Urban Art and the Network: Infrastructure Symposium

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Urban Art and the Network: Infrastructure Symposium

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Add to Calendar 2018-05-04 13:00:00 2018-05-04 19:00:00 Urban Art and the Network: Infrastructure Symposium URBAN ART AND THE NETWORK: INFRASTRUCTURE  A SYMPOSIUM with RAHUL MEHROTRA and CAMP 1:00 - 4:00pm      Panel (with lunch) 4:00 - 5:00pm      Rahul Mehrotra 5:15 - 6:15pm      CAMP 6:15 - 7:00pm      Reception This symposium asks how art and design address not only the material, formal, and formalizing qualities of infrastructure, but also its often impalpable implications. Permeating our existence by enabling daily life, infrastructure generally eludes scrutiny, rendered invisible through its material embeddedness or technological sophistication. From transportation to communication systems, from borders to electrical grids—infrastructure shapes not only the physical urban environment, but also the social, economic, and political structures within it.    Presenters: Julie Y. Chu (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology), Michael Fisch (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology), Karsten Lund (Assistant Curator, The Renaissance Society), Kate Marshall (Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame), Rahul Mehrotra (Principal of RMA Architects in Mumbai, India, and Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design) and  Ashok Sukumaran and Shaina Anand (CAMP, collaborative artists' studio based in Mumbai, India).    Free and open to the public. Gray Center Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
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URBAN ART AND THE NETWORK: INFRASTRUCTURE 

A SYMPOSIUM with RAHUL MEHROTRA and CAMP

1:00 - 4:00pm      Panel (with lunch)

4:00 - 5:00pm      Rahul Mehrotra

5:15 - 6:15pm      CAMP

6:15 - 7:00pm      Reception

This symposium asks how art and design address not only the material, formal, and formalizing qualities of infrastructure, but also its often impalpable implications. Permeating our existence by enabling daily life, infrastructure generally eludes scrutiny, rendered invisible through its material embeddedness or technological sophistication. From transportation to communication systems, from borders to electrical grids—infrastructure shapes not only the physical urban environment, but also the social, economic, and political structures within it.   

Presenters: Julie Y. Chu (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology), Michael Fisch (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology), Karsten Lund (Assistant Curator, The Renaissance Society), Kate Marshall (Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame), Rahul Mehrotra (Principal of RMA Architects in Mumbai, India, and Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design) and  Ashok Sukumaran and Shaina Anand (CAMP, collaborative artists' studio based in Mumbai, India).   

Free and open to the public.