Lectures

The School of Art offers two lecture series: the School of Art Lecture Series and the Robert Lepper Distinguished Lecture Series in Creative Inquiry. Both play an important role in the educational mission of the School. Students are strongly encouraged to attend these events. In some courses, attendance at these lectures is required. The Carnegie Mellon School of Art Lecture Series is made possible by the Elizabeth (Thompson) and Thomas M. Cox, A’29, Distinguished Artists Fund, and Orville M. Winsand Lecture for Critical Studies in Art. All lectures are free and open to the public. Please note, dates and times are subject to change or cancellation. Carnegie Mellon makes every effort to provide accessible facilities and programs for individuals with disabilities. For accommodations, or to request a hardcopy brochure, email or call the School of Art at <a href="mailto:artscool@andrew.cmu.edu">artscool@andrew.cmu.edu</a>, 412-268-2409. <h1 style="color:#FF0000">SPRING 2010 LECTURE SERIES</h1> <hr> <img style="padding:4px" align="left" id="image1007" alt="Trevor Paglen"src="http://staff.art.cfa.cmu.edu/%7egoshinski/images/lectureseries/paglen_s10.jpg"> TREVOR PAGLEN THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 5PM, MCCONOMY AUDITORIUM Co-presented by the Contestational Cartographies Symposium (Jan. 28-30) organized by the <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/millergallery">Miller Gallery</a> and <a href="www.cmu.edu/studio">STUDIO for Creative Inquiry</a>, in connection with “Experimental Geography” on view at the Miller Gallery through January 31, 2010. TREVOR PAGLEN is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs the lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. Paglen is the author of three books: Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (co-authored with AC Thompson; Melville House, 2006), the first book to systematically describe the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program; I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Melville House, 2007), an examination of the visual culture of “black” military programs; and Blank Spots on a Map (Dutton/Penguin, 2009). In spring 2010, Aperture will publish a book of his visual work, which has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Wired, Newsweek, Modern Painters, Aperture, Artforum, and recently in Art Papers. During the Contestational Cartographies Symposium, Paglen will take the audience on a road trip through the world of hidden budgets, state secrets, covert military bases, and more – through a landscape that military and intelligence insiders call the “black world”. From “nonexistent” Air Force and CIA installations in the Nevada desert to secret prisons in Afghanistan to a collection of even more obscure “black sites” startlingly close to home, he will show how the black world’s internal contradictions give rise to a peculiar visual, aesthetic, and epistemological grammar with which to consider this contemporary moment. <hr><img style="padding:4px" align="left" alt="Kim Beck" id="image999" src="http://staff.art.cfa.cmu.edu/%7egoshinski/images/lectureseries/beck_s10.jpg"> KIM BECK TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 5PM, KRESGE THEATRE KIM BECK makes drawings, prints, paintings and installations that survey the peripheral spaces of architecture and landscape. Her work urges a reconsideration of the built environment – the peculiar street signs, gas station banners, overgrown weeded lots, and self-storage buildings — bringing the banal and everyday into focus. Beck has exhibited widely – at the Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. She is currently developing a project for the High Line in New York City. A recent participant in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, she has held other residencies at Yaddo, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Cité Internationale des Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and VCCA, and received awards and fellowships from ARS Electronica, the Pollock-Krasner, Thomas J. Watson and Heinz Foundations. Her artist’s book, A Field Guide to Weeds, was published through the Printed Matter Emerging Artist Publishing Program and is in its second edition. Beck received her BA from Brandeis University, MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently Associate Professor in the School of Art. <hr> <img style="padding:4px" align="left" alt="Paul Ramirez Jonas" id="image999" src="http://staff.art.cfa.cmu.edu/%7egoshinski/images/lectureseries/ramirez_s10.jpg"> PAUL RAMIREZ JONAS TUESDAY,FEBRUARY 23 5PM, KRESGE THEATRE PAUL RAMIREZ JONAS creates as he speaks. Considering himself merely a reader, he treats pre-exisiting texts (a diary, an old photograph, a footpath, etc…) as a score, where the act of “reading” can take the form of a performance, sculpture, photograph, or video. These are simply re-enactments, according to Ramirez Jonas, who believes he has more in common with the public than with the author of the original work. Inviting viewers to join him in reading, he acts as a contact point between artwork and