UPCOMING
The Serving Library
Opening Reception
Tuesday, April 2, 6–8pm
Goethe-Institut New York Library
72 Spring Street, 11th floor
PAST
documenta-Archive and The Getty Research Institute in Conversation
A discussion with Karin Stengel and Glenn Phillips, moderated by Christian Philipp Müller and Jenny Jaskey
Friday, March 8, 2013, 7pm
Goethe-Institut New York Library
72 Spring Street, 11th floor
Join Karin Stengel, Director of documenta-Archive, and Glenn Phillips, Principal Project Specialist and Consulting Curator in the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art at The Getty Research Institute, for an evening of conversation on topics related to the Harald Szeemann archive at The Getty Research Institute and the documenta-Archive in Kassel. Materials from both institutions are on view in Christian Philipp Müller’s exhibition
Elective Affinities.
Screening and Discussion: Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn)
Introduction by Nora M. Alter and discussion with Christian Philipp Müller and Jenny Jaskey
Thursday, February 28, 2013, 7pm
Goethe-Institut New York Library
72 Spring Street, 11th floor
Film historian Nora M. Alter introduces an anthology of short fiction and documentary films by Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Katja Rupe, Alexander Kluge, and Maximiliane Mainka. Set in the politically volatile summer of 1977, Deutschland im Herbst marks an important moment in New German Cinema as it grapples with the “terrorism” of the period.
Nora M. Alter is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (Indiana University Press), Projecting History: Non-Fiction German Film (University of Michigan Press) and Chris Marker (University of Illinois Press), and co-editor with Lutz Koepnick of Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture (Berghahn Books). She has published more than fifty essays on a broad range of topics including film and media studies, German and European studies, cultural and visual studies and contemporary art.
Elective Affinities: Christian Philipp Müller
Opening Reception
Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 6pm–8pm
Goethe-Institut New York Library
72 Spring Street, 11th floor
pΓσ₠§§℩η⅁: Game Night with Lydia Liu
Saturday, February 16, 2013: 6–8pm
Goethe-Institut New York Library
72 Spring Street, 11th floor
“...if there is no question, there is no game, if there is no structure, there is no question...”
For the last in their series of inquiries at the
Goethe-Institut New York Library , join Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon for an informal evening with Professor Lydia Liu of Columbia University, who will share some thoughts from her book,
The Freudian Robot. She will invite the audience to play some simple yet critical games, such as as “Even and Odd” and “Prisoner’s Dilemma.” Both games are central to the development of computers as we know them today, to game theory, as well as to the thermonuclear bomb. They also relate to the games Jacques Lacan used to theorize the order of the symbolic.
pΓσ₠§§℩η⅁: Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström & R. Lyon
First Inquiry
Saturday, January 5, 2013, 6–9pm
Goethe-Institut New York Library
72 Spring Street, 11th floor
Departing from the library database, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process—
pΓσ₠§§℩η⅁—to query the way that digital repositories structure, mediate and produce knowledge in parallel to analog processes. They are developing alternate methods for relating information through a number of unannounced experiments accessible via the library that will unfold between January 5th and February 15, 2013. The kernel of these processes are exchanges between the three artists that have preceded and will exceed these investigations. They take place in person, over e-mail, on text messages, through file sharing sites, and are being processed into a web page over the course of their time in the library.
The Goethe-Institut New York Library will host the first of this series of inquiries on January 5, 2013 from 6–9pm, which consists of approaches to reading and writing the raw format of the library’s databases. The formats used for these experiments include a live reading, database printouts, search videos, and a proposition for an encrypted keyboard.
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With performances by Lucky Dragons and The Reanimation Library
Monday, November 26, 2012, 7pm
Goethe-Institut New York Library
72 Spring Street, 11th floor
Join David Horvitz for an evening celebrating books old and new at the
Goethe-Institut New York Library . The event will include performances by Andrew Beccone of The Reanimation Library and Los Angeles-based Lucky Dragons, along with the launch of
AD BOOK by BFFA3AE on Badlands Unlimited. Horvitz is currently in residence at the library, where he is preparing to make a large donation of digitized artist’s books to the Goethe-Institut’s e-library system.
How Can a Digital be Gift?: David Horvitz
Opening Reception
Thursday, November 8, 2012, 6 - 9 p.m.
Goethe-Institut New York Library
72 Spring Street, 11th floor
As the first in a series of artist commissions for The End(s) of the Library, David Horvitz will address the role of digital rights management (DRM) within the library’s infrastructure. Working with a group of artists and independent publishers, Horvitz will attempt to make a generous donation of artist books to the
Goethe-Institut New York Library in digital format. His gift will be contingent upon these materials being available to library users for an unlimited time-frame and without restriction for edition size. Both of these aspects of e-books—their length of use and number of copies—are currently limited within the e-book system, in which each book is understood as a singular object. Horvitz’s contribution, entitled
How Can a Digital be Gift?, will explore the challenges of the digital format to the library’s circulation model, emphasizing the important role played by third-party distributors who provide the online platforms necessary for sharing digital content. With these platforms, libraries no longer own the books in their collections, but rather subscribe to them as rented data.
To carry out his project, Horvitz will be in residence at the Goethe-Institut New York, integrating his collecting and digitization work into the library’s everyday existence. He will maintain an active blog documenting various aspects of his project, and will embark upon an extended conversation with the
Goethe-Institut New York Library staff and their information providers.