Rob Giampietro, Marco Roth, and Astra Taylor discuss generational coherence, generational self-consciousness, peer networks, and other themes related to the exhibition The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, on Sat, Jun 13, 2009, at 3:00 PM.
Do the definitions of “youth,” “emerging,” and other terms used in the contemporary art world translate to the worlds of graphic design, literary criticism, and independent filmmaking?
Rob Giampietro is a New York-based designer, writer, and teacher. He has written essays and criticism for BusinessWeek, Dot Dot Dot, Design Observer, and Emigre; worked as a designer at Winterhouse, Pentagram, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere; and from 2003 to 2008 he was co-founder and principal of the award-winning design studio Giampietro+Smith. He teaches at Parsons The New School for Design and at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the vice president of AIGA/NY.
Marco Roth is a New York-based editor and critic. He is a founding editor of n+1 magazine, where he currently serves as editor at large. His essays and reviews have appeared in n+1, The Nation, The Guardian, The New York Sun, and elsewhere, and a memoir was published in 2007 in Nextbook. He teaches literature and writing at The New School's Eugene Lang College.
Astra Taylor is a writer and documentarian. She was named one of the twenty-five New Faces to Watch in independent cinema by Filmmaker Magazine in 2006. She co-directed The Miracle Tree, a short documentary about infant malnutrition in Senegal, and directed Zizek! (2003). Her latest film is Examined Life (2008), in which she accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. She is the co-founder of Hidden Drive productions. -- www.newmuseum.org
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