City of Tomorrows: Performance and Workshop

A playful tour of the New York City of the future that merges urban geography, science fiction and guerilla street theater. Four short sci-fi scenes about New York City’s political, spatial, and social futures will be produced in an afternoon workshop. The public is invited to follow along and even participate as these utopian and dystopian tomorrows are played out on the streets of lower Manhattan.

Jenifer Kaminsky is an urban planner and locative media artist. Currently she develops limited-equity housing cooperatives throughout New York City and creates projects to unearth the hidden histories of NYC. She has worked for various community groups and City agencies in New York and Boston,focusing on community planning and affordable housing development. She holds a BA in Medieval Studies from Wesleyan University and an MCP with a focus on Housing and Community Economic Development from MIT.

Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist who works with the interstices between art and cultural geography. She inserts and distributes and cartographic projects into public space and via publications. She is co-editor of the book/map collection “An Atlas of Radical Cartography” and co-curator of the exhibition “An Atlas”, which is touring nationally. She has worked with groups including the Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. Exhibitions include the Gwangju Bienniale (South Korea,) common room (NYC), Casco (Utrecht), and “Experimental Geography” (touring). She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Danish Arts Council for her work.

Stephanie Rothenberg creates provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. Through participatory performance, installation and networked media, her work investigates the mediation of the physical, analog body through the digital interfaces of commodity culture. Her work has been shown in the US and internationally at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, Banff New Media Institute, Hallwalls Media Art Center, ConFlux Festival and the Kiasma Theater in Helsinki. Recent awards include a 2009 Creative Capital and 2008 NYSCA. She is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo where she teaches courses in Communication Design and Emerging Practices.

Workshop: 12pm Performance/Tour: 3pm

Price: $Free; workshop requires registration