Events
Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia
Cécile Whiting: "Apocalypse in Paradise: Niki de Sainte Phalle in Los Angeles"
Porter College, Room D245Cécile Whiting is a Chancellor's Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Whiting examines mid-twentieth century American art and has published three books on this subject Antifacism in American Art, A Taste For Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture, and Pop L.A.: Art and the […]
Elisabeth L. Cameron: "A Perfect Colonial Storm: Atinga and Iconoclasm in Southwestern Nigeria"
Porter College, Room D245Elisabeth L. Cameron holds the Patricia & Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her research is concentrated primarily in two regions: Zambia, where she has observed, studied, and documented womenʼs visual culture, including initiation rites, art, power and hierarchy, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she has […]
Karen Barad: Histories of Now: "Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings"
Porter College, Room D245Please join us for Karen Barad's Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, "Histories of Now: Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings," on Wednesday, February 18 at 4 pm in Porter D245. Refreshments will be available 30 minutes before the talk. See the attached flyer for all pertinent information, and please distribute widely. Karen Barad is […]
Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesArts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015), addressing, among related works and topics, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics […]
The Cosmopolitical Forest
Porter College, Room D245Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Based on comprehensive research, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her video works the far-reaching territorial transformations due to the extraction and engineering of resources, drawing attention to the biological and social micro-dynamics at work in […]