January 19, 2006
Zbigniew Libera
Zbigniew Libera
A Penny Stamps Distinguished Visitor and Annual Copernicus Lecturer, Zbigniew Libera (b. 1959) is one of Poland's most recognized contemporary visual artists. He will be speaking on "How Artists are Tamed! Zbigniew Libera and the Polish Press 1980-2005."
In partnership with the Center for Russian and East European Studies.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 26, 2006
Ted Rall
A cutting-edge political cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate, Ted Rall is also a graphic novelist, an award-winning journalist, illustrator, columnist, and radio commentator.
In partnership with the Institute for Humanities.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 2, 2006
Split Britches
Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, with Deb Margolin, are the co-founders of Split Britches, a Lesbian Feminist Theatre Company that since 1981 has offered vaudevillian satirical gender-bending performances.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 9, 2006
Tyree Guyton
Through the Heidelberg Project and his other work, Guyton draws attention to the plight of Detroit's forgotten neighborhoods and spurs discussion and action.
Co-sponsored by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the School of Social Work.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 15, 2006
Holly Hughes
Holly Hughes is a performance artist and writer whose books, plays and performance pieces address questions of sexuality and identity with a trademark blend of humor, provocation and lyricism. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Art & Design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 16, 2006
Anna Schuleit
Anna Schuleit is a visual artist based in NYC, whose installations revolve around sites of trauma and isolation, particularly the ruins of institutional architecture, examining the site-specific aspects of memory.
In partnership with the Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies and the Department of Psychiatry & the Depression Center.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 9, 2006
Jay Allison
Jay Allison is an independent broadcast journalist whose work airs on NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, PRI's This American Life, ABC News' Nightline, and other national programs. He is now heard weekly on NPR as the curator and co-producer of This I Believe.
In partnership with the Knight Wallace Fellows Program.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 16, 2006
Matt Coolidge
Matthew Coolidge is the Founder and Director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in Los Angeles, a non-profit art/research organization that employs a multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to increase and diffuse knowledge about how the nationÕs lands are apportioned, utilized and perceived.
In partnership with the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the LSA Program in the Environment.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 23, 2006
Frozen Angels
Frozen Angels is less a science documentary than a startling glimpse into the future of the American Dream, where "perfect children" can simply be added to the shopping list in a consumer-minded culture. Frozen Angels is the second collaboration between filmmakers Frauke Sandig and Eric Black, who will be in attendance to present the film.
In partnership with the Medical School's Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the LSA Evolution Film Series, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 30, 2006
Orlan
French artist Orlan uses plastic surgery as her medium. Since 1990, she has undergone a series of choreographed surgical "performances". Her intention is not to become "beautiful" but rather to suggest that the "objective (beauty) is unattainable and the process horrifying."
In partnership with the Program in Comparative Literature and the Department of English Language & Literature.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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April 6, 2006
Yes Men
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno "dress up in suits and impersonate some of the biggest corporate criminals around."
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater and Drama.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 14, 2006
Margo Gomez
Everything I know about Comedy, Theater and Cooking
Called by the New York Times "a jolt of theatrical electricity," award winning writer/performer, legendary Latina and notorious lesbian Marga Gomez will perform highlights from her stand-up repertoire and two of her solo plays, and discuss her creative process. Gomez has been nominated for both The Drama Desk Award and The Outer Critics Circle Award, received the GLAAD award, and appeared on HBO, Comedy Central, and Showtime.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre & Drama and the Institute for Research on Women & Gender.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 21, 2006
Amy Goodman
War, Elections, and Independent Media
The host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, independent news program, Amy Goodman is also an investigative journalist who has reported from Qatar, East Timor, Nigeria, Mexico, Haiti and Cuba. Goodman is the co-author, with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of the New York Times best seller, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them.
Co-sponsored by the Knight-Wallace Fellows Program and the Institute for Research on Women & Gender.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 28, 2006
Nikki S. Lee
Parts and Projects
Korean artist Nikki S. Lee is internationally known for photographic self-portraits investigating personal and social identity. She has posed among various subcultures, assuming the appearance of punk rockers, yuppies, exotic dancers, lesbians, and skateboarders. Her latest undertaking is a feature-length documentary film about the artist Nikki S. Lee that blurs the lines between the staged and the spontaneous.
Co-sponsored by the Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Research on Women & Gender.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 5, 2006
Peter Chung
Visual Literacy and Experiencing Animation
Peter Chung has worked in the animation industry since 1981. He created MTV's animated series "Aeon Flux" and directed the pilot for the "Rugrats" cable series. Chung has also worked on "Alexander"; the Korean animated series "Little Hammer"; and was director of filmography for "Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury". Using examples from his animated films, he will discuss the need for visual literacy as a way to understand today's complex mass media landscape and non-traditional narrative forms.
Co-sponsored by Screen Arts & Cultures.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 19, 2006
Alicyn Warren
Sights, Sounds and Secrets
Alicyn Warren is a composer of electronic music whose pieces often include video images and text to focus on topics such as blindness, betrayal, and aging. Her works are performed and broadcast around the world. Warren is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, with a joint appointment in the School of Music (Performing Arts Technology) and the School of Art & Design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 26, 2006
Ellen Harvey
Context is Everything
Born in the United Kingdom, Ellen Harvey now lives and works in New York. Utilizing video, installation and painting, she examines the theoretical and social implications of art. Solo exhibitions include those at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Mullerdechiara Gallery in Berlin, and the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York. Harvey recently completed a MTA Arts for Transit commission for a 2,000 sq. ft. mosaic "Look Up, Not Down" for the Queens Plaza subway station. Her book, The New York Beautification Project, was published in 2005.
Co-sponsored by the Ann Arbor Art Center.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 2, 2006
Royal Shakespeare Company
Designing Shakespeare
Designing for the theatrical stage is a serious art form, as confirmed by the Royal Shakespeare Company of England's recent critically-acclaimed production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest". This presentation features Rupert Goold (Director), Giles Cadle (Stage Design), Paul Anderson (Lighting), Adam Cork (Composition and Sound), and Mary Johnson (Education) in a discussion of the creative design process, stage aesthetic, artistic collaboration, and contemporary theatrical design.
Presented in collaboration with the University Musical Society.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 9, 2006
Father Boyle
Tattoos on the Heart: Lessons From the Barrio
Father Boyle, Jesuit priest and founder of Jobs for a Future/Homeboy Industries, will share some of the strategies utilized to develop his employment referral center for at-risk youth and his economic development program. Father Boyle's career has been dedicated to working with gang-involved youth. He will share stories about his work, the young people he works with, and community as a response to youth violence.
Co-sponsored by the Shelter Association of Washtenaw County, the School of Social Work, and the Department of Sociology.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 16, 2006
Susie Brandt
Watertowers, Erratics and Stump Rugs
Susie Brandt discusses textiles and the wonder of cloth through her ongoing investigations into the relationship between textiles and the landscape - including material gathering, the cultivation of pattern, and camouflage as a phenomenon. Brandt's work has been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally and published in Sculpture Magazine, the Washington Post and the New Art Examiner.
