 

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Public Art/Alternative Spaces: Local Grass-Roots Iniatives in the Community

Moderator Asher Remy-Toledo

51 Bergen St, Brooklyn.

November 4th at 7pm

Panelists

Ella Weiss, President, Brooklyn Arts Council
Jose Parla, Featured Artist, "Something Out of Nothing"
Catherine Hickey, Director of Retail/Commercial Development of Metrotech BID and sponsor of Willoughby Windows project
Risë Wilson and Petrushka Bazin, Founder and Program Coordinator respectively for The Laundromat Project

As a follow up to the first panel, this panel focused on the grass roots iniatives  in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Panelists ranged from formal organizations, local residents, artist and a reporter. Panelist offered insight to the inner happenings of art initiatives on a large and small scale. Locals had an opportunity to also comment on their own views of how the art scene has impacted the local neighborhood.