2837 University questions
This past Thursday as part of the Summer Salon Series at the San Diego Museum of Art, attendees were asked at the front door to fill out cards that had one of four questions below. The cards posted here are the cards that were turned in. You can find more information about the 2837 University...
2837 University- Videos from first meeting
The first projects of the 2837 University are underway. Here are two videos that we used to begin the conversations. The first is from a talk by Sir Ken Robinson on changing educational paradigms. While our humble project obviously is not directly connected to schools etc. one aspect that we hoped would come out of...
The 2837 University – WANTS YOUR PARTICIPATION!
In January of 2011 Agitprop put out a call for participation to answer the question “Could a “University” be assembled out of pre-existing spaces in the neighborhood?” After a six-week seminar composed of small business owners, neighborhood activists, artists and educators, the answer was a resounding “yes!”. Below is the mission statement composed by the...
agitpropspace.org launch party @ Agitprop 7/16 7pm
THE NEW AGITPROPSPACE.ORG BLOG LAUNCH + GATHERING and EXHIBITION OF NEW WORK BY ARTIST JOE YORTY- featuring work from Yorty’s “Neighbors” series. Launch and opening reception: Saturday, July 16th 2011 from 7-10pm. http://agitpropspace.org: An Electronic Space of Dialogue Around Issues of Art, Public Engagement, and Critical Discourse. Agitprop is starting a new, visual arts-focused blog....
Literary Art: Brian Ang, Wendy Trevino, Dereck Clemons and Uyen Hua, June 3, 7pm
We hope you can join us Friday, June 3rd, 7pm at Agitprop Gallery for readings by an awesome, saucy, emergent variety pack of up-and-coming Bay Area poets in association with the 2011 San Diego Durruti Free Skool for Radical Poetics. Brian Ang is the author of Communism (Berkeley Neo-Baroque, 2011) and Paradise Now (Grey Book...
Balloon Mapping with Stephanie Lie
This past weekend as part of the 2837 University project Stephanie Lie led a Aerial Balloon Mapping project using a weather balloon with point and shoot camera attached to it. The camera was programmed to take photos at spaced intervals of time. The balloon was tethered to three different lines for stability and control by...
Novelist and Poet Doug Nufer at Agitprop on Saturday May 21, 7pm
We hope you can join us this Saturday, May 21, 7pm at Agitprop for a reading/performance by novelist and poet Doug Nufer. Doug Nufer writes prose and poetry based on formal constraints. His novels include Never Again (Black Square, 2004), where no word is repeated, and Negativeland (Autonomedia, 2004), where a negative appears in every...
Orientation Day – the 2837 University May 14th 2-6pm
Orientation Day Saturday May 14th 2011 2-6pm Agitprop
2837 University Ave
San Diego, CA 92104 In January Agitprop conducted a 6-week study to see if a “University” could be assembled out of existing spaces in North Park and environs. This study was done through a call for participation. The subsequent 30 or so participants in...
Mark Wallace, India Radfar & Simone Forti at Agitprop
We hope you can join us on Saturday, May 7 at 7pm for an evening of fiction, poetry and dance with Mark Wallace, India Radfar and Simone Forti, and check out the current show at Agitprop, “Inside the Digital Scriptorium: New Works by Tim Schwartz.” Mark Wallace is the author of more than fifteen books...