Co-sponsored by the Ann Arbor Art Center.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 30, 2006
Chris Impey
The Art of Science
What are the limits of knowledge when it comes to something as grand as the universe? Chris Impey will explore the way we learn about the universe we live in, make parallels to art and music, and show that discovery is as much an art as a science. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Impey is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona, Academic Head of the nation's largest undergraduate majors program in astronomy, and Vice President of the American Astronomical Society. He is one of six people nationwide named Distinguished Teaching Scholar by the National Science Foundation.
Co-sponsored by the Astronomy Department.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 18, 2007
Anne Wilson
Liminal Networks
Anne Wilson's sculpture, drawings, videos, and installations evolve in that conceptual space where social and political ideas encounter the processes of handwork and industry. Her work has been shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Upcoming 2007 exhibitions include the Museum of Arts & Design in New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Wilson has received numerous awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a professor and chair of the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Co-sponsored by Ann Arbor Art Center and River Gallery.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 25, 2007
Janie Paul
Creating Place, Creating Resistance
Janie Paul is a painter who maintains a relationship between her studio practice and her work with inner city school children and incarcerated men, women and teenagers. In these difficult places, filled with the pressures of poverty and social injustice, Paul and her students work to co-create spaces of imagination and growth. Her background as a painter has informed this work, and in turn, the courage, resilience and inventiveness of the people in these sites of resistance have influenced her studio practice. Paul is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Art & Design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 1, 2007
Shrinking Cities
Making Art Public
On the day before the international exhibition Shrinking Cities opens at both MOCAD and Cranbrook, a panel of creative practitioners discuss art in Detroit and the Shrinking Cities project, moderated by Detroit artist and MOCAD curator, Mitch Cope. Shrinking Cities was initiated in 2002, when Germany's Federal Cultural Foundation, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, commissioned teams in Detroit (USA), Manchester/Liverpool (Britain), Ivanovo (Russia), and Halle/Leipzig (Germany) to investigate and document why and how these urban areas were shrinking in population and business. In the resulting exhibition, artists, architects, filmmakers, journalists, culture experts, and sociologists reveal and illuminate the changing realities of these cities, toward developing better approaches to contemporary urban issues.
Co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and The Ginsburg Center at U-M.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 8, 2007
2X4 Design
People & Pixels
2x4 is a multidisciplinary design firm founded in 1995 by Michael Rock, Susan Sellers, and Georgianna Stout. The studio's focus is on the dynamic visual display of unexpected content for art, design, architecture, and cultural clients. 2x4 works in print, film/video, web, and environment design on such projects as graphic design, wallpaper and film for the Prada New York Epicenter; environmental design for new Vitra showrooms; sets and costumes for Trisha Brown Dance Company; environmental design for a new building in downtown Tokyo with Tadao Ando; the editorial concept for a special issue of Wired magazine with AMO; and a new line of textiles for Knoll.
Co-sponsored by AIGA Detroit, the Professional Association for Design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 15, 2007
Peter Richards
Place: Engaging the Senses
Peter Richards believes that the concept of place — where we are from, where we live and where we have been — defines us as human beings. Richards, Senior Artist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, a museum of science, art and human perception, will discuss current museum projects focused on understanding place; how understanding of one's surroundings can be translated into broader perspectives; and how his own work reflects his interest in place and its influence on human behavior. One of Richards' most notable works is the Wave Organ, which employs wave action and tide changes to create musical sounds in a series of pipes that extend down into the Pacific ocean. He also assisted in the creation of a new artist community in Charlotte, North Carolina that supports creativity and provides residencies for up to 24 artists a year.
Co-sponsored by Program in the Environment, and School of Natural Resources and Environment.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 8, 2007
William Pope.L
Influence
William Pope.L is a public artist who challenges audiences to address America's relationship to difference, questioning the constructed nature of social hierarchies based on race. Pope. L has exhibited and performed across the world including his touring retrospective entitled eRacism and companion book, William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America. His most recent project The Black Factory, is at once a digital project, a traveling caravan, a social service, and a community based public art intervention. Pope L states that his presentation "will address how things influence one another."
Co-sponsored by the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture, History of Art, and the Future of Minority Studies at Michigan Workshop: How Do Identities Matter?
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 15, 2007
David Small
Big Thinking at the Small Design Firm
By taking advantage of the computer's ability to display dynamic, flexible, and adaptive typography and imagery, the Small Design Firm, headed by David Small, invents new ways for people to read, interact with, and assimilate information. In combining innovative visualization with architectural space and well-designed physical interfaces, the firm creates potentially limitless spaces. In his presentation, Small discusses the firm's history of innovation and focuses on the interplay between computer technology, dynamic typography and information design.
Co-sponsored by AIGA Detroit, the Professional Association for Design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 22, 2007
Ken Jacobs
Space/Time and Worries
For more than forty years, director, cinematographer, actor and master of the avante garde Ken Jacobs, has engaged in an aesthetic, social, and physiological critique of projected images. For Jacobs, cinema has become "a concentration on the computer screen, where what a friend called 'the age of cheap miracles' is taking image and sound to places noone could dream of when we were coming up in the nineteen-sixties. We're entering the undreamable, unless the misery we've caused in Iraq spreads here. Walking to Chinatown for a break, I see the streets are full of metal posts to interfere with suicide bombers. Wall Street has moved to New Jersey. I'm shaping a bright new cinema to hand over to posterity but wondering will it arrive?"
Co-sponsored by Screen Arts & Cultures and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 29, 2007
Franz John
Kunstkompatible Projekte
Franz John works with human and mechanical interfaces, using both new and old media to identify the barely noticeable and visualize it, making the unobservable visible through large scale installations which engage, variously, architecture, place, or geological phenomena. For instance Military Eyes, in which he transformed disused military bunkers surrounding the Golden Gate Bridge into huge walk-in Camera Obscuras. Another project, Salt Axis, stretches 55 miles overland, creating awareness of the subterranean salt deposits laid down by an evaporated ancient ocean in Muensterland, Germany. One of his recent projects, Turing Tables, was shown last year at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA to mark the centennial of the Great Earthquake of 1906. According to the artist, this installation examines online and live "the archaic feeling and consciousness that the earth is an organism, that it moves and that it can be understood as an organism in constant flux."
Co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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April 5, 2007
Liz Lerman
Dance Meets Genetics
Liz Lerman, founder and artistic director of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, recently completed a four-year collaboration between scientists and choreographers culminating in Ferocious Beauty: Genome, a multi media dance/theater work that explores the human implications of discoveries in genetic science. Created with geneticists from organizations including The Institute for Genomic Research, Wesleyan University, Stanford University, Princeton University and Howard University, Ferocious Beauty has toured from Connecticut to California, deepening dialogue between science and the arts. Lerman will be joined by two dancers who will perform excerpts from Ferocious Beauty: Genome.
Co-sponsored by Life Sciences and the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 13, 2007
Jeremy Deller
Those who control the past control the future.
Jeremy Deller has been described as 'part alchemist and part social–anthropologist'. Acting as producer, director, or curator of a broad range of projects including orchestrated events, films and publications, Deller draws attention to forms of culture on the fringes of the mainstream. Deller received the Turner Prize in 2004 for his installation, Memory Bucket, a documentary about Crawford, Texas the hometown of George W Bush and the siege in nearby Waco.
