Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 18, 2015
No events on this day.
Monday, October 19, 2015
- October 19, 2015 -Quantifying Creativity: Art through the Eyes of Computation
Quantifying Creativity: Art through the Eyes of Computation
Co-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative Is the experience of art uniquely human? Can algorithms be artistic producers? Or, do machines remove the context and meaning from creativity? As artificial agents generate media and evaluate originality, how will we draw the line between human and machine aesthetics? How will the relationship between art, and […]
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
No events on this day.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
- October 21, 2015 -Tyrus Miller: "The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Arts"
- October 21, 2015 -Ozploitation Film Series Presents: Wyrmwood
Tyrus Miller: "The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Arts"
Tyrus Miller has recently published Modernism and the Frankfurt School, and his forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis will appear in 2015. He is the translator/editor of György Lukács’s, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition and series co-editor (with Erik Bachman) of Brill’s Lukács Library Series. Current work […]
Ozploitation Film Series Presents: Wyrmwood
We need to find a zombie fast. The visually striking feature-film debut of director Kiah Roache-Turner, who made it on weekends with friends and actors over a number of years, Wyrmwood approaches the ubiquitous zombie apocalypse (familiar to us from so many works of popular culture over the past decade or so) in an unusually […]
Thursday, October 22, 2015
- October 22, 2015 -Living Writers: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
Living Writers: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
John Keene Rutgers University, Newark John Keene is the author of the novel Annotations (New Directions); the text-art collection Seismosis (1913 Press) with artist Christopher Stackhouse; and the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions). He also translated Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboat/A Bolha Editora). He has published his work in a wide array of periodicals and anthologies, and has exhibited his artwork […]
Friday, October 23, 2015
- October 23, 2015 -Friday Forum: AK Morais “Blundering Empire: The Smithsonian African Expedition of 1919-1920”
Friday Forum: AK Morais “Blundering Empire: The Smithsonian African Expedition of 1919-1920”
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature AK […]
Saturday, October 24, 2015
No events on this day.