The Final Week of Watermill’s International Summer Program: Three Talks

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Date:
August 9, 2010
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue:
The Watermill Center
The Watermill Center Lovis Dengler

Jay McInerney
Monday, August 9
8:00 p.m.
Reservation (required)

Jay McInerney is the author of seven novels, including Bright Lights, Big City, his bestselling 1984 debut, which was cited byTime magazine in 2006 as one of nine generation-defining novels of the twentieth century. Translated into more than 20 languages, Bright Lights has achieved the status of a contemporary classic. McInerney wrote the screenplay for the 1988 United Artists film version of the novel, along with several other screenplays, including Gia. Among his other novels areRansom (1985), Story of My Life (1988), Brightness Falls (1992), The Last of the Savages (1996), Model Behavior (1999), and The Good Life (2006). McInerney has written for numerous publications including New York magazine, The New Yorker,The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian (London), and Corriera della Serra (Milan). From 1996 to 2007 he wrote a monthly wine column for Condé Nast’s House & Garden. Many of those columns were collected in Bacchus and Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). Since April of this year he has written a wine column for the Wall Street Journal. McInerney won the 2006 James Beard MFK Fisher Award for Distinguised Writing. His novel The Good Life received the Grand Prix Literaire at the Deauville Film Festival in 2007. In 2009 he published How it Ended, a collection of short stories which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times. He is the father of two children, Barrett and Maisie, and divides his time between New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.

Otto Piene
Tuesday, August 10
7:30 p.m.
Reservation (required)

Between 1949 and 1953, Otto Piene studied painting and art education at the Academy of Art in Munich and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was lecturer at the Fashion Institute in Düsseldorf. From 1952 to 1957 he studied philosophy at the University of Cologne. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 1964. From 1968 to 1971, he was the first Fellow of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), founded by Gyorgy Kepes. In 1972, he became a Professor of Environmental Art at MIT. In 1974 he succeeded Kepes as director of the CAVS, in which position he served until September 1, 1993. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County awarded Piene an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 1994. In 1996, he received the Sculpture Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Piene lives and works today in Groton, Massachusetts and Düsseldorf. With Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack and Mattijs Visser he founded in 2008 the international ZERO foundation. The foundation has the ZERO archives from the three Düsseldorfer artists as well as documents and photos from other related artist.

Dr. Antonio Damasio
Thursday, August 12
7:30 p.m.
Reservation (required)

Dr. Antonio Damasio, the author of the forthcoming book Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, which tackles a question that has confounded neorologists, philospophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists for centuries: how consciousness is created will speak at Watermill this Thursday at 7:30 pm. He has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his work has garnered acclaim for its singular melding of the scientific and the humanistic. The director of the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute, his books include Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain; The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review); and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.

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