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DESCRIPTION:Julia Weist is the only licensed private investigator in New Yo
 rk whose work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. The New Yo
 rk Department of State recently determined that her visual art practice is
  investigative enough that it is legally equivalent to the skills used by 
 fire marshals and corporate fraud analysts. In this interactive lecture\, 
 Weist and her collaborator Shannon Mattern will explore the limits of crea
 tive research and the evidentiary potential of art.Julia Weist is a visual
  artist who explores how the process of record keeping reveals crucial soc
 ial truths around shared systems of knowledge and power. Her work is in th
 e permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art\, Guggenheim Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Art Institute of Chicago\, 
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Jewish Museum\, and other collections. 
 In 2022\, Weist had a solo exhibition at Rachel Uffner Gallery and debuted
  her latest public artwork\, Campaign\, in Times Square.Shannon Mattern is
  the Penn Presidential Professor of Media Studies and Art History at the U
 niversity of Pennsylvania. Her writing and teaching focus on media archite
 ctures and infrastructures. She has written books about libraries\, maps\,
  and urban intelligence\, and she contributes a column about urban data an
 d mediated spaces to Places Journal.Additional CreditsAlexander Provan as 
 the witnessAlexander Provan is the editor of Triple Canopy. His writing ha
 s appeared in the Nation\, n+1\, Bookforum\, Art in America\, Artforum\, F
 rieze\, and in several exhibition catalogues. His work has been presented 
 at the Istanbul Biennial\, Museum Tinguely (Basel)\, Bienal de Cuenca (Ecu
 ador)\, New Museum (New York)\, Kunsthall Oslo\, and Hessel Museum of Art 
 (Annandale-on-Hudson\, New York)\, among other venues. He lives in New Yor
 k City.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Can Art Be Evidence?
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