The CAS Research Forum showcases recent scholarship and commissioned art/musical works of Center members. Forum events are free and open to the public.
2007-08 SCHEDULE
Tuesday, October 2 - 4:30 PM
Hunt Library-Fine and Rare Book Room, 4th Floor
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.
Reception to follow.
Tuesday, November 13 - 4:30 PM
College of Fine Arts-Alumni Concert Hall
Riccardo Schulz, Associate Teaching Professor of Recording Technology, School 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.
Reception to follow.
Wednesday, February 6 - 4:30 PM Hunt Library-Fine and Rare Book Room, 4th Floor
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?