Supported by the UM Program in Creativity & Consciousness Studies, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 20, 2007
Ellen Lupton
Design Tantrum
Find out how design has become a democratic medium for doing, not just making. Ellen Lupton, designer, writer, curator, teacher, and blogger, has been creating discourse about graphic design for over twenty years. Her books include D.I.Y: Design It Yourself, and Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office. Director of Maryland Institute College of Art's graphic design MFA program, and a curator of contemporary design at New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Lupton recently received the AIGA Gold Medal, one of the highest graphic design honors.
Supported by UM Arts of Citizenship, UM Institute for Research on Women & Gender, the American Institute of Graphic Designers (AIGA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 27, 2007
Gijs Bakker, Droog Design
Your Response Ability
Established as a design collective in 1993 by Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers, Droog incorporates the work of an international cadre of contemporary designers working with low-cost industrial or recycled materials to create a broad assembly of international designs that are plain and practical. With more than 150 diverse objects whose only criteria is that they must be informed by cultural developments and by the designer's intuition, Droog advises its designers to act more as fine artists, developing concepts that make people think.
Supported by UM Ross School of Business, and the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA).
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 4, 2007
Carole Bilson
Design, Innovation and Leadership
Put your design skill to use and make an impact in whatever you do! Carole Bilson, vice-president for global design and usability at Pitney Bowes, discusses how "design thinking" is used for product innovations and general problem solving. Learn how an award-winning, passionate design and human factors department can create the future they want, both at the individual level as well as Company-wide.
Supported by UM Ross School of Business, and the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA).
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 18, 2007
Andy Kirshner
The Musical Image
Andy Kirshner's performance work is a dynamic synthesis of jazz improvisation, performance art, music composition, electronic multimedia, postmodern dance, and experimental theater. With wry humor, musical sophistication, and a deft theatricality, Kirshner's large-scale “opera” projects address themes that range from the existential to the political, the spiritual to the technological, the sublime to the purely ridiculous.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 25, 2007
Charles McGee
A Journey and Still Searching
For over 70 years, renowned Detroit-based artist Charles McGee has created works that have evolved from charcoal drawings and photography to avant-garde three-dimensional multimedia pieces. His themes chronicle the black experience and celebrate his lifelong love of nature. McGee says of his work, “The logic found in nature's system of opposites, which governs universal order, is the source from which I constantly borrow and rely on to construct my imagery. It is also within this broad organizational context that my life takes form and has meaning.” McGee is a founder of the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit.
Supported by UM Arts of Citizenship, the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, and the Chelsea River Gallery.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 1, 2007
Pat Oleszko
The Deportment of Corrections
Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself—and doesn't mind if you laugh. The body is Oleszko's armature for ideas. Utilizing elaborate costumes and props, she has created lithe performances, films, and installations that include trees, knees, breasts, and elephants. She has worked from the popular art forms of the street, party, parade and burlesque house, to the Museum of Modern Art, from Sesame Street Magazine to Ms, Playboy, and Artforum.
Supported by the UM Department of Theatre & Drama, UM Institute for Research on Women & Gender, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 8, 2007
Xu Bing
Between Image and Text
Working in a wide range of media, Xu Bing creates installations that question the viability of conveying meaning through language. Many of his works examine the disconnection between official and private uses of language, and the inevitability of mistranslation across cultures. He received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award in 1999, presented to him for "originality, creativity, self-direction, and capacity to contribute importantly to society."
Supported by the UM Museum of Art, and the UM Chinese Theme Year - ChinaNow: a contemporary exploration.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 15, 2007
Rebekah Modrak
Photosynthesis, Ping-pong Meditation and Other Camera-Less Acts
How can not taking a picture be a photographic act? In her tour of photographic practices, Rebekah Modrak liberates the technology from the domain of the fine art print to include operations of the human eye, protests of the atomic bomb, and a collection of iconic paintings in the Otsuka Museum of Art. Modrak's recent projects include her soon to be published book on those photographic practices embedded in many actions and disciplines; the three-dimensional people she has constructed in order to bring to life her imagined childhood; and ebayaday, which used eBay as a site to distribute and contextualize artists' works.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 29, 2007
Lawrence Weschler
Everything that Rises: A Defense of Loose Synapsed Moments
In his recent award winning book, Everything that Rises, as well as in the contest it spawned on McSweeneys.net, the Humanities Institute he has been directing at NYU, the Chicago Humanities Festival over which he presides, and his twenty-some-odd years as a staff writer at the New Yorker, Lawrence Weschler has regularly seemed willing to entertain leaps that transcend more orthodox academic and scholarly categories. Has this been a good or a bad thing? Even he is not sure, but he discusses the matter across a powerpoint and internet fueled lecture.
Supported by the UM Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 10, 2008
Dan Hurlin
Inventing Puppetry
Dan Hurlin has been creating original puppet theater since 1980 when he began directing a collaborative program between children ages 8-18 and internationally known artists. His work has been presented at New York's The Kitchen, and Dance Theater Workshop; and Minneapolis' Walker Art Center. Hurlin's presentation follows the trajectory of his artistic career, from making theater for children, to being a solo theater artist in the East Village during the '80s, to his current experimentations with puppetry and object based theater."
Supported by the UM Department of Theatre & Drama.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 17, 2008
Chaz Maviyane-Davies
Creative Defiance
Chaz Maviyane-Davies has been described as "the guerrilla of graphic design". For more than two decades this award-winning Zimbabwean designer's work has taken on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights. In 2003 he was recognized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with an award for outstanding innovator in his commitment to the struggle to transform society and create a just future.
Supported by AIGA Detroit – the Professional Association for Design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 24, 2008
Heidi Kumao
Performative Technologies
Working at the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, Heidi Kumao presents carefully sculpted moments that explore personal responses to imposed social structures. Her work demonstrates the poetic affect that memory and emotion instill in our everyday interactions. Her "Performative Technologies" generate artistic spectacles using forgotten technologies from previous centuries and powerful tools from the digital age.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 31, 2008
Cynthia Pachikara
Body-as-Screen
Using multi-channel projections, Cynthia Pachikara's installations imagine a spectator's shadow as a void waiting to be filled with implicative video and photographic imagery. Stemming from her experience as the daughter of immigrants, these projects attempt to engage the viewer as the subject in situational quandaries about movement, space, and identity. Her presentation will survey a series of extruded video works that contemplate the notion of a body-as-screen.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 7, 2008
Satoru Takahashi
On the Line: Now Here and Nowhere
How are self, place, and communication established in communities and how can we understand the systems-within-systems of which each is composed?" Takahashi explores these issues through multi-media, large-scale works incorporating body movements, perception and memory. Considering the relationship between memory, history and the architecture of large-scale spaces such as cities, gardens and buildings, Takahashi's works aim to produce both a place of meditation and a meditative experience.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 14, 2008
Trimpin
Trimpin: A Kinetic Retrospective
Trimpin's work is an ongoing exploration of sound, vision and movement, introducing our senses to a totally new experience. Although he uses the latest technologies, he works with "natural" elements -- water, air, light, fire, etc. -- reconfiguring them in new and unusual applications, pushing them to the limits, and beyond, of their traditional roles.
