Public Lecture: Kirby Gookin

Kirby Gookin is a curator, public artist, art historian, and critic. As a public artist, Kirby Gookin is a founding member of GRATIS, a collective formed in 1994 to create Isla Del Copyright (Bilbao, 1995), Copiacabana (Guadiana River, Badajoz, 1996) and other copyright free public projects on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a writer for Artforum, and has written articles and reviews on 20th and 21st century art for Artscribe, Arts Magazine, and Parkett, as well as for gallery and museum publications. He is on the Board of Directors of White Columns, New York, and is a Professor at New York University teaching Critical Studies in the Department of Art and Art Professions. He is currently preparing a book on the aesthetic foundations of eugenic practices titled Eugenics and the Aesthetics of Ideal Beauty. He is a member of the Global Academy, an organization of scientists and ethicists who meet to discuss the cultural importance of emerging genetic technologies and produce conferences and forums to present their research.

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Intersections Visiting Artist and Scholar Program, Department of Art and Art History, UH Manoa

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Wendy Kawabata, 956-5252, wendyak@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/art/intersections/08s.html

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