The Objects Symposium, part of the 2017-2018 Sawyer Seminar on Urban Art and Urban Form, focuses on all that “stuff” in urban space that’s neither building nor infrastructure—benches, streetlights, bus shelters, sculptures, performance works, and small-scale projects. Less an intervention as they are a kind of tactical insertion into everyday space, urban objects—whether mobile or static, animate or inanimate—re-activate public space in various ways.
In this symposium for the 2017-18 Mellon Sawyer Seminar, we examine the expanded space of walls. Considering the dimensional spaces that walls define, create, inspire, and respond to, we will look at the role of walls in our cities and consider their social function as well as their form, how the two relate, and how works of art can inform or transform that relation. Walls divide us, but they can also form conduits for interaction and relation.
Children's Drawing as a New Source for War Historians
Manon Pignot, Maître de Conférence, Université Jules Verne de Picardie
Introduction and post-lecture discussion moderated by Neil Harris, Professor Emeritus, History & Art History, UChicago
Lunch will be provided, free of charge, for those who RSVP by noon on Thursday, November 9. Please RSVP via email to Dan Bertsche at ddb1@uchicago.edu
Art History PhD student Carl Fuldner and his research partner Shane DuBay (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago) recently published an article in the National Academy of Sciences showing "that the discoloration of ... birds in museum collections can be used to trace the amount of black carbon in the air over time and measure the effects of environmental policy on pollution."
The culminating lectures for the 75th anniversary of the Chicago Pile-1 experiment and the concurrent 50th anniversary of the unveiling of Henry Moore's Nuclear Energy sculpture. Features talks by eminent Moore scholar (and former Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator at Tate) Anne Wagner, architect Ludovico Centis, and principals Luke Ogrydziak and Zoe Prillinger from California-based firm Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects (the design team behind Nuclear Thresholds, the temporary architectural installation on the CP-1 site).
Traditions Reinterpreted: Text and Image in Wu Zhen’s Eight Views of Jiahe (1344)
Yifan Zou, Ph.D. Student, Art History
A Visual Study of the Front Panel of a Tang Dynasty Buddhist Shrine
Zhenru Zhou, Ph.D. Student, Art History
The Mechanical Heart: Analogies of the Lever and Leverage in Early China
Boqun Zhou, Ph.D. Candidate, EALC
Art as Media is a Message for Universality: Road of Light and Hope: The Eurasian Trail of Wisdom (Σοφια) — between East and West
ITO Miro, Independent artist, author, and producer
Between Journalism and Propaganda: The Assassination of Song Jiaoren in Minglibao
GU Zheng 顾铮, Professor and Vice-Director of the Research Center for Visual Culture, School of Journalism, Fudan University
Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute
*Note: This talk will be delivered in Chinese
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