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❄️🌟Happy Holidays🌟❄️ We will be closed December 18th, 2024 – January 19th, 2025

Artist talk: John Milisenda

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Stream of Consciousness: an inner dialogue of photographic journey.
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Biography
John Milisenda’s photography has appeared in over 150 shows and in many publications including Smithsonian and the New York Times. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Harry Ransom Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Museum Of The City Of New York, and the Bibliotheque Nationale. in Paris. He has taught basic photography, The Zone system and Photographic chemistry at Drexel University The New School and Parson school of Design. He has lectured on many different photographic topics.

Website: johnmilisenda.com

About the Talk:
Selecting photographs from the thousands taken during John Milsenda’s lifetime for this lecture was a daunting task. However, it highlights the central role of the stream of consciousness in his creative process.

Photographers often question how they arrive at particular images, frequently discovering unexpected insights during the development process. This creative unconscious functions as an underlying stream that artists continuously draw upon. For Milsenda, two quotations provided inspiration for this exploration, not as definitive answers but as sparks for thought and creativity.

One quotation comes from William James’ 1892 essay on the Stream of Consciousness:
“Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.”

Another definition expands on the concept:
“In literature, a technique that records the multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence. The writer attempts by the stream of consciousness to reflect all the forces, external and internal, influencing the psychology of a character at a single moment. The technique was first employed by Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949) in his novel Les Lauriers sont coupés (1888) and was subsequently used by such notable writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner.”

These perspectives, combined with metaphors from James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, served as guides in curating the photographs for this exhibition. Each image represents an act of free association, yet together they flow in a seamless confluence. Appropriately, the exhibition has been titled Streams of Consciousness.

Organic Nature Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion

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Trailer: https://vimeo.com/915796876

Event Brite Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/organic-nature-documentary-screening-panel-discussion-tickets-1099074694999?aff=oddtdtcreator

Organic is a short nature documentary series based on the groundbreaking, award-winning film Organic, which invites viewers to experience immersive journeys into North America’s unexamined aquatic habitats. Organic aims to remove the human gaze from the picture and allow nature and environments to narrate their own story.

The pilot episode of Organic has been selected by 60 film festivals around the world, winning more than 40 awards (including a LA Film & Documentary Award, a Los Angeles Short Film Award, a Hollywood Best Indie Film Award and a Cannes Shorts nomination). Now, we are using that momentum to continue our research and prepare our pre-production process for a comprehensive series, which will take us from the ponds of New Jersey to equally magnificent waters teeming with life all around the United States. From Florida to Colorado to Michigan to Mississippi to California and beyond, each episode will focus on revealing the alien worlds of these biomes unique to every state.

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Egor Subbotin was born in Moscow, Russia, and migrated to the US with his family at the age of 14. A graduate of the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory, he is the director of several short films and series, including Starting From Scratch (2024) and Undergrads (2020), and has worked on many film and television series including American Rust (2021), Gilded Age (2023) and Project Runway (2020). His pivot to documentary filmmaking occurred during the pandemic-induced lockdown, which inspired him to make a movie that did not feature any people at all – that’s how Organic was born.

PRODUCERS
Kristina Baines is professor of anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY), Guttman Community College, affiliated faculty at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and the co-founder and Director of Anthropology at Cool Anthropology. Her research focuses on the relationships between traditional ecological practices and health.

Victoria Costa is a storyteller, creative technologist and community organizer, and the co-founder and Director of Cool at Cool Anthropology.

PARTNERSHIPS
Cool Anthropology is an ever-growing collective dedicated to breaking down walls between the academic ivory tower and communities around the world. We are anthropologists, community members, other academics and researchers, technologists, artists, filmmakers, activists, students of every age, and concerned-in-general seeker-types, working together to tell transmedia stories and solve problems. Through a deep focus on collaborative efforts and participatory methods, our works push against the exclusivity of knowledge production. https://coolanthropology.com

BlueGAP helps communities to reduce nitrogen pollution by providing a trusted communication and knowledge platform, empowering people through storytelling and taking action based on reliable water quality information. https://blue-gap.org/

Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center Breakfast Talk

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🌊Join us at BioBAT Art Space in partnership with the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center for a special morning event featuring Water Stories!

☕️Enjoy a complimentary breakfast while exploring this immersive exhibit and hearing from featured artists Nathan Kesinger and Elizabeth Hénaff.

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LAMINARIA Listening Party

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Join us for the LAMINARIA Listening Party, celebrating the release of Concetta Abbate’s folk horror chamber music suite. This eerie and evocative composition paints an underwater world of sea witches and kelp forests, blending woodwinds, strings, handmade percussion, and voice to create an immersive musical experience. Themes of life, death, and transformation are at the heart of this haunting work.

The evening will feature:
Artist Talk & Q&A with Concetta Abbate featuring Elizabeth Hénaff (8:00 PM)
Best Dressed Sea Witch Costume Contest (8:45 PM)
Full Listening Party (9:00 PM) with sound design by John Roach

Ticket Options:
$10 - Basic entry + FREE non-alcoholic mocktail
$30 - Entry + Limited Edition LAMINARIA Candle with album download code + FREE non-alcoholic mocktail

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