Frederick Kiesler. Study for the development chart “Creation Mutation,” from the “Correalism Manifesto,” 1947-50. Ballpen on paper, 10.8 x 13.9 (27.5 x 35.4 cm). Copyright Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna

Join for a presentation by Mark Wasiuta, curator of the exhibition Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines, as he discusses Frederick Kiesler’s (1890-1965) experimental design practice through the activities of his Laboratory for Design Correlation at Columbia University from the late 1930s to the early 1940s.

Mark Wasiuta is senior lecturer in architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and codirector of the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program. Wasiuta is recipient of recent grants from the Onassis Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, NYSCA, and the Graham Foundation, where he was an inaugural Graham Foundation Fellow. His research exhibition practice focuses on architecture’s media, politics, and environments through under-examined projects of the postwar period. His work has been exhibited widely, including at the Graham Foundation, LAXArt, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Sharjah Architecture Triennale, Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, MAXXI, the Deste Foundation, the Luma Foundation, Moderna Museet, and elsewhere. Recent Exhibitions include Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines at the Jewish Museum in New York City and The Machine at the Heart of Man: Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism at the Onassis Foundation in Athens, Greece. Wasiuta is coauthor and coeditor of Rifat Chadirj: Building Index (Arab Image Foundation, 2018); Dan Graham’s New Jersey (Lars Müller Publishers, 2012), and author of numerous articles.

Note: This event will be held in the ballroom on the third floor of the Madlener House, which is only accessible by stairs. The first-floor galleries and bookshop are accessible via outdoor lift. Please contact us at 312.787.4071 or info@grahamfoundation.org to make arrangements.

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