Supported by the UM College of Engineering, UM Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, UM School of Information, UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and the UM German Department.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 6, 2008
Chip Kidd
A Number of People
Often called "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design, Knopf art director and author Chip Kidd has designed more than 2,000 book covers for authors from Michael Crichton to John Updike. Kidd has compiled his graphic design work in Book One; written a well-reviewed novel, The Cheese Monkeys loosely based on his college experiences, and exhibited his work at Cooper Union in 2006. Kidd's newest piece of fiction, The Learners, made its debut in 2004 online as part of USATODAY.com's Open Book series.
Supported by AIGA Detroit – the Professional Association for Design
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 13, 2008
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu is a painter and a 2005 McArthur Award winner. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970, Mehretu draws inspiration from numerous sources including social and political events and historical painting. Through the energetic tensions of a world spinning out of control, Mehretu also reveals a nostalgic impulse of utopian longing for a past that never was and a future of positive social agency.
Supported by the Chelsea River Gallery.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 20, 2008
Eric Staller
Out of my Mind
Out of My Mind is the title of artist and designer Eric Staller's new book about his art and life; a life that took him from Ann Arbor (B-arch 1971), to NYC, to Amsterdam where he lives today. His work focuses on pedal power and devices that stimulate community, which cars don't. He is known worldwide for his startling "urban UFOs", high-tech gadgets that "sneak up behind people, and goose them into thinking and feeling." His circular 7-person ConferenceBikes have been seen on the TV's 'Amazing Race' and are now being marketed. Staller will be demonstrating a "CoBi" in Ann Arbor. Everyone is invited!
Supported by the Ann Arbor Art Center and the Ann Arbor Commission on Art in Public Places.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 27, 2008
Joost Rekveld
Light Matters
Filmmaker Joost Rekveld sees the world of science and technology as a part of human culture that is at least as rich as the worlds of mythology and art. In recent years his work has been steadily moving off-screen, as he has been designing projections and light for various dance- and theatre productions. He is becoming increasingly implicated in activities that resemble artificial life and evolve towards swarms of interacting robots. Besides his artistic work he is also active as a curator and teacher.
Supported by the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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April 3, 2008
Michelle Oka Doner
Third Nature
Reaching back to nature primordial and existing through existential transformation is the work of Michele Oka Doner. In her career of over four decades Oka Doner has taken nature at its most basic level – a stick, a twig, a palm leaf and the spiraling of galaxies – and made it the subject of her art. In her talk Oka Doner will present a selection of her public art projects, sculpture, jewelry, furniture and design objects. Oka Doner's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
Supported by the UM Museum of Art.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 11, 2008
Stasys Eidrigevićius
My Road
Illustrator, sculptor, painter and photographer Stasys Eidrigevićius, (Stasys) is perhaps best known for his graphics and poster art. Characterized by pierced bodies, grotesque demons, and masked faces, his style was shaped by his experiences living in an eastern European communist world. Stasys has had over 60 solo exhibitions in 20 countries and been honored with numerous awards for his work.
A collaboration among the Copernicus Endowment of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, and the School of Art & Design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 12, 2008
Complicite Production Team
Behind-the-Scenes with Complicite and A Disappearing Number
Special Presentation: 3:00pm, Power Center Stage, 121 Fletcher St.
Simon McBurney, artistic director of Complicite has said "the space of theatre is in the minds of the audience" (Financial Times). In the case of A Disappearing Number, the space of the theatre is also made by the superb technology and breathtaking visual images of the production. In this special behind-the-scenes look with the production team of A Disappearing Number, audiences will have a chance to see how the show is created and what it takes backstage to make this work so spectacular.
In partnership with the University Musical Society.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 18, 2008
Michael Moore
Shooting Democracy
Michael Moore is an Academy-Award winning filmmaker, author, actor and political commentator. He is the director and producer of three of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Bowling for Columbine. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth, which continue his trademark style of presenting serious documentaries in humorous ways. In 2005 Time Magazine named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people. Sponsored by Screen Arts & Cultures.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 25, 2008
Sir Ken Robinson
Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He works with governments, corporations, educational systems and cultural organizations throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies. The UK Government invited Robinson to establish and lead a national commission on creativity, education and the economy; he was a central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland; and he is currently mentoring the development, the Oklahoma Creativity Project, a statewide strategy for innovation, as well as advising and working with school districts and with cultural and corporate organizations across the United States. In 2005 Robinson was named one of Time/Fortune/CNN's Principal Voices. Sponsored by Arts on Earth, University Musical Society Education
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 2, 2008
Cary Fowler
Seed Banks and Polar Bears: The Quest to Save Agriculture's Past and Our Future
Cary Fowler is the Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which recently drew global media attention when the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors to 100 million seeds for permanent safekeeping in the Artic. The Trust will fund the Global Seed Vault and the work of developing countries and international seed banks to send their seeds for safekeeping. In his presentation, Dr. Fowler will address the history of the Trust and its efforts to secure crop diversity in the midst of global climate change. In 1985 Dr. Fowler was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (the "Alternative Nobel Peace Prize) by the Swedish Government. Fowler has been profiled on CBS 60 Minutes and the New Yorker, is the author of several books on the subject of crop diversity and more than 75 articles.
Sponsored by the Ford School of Public Policy and the School of Natural Resources and Environment.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 9, 2008
Cheyenne Medina and Gretchen Schulfer
Designing the Voting Experience and Information in Everyday Life
In 2001, a group of designers from AIGA, Design for Democracy launched an initiative to "re-enfranchise" voters through design. Cheyenne Medina and Gretchen Schulfer worked to redesign and improve the voting experience for US elections as part of the initiative from 2001-2006. Projects included redesigned ballots and information for voters; guidelines for navigating a polling place; behind the scenes poll worker administration material; and national models for the Election Assistance Commission. Cheyenne Medina and Gretchen Schulfer are currently working on new initiatives to demonstrate the importance of design in science, education, business and sustainability.
Sponsored by AIGA Detroit – the Professional Association for Design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 23, 2008
Jane Atwood
Jane Evelyn Atwood: Photographer
Annual Vivian R. Shaw lecture.
Jane Evelyn Atwood is one of the world's leading photojournalists. Fascinated by people and concepts of exclusion, she has managed to penetrate worlds that most of us do not know, producing work that reflects her deep involvement with her subjects over time. In 1976, Atwood bought her first camera and began taking pictures of a group of street prostitutes in Paris. In her presentation, Atwood will speak about how she started and how she works, beginning with pictures from the prostitute series and including work from a story of the first person with AIDS in France to allow himself to be photographed for publication; a ten-year study of blind children; photos from Too Much Time (2000), her investigation of female incarceration in forty prisons and nine countries; and, finally, pictures from a four-year project on landmine survivors in Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Women's Studies, History of Art, School of Social Work.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 30, 2008
Antanas Mockus
Co-existence as harmonization of law, morality and culture
Antanas Mockus is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician. As mayor of Bogotá for two terms, Mockus became known for his surprising and often humorous initiatives. He has taken a shower in a commercial about conserving water, walked the streets dressed in spandex and a cape as Supercitizen, hired 20 mimes to make fun of traffic violators, and established one "Night for Women" to honor women's roles in society.
Under Mockus's leadership, Bogotá saw improvements that included a 40% decrease in water usage, creation of 7000 community security groups and a 70% drop in the homicide rate. Traffic fatalities decreased by over 50%, drinking water was provided to all homes (up from 79% in 1993), and sewage systems were provided to 95% of homes (up from 71%).
