Department of Art History

Pranathi Diwakar (PhD Candidate, Sociology) presenting Translation, Bilinguality, and Caste Identity in Musical Ethnographic Research. There is no pre-circulated paper. 

Jazmine Harris (Artist) and Stephanie Koch (Independent curator and Co-founder, Annas) presenting Articulating Worlds: Interviews as Third Space. 

Please join us this Thursday, February 4 for a presentation by Keenan Jay (MA Program in the Humanities Student, Art History) entitled "Oral History and Taste: Social Constellations of the 1980s East Village." There is no pre-circulated paper.

Kelly Lloyd (DPhil Student, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) will be presenting her work in progress, "Responsibilities of Care: Before, During, and After the Interview." There is no pre-circulated material. 

A presentation by Jennifer Sichel (Preceptor and Lecturer, MA Program in the Humanities, University of Chicago) on her essay "Warhol's Tone," forthcoming in Andy Warhol Exhibits: A Glittering Alternative, ed. Marianne Dobner (Walther König, 2020).

Join us for an informal, virtual chat. Topics may include digital sociology, video games, work in progress, technology, feminism, Chicago history.

Presenters: Crystal Beiersdorfer (Visual Arts Teaching Fellow), Cortlyn Kelly (MAPH), Abigail Taubman (MFA), Shane Rothe (MAPH)

Museums are invaluable sites to learn through close encounters with material objects. Physically present, we get a sense of their scale, texture, weight, color, material, making process, and more. However, recent guidelines for remote learning have posed a challenge for the way we might experience objects in the museum. What does it mean to “visit” the museum virtually? And what kinds of online technologies might we now use to learn from objects in new ways?

Last quarter we focused on the image files in your archive—metadata is the other major component for maintaining a personal image archive. Art Historians deal with object metadata all the time, so this 90 minute workshop will open with a brief overview of cataloging resources as a way to level-up your metadata game. We’ll spend the majority of the session discussing three different potential platforms for managing your image archive, their pros and cons, and how the VRC can help collaborate.

How do you navigate the rights of artists—and the photographers who document their work—in your dissertation, articles, and/or forthcoming book project? This workshop will be an open forum to discuss attendees’ questions and concerns. Anne Young, Director of Legal Affairs and Intellectual Property at Newfields, will discuss copyright related to art history, architecture, and public art and work through student case studies. Please bring your questions to the workshop or submit them in advance for consideration!

This workshop will introduce easy methods for creating and/or customizing your own digital images, maps, or diagrams in Photoshop to illustrate original arguments. We’ll cover different workflows using a desktop and tablet, as well as other software options. Great for students looking to create simple reconstructions of sites, architecture, or objects. 

Please use this link to register for the workshop.