Seriously Slow:
New tactics in art and design
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 6:00 PM
SCOPE Art Fair VIP Lounge
Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park at the Corner of West 62nd Street and Amsterdam Ave, NY NY
The philosophy of the slow movement goes far beyond food and food systems. The idea of ‘slow’ links the quality perceived in objects with the quality of their production, their materials, and their long-term impact. Artists and designers incorporate these strategies to produce final works that challenge the way we consider notions of time, community, and our local environment. Join Carolyn F. Strauss, founder and director of slowLab, as she presents new models in slow art and design, and speaks with designer Lindsey Adelman and artist Nava Lubleski about their process-driven projects and ideas.
Event is included with Scope Art Fair admission:
$15 for General Admission
$10 for Students
Free for FirstView and VIP cardholders
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http://www.scope-art.com/schedule.php Carolyn F. Strauss and slowLab Carolyn F. Strauss is a designer, curator and founding director of slowLab, a laboratory for slow design thinking and creative activism with offices in New York (USA) and Amsterdam (Netherlands) and activities worldwide. slowLab connects an international network of designers, design thinkers and exemplary projects to bring the slow design movement to life.
After completing a degree in architecture, Carolyn F. Strauss began her professional career exploring the intersection of design, technology and cultural research. In the early 1990's, she organized symposia and commissioned public art to encourage discourse about the social implications of emerging technologies, the creative opportunities they afford, and the new forms of cultural expression they might engender. Notable projects in this field include the design of a collaborative, multimedia network in Japan (1994-5) and user experience design and prototyping for interactive television in the Netherlands (1999-2000).
In 2001, Strauss turned her attention to the growing sustainability debate in the design field. She embraced the concept of ‘slow design’ as a fertile, holistic framework through which to understand and advance the sustainable design debate, and in 2003, she founded slowLab. Since then, she has also promoted slow design through extensive lecturing, teaching and curriculum development at several notable art/design institutions in the U.S. and Europe, including Parsons the New School for Design, Yale University’s Faculty of Engineering, The Icelandic Academy of Arts, the Cooper Union School of Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Ecole du Louvre (Paris, France). She currently resides in the Netherlands with her 9 year old son, Julian.
http://www.slowlab.net Lindsey Adelman, Lindsey Adelman Studio
After earning her BA in English from Kenyon College and working for the Smithsonian Institution, Lindsey Adelman received a BFA from RISD. Following graduation she worked with at Resolute Lighting in Seattle before returning to NY to work for David Weeks. Adelman and Weeks collaborated on a paper clip-on lampshade that received awards from I.D. and Blueprint. In 2000, the two founded the company Butter to put Lunette into production. They went on to receive the Editor’s award for lighting at the ICFF. At the same time, Adelman began a series of intricate, obsessive drawings made with human hair and tape on paper. The work quickly found its way into galleries and publications and continues to becreated and shown internationally.
In 2006 Adelman and Weeks said goodbye to Butter and Adelman began to design and produce light fixtures on her own. Recently featured in the New York Times, the hand-blown glass chandeliers have enjoyed an immediate positive reception. The fixtures are now available at ABC, Matter and Karkula the drawings are currently shown with Vanessa Suchar and Matter.
http://lindseyadelman.blogspot.com/ Nava Lubelski
Nava Lubelski was born and raised in New York City and lives now in Asheville, NC. Lubelski’s work is currently on display in Pricked: Extreme Embroidery at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City. In 2007, she had solo shows with OHT Gallery in Boston and LMAKprojects Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Her work has recently been included in exhibitions at McKenzie Fine Art in Manhattan, the Islip Art Museum on Long Island and the Queens Museum of Art in Queens, NY, where her work is part of the permanent collection. Lubelski has been Artist-in-Residence at CUE Art Foundation in New York City and the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC. She was the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 2005 and took part in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation’s Space Program in Tribeca in 2001-02. Lubelski received a BA in Russian Literature and History from Wesleyan University.
http://www.navalubelski.com