Sponsored by Michigan Law.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 6, 2008
Theo Jansen
The Great Pretender
Since about 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been working hard on new forms of life. Plastic yellow conduit is used as the basic material of this new nature. He makes skeletons that are able to walk on the wind. Eventually he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
Sponsored by the College of Engineering, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, the School of Music, Theater, & Dance, and the Program in the Environment,
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 13, 2008
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
Memorial Projects
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba's films explore Vietnamese history and national identity. Born in Tokyo and trained in the U.S., Nguyen-Hatsushiba returned to live in his father's homeland of Vietnam in 1990. His video work, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, replaces visions of conflict with far more subversive and magical images of Vietnam, offering scenes of Vietnamese fishermen pulling cyclos (rickshaws) underwater toward an area where the artist stretched about thirty mosquito nets across the sea bed. For Nguyen-Hatsushiba "The meaning of 'memorial' in these works refers not only to recalling and acknowledging the past, but it is also something that brings us to the present and urges us to question for the future." During his presentation he will discuss his creative paths returning to Vietnam and his ongoing series of memorial projects.
Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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November 20, 2008
Daniel J. Martinez
Freedom is the Crime Which Contains All Crimes
Daniel Joseph Martinez lives and works in the Crenshaw District of South Los Angeles. Using forms of strategic engagement and illusion, his work focuses on themes of contamination, history, nomadic power, cultural resistance, dissentience and systems of symbolic exchange. One ongoing project is the building of a doomsday machine, a transporter and a time machine to change the past in order to affect the future. Martinez has participated in the Whitney, Cairo, and Moscow Biennials; exhibited at the Orange County Museum of Art and El Museo Del Barrio. Upcoming exhibitions and projects include Dublin, Ireland; Santiago, Chili; Tijuana, Mexico and the 2008 California Biennial. In the spring of 2009 Hatja Cantz in Germany will publish a new artist monograph. Martinez is a Professor of Theory, Practice, and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the University of California Irvine, where he teaches in the Graduate Studies Program and New Genres Department.
Sponsored by the School of Social Work.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 15, 2009
Nick Tobier
Interruptions for Everyday Life
A lifelong participant-observer of street life and the social life of public places, Nick Tobier creates work that reflects his belief in the power of social dynamism and the fundamental role of artist as catalyst and conduit. Through individual and collective work, Tobier's interest in the potential of public places has manifested itself in built public projects and actions in San Francisco, Detroit and New York, internationally from Toronto to Tokyo, and performances on the stage and in the streets from Milan to Paramaribo, Suriname and at The Edinburgh, Minneapolis and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals. His short performance films have been shown across the world. He is also the author of a series of critical and speculative writings on city space, itinerant entertainment, and forms of public entertainment as radical social strategy.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 22, 2009
Gilgamesh
(re)creating Gilgamesh: The Artistic and Technical Exploration of an Ancient Epic
Clarinetist and Composer Kinan Azmeh and Visual Artist Kevork Mourad have collaborated to illuminate the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, using both music and painting as vehicles for story telling. In this presentation, prior to their weekend UMS performances, the artists discuss the origins of the project and their creative collaboration. They also demonstrate the fusion of music, painting, and technology through performance excerpts and examination of the more technical aspects of their work.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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January 29, 2009
Hannah Smotrich
Community Narratives
Graphic designer Hannah Smotrich's work centers on issues of community, cultural history, identity and voice. Her projects explore the stories of our individual lives and the collective narratives of our communities, the many ways in which we communicate—and the walls we construct that complicate connection. Recent work includes a participatory public art project at the Jewish Cultural Festival in Krakow, Poland, an integrated system of street signs and publications for Neighborhood Heritage Trails in Washington, DC, and an exhibit for Museum L-A on the lives and community of textile workers in Lewiston, Maine.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 5, 2009
José Francisco Salgado
Science Communication through Art and Technology
Astronomer and science visualizer José Francisco Salgado uses his skills in astronomy education and visual arts to create multimedia works that communicate science in engaging ways. Currently on staff at the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum in Chicago, Salgado’s education and outreach efforts include Spanish-language programs, an Emmy-nominated astronomy news segment, and astronomy video suites created to accompany live performances of classical music concerts. In his presentation, Salgado discusses these programs and techniques and the ways Adler astronomers use the museum's Space Visualization Laboratory to communicate science.
With support from the UM Winter 2009 LSA Theme Semester, The Universe: Yours to Discover.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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February 12, 2009
Anne Pasternak
Public Art Then & Now: From the Strange to Spectacular and Back Again
Anne Pasternak is the President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, an organization that has been commissioning and presenting innovative art in New York City since 1972 Pasternak is committed to initiating projects that give artists opportunities to innovate, preserve public space as a place of creative expression, and respond to timely issues. Over the past decade, she has worked closely with such artists as Doug Aitken, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Steve Powers, Cai Guo Qiang, and many many more. Pasternak also curates independent exhibitions, consults on urban planning initiatives, and contributes essays to cultural publications
With support from the UM Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission, ArtServe Michigan, and Chelsea's River Gallery.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 5, 2009
Jacque Fresco
Global Sustainability
Jacque Fresco is a futurist, industrial designer, behavioral scientist, artist, inventor, author and a master of "out of the box thinking". Fresco offers a bold new way of looking at our world and its unworkable social systems. He envisions a global civilization in which science and technology are applied in tandem with human and environmental concerns to secure, protect, and encourage a more humane world for all people, where human rights, are no longer paper proclamations but a way of life.
With support from the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 12, 2009
Richard Saul Wurman
A Conversation With Richard Saul Wurman
Richard Saul Wurman is an architect, a cartographer, the creator of the Access Travel Guide Series, and the author and designer of more than eighty books, including Information Architects (1996), Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1991) and Information Anxiety (1989). He has also served as chairman and creative director of the TED conferences. For Wurman: "The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable. In the end, all I am ever trying to do with every project I do is to do good work.”
With support form the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, UM School of Information, and AIGA Detroit, the Professional Association for Design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 19, 2009
Marina Abramovic
Performing Body
Performance is the language that Abramovic, winner of the Golden Lion at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997, favors for her artistic expression. In performance the body empties itself to serve as a go-between for energy in its passage from matter to spirit and space. Her experiences in Tibet, in Ladakh and among the Australian Aborigines and her studies of various rituals have allowed her to understand how to bring the body to a borderline state.
With support from the UM Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Chelsea's River Gallery, and MOCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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March 26, 2009
George Manupelli
An Unauthorized History
Filmmaker, painter, collagist, activist and contrarian George Manupelli is the founder of the Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 1963, while teaching at the UM School of Art & Design and collaborating with the ONCE Group, he established the Ann Arbor Film Festival as a counterpoint to the New York destination art world. Manupelli directed the festival for 20 years defining it with his aesthetic sense of festival as event and film as art. He made numerous films while in Ann Arbor including the “Dr. Chicago” trilogy. Over 400 exhibitions of his art works, films, music, and performance pieces have been held throughout Europe, North, Central and South America.
