November 14th
Visiting Artist: Andrea Grover
Talk title: Art & Crowdsourcing
What was it about the social climate of the 1960s that gave way to group-participation, happenings and actions? And can today’s networked communication give the crowd even greater creative agency? This talk looks at the history of participation art from the 1960s to present, and examines the social and technological trends that have ignited a new genre of democratic art-making–incorporating 10 to 10,000 participants in the creative process. Andrea Grover is the founder of Aurora Picture Show, and curator of several art exhibitions on crowdsourcing, including Phantom Captain: Art and Crowdsourcing at apexart, New York, 2006; Never Been to Tehran (global artists envisioning what Tehran looks like through photography of their own cities, co-curated with Jon Rubin), international exhibition spaces, 2007; and Txt Me L8tr (global responses to text-messaged, camera phone assignments), Houston Center for Photography, 2007. Grover is presently the lead consultant in Film/Video for the Creative Capital Foundation. She is the co-editor (with Ed Halter) of a forthcoming collection of essays on the subject of microcinemas.
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