Intellectual Salon

The Salon is founded, organized, and moderated by Milena Popov - Nena. On this platform for a dialog between intellectuals from various disciplines and from around the globe, invited intellectuals gather to present their work, research, and discuss various current topics in a panel and discussion style setting. Some of the Salon presenters were: Roger Welch (video art pioneer, USA), Dr. Joseph Nechvatal (artist and author, France/USA), Nobuho Nagasawa (artist, professor and Graduate Program Director at Stony Brook University, USA/Japan), Dr. Prajakta Parvatikar (typographer, professor and Principal of Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art and Craft, India), Michael Rees (artist, professor and Director of the Center for New Art at William Patterson University, USA), Dr. Aviva Rahmani (artist and author, USA), Yo Ahn Han (artist and professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, South Korea/USA), Cyriaco Lopes (artist, professor and former Deputy Chair of Art and Music Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA/Brazil), Dr. Karsten Struhl (philosopher, author, and professor at the New School, USA), Dr. Leigh Smith (music software engineer and musician, Canada/USA/Australia), Shan Jayakumar (urban historian, architect, and professor at the New York Institute of Technology, USA), Stephen Pusey (artist, USA), Maja Alvanovic (pianist, composer, and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Novi Sad, Serbia), Qin Han (artist and professor at China Academy of Art and at Stony Brook University, USA/China), and Dr. Gregory Tague (author, professor and founder of The Evolutionary Studies Collaborative at St. Francis College, USA), Michael Lupo (pianist, musicologist, USA), Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Maar (filmmakers and founders of the Echo Park Film Center, USA), and Dr. Stephen Pekar (climatologist and professor at Queens College, USA). Below is the list of previous Intellectual Salons.

2024 Creating with Generative and Non-Generaqtive AI: Fashion, Art, Sustainability, online Intellectual Salon online, forthcoming January 2024, New York, USA

2021 Climate Data and Acoustic Ecologies of ‘Interesting Times’, online Intellectual Salon, December 10, New York, USA

2021 A Space in Between, online Intellectual Salon, April 30, New York, USA

2020 Art, Evolution, and Morality, online Intellectual Salon, November 8, New York, USA

Memory, Space, and Self, online Intellectual Salon, May 23, New York, USA

2019 Space and Memory, Intellectual Salon, May 19, New York, USA

2018 Biogenetics, Art, and Environment, Intellectual Salon, April 5, New York, USA

Crossroads: Himalayan Region in Focus, Intellectual Salon, February 21, New York, USA

2017 In the Name of Art and Science: Drawing an Ethical Line, Intellectual Salon, November 19, New York, USA

From Vita Passiva to Vita Activa, Intellectual Salon, January 28, New York, USA

2016 Drawn into Abstraction, Intellectual Salon, December 10, New York, USA

Sound, Nature, Embodiment, Intellectual Salon, April 16, New York, USA

2015 Sci-Art, Art-Sci, Or?, Intellectual Salon, December 13, New York, USA

Art, Nature, and Technology: Being Human and Non-Human in a Biopolitical Age,

Intellectual Salon, November 1, New York, USA

Paradise Lost: 6th Extinction, Intellectual Salon, March 8, New York, USA

2014 Semiotics Between Comedy and Tragedy, Play and Revolt, Intellectual Salon,

November 16 and 23, New York, USA

Encrypting out of Semi-Collective Techno-Subconscious, Intellectual Salon,

May 18, New York, USA

Scratching Out Tabula Plenus of the Cloud Feudalism, Intellectual Salon,

March 30, New York, USA

Acceleration into the Post-Human, Post Anthropocene, Intellectual Salon,

January 19, New York, USA

2013 The Participatory Condition, Intellectual Salon, November 30, New York, USA

Visitor, Artist/Architect, or Both in an Exile, Intellectual Salon, June 5, New

York, USA

Spatial Practices, Intellectual Salon, April 15, New York, USA

Time of the Anthropocene, Intellectual Salon, January 30, New York, USA

2012 Art and Technology, Intellectual Salon, May 25, New York, USA

Can Art Save the World?, Intellectual Salon, March 9, New York, USA