This lunchtime series with the Poetry Foundation and Smart Museum of Art takes us into the wild world of human relationships in ancient Rome and Renaissance Europe that is both strange and oddly familiar. Together, we’ll investigate themes of trauma, transformation, and love during our current Pandemic epoch through the lens of Ovid’s poetry.
In 1974, Robert Rauschenberg made a series of prints called the Hoarfrosts with the legendary Los Angeles print studio Gemini G.E.L. The works featured ghostly images printed by solvent transfer onto gauzy, floating fabrics, hung so that they moved with the air.
SOLITUDE: A Dialogue on Today’s Architecture
Billie Tsien (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects) & Anthony Vidler (The Cooper Union/Princeton University) chaired by Sean Keller (IIT College of Architecture)
Kirk Nickel (scholar and curator of Renaissance art) will present a paper entitled "Moses and the Limits of Papal Vision: The Case for Conciliarism as Pictured in Renaissance Brescia." Christine Zapella (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) will offer a response.
Roko Rumora (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) will present a paper entitled “Putting Down Memories: Roman Mnemonics and Statue Display in Quintilian, Cicero and the Rhetorica ad Herennium”. Professor Seth Estrin (Art History) will offer a response.
Programmed intuition: Vera Molnar’s aesthetic experiments with the CRT screen
Presentation by Zsofi Valyi-Nagy (Art History Ph.D. Candidate). She will be presenting her pre-circulated paper titled “Programmed intuition: Vera Molnar’s aesthetic experiments with the CRT screen.” Zsofi’s paper is available on the RAVE website with the password “Molnar”.
How to narrate an interconnected Mesoamerican world
Please join us for the third session of Chat About, this Friday, April 2nd from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Topics may include: Southern U.S. Visual Culture, Japanese Conceptual Art, Temporality, Sci-Fi, Desire, Dematerialization, Large & Small, and Faces that may not be real.
"Korean Paper, a Trendy Item in Late Ming Literati Circle"
Speaker: Sooa Im McCormick (Curator of Korean Art, Cleveland Museum)
Discussant: Yoon-Jee Choi (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Please join us for the second part of our Qualifying Paper Symposium, co-sponsored by the RAVE and VMPEA workshops.
During this part of the event, the following second-year Ph.D. students in the art history department will present their QPs:
4:45 - 5:15 PM: Lucien Sun, "A Print in Flux: Rethinking the Print of Guan Yu from Khara-Khoto"