MUSIC & MEDIA DIALOGUES
Beginning September 23, The Museum of Modern Art presents three evenings of dialogue with leading music and media innovators.
Laurie Anderson, Michel Gondry and Brian Eno will discuss how the fields of music and moving image production overlap. According to the MoMA press release: “The common element uniting these artists is their musical backgrounds — Anderson as a solo performer, Gondry as a drummer and director of music videos, Eno as a pioneer of electronic music — allied with their subsequent careers in the visual and moving-image arts. While cross-pollination between other artistic media, such as painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, has long been acknowledged and examined, Anderson, Gondry and Eno’s careers have utilized elements from their musical backgrounds and works to create hybrid projects — installations, feature films, performance pieces — that have developed the frontiers of media art.”
Anderson will be interviewed by writer/actor Wallace Shawn on September 23 at 7:00 p.m.; Gondry by journalist and film programmer Ed Halter, on September 30 at 7:00 p.m.; and Eno by director Todd Haynes on October 7 at 7:00 p.m.
The series will take place at CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium, 365 Fifth Ave. at 34th St. Tickets are $15, $10 for MoMA members; $8 for students with ID. Tickets can purchased at the MoMAVistor Center at the MoMA Design Store, 44 W. 53rd St. and at the CUNY Graduate Center box office.
Commemorating its 75th anniversary, The Museum of Modern Art will re-open its newly renovated building on West 53rd Street on November 20, 2004.
