Laurel Ptak
Laurel Ptak is an artist, curator and educator based in New York City. A multidisciplinary figure inside the field of culture, she has made contributions across disciplines of photography,[1] new media,[2] social practice art,[3] curating[4] and technology.[5] She was named one of 100 top Leading Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine in 2014.[6] She is currently a professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at The New School.[7]
Her work often focuses on the social effects of technology and some of her recent projects have taken up topics including feminism,[8] hacking,[9] and social media.[10] She is co-editor of the book Undoing Property? with artist Marysia Lewandowska. Its essays, interviews and artistic projects explore themes of immaterial production, political economy and the commons and was published by Sternberg Press in 2013.[11] Ptak's best known project, Wages For Facebook,[12] draws upon ideas from the 1970s international Wages for housework feminist campaign to think through contemporary relationships of capitalism, class and affective labor inside social media.[13] When it launched as a website it immediately drew over 20,000 views and was rapidly and internationally debated via social media and the press, setting off a public conversation about worker’s rights and the very nature of labor, as well as the politics of its refusal, in the digital age.[14]
Her work has been recognized with a research fellowship at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center; critical writing fellowship at Recess; travel and research grant from Foundation for Arts Initiatives; nomination for Independent Curators International’s Gerrit Lansing Independent Vision Curatorial Award and travel fellowship from Fundación Cisneros. She has been invited to lecture at numerous arts institutions internationally including Transmediale (Berlin),[15] SALT (institution) (Istanbul),[16] The Vera List Center for Art and Politics (New York),[17] The Showroom (London),[18] New Museum (New York),[19] Casco—Office for Art, Design, Theory (Utrecht),[20] The Photographers' Gallery (London),[21] Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco)[22] and many others.
References
- ^ "25 Under 25: Up-And-Coming American Photographers". Duke University. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ Robin Cembalest (February 2014). "101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week". Artnews. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ Jason Foumberg (February 2014). "It Take Practice". Artforum. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ Rozalia Jovanovic (September 2012). "Independent Curators International Announced Nominees for 2012 Independent Vision Curatorial Award". New York Observer. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ Jessica Weisberg (January 2014). "Should Facebook Pay Its Users?". The Nation. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "A World Disrupted: The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014". Foreign Policy Magazine. November 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Art, Media, Technology Faculty". The New School. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ Catherine Wagley (February 2014). "Wikipedia Becomes a Battleground for Art Activism". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ Stephen Squibb (February 2014). "Ubiquitous Economies, Free Kevins: Interview with Laurel Ptak". Idiom Magazine. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ Anna North (October 2014). "The Social Network That Pays You to Friend". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Undoing Property?". WorldCat. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Wages For Facebook". Laurel Ptak. January 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ E. Alex Jung (Spring 2014). "Wages for Facebook". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (January 2014). "Wages For Facebook". Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Transmediale 2015". Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "One Day Everything Will Be Free". SALT. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "From "Sustaining Democracy" to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics". The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Undoing Property". The Showroom. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Whose Terms? New Perspectives on Social Practice". The New Museum. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Publishing in Process Ownership in Question". Casco—Office for Art, Design, Theory. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "The Online Image". The Photographers' Gallery. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Wages For Facebook". Kadist Art Foundation. Retrieved 2015-04-15.