Franco Mattes is one-half of the artist duo Eva and Franco Mattes. Originally from Italy, the artists work collaboratively in Brooklyn, NY. They create artworks in a combination of mediums including performance, video, and the Internet. The Mattes’ artworks present falsities and misinformation, deliberately misrepresent and obfuscate, and often require their unwitting viewer’s reactions to complete the pieces. 

Franco Mattes’ lecture What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen presents and discusses a selection of the collaborative works by Eva and Franco Mattes. These works often elicit complex conversations about the ethics of detachment in virtual interactions and the murky differentiation between reality and simulation

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Nader Tehrani is a Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also Principal of NADAAA, a Boston-based architecture and urban design firm. Notably, NADAAA is the recent winner of Architecture Magazine’s No. 1 architecture firm for design in the United States. Tehrani received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree in 1991 from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Nader Tehrani’s lecture The Architecture of Installations discusses the intervention of material, spatial and formal experiments as details and then radicalize larger architectural projects. Through his extensive research of materials, Tehrani delves into the function of installations as fruitful arenas of examination, play and experimentation.

Reading List
Suggested materials by Nader Tehrani can be found here.

Micah White is a former editor of Adbusters magazine and co-created the international meme Occupy Wall Street. Influenced by philosophical ideas, political and cultural movements, environmentalism, and technological innovations, White inspires seemingly minor contributors to harness the power of information systems and participate in the creation and direction of culture.

White’s lecture The Future of Protest explores how visual culture plays an important role in social change through critically evaluating activist events like Occupy Wall Street. White speaks to the innovative position of artists and designers in the current environment of cultural and political civic engagement. White calls for creative re-imagination of how we relate to the world and others.

Reading List
Suggested materials by Micah White can be found here.

Daniel Eatock is a British creative who takes no mind to boundaries – boundaries like those often found between art and design, commercial and art object, producer and author. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Eatock has design experience at institutions such as the Walker Art Center as well as independent ventures such as interdisciplinary art and design studio Foundation 33. Eatock’s care to systems, information, and archiving can be seen in both his monograph, Imprint, published in 2008 by Princeton's Architectural Press, and his website www.eatock.com. His website highlights Indexibit, a widely used Content Management System and website platform designed collaboratively by Eatock and Jeffery Vaska.

Eatock's lecture functions as a displaced narrative performance and continuation of the exhibition An Empty Room: The Sequel, utilized subsequently as an audio guide for the exhibition. Eatock’s lecture intervenes in the traditional lecture structure, in order to address the key questions of producing and framing creative knowledge.

Reading List
Suggested materials by Daniel Eatock can be found here.