With support from the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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April 2, 2009
Mary Ellen Strom & Ann Carlson
Body and Camera
Through the lens of the historic record and art history, Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom employ tactics of spectacle and humor to provide critical re-evaluations of cultural and historical narratives. Displayed as immersive projections or installations, their work simultaneously fuses video art’s tendencies towards the visually spectacular and its legacy as a tool for social change. Carlson and Strom examine the moving body within a range of ”landscapes”: the physical western vista, the economic terrain of late-capitalist America, and the artistic tradition of constructing these literal and ideological images.
With support from the UM Department of the History of Art, the UM Department of Dance, and MOCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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April 9, 2009
Clotaire Rapaille
The Logic of Emotion
Dr. G. Clotaire Rapaille is an internationally known expert in creativity and communication. His marketing strategies have grown out of his work in the areas of psychiatry, psychology, and cultural anthropology, combining a pyschiatrist’s depth of analysis with a business person’s attention to practical concerns. He has written more than ten books including, Creative Communication, recognized as the standard reference for the French advertising community. His most recent book, the best selling, The Culture Code, sheds light not just on business but on the way every human being acts and lives.
With support from the UM Yaffe Center for Persuasive Communication at the Ross School of Business, the UM Institute for the Humanities, the UM College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, and UM Arts on Earth.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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May 30, 2009
Testing Again
This is another test, for tomorrow like.
June 12, 2009
Dynamic: Contemporary Chinese Painting by WenDong Ren
Friday 12 June, 4:30 - 6:00pm
Exhibition Opening Reception
Dynamic: Contemporary Chinese Painting by WenDong Ren
Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St.
WenDong Ren is currently a visiting scholar at the School of Education. http://www.wendonren.com
June 12, 2009
Sac Sac Khong Khong: Opening Reception
“sac sac, không không” is the core idea in the Prajnaparamitahridaya Sutra (Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra). This is the newest work by Tuan M Tran, visiting Vietnamese artist. Featuring paintings on screen with oyster powder, the show brings viewers to the old Vietnamese temple through paintings of moving statues, the sound of monks reading sutras, and Vietnamese food at the exhibition opening reception.
Opening Reception June 12, 6:00 - 9:00pm at Work • Ann Arbor
Work • Ann Arbor, 306 State Street
Exhibition runs June 12 - July 3
June 27, 2009
Detroit Industrial Projects: IF/ELSE
A&D visiting artist Tran Tuan, Slusser Gallery director Mark Nielsen, and alums Seth Weiner, Beili Liu, Chipp Jansen, Andrew Thompson and Dylan Strzynski are participating in IF/ELSE , an exhibition at Detroit Industrial Projects from June 13 - June 27. The exhibition reception is June 27th, 6pm-10pm.
http://detroitindustrialprojects.wordpress.com/
July 1, 2009
frame(d)
Work • Detroit provides space for a growing collection of small work which expands as thinkers and makers share Detroit inspired visual observances.
Exhibition runs 7.1 - 7.24 at Work • Detroit, 3663 Woodward Avenue, Detroit.
July 17, 2009
Opening Reception: A&D Alumni Show
View a wide range of work from A&D Alums from around the world. Jul 10 - Aug 7 at Slusser and Work • Ann Arbor, with an opening reception on July 17 at Slusser.
July 18, 2009
Ann Arbor Art Fair
The 2009 Ann Arbor Art Fair will take place from Wed., July 15 through Sat., July 18. See the Original Ann Arbor Art Fair site for details.
August 14, 2009
After Hours: Opening Reception
After Hours; The 6th Annual A&D Staff Exhibition
August 14 to September 11, 2009.
Opening Reception: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Friday, August 14
September 10, 2009
Bob Mankoff
The Past, Present, and Future of Humor
From primate play to The New Yorker cartoons, The Daily show, and the latest Youtube mash-ups, Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of the New Yorker magazine, demonstrates how all humor is an act of cooperative creativity. With support from the UM Institute for the Humanities, and the Department of Psychology.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 11, 2009
Opening Reception: Migration
Opening Reception: Sept. 11, 6 - 9 PM.
Migration will be on exhibit from 9/11 to 10/17.
Work Detroit is open Tue - Sat, 11am - 4pm.
There will be a migratory performance entitled ‘No Fixed Address’ on 10/02, from 8 - 10pm
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Migration manifests in many ways: changes to a neighborhood’s demographics, personal identity, contested borders, or movement in a lifetime or a week. These changes bring about conflicts (and resolutions) of space, economies, labor and industry, and race and ethnicity, to name a few. This exhibition brings together a wide range of creative work inspired by these issues.
Artist List:
Susan Aaron-Taylor
Gabriella Boros
Jacklyn Brickman
Terrence Campagna
Christopher Cannon
Daniel Farnum
Dave Fischer
Sadko Hadzihasanovic
Richard Haley
Andy Mattern
Robert Mirek
Erik Olson
David Edward Parker
Lisa Poszywak
Kelly Salchow MacArthur
Patrick Wise
Matthew Zivich
Curated by:
Michael Borowski
Urmila Venkatesh
Special thanks to Stephen Schudlich and the Work: Detroit staff.
September 12, 2009
HomeGrown Festival
Saturday 12 September
5:00-10:00pm
Event: HomeGrown Festival - featuring Danielle Abrams, Amanda Krugliak and Nick Tobier
Ann Arbor Farmers Market
homegrownfestival.org
The HomeGrown Festival celebrates local food and community and seeks to focus broad mainstream attention on the community-wide benefits (and pleasure!) of eating from our own foodshed. This year’s Festival offers:
Delicious, creative food: sourced from Michigan farms, made by some of our area’s best local chefs
music from: Billy King, First Flight, Chris Buhalis, Ann Arbor Dub Project
The Pioneer wine Trail and Michigan beer Garden Tent — new this year!
Project Grow: heirloom tomato tasting
chef demos: turning the season’s best produce into delicious meals
kids’ activities: learn about bees, pressing cider, planting vegetables
The “made in michigan” store
culinary theatrics featuring Danielle Abrams, Amanda Krugliak and Nick Tobier
September 15, 2009
Back to School Bash
Back to School Bash for Art & Design Students, Faculty and Staff
Hosted by the Smucker Wagstaff Academic Program Center
September 15, 2009
4:30 - 6 p.m.
Free Food: hotdogs, hamburgers, veggie burgers, fruit, Better Made potato chips, and Uncle Ray’s chips and drinks,
Free: Five Hour Energy
Door Prizes: a snow saucer, snow brick makers, B’drizzled gourmet popcorn, Ultimate Pretzel chocolate covered pretzels, an autographed softball from Coach Carol Hutchins, a pair of shoes from Shane & Shawn and quite possibly a Rich Rodriguez autographed football.
September 17, 2009
Richard Barnes
Excavations and Iterations: The Museum Unveiled
Photographer Richard Barnes discusses his ongoing project “Animal Logic” examining how our relationship to the natural world is reflected in natural history collections. Outcomes of the project include exhibitions at the UMMA and Cranbrook Institute of Science, and a book.
