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Visual AIDS, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center of CUNY (CLAGS), and the Australian Research Council present
AIDS/ART/WORK
Friday, May 30, 2008
9:30 AM-5:30 PM
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
(Nearest subways: B, D, F, V, N, R, W to 34th Street. 6 to 33rd Street)
Rooms 9206/9207
This one-day conference will explore the pasts, presents, and futures of AIDS art, AIDS activism, and AIDS prevention, and the connections between them. In a series of panels and a culminating roundtable, AIDS/ART/WORK will look at the often productive, sometimes uneasy relationships between art inspired by AIDS and HIV/AIDS prevention, focusing on the following concerns: AIDS/ART/WORK
Speakers include:
Robert Atkins, writer and critic, co-founder of Visual AIDS
Julia Bryan-Wilson, UC Irvine
Jean Carlomusto, Long Island University
David Gere, UCLA
Patrick "Pato" Hebert, AIDS Project Los Angeles
Jim Hubbard, MIX NYC
Derek Jackson, Artist
Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College
Marilyn Martin, Iziko Museums of Cape Town
Ivan Monforte, Artist
Edwin Ramoran, Aljira
David Román, University of Southern California
Richard Sawdon-Smith, University College for the Creative Arts
Paul Sendziuk, University of Adelaide
For full schedule, please visit AIDS/ART/WORK website at http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/australia/conference.html
Seats are limited. Please register at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/AIDSArtWork.shtml
Academics, professionals: $30; students $20.
For more information, contact clags@gc.cuny.edu or (212) 817-1955.
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