Art & Design Events, New York, Monday, 15 October 2018

International Center of Photography 250 Bowery installation and symposium: New Directions in Interactive Media 4-8:30; panel: Museums, Cultural Institutions, and Digital Culture Susan Chun, Erin Fleming, Carolyn Royston, JiaJia Fei 4; panel: Artists, Photographers, the Institution, and Digital Culture Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Elizabeth Kilroy, Alan Govenar, Chloë Bass 6; reception 7:30; program celebrates interactive multimedia installation: The Concerned Camera: Unwavering Vision #3: 5,000 Images of Social and Cultural Change and Anne Morgan: Photography and Advocacy Alan Govenar, Jean-Michel Sanchez, and Julien Roger, produced by Documentary Arts in association with on-situ;  event free, reservation requested
Steven Harvey 208 Forsyth St one-day exhibition: George Hildrew Hanging by a Thread curated by Richard Milazzo noon-6; reading: Richard Milazzo Storyville: Poems 2010 with Drawings by George Hildrew (Tsukuda Island Press, Tokyo and Hayama, Japan, January 2017); reading and discussion between Milazzo and Hildrew 6-8

AIA New York Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place reception: Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition Finalists Agency Agency / Tei Carpenter, Buro Koray Duman, Isometric Studio, N H D M / Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon, Only If Architecture, REDDYMADE, Splice Design,STUDIO 397 6-8 free

Cooper Union Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square conversation: Doc Leslie: Graphic Design Influencer Robert “Doc” Leslie with Virginia Bartow 6:30-8:30

The Kitchen 512 W 19 book celebration: Joan Retallack: Joan Retallack The Supposium: Thought Experiments & Poethical Play in Difficult Times  as program of SUPPOSIUM 2018 – Launching a Poethical Wager participant-contributors Adam Pendleton, Beverly Semmes, Charles Bernstein, erica kaufman, Evelyn Reilly, Fred Moten, James Sherry, Lauren Bakst, Omar Berrada, Simone White, and Tracy Grinnell 7-9 free

SVA 133/141 W 21 Rm 101C BFA Visual & Critical Studies talk: Maria Garcia Geography and the Economic Imagination of Development 6:30-8:30 free

SVA Theatre 333 W 23 screenings: The 20th Animation Show of Shows 7-10 registration absolutely required Eventbrite

Rizzoli 1133 Broadway book launch: RoseLee Goldberg Performance Now: Live Art for  the 21st Century Goldberg in conversation with Jason Farago 6-8 rsvp@performa-arts.org

New York Public Library—Mid-Manhattan Library 476 Fifth Ave panel: Mid-Sentence | Art and Activism Jennifer Baker, Renée Watson, Tanaïs (Tanwi Nandini Islam), Ibi Zoboi 6:30 free
ZieherSmith Pop-up 485 Madison Ave reception and artist talk: Tucker Nichols Almost Everything Else Vol 1 and 2 6-8  

McNally Jackson 76 N 4 Williamsburg book celebration: Electronic Bards: Artificial Intelligence and Literature authors in conversation with series editor Nick Montfort and Dan Rockmore: Ranjit Bhatnagar, Li Zilles,  Milton Läufer, Nick Montfort, Dan Rockmore 7 free

Heavy Woods 50 Wyckoff Ave Bushwick Microscope’s 8th Anniversary Party 7-9

Pratt 200 WIlloughby Ave Clinton Hill  East Hall 2nd Fl Gallery reception: 34th Annual Pratt in Venice Exhibition Olivia Cranney, Skyler Elfeldt, Chris Harding, Kirsten Herman, Chantal Kassarjian, Kikuchi Aomi, David Kim, June Kim, Alessandra Levato, Li Xingze, Nichollette Manicad, Jessica Niello, Jenna Pasquino, Aubrey Roemer, Michele Rushfeldt, Drue Leahy Schwartz, Abby Staub, Maya Tajchman, Blanca Uribe, Penghui Zhang, Hannah Zwier, curated by Michael Brennan and Andrea Lynn Santos 5-7; Pratt Library1st Fl reception: We Make America signage and artifacts of protest and persuasion 5-7

Note: Archtober This large series of events continues through 31 October. See https://archtober.org/events/  for the complete list.