Presented by The New School's Vera List Center for Art and Politics (http://veralistcenter.org/).

The Vera List Center Prize Conference in November looks at the urgent and necessary work of the recipient of the third Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves, and the five Prize Finalists: the London-based interdisciplinary research agency Forensic Architecture; the artist coalition Gulf Labor; House of Natural Fibers (HONF), a new media arts laboratory in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; IsumaTV, a collaborative multimedia platform for indigenous filmmakers and media organization in Canada; and MadeYouLook, an artist collective based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Prize Finalists Panel Discussion II
Languages For Us(e)/Ways of Knowing: 2:30-4:30pm

In light of rampant skepticism towards democratic forms of political representation, media platforms have recently been positioned as the new commons. But in the struggle for social justice, visual and discursive media languages can only be effective if they enact as much as they convey social justice values shared among their members. This panel is informed by current debates in the U.S. on self-representation and protocols of accessing images, words and other culturally specific narratives. IsumaTV is a collaborative multimedia platform for indigenous filmmakers and media organizations in Canada; House of Natural Fiber (HONF) is a new-media arts laboratory in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and MadeYouLook uses Johannesburg's public transportation system in order to stage performative interventions that jolt different relationships among commuters. Here, representatives of all three groups elaborate on the specificities of visual and discursive languages and the dynamics of media production that seeks distinct and different audiences and co-producers especially when addressing trans-local environmental challenges.

Participants:
- Irene Agrivina, Indonesia, House of Natural Fiber

- Samuel Cohn-Cousineau, Canada, IsumaTV

- Nare Mokgotho, South Africa, MadeYouLook

- Molemo Moiloa, South Africa, MadeYouLook

Moderator:
- VLC Curator Amanda Parmer

Respondent:
- Whitney Slaten, Ass. Professor of Music Technology, Lang College


Location:
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall
55 West 13th Street, Room I-202, New York, NY 10011
Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm