Events
Porter College, Room D245
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 […]
Pattern Recognition, c. 1947
Porter College, Room D245Please join us for this week's VMCC event, Pamela M. Lee will be delivering her talk, entitled "Pattern Recognition, c. 1947." This is the final event of the colloquia's 2014-2015 season. Refreshments will be provided before the talk. Pamela M. Lee is professor of Art History at Stanford University. Lee received her B.A from Yale […]
Transcultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of "African Art"
Porter College, Room D245Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2000) is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture of Global Africa at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press, 2008: winner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for […]
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 […]
Carolyn Dean: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism"
Porter College, Room D245Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, the first one of the 2014-15 season, on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 4 pm in Porter D245: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism," featuring Carolyn Dean. Carolyn Dean is a Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa […]
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 […]
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 […]