Announcement: NPR On The Media host Brooke Gladstone

NPR "On The Media" host Brooke Gladstone to speak as part of
Pratt Manhattan Gallery Symposium on April 1

Symposium To Contrast Traditional Media with the "YouTube" Generation

"Broadcast Yourself"
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Lecture Hall 213, next to Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd Floor

NEW YORK, N.Y. March 17, 2009 - Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present
"Broadcast Yourself," a free public symposium in conjunction with the
gallery's "Broadcast" exhibition at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, 2009
in Lecture Hall 213 at 144 West 14th Street. Speakers will include NPR
"On The Media" host Brooke Gladstone, "Broadcast" curator Irene Hofmann,
and "Broadcast" participating artists Gregory Green, Angel Nevarez and
Valarie Tevere of neuroTransmitter, and Siebren Versteeg.

"Broadcast Yourself" will address the issues of power and control
extended by traditional media outlets in contrast with the do-it-yourself
attitude pervasive in the tech-savvy younger generation. Symposium
panelists will also speak to the impact that radio and television can
have in shaping the events of our time; how artists can directly engage,
challenge, or subvert the structure and authority of broadcast media; and
how our culture is shaped by the actions of individuals and artists.

"Broadcast" is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the Contemporary
Museum, Baltimore, and iCI (Independent Curators International), New
York; circulated by iCI; and guest-curated by Irene Hofmann. The
exhibition comes to Pratt Manhattan Gallery from the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Detroit, and the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. The
exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with support from the iCI
Exhibition Partners.

The exhibition is on view now through May 2, 2009 and features work by
Dara Birnbaum; Chris Burden; Gregory Green; Doug Hall, Chip Lord, and
Jody Procter; Christian Jankowski; Inigo Manglano-Ovalle; Antoni
Muntadas; neuroTransmitter; Nam June Paik; TVTV (Top Value Television);
and Siebren Versteeg.

Speaker Biographies:

Overseas Press Club and Peabody award-winner Brooke Gladstone started out
in print journalism, writing on defense policy, strip-mining,
broadcasting, and cable television. Gladstone joined National Public
Radio (NPR) in 1987, working on "Weekend Edition" and "All Things
Considered" before covering NPR's media beat. She helped re-launch the
WNYC-produced NPR radio program "On The Media" in 2001, where she serves
as host and managing editor.

Guest-curator Irene Hofmann is Executive Director of the Contemporary
Museum in Baltimore. Recent exhibitions include "Cell Phone: Art and the
Mobile Phone" and "St. Cecilia," a solo exhibition of works by Joseph
Grigely. Hofmann previously served as Curator of Contemporary Art at the
Orange County Museum of Art, where she co-curated the 2002 and 2004
California Biennials and the photography and video exhibition "Girls'
Night Out." She has organized exhibitions and projects with artists such
as Kutlug Ataman, Mark Dion, Jason Dodge, Fabrice Gygi, Iigo
Manglano-Ovalle, and Marjetica Potrc.

Brooklyn native Gregory Green has created controversial work addressing
the evolution of various strategies for empowerment, which consider the
use of violent and non-violent measures as vehicles for social or
political change. Green is perhaps best known for his sculptures that are
mechanically complete and potentially functional bombs or missiles, or
that provide instruction on how to make large quantities of LSD.

Angel Nevarez and Valarie Tevere, who co-founded neuroTransmitter in
2001, fuse a combination of media forms and sound performance; their work
re-articulates radio in multiple environments and contexts-public,
exhibition, over the airwaves-and considers new possibilities for the
broadcast spectrum as public space.

Siebren Versteeg creates computer-driven video installations that situate
the viewer in paradoxical realms where the real and the virtual seem to
interconnect. At once humorous and unsettling, his works feed real-time
online data culled from CNN, The Associated Press, and internet diaries
into video animations with digitally produced sound.

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