Martha Rosler at USC

Martha Rosler, who received her MFA from UCSD in 1974, will be giving a talk at USC on Wednesday from 12-2. Her work "concerns social issues, which are manifested at sites as various as the kitchen, the television set, the streets and the transport systems." You can find more info here.

Urban Panoramas

The Getty has a new exhibition up that some might find interesting considering an approach to the city in relation to landscape photography. Urban Panoramas, which includes the work of Soo Kim, Jeff Liao, Catherine Opie, "reveals how multiple sensory experiences such as time and space can be collapsed into carefully composed images that interpret the essential character of an urban environment." Click here to view audio slideshows of photographers discussing their work.

State of Mind Panel Discussion TODAY

I know this is last minute, but there will be a panel discussion today at 2pm at MOPA in Balboa Park. You can find more info here. Photographers Ken Gonzales-Day, Nigel Poor, and Michael Light will discuss their processes, influences, and the current state of California photography. Each photographer is part of State of Mind: A California Invitational, an exhibition that celebrates the best contemporary California photographers. A book signing will follow the panel discussion.

Stephen Graham talk TONIGHT

Stop by the VAF Performance Space tonight at 6:30 and listen to Stephen Graham discuss his new book Cities Under Siege:
“Cities Under Siege is a detailed and intense forensics of new urban frontiers, laboratories of the extreme where experiments with new urban conditions are currently being undertaken. In this fascinating new work Stephen Graham has created a novel concept of the city, looking at war as the limit condition of urbanity and calling for an alternative urban life yet to come.”—Eyal Weizman, director, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths

Also, here are the links to the two videos I mentioned I would post: Brian Ulrich and Taryn Simon