Speakers

• Annette Yoshiko Reed

  Annette Yoshiko Reed is an Associate Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Program in Religious Studies at New York University. Her research spans Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity. Publications include Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity (Cambridge 2005), Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions (ed. with R. Boustan; Cambridge 2004), The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ed. with A.H. Becker; Mohr Siebeck 2003; Fortress 2007), and Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire (ed. with N. Dohrmann; UPenn Press, 2013). She is currently working on two monographs: one on the origins of Jewish angelology and demonology, and the other on the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and the history of “Jewish-Christianity.”

• Mustafa Ali Faruki

  Mustafa Ali Faruki is the founding partner and creative director of theLab-lab, a Brooklyn-based architecture practice that is dedicated to completely reinventing the outputs of architectural design. He was the winner of The Architectural League of New York’s 2017 League Prize for his Intake Facility proposal. For a site on Governors Island, Faruki designed a complex for “an anonymous client” intended to process extraterrestrial settlers (or angels) migrated to New York City from heaven. He created elaborate plans for various “Decelestialization” zones, in which his clients could assimilate to life on earth. TheLab-lab for architecture’s work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island, and at the Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale in Norway, as well as at The Queens Museum and Hatton Gallery in Newcastle, UK. Mustafa is also the 2018-2019 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow, University at Buffalo School of Architecture.

• Jacolby Satterwhite

  Jacolby Satterwhite is a visual artist whose work weaves together video, 3D animation, printmaking, performance, and dance. Drawing upon the fantastic environments of the video games he played as a child, he incorporates personal ephemera and the drawings of his late schizophrenic mother to fashion his own Bosch-ian dreamscape. His recent developments into 3D animation are a culmination of his background in performance, dance, and more specifically voguing, in conjunction with his training as a painter and his religious upbringing in a home brimming with black magic. His virtual worlds act as entry ways into demonic (and angelic) post-human universes. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is in the public collections at Studio Museum in Harlem, Seattle Art Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

• Calder Zwicky

  Calder Zwicky is an Assistant Director in the Education Department at the Museum of Modern Art, overseeing Teen and Community Partnerships. Over the last decade he has been working to create programming for a wide-range of underserved and historically-overlooked audiences including incarcerated youth, post-incarcerated adults, HIV/AIDS service organizations, and homelessness initiatives, among others. He also oversees MoMA’s free programming for teens, including the long-running In the Making workshops and the MoMA + MoMA PS1 Cross-Museum Collective. In addition to his own studio practice, he has been involved with a variety of museums including the Walker Art Center, the Queens Museum, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts.