LAUREL PTAK



Associate Curator at Tensta Konsthall
Part-Time Faculty at New School
Fellow at Eyebeam

laurelptak (at) gmail (dot) com


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UPCOMING

17 May——speaking at The People's Panel at
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, NYC

24-26 May——presentation on digital labor at
Visions of The Now, Stockholm

7-9 June——talking on a panel about debt at
Left Forum, NYC

Summer——Undoing Property? book co-edited
by Marysia Lewandowska and Laurel Ptak
published by Sternberg Press
‘Sad, Depressed, People’ is a book by artist David Horvitz that explores a strange set of found images depicting despair within stock photography collections. The book was published in July by Jeff Khonsary’s new publishing project, New Documents. My contribution is a brief introduction that reflects on stock photography as an exceptionally post-Fordist mode of representation. I also collaborated with Sean Dockray, David Horvitz, Michael Mandiberg, Eric Nylund and Paul Pieroni on a collectively written glossary that defines everything from “Intellectual Property” to “Commodity Form” to “Suicide”.

‘Sad, Depressed, People’ is a book by artist David Horvitz that explores a strange set of found images depicting despair within stock photography collections. The book was published in July by Jeff Khonsary’s new publishing project, New Documents. My contribution is a brief introduction that reflects on stock photography as an exceptionally post-Fordist mode of representation. I also collaborated with Sean Dockray, David Horvitz, Michael Mandiberg, Eric Nylund and Paul Pieroni on a collectively written glossary that defines everything from “Intellectual Property” to “Commodity Form” to “Suicide”.