Monday, October 23rd, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Moderator: Miriam Deutch
Brooklyn College Associate Professor/Art Librarian Miriam Deutch, and Programming Director of Artists Talk On Art. Since 1987, Miriam Deutch has served as an Associate Professor specializing in art history at the Brooklyn College Library. Deutch holds a Masters of Art in Art History (1992) from Brooklyn College, with Honors as well as a Master of Library Science (1992) from University of Missouri-Columbia with Honors. She also holds two Bachelors (of Arts and of Science, Education with Honors (1974) from University of Missouri-Columbia. She has curated numerous art exhibitions including the library’s permanent art collection which contains internationally recognized artists, organized many art related panels, dialogues and presentations. Co-editor with Jack Flam, Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art: A Documentary History, 2003 and author of Images from Columbia’s Past 1865-1945.
Panelist: Cliff Rosen
Cliff Rosen is a technology veteran with over 20 years of experience applying emerging technology to develop B2B an B2C applications. He has held C and VP level positions with numerous software companies, including sixdegrees.com, where he was co-founding CTO and led pioneering work on one of the Internet's first social networking platforms.
With expertise spanning system design, software development, product management and process development, Cliff is adept at identifying the intersection of business needs with technological capabilities.
Cliff holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
https://ironcliff.ai/about-business/
Panelist: Jon McCormack
Jon McCormack is a media artist and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently a research Professor and director of Monash University’s SensiLab, a creative technologies research laboratory that brings together artists, designers and scientists and technologists in trans-disciplinary collaboration. McCormack’s own creative practice encompasses generative systems, human-machine creativity and creative Artificial Intelligence. He is the recipient of over 18 awards for both artistic innovation and technical research, including the Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science and the Lumen Prize for Digital Art.
https://jonmccormack.info/
https://sensilab.monash.edu
Panelist: Molly Crabapple
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage is the 2022 winner of the Bernhart Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animations have been nominated for three Emmys and won an Edward R. Murrow Award. Currently, she is a fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library researching the history of the Jewish Labor Bund.
https://mollycrabapple.com/
Panelist: Atreya Mathur
Atreya Mathur, joined the Center for Art Law first as an inaugural Judith Bresler fellow in 2021. A Master of Laws Graduate from New York University School of Law where she specialized in Competition, Innovation, and Information Laws, with a focus on copyright, intellectual property, and art law. She is an attorney from India and received her Bachelor of Laws and Business Administration from the School of Law, Christ University. Atreya also co-founded m e r a k i consultancy, a consultancy service focused on legal academia and higher education in law. She has had her papers on copyright, art, international trade, and corporate governance published in several journals including the European Journal of Sustainable Development, the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, and the New York University Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law Journal Blog. She has also presented her papers and research at the Central European University in Budapest and at the International Conference on Sustainable Development in Rome.