Aerial Arts: Opening Reception

AERIAL ARTS: DEFENSE DISCOURSES, CARTOGRAPHIC CRITIQUES Join us for the opening reception of Aerial Arts: Defense Discourses, Cartographic Critiques, a new exhibition now on display at Studio-X NYC. With the advent of Google Maps and mobile geo-location, most genealogies of our current intimate and often aerial embrace of cartography begin with Apollo 8 and the Whole Earth Catalog of the late 1960s. This exhibition of new work by designer Meg Studer explores the era's wider artistic appropriations, tracing shared cartographic forms back further in time, to the Air-Age media campaigns of World War II and the Cold War, when polar maps and oblique 'over-views' cast the world as a closed, continuous, and shrinking sphere, emphasizing ‘flight-line’ proximity and U.S. vulnerability to German and, later, Soviet aerial attack. Oscillating from 1941 to 1967-69, the show uses infographic boards, period reprints, and mid-century objects to draw out the links between Air-Age maps, defense campaigns, and artistic critique. Meg Studer will provide a brief introduction to the exhibition during the reception; wine and snacks will be served. Free and open to the public; no RSVP necessary. The exhibit itself is free, and is open to the public between 1 and 6pm, Monday through Friday, from October 11 through 25, as well as during a series of accompanying public events exploring the 'aerial' in art, architecture, and urbanism. http://events.gsapp.org/event/aerial-arts-opening-reception