Zones of Emergency » 2008 » February http://www.zonesofemergency.net Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:58:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Alfredo Jaar with Kayvan Zainabadi of MIT Amnesty http://www.zonesofemergency.net/2008/02/24/alfredo-jaar-with-kayvan-zainabadi-of-mit-amnesty/ http://www.zonesofemergency.net/2008/02/24/alfredo-jaar-with-kayvan-zainabadi-of-mit-amnesty/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:04:26 +0000 amber http://www.zonesofemergency.net/2008/02/24/alfredo-jaar-with-kayvan-zainabadi-of-mit-amnesty/ It Is Difficult

Please join us tomorrow, Monday, February 25, 2008 at 7pm for a lecture and roundtable discussion in the Joan Jonas Performance Hall at the MIT Visual Arts Program located here. The Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar will present a selection of works, that focus on his practice in zones of emergency like Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship, and in Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide (1994 -2000). Kayvan Zainabadi, former president of Amnesty International at MIT, will speak about his experience at MIT working with Amnesty on crisis in Darfur.

]]> http://www.zonesofemergency.net/2008/02/24/alfredo-jaar-with-kayvan-zainabadi-of-mit-amnesty/feed/ Welcome to Zones of Emergency http://www.zonesofemergency.net/2008/02/23/hello-world/ http://www.zonesofemergency.net/2008/02/23/hello-world/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:30:55 +0000 amber http://www.zonesofemergency.net/?p=1 We are excited to announce Zones of Emergency, the Spring 2008 Monday Nights @ VAP Lecture Series, which brings together practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and fields to examine the scale and complexity of catastrophe and disaster scenarios through lectures and panel discussions. Lectures and panel discussions will range from the philosophical and cultural understandings of the emergency to practical “on the ground” operating organizations to current use of networked technology examining its own breakdown.

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