3/16: Josh MacPhee at New College: "Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape"

Thursday, March 16th at 7 PM
New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco

Josh MacPhee: "Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape"

In this slide-show presentation, artist, activist, curator and author Josh MacPhee discusses how powerful institutions shape our visual environment and influence our thoughts and behavior. He also shows how alternatives to this monologue of control can be created.

In "Taking Control of our Visual Environment" Josh MacPhee discusses how our visual environment controls our social space from the top down and shows that alternatives are possible. MacPhee contends that corporations and the state use our environment, the "visual landscape," to create a monologue of control that helps frame our thoughts and behaviors. He will present a slide show displaying a broad array of styles and techniques of intervening in this system. Spanning across decades and continents, these images provoke us to imagine what a real public dialogue on the street might look like -- and they show that such dialogue is indeed possible.

Josh MacPhee is an activist, curator, artist and the author of Stencil Pirates: A Global Study of the Street Stencil (Soft Skull Press, 2004) and Realizing the Impossible: Art vs. Authority (forthcoming, AK Press).

$5 donation.

Sponsored by AK Press: http://www.akpress.org/
and New College Media Studies MA Program: http://www.newcollege.edu/media_studies/

For more information: 510-208-1700.