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DESCRIPTION:D. Graham Burnett and Sal Randolph will speak at the Seminar in
  Cultural History on Wednesday\, January 25\, 2012. Their talk is entitled
  “The Order of the Third Bird: Documents and Considerations.”Some degree o
 f confusion exists concerning the history and activities of the body known
  as “The Order of the Third Bird”—which would seem\, at least in its moder
 n incarnation\, to be a clubbish and somewhat arcane association of histri
 onic aesthetes. The manifest form of the Order’s current work takes the sh
 ape of ritual performances of collective “attention” to works of art. To w
 hat end? A fragment of their own writings offers the following:'The number
  of accumulated works of art in the world now exceeds the number of person
 s on the planet. If each of these human artifacts can be understood as a r
 eified request for attention\, the nature and scale of the problem immedia
 tely becomes apparent. The Order of the Third Bird—an association of like-
 minded individuals (together with an intimate penumbra of splitters and ap
 ostates) who work at the convergence of performance and aesthetic theory—h
 ave devoted themselves to this overwhelming cause.'Making use of available
  documentation\, Burnett and Randolph will attempt a brief synopsis of the
  Order’s principles and preoccupations. But the focus of the evening will 
 be the ongoing efforts to sift an emerging archive that bears on the genea
 logy of the Order’s practices. Is it possible to trace the history of the 
 Order\, and to make sense of its sublated entanglement with crucial moment
 s in the philosophy of aesthetics? Surprising new sources are continuously
  coming to light\, and require both public airing and critical scrutiny.D.
  Graham Burnett is Professor of History at Princeton University and Editor
  of Cabinet Magazine\, based in Brooklyn\, NY. He graduated Summa Cum Laud
 e with an A.B. in History from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in History
  and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University. A historian of scien
 ce\, Dr. Burnett has published extensively on the intersection of science\
 , philosophy\, and history. His 2007 book\, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteen
 th-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged 
 the Order of Nature (Princeton University Press\, 2007)\, was the winner o
 f both the 2007 Hermalyn Prize in Urban History and the 2008 New York City
  Book Award. His latest book\, Save the Whales? Science\, Politics\, and C
 onservation in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press)\, has j
 ust been published. Recently\, Dr. Burnett has been interested in the conn
 ection between science and the visual arts\, co-curating a variety of exhi
 bitions in 2010\, including The Slice: Cutting to See at The Architectural
  Association in London and An Ordinal of Alchemy at The Cabinet Space in B
 rooklyn.Sal Randolph is an artist whose work engages with social interacti
 ons\, gift economies\, public spaces and publishing. She received her B.A 
 from Harvard/Radcliffe in Biological Anthropology and has studied at the M
 ilton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Her work has appe
 ared in Cabinet\, Glowlab\, Pace Digital Gallery\, Mass MOCA\, Neue Gesell
 schaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) in Berlin\, and BüroFriedrich Gallery in 
 Berlin. Additionally\, she has taught and lectured as a visiting artist at
  several institutions\, including the Massachusetts College of Art and the
  Rhode Island School of Design.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Order of the Third Bird
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