It was announced this week, at the ACASA Triennial conference in Ghana that Professor Fromont's The Art of Conversion won "The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award” that “honors publications for excellence in scholarship on the arts of Africa and the African Diaspora.”
Congratulations to Prof. Wu Hung for being named the College Art Association's 2018 Distinguished Scholar at next year's CAA Annual Conference being held at the LA Convention Center in February. To register for the conference or for more information, visit the CAA website.
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A discussion on Urban planning with Will Cohen an Urban Planner with UTile architecture in Boston and Eric Hanss the Pedestrian Program Project Manager.
As a Fluxus artist, Vostell worked with a range of media, fitting performance installations with a combination of sculptural, painterly, photographic, and print-based processes, and common, everyday objects. Prior to his turn to creating “event-sculptures” in 1969, the materials Vostell used were often exhausted during the duration of the performance, discarded or else left in fragments called “happening fallouts” and accompanied by photographic documentation, including 16mm film and video.
Experimentation with industrial materials and technology distinguishes many 20th and 21st century avant-garde practices. Concrete Traffic’s combination of industrial materials and technical components reinforces the need for further scientific analysis and information exchange between the fine and applied arts, industry and science, as well as between the professionals who conserve industrial materials and consumer technologies in diverse contexts.
Irene Sunwoo, Associate Curator of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, will be giving her Smart Lecture entitled, Exhibiting Architecture in the Present Tense, followed by a reception in the Smart Museum.
Caspar Meyer is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. His field is in Greek art and its cross-cultural persistence and resurgence from antiquity to the present. His recent monograph, Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia (Oxford, 2013), explores the receptions of classical metalwork in ancient Scythia and Romanov Russia and their afterlife in modern theories of syncretism, hybridity and cultural identity.
October 24-25 is a forum where policymakers and knowledge producers meet to forge and develop long-term partnerships, and to discover cross-disciplinary and groundbreaking new ideas. The forum was established in 2002, by Norway’s embassies in Washington and Ottawa to promote ST&I cooperation. It has since then developed into an important annual transatlantic arena.
Professor Cummins focuses on Pre-Columbian and Latin American Colonial Art. Recent research interests include the analysis of early Ecuadorian ceramic figurines and the study of late Pre-Columbian systems of knowledge and representation, especially Inca, and their impact on the formation of 16th and 17th century colonial artistic and social forms. He was awarded his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1988.