Dana Fritz, William Fox, Judy Natal, and Pierre Meystre discuss artists as they relate to science, particularly focusing on the artist in residence program at Biosphere 2. Moderated by Julie Sasse.

This lecture will present the conceptual roots and future paths of two large bodies of art, science and technology-related works that Marko Peljhan has been developing in collaborations since the early 2000s, focusing on the Arctic Perspective Initiative and its Makrolab roots and the polar m [mirrored] project. The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations, whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications...

In this performance/talk, Garoian will discuss art-in-the-flesh as a double-coded figure of speech, a trope that suggests that the existential liveness of art research and practice constitutes an arousal and agitation of the senses that evokes new ways of seeing and understanding the world.

Transcript of Ellen Lupton's lecture. Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. An author of numerous books and articles on design, she is a public-minded critic, frequent lecturer, and AIGA Gold Medalist. Sept. 2006.

Jean Shin is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community. For each project, she amasses vast collections of a particular object—prescription pill bottles, sports trophies, sweaters—which are often sourced through donations from individuals in a participating community. These intimate objects then become the materials for her conceptually rich sculptures, videos and site-specific installations....

Ken Gonzales-Day lives and works in Los Angeles. He received an MFA from UC Irvine, and an MA in Art History from Hunter College (C.U.N.Y). His interdisciplinary and conceptually grounded projects consider the history of photography, the construction of race, and the limits of representational systems ranging from the lynching photograph to museum display. Searching for California Hang Trees series offered a critical look at the legacies of landscape photography in the West while his most...

Liz Cohen’s projects create parameters for experiences in which she negotiates her relationships within groups where she does not have the defining characteristic for membership. As her work changes she remains interested in groups of men, radical transformation, and in-between-ness. Cohen spent four years performing her investigations for CANAL, a series of photographs and performances about a group of transgender sex workers along the fringe of the Panama Canal. The transgender sex worker’s...

Bruce Yonemoto is a Japanese-American multimedia artist. His photographs, installations, sculptures, and films appropriate familiar narrative forms and then circumvent convention through direct, over-eager adoption of heavily clichéd dialogue, music, gestures, and scenes that click in the viewer’s memory without being identifiable. Working in collaboration with his brother, Norman Yonemoto, since 1975, Bruce Yonemoto has set out to divulge a body of work at the crossroads of television, art,...

David Taylor earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. His photographs, multimedia installations, and artist’s books have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso; El Paso Museum of Art; SF Camerawork, San Francisco;...

"Cultural Hybridity in Tucson” provides a local view and exchange of ideas on the lecture series Transculturations. Our panelists will reflect on their experiences, discuss their work and comment on current trends and issues confronting contemporary artists, curators, writers and critics in Southern Arizona. Transculturations seeks to examine the ever-expanding notion of hybridity and its manifestation in visual art, criticism and institutional curatorial practices. January 21,...

Jaimey Hamilton is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Hawaii. She teaches contemporary visual culture and critical theory. Currently, she is completing a book about appropriation in contemporary sculpture called “Strategic Materiality: Contemporary Sculpture in the Age of Globalization.” Her recent publications include: “Arman’s System of Objects,” in Art Journal vol. 67 (Spring 2008): no.1: 54-67; and “Making Art Matter: Alberto Burri’s Sacchi” October 124 (Spring 2008):...

Since 2001, Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam have developed projects that raise questions about nationalism and national identity, the contingency of memory, and the haunting of daily life by the specter of war, militarism, and socio-political inequities. Inspired by a particular site, historical incident, or political issue, their work emerges from the interrelation between current events and residues of the past. Trained in architecture, H. Lan Thao Lam uses photography, sculpture, and...

Born in Nigeria, Okwui Enwezor is a curator, writer, critic, and editor of international acclaim. He has held positions as Visiting Professor in Art History at University of Pittsburgh; Columbia University, New York; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and University of Umea, Sweden. Enwezor was Artistic Director of Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (1998–2002) and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1996–1997). He has curated numerous exhibitions in some of the most distinguished museums...

