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SEPTEMBER
Friday, September 7 - 12:00-1:20 PM
Baker Hall 154R
Center lunch meeting
Wednesday, September 12 - 12:00-1:00 PM
CFA 303
BYOBrain Brown Bag Series: Omer Akin. Can Architects Write? (more info...)
OCTOBER
Tuesday, October 2 - 4:30 PM
Hunt Library-Fine and Rare Book Room, 4th Floor
CAS Research Forum: Hilary Robinson. Reading Art, Reading Irigaray (more info...)
Reception to follow.
Thursday, October 4 - 12:00-1:20 PM
Baker Hall 154R
Center lunch meeting
Friday, October 5 - 6:00 PM
College of Fine Arts, Kresge Recital Hall
Balafon West African Dance & Drumming Ensemble (more info...)
Co-sponsored by the School of Music
Wednesday, October 24 - 12:00-1:00 PM
CFA 303
BYOBrain Brown Bag Series: Andrew Johnson. PED.Rio (more info...)
October 25-28 - Homecoming Weekend
Friday, October 26 - 12:30 PM
CAS Art Crawl (meet in Hoch Commons, University Center 2nd floor)
Reception to follow.
NOVEMBER
Friday, November 2 - 12:00-1:20 PM
Baker Hall 154R
Center lunch meeting
Tuesday, November 13 - 4:30 PM
College of Fine Arts-Alumni Concert Hall
CAS Research Forum: Riccardo Schulz, Recording Master Engineer.
Diapason d'Or Award-winning recorded performance of George Crumb's Black Angels; and Makrokosmos III (more info)
Reception to follow.
Wednesday, November 14 - 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: CFA 303
BYOBrain Brown Bag Series: Beryl Schlossman. Art, History, and Images of the Feminine in Baudelaire's Paris (more info)
DECEMBER
Thursday, December 6 - 12:00-1:20 PM
Baker Hall 154R
Center lunch meeting
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BYOBrain Brown Bag Series:
Omer Akin, Professor of Architecture
Can Architects Write?
Architectural education is significantly influenced by writings of
name architects featured in course syllabi, trade journals, and public
lectures. The most influential examples of these also reveal troubling
weaknesses. These writings, affectionately known as archibabble, are
often full of unhelpful pontification, insoluble rhetorical riddle,
and plain old bad English. Thus, these extremely talented name architects
end up misleading their enthusiastic followers, including students
and beginning professionals, who are placed in the unenviable position
of choosing between hero worship and reason. This project is aimed
at judging the value of several key architects’ writings through
syntax and content analysis. Findings will be included in a public
lecture entitled “I am not Rem Koolhaas.”
Andrew Johnson, Associate Professor of Art
PED.Rio
Andrew Johnson will share images of PED.Rio, the sixth incarnation of interactive, community-responsive projects developed by PED, a collective founded by Johnson with artists Millie Chen and Paul Vanouse in 2001. Invited to participate in FILE-Rio 2007, the Electronic Language Festival in Rio de Janeiro, they also lectured on the creative process at the accompanying symposium. The project was based at the Telemar Cultural Center and included in the exhibition catalogue.
PED.Rio used tandem bicycles in pedal-activated guided tours that engaged riders in the historical, material and cultural connections beween the two hemispheres of North and South America.
Beryl Schlossman, Professor of French
Art, History, and Images of the Feminine in Baudelaire's Paris
"Art, History, and Images of the Feminine in Baudelaire's Paris" provides a central theoretical focus for a major application of comparative and historical techniques for the study of European literature, art, and culture. Schlossman's goal is to enhance the understanding of early French modernism through an interdisciplinary approach to Baudelaire's use of visual images in his literary art. Her project explores the relationship between Baudelaire's works and the fine arts, and Baudelaire's impact on modernism. It examines the influence of French literature and culture on theory in light of Walter Benjamin's theoretical treatment of Baudelaire and Paris during the Second Empire. She will discuss her recent research trip to Paris.
CAS Research Forum:
Hilary Robinson, Stanley & Marcia Gumberg Dean, College of Fine Arts
Reading Art, Reading Irigaray
Feminist theorist Luce Irigaray’s influential work in philosophy, gender, linguistics and psychoanalysis is now well established and widely discussed.
Taught and read across a broad range of disciplines, the implications of this challenging body of work for art itself is as yet only implied, and rarely elucidated. In this much-needed book, Hilary Robinson brings it to a wider audience through a clear exploration of her central ideas and arguments. Crucially, it asks, if language is gendered, as Irigaray believes, and if art is a language, what are the ramifications for the visual “languages” employed by women? How do women artists work and express themselves through this work? Drawing out the implications of such issues as “the speculum”, “mucous”, masquerade, mimicry and the maternal in relation to the “language” of art, the book employs case-studies of well-known works by women artists including Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, Bridget Riley and Jenny Saville.
Elaine A. King, Professor of Art History, Theory and Museum Studies, College of Fine Arts
Ethics and the Visual Arts
Join the Center for the Arts in Society for a discussion of Elaine A. King's newly published anthology, co-edited with Gail Levin, Ethics and the Visual Arts.
New technologies not only have the potential to be consciousness transforming, but also they can function to diminish the critical and analytical abilities of the viewer and user. Ultimately, the direction of the future will depend upon our shared and collaborative efforts to address the ethical dilemmas posed by technology in its many guises. This discussion will address a contextual orientation to Martin Heidegger's ideas about technology. Probably the most famous analysis of technology and society—or rather the technological attitude that gives rise to artifacts—is Martin Heidegger's (1977) phenomenological essay "The Question Concerning Technology." It will examine the relationship of ethics and new media and how to consider the actions of producers / creators and the consequences of certain acts on a greater social community. Is there a way to connect actions and consequences? Is new media technology altering our sense of social responsibility?
Riccardo Schulz, Associate Teaching Professor of Recording Technology, School of Music
Diapason d'Or Award-winning recorded performance of George Crumb's Black Angels; and Makrokosmos III
Join the Center for the Arts in Society for a recorded performance of American composer George Crumb's famous Black Angels and Makrokosmos III, compositions for two pianos and percussion.
The recording, on the Mode record label, is conducted by Juan Pablo Izquierdo and features Cuarteto Latinoamericano pianists Luz Manriquez and Walter Morales, tenor Douglas Ahlstedt, and several students from Carnegie Mellon's percussion studio. Riccardo Schulz and Harold Walls collaborated extensively with Maestro Izquierdo in the editing and mastering of the recording.
This recently released recording won the coveted "Diapason d'Or" Award, the most important independent European record prize in classical music.
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