Overview

Lauren Cornell will present a talk discussing recent research. She is the lead curator of the Museum As Hub at the New Museum, a new model/hub for curatorial practice and institutional collaboration, for which she will also be gathering research material during her visit to Australia.

Cornell is also Curator, 2015 Triennial, Digital Projects, New Museum. From 2005-2012, she served as Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator at the New Museum.

In this role, she oversaw all of Rhizome’s programs, which support art engaged with new technologies, and curated multiple exhibitions, including Free, 2010 and The Generational, 2009 (with Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni). She founded and oversaw a program of performances and screenings, entitled the New Silent Series, as well as the Seven on Seven conference. From 2002-2004, she served as Executive Director of Ocularis, a nonprofit dedicated to avant-garde film, experimental video and performance. She is currently on Faculty at Bard Center for Curatorial Studies.

Lauren Cornell has been brought to Australia in partnership with Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, assisted by the International Visitors Program, an initiative of the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts and funding and advisory body.