Tam Van Tran's work crosses borders between change and stasis, organic and human made, painting and sculpture; it is in fact, hybrid. Van Tran couples organic substances such as chlorophyll, spirulina, and beet juice with acrylic paint, and metal staples. He lists as his influences artists as diverse as Francisco Goya, Odilon Redon, and Charles Burchfield. Using staples and hole punches, Tam Van Tran manipulates his paintings on paper, forcing them into asymmetrical shapes and odd bunches. By...

Kay Lawrence is a visual artist and an academic. She was Professor and Head of the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia from 2002-08. Prior to this appointment she was Portfolio Leader of Research and Coordinator of the Textiles Studio. She has a long association with the South Australian School of Art having been a student at the school in the 60s, majoring in painting and printmaking. She subsequently studied tapestry weaving at the Edinburgh School of Art, in...

In the almost 30 years since Richard Hell et al at CBGB’s in New York and Johnny Rotten & Co. at the Worlds End in London snagged the public’s eye and ear and kicked the corpse of hippy dreaming, the world has witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the internet and the cell phone, the rise and fall of the global economy and the stabilization to permanence of punk as (anti) fashion statement, marketable music genre, and secessionist life-style choice. That same period has also...

Barbara McCloskey is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of George Grosz and the Communist Party: Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936 and Artists of World War II. Professor McCloskey has also published catalogue essays, journal articles, and anthology contributions on the subject of art and politics in German 19th and 20th century culture. She is currently preparing a book-length study of German artists and intellectuals in American exile...

Kathryn Maxwell’s print and mixed media works have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Northern Arizona University Museum, Flagstaff. She has participated in group exhibitions at the International Print Center, New York; Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago; Detroit Institute of Arts; Tucson Museum of Art;...

A strategic provocateur, Daniel J. Martinez deploys the full range of available media in his practice, having used at various times text, image, sculpture, video, and performance to construct his uniquely tough-minded brand of aesthetic inquiry. Using forms of strategic engagement and illusion, Martinez employs mutation and schizophrenia as a form of confusion directed toward the precondition of the coexistence of politics as radical beauty. Ongoing themes in the work are contamination,...

Mary Jane Jacob is Professor and Executive Director of Exhibitions at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. One of the most nonconformist U.S. curators of the last 20 years, Jacob has critically engaged the discourse around art in public spaces with such innovative exhibitions as Places with a Past, Charleston (1991), Culture in Action, Chicago (1993), Conversation in the Castle, Atlanta (1996) and Evoking History, Charleston (2001-present). Away from large-scale sculptures on public...

In each of his graphically styled paintings, Michael Ray Charles investigates racial stereotypes drawn from a history of American advertising, product packaging, billboards, radio jingles, and television commercials. Through notions of beauty, ugliness, nostalgia, and violence, his work reminds us that we cannot divorce ourselves from a past that has led us to where we are, who we have become, and how we are portrayed. November 20, 2008

In each of his graphically styled paintings, Michael Ray Charles investigates racial stereotypes drawn from a history of American advertising, product packaging, billboards, radio jingles, and television commercials. Through notions of beauty, ugliness, nostalgia, and violence, his work reminds us that we cannot divorce ourselves from a past that has led us to where we are, who we have become, and how we are portrayed. November 20, 2008

"Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia," was an exhibition at the University of Arizona Museum of Art marking this exciting emerging printmaker’s first comprehensive solo museum presentation and monograph publication. Schmid’s “Gender Utopia” project explores notions of gender and liberty through images that fuse Old Master print precedents with a hip contemporary sensibility. Critical yet humorous, Schmid’s work is luxuriantly colored, exquisitely wrought, and iconographically rich. Her...

Natalie Ascencios received her BA and BFA at the New School for Social Research at Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design NY/Paris. Works first appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Review of Books, Rolling Stone, Time, as well as other publications. Ms. Ascencios' paintings can also be seen in the various competitive annuals of the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts and the Print Annuals. The Society of Illustrators has awarded her one gold...

Polly Johnson is a graphic design educator at the Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida. There her teaching is focused around three dimensional problem solving, typography, visual thinking and design process. Examples of her three dimensional student work can be found at the http://www.flatcities.blogspot.com. http://www.boxredux.blogspot.com. Recently, she is building a body of work { in the shadows } exploring the inscription of written words onto three dimensional clay...