Lectures + Podcasts

Netpublics: Culture Discussion @ Studio-X

Michael Kubo, Michael Meredith, Will Prince, Enrique Ramirez, David Reinfurt, and Mimi Zeiger address culture, media, and architecture in network culture with Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis in the first of a series of talks at Columbia University's Studio-X research facility. Originally held on 9 February 2010. This discussion is also available as a podcast on iTunes and on Ustream.

The pamphlet that the Netlab created for the talk, featuring text by Michael Kubo and Rory Hyde on architectural publications is available for download here.

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Complexity and Contradiction in Infrastructure

Netlab director Kazys Varnelis spoke on Reyner Banham's Los Angeles. The Architecture of Four Ecologies, non-plan, and infrastructure in the Ph.D. Lectures in Planning Series at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

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Properties of Networked Publics

Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis speaking on network culture, intellectual property, and subjectivity at Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies. 

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The Infrastructural City @ IUAV

Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis delivered the keynote address on the infrastructural city at the conference Pipes and Sponges: Reconceiving Mobility Infrastructure at the University Iuav in Venice, Italy.

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On Infrastructure and Recovery

Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis shares his evolving thoughts on the role of infrastructure and infrastructural investment in the ongoing American recovery effort with M.Arch student Wayne Congar. The interview was conducted on September 18, 2009 by 3rd year M. Arch student Wayne Congar in Avery Hall.

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Network Culture

Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis spoke on Network Culture: A Changing Context for Design at the Design Criticism Program in the School for Visual Arts in New York.  

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Blogitecture

Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis speaking on blogitecture in a discussion with Javier Arbona and MIT Architecture Associate Dean Mark Jarzombek at MIT's HTC Forum. 

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