Spring 2007 Colloquia

Hi everyone:
The Spring 2007 Colloquia got underway yesterday with a model in theory/practice convergence -- a presentation by the installation artist, Perry Hoberman, and the theorist/historian Anne Friedberg, both from USC. It was a dynamic beginning to a very diverse group of presenters this semester. Please check out the line-up, and we hope you can join us. All events are free and open to the public.

February 2, 2-5pm, CRT 175
Perry Hoberman, installation and media artist, Interactive Media, School of Cinematic Arts, USC and Anne Friedberg, Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, USC
Title: "Critical Parallax: the Binocularity of Theory and Practice."

February 23, 2-5 pm, CRT 175
Laura Marks, Dena Wosk University Professor, Art and Cultural Studies, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
Title: "Travels of the Abstract Line: New Media's Debt to Islamic Aesthetics."

March 2, 2-5 pm, CRT 175
Liz Phillips, College of Art & Design, SUNY/Purchase, interactive audio artist and Paula Rabinowitz, Professor of English, American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies, University of Minnesota
Title: "Tuning/Interacting/Collaborating."

March 30, 2-5 pm, CRT 175
George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of Music, Columbia University
Title: "Living with Creative Machines"

April 6, 2-5, CRT 175
Susana Ruiz, Interactive Media, School of Cinematic Arts, USC
Title: “Merging Gravity and Play: A Case Study”

April 27, 2-5 pm, CRT 175
Norah Zuniga Shaw, Director, Dance and Technology, Dance Department, The Ohio State University and Luc Vanier, Department of Dance, UWM.
Title: “The Body and Technology in Process: Devising Generative Methods of Exchange”

May 11, 2-5, CRT 175
Toni Dove: Interactive digital video and installation artist
Title: “Spectropia: Haunting the Movie”