Designing Nationalism
June 12, 2019
6:30–8 pm
Adults $8; Seniors/Students $5; Free for BGC Members
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

This is a conversation featuring Jarrett Fuller, Silas Munro and Anne Quito.

Jarrett Fuller is a designer, writer, educator, and podcaster. He runs twenty-six, a multidisciplinary design and editorial studio; hosts Scratching the Surface, a weekly podcast about design criticism; and teaches in both undergraduate and graduate programs at Pratt Institute, The New School Parsons School of Design, and the University of the Arts.

Anne Quito is a writer and design critic based in New York City. A staff reporter at Quartz, her coverage underscores the design angle of politics and business news. Her writing also appears on Works That Work, Metropolis, Eye on Design, 99U, Designers and Books, Core77, and Intern magazine.

Silas Munro engages multi-modal practices that inspire people to elevate themselves and improve society. Munro’s design studio Poly-Mode has designed identities and publications for exhibitions of Jacob Lawrence at MoMA, Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale, and a forthcoming commission, The Great Force for the ICA at VCU in 2019.

Dada and Film
June 13, 2019
6:30–8 pm
Adults $8; Seniors/Students $5; Free for BGC Members
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

Presented in connection with the exhibition Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars, this program includes seven short films by key participants in the Dada movement, many of whom were close acquaintances of Tschichold, who praised the publications of the Dadaists as “the earliest documents of the New Typography in Germany.”

Dada and Film is guest curated by Timothy Shipe.

Timothy Shipe is curator of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries and editor of the journal Dada/Surrealism. He received his Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa, and has published on topics ranging from electronic texts and licensing issues in libraries to artists’ books and the bibliography and historiography of the Dada movement.

Films:
Symphonie diagonale (dir. Viking Eggeling, 1924, Germany, 7 minutes)Rhythmus 21 (dir. Hans Richter, 1921, Germany, 3 minutes)

Rhythmus 23 (dir. Hans Richter, 1923, Germany, 4 minutes)

Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast) (dir. Hans Richter, 1928, Germany, 7 minutes)

Ein Lichtspiel: Schwarz weiss grau (Lightplay: Black White Gray) (dir. László Moholy-Nagy, 1930, Germany, 6 minutes)

Le retour à la raison (Return to Reason) (dir. Man Ray, 1923, France, 3 minutes)

Entr’acte (dir. René Clair, 1924, France, 22 minutes)

(Total: 54 minutes)

Manifestoes, Ethics and Design Practice
June 18, 2019
6:30–8 pm
Adults $8; Seniors/Students $5; Free for BGC Members
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

This is a conversation featuring Allan Chochinov and Jennifer Rittner.

Allan Chochinov is the Founding Chair of the MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a partner of Core77, the design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts since 1995. Allan lectures widely at professional conferences, and has been a speaker and guest critic at schools including MIT, Yale School of Management, Columbia School of Business, RMIT, IIT, and Carnegie Mellon.

Jennifer Rittner founded the communications strategy firm Content Matters in 2009 to help creative businesses thrive by defining their voice and learning how to communicate effectively with diverse audiences – clients, collaborators, advocates and the general public. Prior to consulting, Jennifer worked for international design consultancy Pentagram, as well as Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning and the AIGA.