Open Call for submissions: Dry Run: A Night of Student Performance Art. On Thursday, November 9th, 2023 from 6:00pm – 8:30pm in Pratt Institute’s Student Union, Dry Run is co-presented by Franklin Furnace and PerformVu.

October 17th, 7:00-8:00pm: Performance artist and author Anya Liftig and Founder of PPL (Panoply Performance Laboratory), Esther Marveta Neff, will discuss the role of different states of consciousness in Liftig’s recent performance art memoir, Holler Rat. The conversation will explore the psychology of the traditional memoir form as performance art and the role of association and dissociation in written language.

September 29, 2023, 5-6 pm ET. The Full Moon Exhumed Zoom honors 40 years of Billy X Curmano's 3-day burial act, Performance for the Dead. Original pallbearer, mourner, and gravedigger will participate, along with a reappearance by Curmano.

Join us to uncover the art history of some of the earliest instances of performance art and avant-garde art on the Internet, and engage in conversations with humanities professionals to better understand the genesis and evolution of these art forms. "Internet Firsts" aims to explore, compare, and contrast artists’ ideas and projects, past and the present followed by a Q&A session. This event emulates more than just a journey through time; it is an intergenerational crash course in the origins of online art, highlighting the pioneering days of the World Wide Web.

This event celebrates a new monograph by Jennifer Malvezzi and Flora Pitrolo which for the first time comprehensively chronicles their practice and sets it into today’s context, artist Roberto Taroni and the book’s authors show and discuss material from the Taroni-Cividin archive.

A virtual tour of the exhibition Dragging the archive: Re:Encounters with Franklin Furnace’s cyber beginnings by Elly Clarke, on view January 19, 2023 through April 6, 2023 onsite at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Library and online via Zoom

February 22, 2023, 7-8pm EST - Learn what constitutes a well-prepared grant application and ask questions about Franklin Furnace Fund programs from our staff. The session will be followed by a Q&A.

A virtual tour of the exhibition Dragging the archive: Re:Encounters with Franklin Furnace’s cyber beginnings by Elly Clarke, on view January 19, 2023 through April 6, 2023 onsite at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Library and online via Zoom

Halona Hilbertz’s 1998 “Pseudo Studio Walk” took place at the Manhattan loft of Pseudo.com, an early streaming content service. For 50 minutes, Hilbertz walked and ran back and forth between the camera and a far wall.

An in-person interactive workshop led by Pratt Institute Archivist Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez on finding meaning in the archive. Working with and around objects highlighted through the current Live at the Library exhibition Dragging the Archive, participants are invited to look beyond the content of an archive in order to focus on its structure, context, and significance.