The Center’s Director, Professor Lawrence Lessig, delivered the first lecture of the 2009-10 Labs Lectures on the Question of Institutional Corruption. — (Ethics at Harvard)
View Professor Lessig’s lecture:
…on the Question of Institutional Corruption.
January 13th, 2010Brief Profile
September 9th, 2009Lives: MIT – Cambridge, MA – USA
Home Base: San Francisco, CA – USA
Born: Chile
Negrete is a resident of the USA since 1988, where she earned an Interdisciplinary Art degree with a concentration in Public Art, Multimedia and Education from the San Francisco Art Institute (2006). This will be her first year of graduate work at MIT Visual Arts Program, Department of Architecture. Her area of research is critical social engagements and real time actions, in specific she is looking at how to utilize these practices to address disparate ideas about mass punishment in the USA.
Before coming to MIT, she had been working in the development of the Sensible Housing Unit (SHU) project, which is a tactical object that engages audiences in critical dialogue about the human rights issues of prison control units. She has presented this project at the University of San Francisco (2009), Mission Cultural Center for the Latino Art (2009) and the Mission Arts Performance Project (2008).
She is currently a nominee for the Bridge Residence 2010-11 (Headlands Center for the Arts) and a recipient of the MIT Presidential Award 2009-10 and MIT Department of Architecture Fellowship 2010-11. Upon graduation she expects to return to San Francisco, where she would like to pursue a career in Academia and Critical Arts.
At MIT:
September 8th, 2009
It is a month and 6 days since I moved to MIT campus and I am finally starting to relax. So off! I guess, I am still tripping from time to time about the changes.
Anyways, this Wednesday Sept. 9th will be my first day of class. Exciting! and tomorrow is registration day. I will be meeting with my adviser Ute to chat about my academic future. Generally, I will be spending most of my time exploring methods for critical social engagements and real time actions to address various ethical-social dilemmas about how mass punishment manifest through the social and spatial landscape of the USA. This is a loaded subject matter but very important to look at in our times. Though, I need to refine these ideas. So, don’t take me as an expert on the subject, that’s why I’m here doing graduate work! Trying to figure things out!
Another note, I just added more pictures to the Sensible Housing Unit (SHU) archive page from The Counter Narrative Society. They document up to the 4th version of the project. Visit this link.
Last note, here is the link to my profile at MIT. Here you can also meet my colleagues and their art.
[Picture: this is the 1st day in Cambridge. We are unloading our stuffs and feeling to hot.]
Crossing the Desperado – PARTY! July 4th & 5th
June 22nd, 2009
Celebrate Joshua’s and Mabel’s farewell party.
Send them off – as they venture into a new settlement in the east coast.
3327 Cesar Chavez St. Apt. 2, San Francisco, CA 94110
Program:
JULY 4th
3pm Potluck-Barbecue with iPod DJ, Lottery & Garage/Art sale
7-10pm Dance party w/ DJs, short movies, & a mix of artistic flairs
10pm Party continues at Sub-Mission Art Space for late nighters!
JULY 5th
11am-5pm Brunch / Lunch / Barbecue … Garage/Art sale continues
Seeking Submissions:
- Potluck suggestions: Salads, Salsa & Chips,Cheeses/Crackers, Wine, or your Gourmet Home-Made Dish. We will have two grills 1 for veggies and 1 for meats & Please limit the amount of non-recycle packaging. Thanks!
- If you have 1 to 2 short artistic or documentary videos of 5 minutes or less, send them to info(at)mabelnegrete(dot)com. Mabel will be compiling them to show them at the party.
- You are welcome to dress up as your most favorite dictator or liberator!
RSVP or Questions:
Phone – Joshua: 415-646-5541 / E-mail – Mabel: info(at)mabelnegrete(dot)com