Art

School of Visual Arts Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program – McKenzie Wark, Blue Ruin

Media theorist Wark is the author of The Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, and The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, and wrote two influential pieces on Occupy Wall Street. He will give the keynote address to the graduate student conference put together by our students, Critical Information: Mapping the Intersection of Art and Technology.

Wark was one of the many eminent speakers brought to students and put online for the world as part of SVA’s  MFA Art Criticism and Writing Program in New York City. His speech is republished with permission from the School’s program.