its public. Jonas’ work has been exhbiited at Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam, Roger Bjorkholmen Galleri in Stockholm, Postmasters Gallery and Jack Tilton Gallery in New York, and included in numerous group shows such as: “The End” as Exit Art, New York; “Moving Pictures” at Real Art Ways, Connecticut; and “Always New Always Familiar” at IASPIS Gallery, Sweden. <hr> <img style="padding:4px" align="left" alt="Daniel Bozhkov" id="image999" src="http://staff.art.cfa.cmu.edu/%7egoshinski/images/lectureseries/bozhkov_s10.jpg"> DANIEL BOZHKOV TUESDAY, MARCH 2 5PM, MCCONOMY AUDITORIUM DANIEL BOZHKOV employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals across many fields, using different strategies to activate public space. He enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, and world-famous tourist-sites as an intruder/visitor who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems. Bozhkov is a recipient of a 2007 Chuck Close Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, and of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation, Art Matters, and Artslink. He has shown at: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; Arthouse at Jones Center in Austin, Texas; Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia; Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, Berlin, Germany; Ikon Gallery, Burmingham, UK; OK Centrum fur Gegenwart Kunst, Linz, Austria and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey. International exhibitions include the 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2007, 9th Istanbul Biennale in Turkey in 2005, the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia in 2005, and the 9th Baltic Triennale in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2005. Bozhkov was a 2009 artist-in-residence at the Queens Museum of Art, New York. He is a Lecturer at Columbia University and Yale University, and is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City. <hr> <img style="padding:4px" align="left" alt="Lee" id="Amy Franceschini" src="http://staff.art.cfa.cmu.edu/%7egoshinski/images/lectureseries/franceschini_s10.jpg"> AMY FRANCESCHINI TUESDAY, MARCH 16 5PM, RASHID AUDITORIUM Co-sponsored by the <a href="http://www.hcii.cmu.edu">CMU Human Computer Interaction Institute</a> . AMY FRANCESCHINI is an artist and educator who uses various media to create work that considers how humans create, interact with, and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit. Her work encourages new formats of exchange and production, many times in collaboration with other practitioners. These works often provide a playful entry point and tools for an audience to gain insight into a deeper field of inquiry – not only to imagine, but to participate in and initiate change in the places they live. Amy founded the artists’ collective and design studio, Futurefarmers, in 1995 and Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been in international exhibitions at ZKM, Whitney Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University, MFA from Stanford University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art + Architecture at University of San Francisco and visiting artist at California College of the Arts. She is the recipient of the Artadia, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship, Creative Capital and SFMOMA SECA Awards. <hr><img style="padding:4px" align="left" alt="David Familian" id="image999" src="http://staff.art.cfa.cmu.edu/%7egoshinski/images/lectureseries/familian_s10.jpg"> DAVID FAMILIAN TUESDAY, MARCH 23 5PM, MCCONOMY AUDITORIUM DAVID FAMILIAN has worked at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, a media arts space at U.C. Irvine, since 2005. As the Center’s Artistic Director, he oversees programs and directs artist projects. He also curates exhibitions, most recently “Computational Poetics,” “Live” and “Constant World: The Art of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy,” a large-scale installation project by Shieh Chen Huang, and “Nam June Paik: Video Alchemy.” The current exhibition at the Beall is “Emergence: Art and Artificial Life,” co-curated with Simon Penny. He is currently working on artists’ projects with Director of CMU’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Golan Levin, as well as artists Chico MacMurtrie and Gail Wight. Familian received his BFA in Photography from California Institute of the Arts in 1979, and an MA and MFA from UCLA in 1986. Although he began his career as a photographer, since 1990 new media has become integral to his own artwork and his curatorial practice. <hr><img style="padding:4px" align="left" alt="Janine Antoni" id="image999" src="http://staff.art.cfa.cmu.edu/%7egoshinski/images/lectureseries/antoni_s10.jpg"> JANINE ANTONI TUESDAY, APRIL 27 5PM, KRESGE THEATRE JANINE ANTONI was born in Freeport, Bahamas, and received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. In 1998, she won both a MacArthur Fellowship and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture Grant followed by a Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999. Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture, transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art. Her primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body, whether chiseling cubes of lard and chocolate with her teeth, or using brainwave signals recorded from her dreams as a pattern for weaving a blanket. Antoni has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad at venues including Luhring Augustine gallery in New York, The Wadsworth Athenaeum, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Reina Sofia in Madrid, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and The Aldrich Museum. Her work was included in the 1993 Venice Biennial, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, the 1995 Johannesburg Biennial, the 1997 Istanbul Biennial, the 2000 Kwangju Biennial in Korea, SITE Santa Fe in 2002 and at Prospect.1: A Biennial for New Orleans 2008. <hr> <h1 style="color:#FF0000">RELATED PROGRAMMING</h1> <img style="padding:4px" id="Cartographies" alt="Cartographies"src="http://staff.art.cfa.cmu.edu/%7egoshinski/images/lectureseries/contest_cartog2_s10.jpg"> <h3>CONTESTATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIES SYMPOSIUM JANUARY 28-30</h3> Organized by the CMU <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/millergallery">Miller Gallery</a> and <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/studio">STUDIO for Creative Inquiry,</a>, in connection with “Experimental Geography” on view at the Miller Gallery through January 31, 2010. Maps represent, maps reveal, maps entice, maps distort. They selectively omit, they unwittingly exaggerate, and they even make outright lies. Though maps strive to project authority and objectivity, they cannot help but embed the biases, blind-spots and idiosyncrasies of their human authors. As our lives are played out in increasingly networked realms, we have become carto-literate as never before; we read maps produced by governments and corporate interests, yes, but also collaboratively author maps online, inscribing new representations of ourselves and our priorities. Contestational Cartographies introduces the thoughts of leading “experimental geographers,” who employ mapping techniques in new modes of critical practice and cultural research, and in so doing, help us “read between the lines” of the world around us. Complete program details and presenter bios available on the Miller Gallery’s website. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 > BLANK SPOTS ON A MAP: LECTURE 5-6:30pm, McConomy Auditorium, CMU > INFORMATION MAPPING: DORKBOT 8-10PM, BRILLOBOX (upstairs), Lawrenceville dinner + drinks available FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 > EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY EXHIBITION TOUR 12pm, Miller Gallery, CMU > CLOSING RECEPTION 1-2pm, Miller Gallery, CMU > THE WORLD AS A MAP: LECTURE 5pm, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, CFA > SQUATTING THE HIGH GROUND: PANEL DISCUSSION 6pm, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, CFA SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 > MAKE A VIDEO MICROSCOPE FROM A HACKED WEBCAM: WORKSHOP 12-2pm, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, CFA > BASIC GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS AND NATURALISTS: WORKSHOP 3-5pm, Baker Hall #140F, CMU ARTIST-PRESENTERS > PABLO GARCIA: founder and principal of Pablo Garcia/POiNT, Pittsburgh, a multidisciplinary research and design studio dedicated to experiments in the spatial arts. > JESSICA MCPHERSON: plant ecologist, independent journalist, and activist. > LIZE MOGEL (BFA ‘92): interdisciplinary artist who works with the interstices between art and cultural geography, and she inserts and distributes cartographic projects into public space and in publications. > TREVOR PAGLEN: artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work blurs the disciplines of social science, contemporary art and investigative journalism. > RICHARD PELL (BFA ‘99 & CMU ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART): founding member of the Institute for Applied Autonomy, an art, engineering and tactical media collective. <hr> <img style="padding:4px" id="watson" alt="watson"src="http://staff.art.cfa.cmu.edu/%7egoshinski/images/lectureseries/watson_s10.jpg"> <h3>WATS:ON FESTIVAL MARCH 17-20, CARNEGIE MELLON COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS</h3> THE WATS:ON FESTIVAL, “Adventures in Virtuality,” will examine states of virtuality by bringing together artists and designers who work in both analog and digital modes. As an alternative to lectures, Wats:On invites both emerging and recognized artists to demonstrate and install their work as well as present workshops and discussions throughout the College of Fine Arts. Sponsored by The Jill Watson Family Foundation, the festival offers the campus community and general public a chance to engage with leading interdisciplinary artists. <hr> <h3><a href="/news-events-and-calendars/lectures/lecture-series-archive">Lecture Series Archive</a></h3>

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