Civic Arts Series: Lauren Boyle, Thumbs Type and Swipe

Published: April 11, 2019, midnight

b'Introduction by Amy Rosenblum Mart\\xedn, Independent Curator and Educator, Guggenheim\\n\\nDIS (est. 2010) is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro. Its cultural interventions are manifest across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects.\\n\\nIn 2018 the collective transitioned platforms from an online magazine, dismagazine.com, to a video streaming edutainment platform, dis.art, narrowing in on the future of education and entertainment.\\n\\nDIS Magazine (2010-2017); DISimages (2013), DISown (2014), Curators of the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, The Present in Drag (2016); DIS.art (2018\\u2013); Exhibited and organized shows at the de Young Museum, San Francisco; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Baltimore Museum of Art; and Project Native Informant, London. DIS has also been included in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum all in New York; and Mus\\xe9e d\\u2019Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; ICA Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, among others.\\n\\nThe material presented by DIS today is the result of a change in attitude towards the present and aims to meet the demands of contemporary social, political, and economic complexity at eye level.\\n\\nIntroducer Amy Rosenblum Mart\\xedn is a bilingual (English/Spanish) curator of contemporary art, committed to equity and community engagement. Formerly a staff curator at the P\\xe9rez Art Museum Miami (when it was MAM) and The Bronx Museum, she has also organized exhibitions, written and/or lectured independently for la Colecci\\xf3n Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, MoMA, The Metropolitan, MACBA in Barcelona, the Reina Sof\\xeda, and Kunsthaus Bregenz as well as the Sugar Hill Children\\u2019s Museum. Her 20 years of interdepartmental museum work include 10 years at the Guggenheim. Rosenblum Mart\\xedn\\u2019s expertise is in Latin America, focusing on transhistorical connections among Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, S\\xe3o Paulo, Caracas, Havana, Miami, and New York.\\n\\nShe has worked with Janine Antoni, Lothar Baumgarten, Guy Ben-Ner, Janet Cardiff, Elo\\xedsa Cartonera, Consuelo Casta\\xf1eda, Lygia Clark, Willie Cole, Jeannette Ehlers, Teresita Fern\\xe1ndez, Naomi Fisher, Marlon Griffith, Lucio Fontana, Dara Friedman, Luis Gispert, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Adler Guerrier, Ann Hamilton, Quisqueya Henr\\xedquez, Leslie Hewitt, Nadia Huggins, Deborah Jack, Seydou Keita, Gyula Kosice, Matthieu Laurette, Miguel Luciano, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, Antoni Miralda, Marisa Mor\\xe1n Jahn, Glexis Novoa, H\\xe9lio Oiticica, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Manuel Pi\\xf1a, Miguel Angel R\\xedos, Bert Rodriguez, Marco Roso, Nancy Rubins, George S\\xe1nchez-Calder\\xf3n, Beatriz Santiago Mu\\xf1oz, Tom\\xe1s Saraceno, Karin Schneider, Regina Silveira, Lorna Simpson, Valeska Soares, Javier Tellez, Joaqu\\xedn Torres Garc\\xeda, and Fred Wilson, among many other remarkable artists.'