Laurel Ptak
Laurel Ptak is an artist, curator and educator based in New York City. A multidisciplinary figure inside the field of culture, she has made contributions across disciplines of photography,[1] new media,[2] social practice art,[3] curating[4] and technology.[5] She was named one of 100 top Leading Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine in 2014.[6] She is currently a professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at The New School.[7]
Her work often focuses on the social effects of technology and some of her recent projects have taken up topics including feminism,[8] hacking,[9] and social media.[10] She is co-editor of the book Undoing Property? with artist Marysia Lewandowska. Its essays, interviews and artistic projects explore themes of immaterial labor, political economy and the commons and was published by Sternberg Press in 2013.[11] Ptak's best known project, Wages For Facebook,[12] draws upon ideas from the 1970s international Wages for housework feminist campaign to think through contemporary relationships of capitalism, class and affective labor inside social media.[13] When it launched as a website it immediately drew over 20,000 views and was rapidly and internationally debated via social media and the press, setting off a public conversation about worker’s rights and the very nature of labor, as well as the politics of its refusal, in the digital age.[14]
Her work has been recognized with a research fellowship at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center; critical writing fellowship at Recess; travel and research grant from Foundation for Arts Initiatives; nomination for Independent Curators International’s Gerrit Lansing Independent Vision Curatorial Award and travel fellowship from Fundación Cisneros. She has been invited to lecture at numerous arts institutions internationally including Transmediale (Berlin),[15] SALT (institution) (Istanbul),[16] The Vera List Center for Art and Politics (New York),[17] The Showroom (London),[18] New Museum (New York),[19] Casco—Office for Art, Design, Theory (Utrecht),[20] The Photographers' Gallery (London),[21] Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco)[22] and many others.
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