In Conjunction with the UM LSA theme semester “Meaningful Objects: Museums in the Academy,” and in partnership with Cranbrook, the UM Museum of Art, the Institute for the Humanities, and the Exhibit Museum of Natural History.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 17, 2009
Opening Reception: PastPerfectFutureTense
Thursday, September 17, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Opening Reception: PastPerfectFutureTense by Richard Barnes
Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer
September 18, 2009
Faculty Follies - Two Nights of A&D Faculty Performances
Two Performances: Friday, September 18 at 8:00 pm and Saturday, September 19 at 8:00 pm
Faculty Follies - Two Nights of A&D Faculty Performances
Performance work featuring A&D Assistant Professor Danielle Abrams, Lecturers Amanda Krugliak and Melanie Manos, Associate Professor Nick Tobier, and Assistant Professor Malcolm Tulip.
Duderstadt Video Studio
September 24, 2009
Dave Gallo & Bill Lange
Deep Sea Discoveries
Pioneers in ocean exploration, Dave Gallo and Bill Lange work closely with scientists at the forefront of ocean research to bring to light underwater discoveries such as the world's highest mountains and deepest valleys; underwater rivers, waterfalls, lakes, and thriving communities of life in dark worlds. With support from the UM Program in the Environment and the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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September 25, 2009
Explorth
Explore North Campus and learn the hidden secrets of the great Green North at EXPLORTH, a celebration of the Creative Campus. Featuring music, food and fun! September 25, 4:30 - 7:30 at the North Campus Diag. To learn more, go to http://artsonearth.org.
September 26, 2009
Opening Reception: Material Matters
Artists Larry Cressman and Susan Crowell, Michigan natives who have known each other and worked together for many years, will open Material Matters, their first dual exhibition, at the Chelsea River Gallery in September.
The exhibition will open with an artists’ reception from 5 until 8 p.m. on Saturday, September 26, at the Chelsea River Gallery, and will run until November 15, 2009. The gallery is located at 120 S. Main St., Chelsea, Michigan.
October 1, 2009
Douglas Hollis
Learning to Listen – Reflections of a Public Artist
Since the early 1970s, installation artist Doug Hollis has translated his interest in landscape and natural phenomenon into wind- and water-activated sound structures that have an oasis-like quality where people can pause to catch their spiritual breath in the midst of their everyday lives. With support from the UM Health Systems Gifts of Art and Chelsea River Gallery.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 2, 2009
A Wall of Faces
The Arnold Klein Gallery, 32782 Woodward, Royal Oak, Michigan will feature A WALL OF FACES, paintings by Donella Reese Vogel, BS, ‘64.
The exhibition runs Friday, October 2 - Thursday, October 29.
Opening reception, Friday, October 2, 6-8 pm.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-5.
Phone: 248.647.7709.
Contact the artist: donellareesevogel.com
People I know. I began drawing their standing figures, interested in how they presented themselves when I asked each person to simply stand and look at me. The attitude of the head, the stance of the feet , the position of the arms….the twist of the torso all combine to communicate personality without a word said. For an individual portrait I drew overlapping views of the standing (or sometimes moving) pose in order to show the revealing gesture of the body from a number of angles; otherwise, I drew each figure standing in a row according to category,( i.e., teen-age boys, octogenarians, etc.)
I like to compare the varied postures and to see the’ face’ each one showed me and therefore the world. This series of drawings eventually led me to concentrate on the literal faces of people I know.
After I chose to work in an entirely different medium ( oil on canvas), I decided to make a portrait of my dealer, Arnold Klein, in the tradition of artists painting those who have supported their career.
The 14"X11” canvas is a perfect proportion for a head and almost shoulder…..just enough room to show the tie which Arnold is famous for wearing even while gardening. The idea for a series of portraits evolved….of people who mark a significant time in my history….family, friends, neighbors, classmates and colleagues.I would ask each person to look at me. I did not select apparel or glasses or hats or jewelry. The color surrounding each subject is cued from his or her clothing. Each portrait is my view of how each person ‘faces ’ or presents himself to the world. At first I envisioned a chronological row of portraits, but eventually I began to see the individual portraits as compositional elements ....the faces and colors part of an assembled presentation…..a quilt of relationships and a portrait of the people I know…the people of my time..
October 2, 2009
No Fixed Address
Art Detroit Now Event: No Fixed Address
a stop on the Satori Circus migratory performance tour!
Open house 7-10, performance at 9:30
work • detroit | University of Michigan School of Art & Design
3663 Woodward Avenue | Detroit, MI 48201
313.593.0940
October 8, 2009
Bernard Khoury
New Wars in Progress
Iconoclastic architect Bernard Khoury is currently working on projects in the Arabian Gulf region. His commissions include banks and apartment buildings in Beirut, shopping malls in Kuwait, a women’s spa in Saudi Arabia, a 30-story office tower in Dubai, and a new media center in Armenia that are each, in different ways, a reflection of the cultural and economic transformation underway throughout the region. With support from the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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October 9, 2009
ArtWalk 2009
Artwalk 2009 Two Day Open House Events
October 9 and 10, 2009
Friday, 5 - 10 pm & Saturday 12 - 5 pm
Party Time: Friday Night 5 - 10 pm
The Neighborhood Party Hosts:
ANN ARBOR;
Downtown: WSG Gallery, 306 S. Main Street.
Kerrytown/North Main:Artisans Market at the Farmers Market, 315 Detroit Street.
West Side: Yellow Barn, 416 W. Huron Street.
University of Michigan: Work Gallery, 306 S. State St. and Pierre Paul Gallery, 3370 Washtenaw Ave.
DEXTER; The Side Door Gallery (at Dexter Picture Frame Co.), 8063 Main St., Dexter.
SALINE; Two Twelve Arts Center, 212 W. Michigan Ave, Saline.
YPSILANTI; What is That Gallery, 130 W.. Michigan Ave., Ypsilanti.
“Start at the Neighborhood Party to get information on Artists, directions to sites, and to get a snack.”
Special Events going on in the exhibit spaces:
A2 Downtown
Clay Gallery
“Configuring Space- New Work By Joe Szutz”
Clay Gallery features ceramic by Joe Szutz. Works are visually monumental, mixed media sculptures that build a bridge from the physical to the emotional. Szutz incorporates found objects - wood, metal and stone into his ceramic compositions.
Rebecca Lambers, Couture
“Things Japanese - Kimono, indigo, shibori, sashiko”
Rebecca’s new work for Autumn 09 & Paintings by MaryBeth Koeze
A2 West Side
Laila Kujala Studio
“Bronze Clay Demonstrations” Bronze Clay Demonstrations Saturday & additional work at Sweetwaters Cafe 123 W. Washington Street, A2
Jane Coates Studio
“Jane Coates + Sharon M. Donovan” 1834 Mershon, A2
demonstrations and entertainment with refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market on Washtenaw.
Tsogyelgar Dharma Center
“Artwalk Opening Party” 7145 West Liberty Road, A2
Friday 5-7; Live Music & light refreshments
Friday 6:00 & Saturday 2:00 - Presentation on upcoming public programs at Copper Colored Mountain Arts & guided tour of grounds & gardens
Friday 6:45 & 4:00 Saturday - Rob Davis presentation - Art of Thangka Painting & guided tour of America’s Largest Buddhist Mural.
Saturday - 3:00 Chrissy Komack - Presentation on the art of Tsa Tsa Making.
