Wednesday, March 23, 2022
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
with Marina Isgro, PhD, Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Free and open to the public | Suggested donation for Not-Yet-Members
Location: Zoom | Register to receive link
Lecture Description
Laurie Anderson is one of the leading multimedia artists of our time, known for her extraordinary performances that combine captivating storytelling with music and visual effects. A pioneer in the artistic use of electronic technology, she has worked with nearly every major technological innovation from the 1970s to today—from synthesizers to CD-ROMs to virtual reality—while maintaining a perspective inflected with humor, emotion and social critique. This exhibition explores the potential for new media to inspire innovation in artistic expression.
Marina Isgro, curator of Anderson’s largest U.S. museum show to date at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, will speak about the artist’s impact and give a behind-the-scenes virtual tour of her exhibition.
About Marina Isgro
Marina Isgro, PhD, is Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She is curator of the exhibitions Laurie Anderson: The Weather (2021) and the forthcoming John Akomfrah: Purple (2022). At the Hirshhorn, she oversees the museum’s holdings of film and video, digital art, and performance art, and has brought work by artists Steffani Jemison, Sondra Perry, and Jacolby Satterwhite into the collection. Previously a fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated Nam June Paik: Screen Play (2018), she is a specialist in time-based media and has published in Art Journal and Tate Papers. She received her PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.
with Marina Isgro, PhD, Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Free and open to the public | Suggested donation for Not-Yet-Members
Location: Zoom | Register to receive link
Lecture Description
Laurie Anderson is one of the leading multimedia artists of our time, known for her extraordinary performances that combine captivating storytelling with music and visual effects. A pioneer in the artistic use of electronic technology, she has worked with nearly every major technological innovation from the 1970s to today—from synthesizers to CD-ROMs to virtual reality—while maintaining a perspective inflected with humor, emotion and social critique. This exhibition explores the potential for new media to inspire innovation in artistic expression.
Marina Isgro, curator of Anderson’s largest U.S. museum show to date at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, will speak about the artist’s impact and give a behind-the-scenes virtual tour of her exhibition.
About Marina Isgro
Marina Isgro, PhD, is Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She is curator of the exhibitions Laurie Anderson: The Weather (2021) and the forthcoming John Akomfrah: Purple (2022). At the Hirshhorn, she oversees the museum’s holdings of film and video, digital art, and performance art, and has brought work by artists Steffani Jemison, Sondra Perry, and Jacolby Satterwhite into the collection. Previously a fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated Nam June Paik: Screen Play (2018), she is a specialist in time-based media and has published in Art Journal and Tate Papers. She received her PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.