Art and Psyche in NYC July 2012

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Dear Colleagues: I thought the CAT community would be interested in this conference coming up in NYC. Go to the link for information on schedule and presenters: http://www.cvent.com/events/art-and-psyche-in-the-city-conference/custom-18-26c0ef5efaa349c78b7e24514805b743.aspxART AND PSYCHE IN THE CITYTHE OPENING DAY AND EVENING10:00 AM, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2012KIMMEL CENTER AT NYU566 LAGUARDIA PLACE AND WASHINGTON SQUARE SOUTHNEW YORK CITY The Art and Psyche in

the City program, like the creative process and the city itself, weaves a fabric of singular, social, and inspirational skeins. The presentations of the first day and evening celebrate how the city, a human creation and conceit, evokes and results in the creative process of photographic images, music, poetry, film, and the resonant reflections of artists inspiring other artists. When it became a key trading port for sea-faring Europeans,

Manahatta, “island of many hills†was called "the Island at the Center of the World." The conference program will open Thursday morning with Islands, the photographer Deborah O'Grady's imagistic essay on the city's 36 named and its many un-named islands,"places of beauty, solitude and history, with character and personality, of protection and exile, lush and desert, populous or barren, for escape or confinement." Her images are accompanied with a musique concrete score created from New York island sounds by composer Carl . PLENARIES Then composer , originally from the island of Cuba, will

speak of his creative process and song "City of Orgies, Walks and Joys!†inspired by lines from Walt Whitman and commissioned by the Five Boroughs Music Festival. He focuses on the poem's imagery, its musicalization, and the notion that it is the eye contact between strangers which best expresses hybrid, heterogeneous, and ever emergent urban creation.The morning program ends with two Sparks, Inner and Outer World of Subway Dreams and Watery Reflections, by Judy and Ron Hartley, and Sub-way Art by Inez ez. These will launch us onto the chosen afternoon Paths and Clusters to explore the art treasures of the city.PATHS and CLUSTERSParticipants then set off on their chosen Paths in a 21st century city with the arts of the ages. Special tours at the chosen destinations begin at 2 pm, to be followed by exploring neighborhood Clusters of galleries and historical sites. Please consult the Paths and Clusters descriptions. Further direction and information will be available at the conference.KEYNOTE EVENING PROGRAM After the paths and clusters, at 8 pm, we will gather again at the Kimmel Center Eisner-Lubin Auditorium for the outstanding

public program and conference keynote. Composer Sosin will introduce his theme, the Art of Imagining the Sound within the Silence, and present his score for the 1921 American film classic, MANHATTA, for which visual artists Strand and Sheeler roamed Manhattan with cameras to create a masterpiece of architectural film. Although there are written excerpts of Walt Whitman texts, pure emotion,

symbolism, and sound activate the imagination rather than verbal function. The evening keynote address, given by Mark Doty, will celebrate the word. Mark Doty is the only American poet to have won Great Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize, a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, whose Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the 2008 National Book Award. His poetry and process address our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire's

transformative power, the dignity of the powerless, the instructive presence of animals, the crises and possibilities of our times, and art's ability to give shape to human live. For Art and Psyche in the City, Mark Doty will speak about "LOVED WELL THOSE CITIES: Walt Whitman's Manhattan, and Ours".The city inspired Walt Whitman, who is both the present and absent artist of the conference’s first day and evening. The artistry it inspires will be the topic of the concluding roundtable discussion with Mark Doty, Deborah O'Grady, , and Sosin. We look forward to welcoming you to the Art and Psyche in the City Conference, Thursday July 19 – Sunday, July 22, 2012. -- Randolph, ATR-BC, LCAT 191 North Midland Avenue #1FNyack, NY 10960 chrisrand7@...