Saturday 4:30 Crafts activity for kids
West Huron Sculptures
Barbara Melnik Carson, “Slip casting Demo” 416 W. Huron St., A2
A demonstration casting a figure in porcelain using a plaster mold. Friday 7 pm - 8 pm
* Paul M. Hickman + “The collaboration”
“Under One Roof” The Yellow Barn 416 W. Huron, A2
Demonstrations - Friday, Oct. 9, 6:30-8, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2:30-4
Paul M. Hickman’s Urban Ashes furniture, pmh prints + “The collaboration” prints will all be “Under One Roof” at the Yellow Barn. “The collaboration” of Paul & his 9 year-old son Charlie will do an interactive demonstration where you can give them an 8X11 piece of your childs art & they will run it through “The Collaboration’s” process, producing a one-of-a-kind print for you to take home.
Ann Arbor Kerrytown/North Main
The Sunday Artisian Market
“Open Air Market w/ hand made fine art & crafts” Kerrytown Market Pavilion - 315 Detroit St. A2 Friday, Oct. 9, 5-9
Demonstrations and entertainment with refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market on Washtenaw
Women’s Caucus For Art Michigan
“A little Something from Our Membership” & “The Venus of WIllendorf Project” 1324 North Main, Suite 7, A2
Participate by donating diet books to the artist and/or actually taking part in the paper mache process, come dressed to get MESSY.
Ann Arbor - UM Campus
Idelle Hammond-Sass, Jewelry
“Jewelry Open House” 1510 Kearney Rd. (Kearney at Adare) Saturday, Oct. 10 12-5
Featuring fine Jewelry by Idelle Hammond-Sass, at the artists’ working studio where she offers classes in jewelry and metalsmithing.
Pierre Paul Art Gallery
“artist at Work - Demo” 3370 Washtenaw Ave, A2 Saturday, Oct. 10 12-5 Saturday - Come in and watch oil painter Kim Rhoney create a new work. Bring any questions you may have about painting, art, and Kim’s style.
Potters Guild
“seconds Sale” 201 Hill St., A2
Tour the studio and see the members - seconds sale. Cash and check only.
Residential College Art Gallery
701 E. University, A2
Work by the Residential College Studio Art Faculty & invited guests. Michale Hannum, Mark Kirschenman, Susan Crowell, Gary Ren, Jason Wright, John Hoder, Larry Cressman & Ben Upton.
UM, The Gallery in he Duderstadt Center
“Bio-Artography: 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., A2 Oct 9, 12-7 & Oct. 10,12-5
Tiny biological structures are often beautiful and the scientists from The UM Center for Organogenesis share them with you here as “Bio-Artography”, a fascinating combination of art and science.
Dexter
The Side Door Gallery & The Saline Picture Frame Company
8063 Main St. Dexter Oct 9, 5-10 & Oct. 10, 12-5
“Inflight” - Birds viewed through the artist’s eye & New Works by Valarie Mann
Saline [Special events and locations map available at saline sites only]
* Jane Darling and Two Twelve Artists
My favorite Cafe 101 S. Ann Arbor St., Saline Saturday, October 10, 1-4
Pastel Paintings - Jane will be painting in pastels on site
* Two Twelve Arts Center
Kay Cassill’s “The Mind’s Eye” 212 W. Michigan Ave., Saline
A retrospect - Over 80 pieces - Over 20 years of Prints, Paintings, Watercolors, & Drawings covering her works as a prize-winning print maker, painter, & member of the famed Iowa Print Group.
* Kathe Suddendorf
“Art Walk - Workshop” Spotted Dog Winery 108 E. Michigan Ave., Saline Saturday, October 10, 13-3
The winery is hosting Kathe Suddendorf’s artwork which includes watercolors, acrylics, and colored pencil. On Saturday from 12-3 pm, Kathe will hold a free “Do It Yourself” workshop. You will be shown simple colored pencil techniques to practice by making a bookmark that you can take home.
* Kat Campau
“Fibre Arts” Mac’s Arcadian Seafood Shack 102 Michigan Ave., Saline Friday, Oct. 9, 12-7, Saturday, Oct. 10, 12-5
* Linda Klenczar
Brecon Grill 101 W. Michigan Ave., Saline
Tour the studio and see the members - seconds sale. Cash and checks only.
* Kelsey Keyes
“Jewelry, photography and holiday ornaments.” 8063 Main St., Saline
the winery is hosting Kelsey Keyes’ art of jewelry, photography and holiday ornaments. Kelsey will be holding on-going demonstrations of her work.
Ypsilanti
Washtenaw Community College Gallery One
“Jim Cogswell: Meanwhile” 108 Student Center Building, Washtenaw Community College, 4800 East Huron River Dr., Ypsilanti, Oct. 10, 1-4
Riverside Arts Center
“chelsea Painters” 76 North Huron Street., Ypsilanti
Shankwiler 123 Gallery
Sin Der Ella artist of the month & Vintage Baseball cards & memorabilia as art, Stained Glass demonstrations, light refreshments & possible Live Music!
* DENOTES A SPECIAL LOCATION JUST FOR ART WALK
October 14, 2009
Connection Collection Closing Reception
Closing Reception: Wednesday, October 14th, 6 - 9 pm at Work • Ann Arbor
Collection Connection
October 15, 2009
Lecture: Julian Bleecker
This week, Julian Bleecker is a Roman Witt Visiting Artist in the School of Art & Design. Julian will be giving a lecture on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7:30 pm in the auditorium in the Art & Architecture Building.
Julian is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and co-founder with Nicolas Nova of the Near Future Laboratory, their design-to-think studio.
He lectures and leads workshops on the intersections of art, design, technology and the near-future possibilities for new social-technical interaction rituals. He has taught interactive media at Parson’s School of Design and the University of Southern California.
Julian has given talks and exhibited many of his emerging technology projects, designs and concepts in venues such as SIGGRAPH, LIFT, Xerox PARC, O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and Where 2.0 Conference on Location-Based Technology, Ubicomp, Ars Electronica, ACM SIGCHI, ACM Advances in Computer Entertainment, Banff New Media Institute, American Museum of the Moving Image, Art Interactive, Boston Cyberarts Festival, SHiFT, Reboot, Eyebeam Atelier, and SK Telecom’s Art Center Nabi.
He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a Master’s Degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, in Computer-Human Interaction, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz where his dissertation was on technology, culture and entertainment.
He was formally a Professor of Interactive Media at the University of Southern California. He serves as an adviser to the US Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, and is on the board of advisors the Lift Conference and can often be found jurying international art-technology conferences. He is presently conducting a research study on the relationships between art, technology and innovation practices under a grant from the University of Southern California’s Provost’s Office and completing a book on “New Interaction Rituals” and a pamphlet for the Architectural League on urban networks.
Julian’s current interests include: Design, Science Fiction, Film, Urban Space, Future Things and strategies for thinking about and creating conversations that lead to more habitable near future worlds.
Please join us for the lecture.
http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/
http://www.liftconference.com/
http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/
http://www.smartsurfaces.net/
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October 22, 2009
Paula Scher
New York Design
Graphic designer Paula Scher has been a partner at Pentagram since 1991 where she has developed identity and branding systems, promotional materials, environmental graphics, and publication designs for clients world wide. She is a recipient of the Chrysler Award for Innovation and the AIGA medal. With support from AIGA Detroit - the professional association for design.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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