Speaking of Art: Zsofi Valyi-Nagy

Speaking of Art: Zsofi Valyi-Nagy

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Add to Calendar 2021-03-11 12:30:00 2021-03-11 14:00:00 Speaking of Art: Zsofi Valyi-Nagy Speaking of Art. Co-coordinator Zsofi Valyi-Nagy presenting (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) presenting Herstory or mine? Writing feminist histories of art with self-mythologies in mind. Zsofi Valyi-Nagy is a fifth-year PhD candidate in art history. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of postwar art, technology, and gender. Zsofi received a dual BA in Visual Arts and Linguistics from the University of Chicago, followed by an MSt in English Language from the University of Oxford, with a master’s thesis tracing linguistic changes in contemporary art criticism since the 1960s. As a fellow with the Fulbright and Dedalus Foundations, she is currently based in Paris, France, where she is working on her dissertation, “Vera Molnar’s Programmed Abstraction: Computer Graphics and Geometric Abstract Art in Postwar Europe.” Her work with Molnar led her to spearhead this workshop series, Speaking of Art: Artist Interviews in Scholarship and Practice, now in its fourth year. Zsofi is also a practicing artist and holographer, and is the manager of a very talented rescue dog named Buckets (@bucketsinparis). Please click here to register for the event. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email and a link to join the meeting.  Zoom Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public

Speaking of Art. Co-coordinator Zsofi Valyi-Nagy presenting (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) presenting Herstory or mine? Writing feminist histories of art with self-mythologies in mind.

Zsofi Valyi-Nagy is a fifth-year PhD candidate in art history. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of postwar art, technology, and gender. Zsofi received a dual BA in Visual Arts and Linguistics from the University of Chicago, followed by an MSt in English Language from the University of Oxford, with a master’s thesis tracing linguistic changes in contemporary art criticism since the 1960s. As a fellow with the Fulbright and Dedalus Foundations, she is currently based in Paris, France, where she is working on her dissertation, “Vera Molnar’s Programmed Abstraction: Computer Graphics and Geometric Abstract Art in Postwar Europe.” Her work with Molnar led her to spearhead this workshop series, Speaking of Art: Artist Interviews in Scholarship and Practice, now in its fourth year. Zsofi is also a practicing artist and holographer, and is the manager of a very talented rescue dog named Buckets (@bucketsinparis).

Please click here to register for the event. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email and a link to join the meeting.