Founded in 1868, the Visiting Artists Program is one of the oldest public programs of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Formalized in 1951 with the establishment of an endowed fund by Flora Mayer Witkowsky, the Visiting Artists Program has featured over 1,000 international artists, designers, and scholars representing more than 70 countries through a diverse mix of lectures, screenings, conversations, and readings.
The SAIC Visiting Artists Program recordings are made available to the SAIC community via Panopto (saic.edu/video) a few weeks following each event. Please note, not all lectures are available for public release, in compliance with the speakers' wishes.
To access rare, recently digitized recordings from SAIC's Visiting Artists Program, including talks by renowned contemporary artists and scholars Susan Sontag, Barbara Kruger, Guerrilla Girls, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and many others, visit digitalcollections.saic.edu.
Guadalupe Maravilla
September 12, 2023
Presented in partnership with SAIC Wellness Center.
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Rebecca Morris: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
October 3, 2023
Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Engagement.
Raven Chacon: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor
October 17, 2023
Cannupa Hanska Luger
October 24, 2023
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen
November 7, 2023
Screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center November 1, 2023
Jacolby Satterwhite in Conversation with Jada-Amina
November 14, 2023
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation’s Conversations at the Edge series and SAIC Galleries.
Stephanie Dinkins
February 6, 2024
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Fernando Laposse
March 5, 2024
Presented in partnership with SAIC's Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects and the UIC School of Design Public Seminar Series.
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Douglas Kearney
March 12, 2024
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Ruba Katrib & Yasmil Raymond in Conversation
Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
March 26, 2024
Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Engagement.
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Kimsooja & Jaeho Chong in Conversation
April 2, 2024
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Walter Hood: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor
September 20, 2022
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Wu Tsang: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
September 27, 2022
Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Relations
Tsai Ming-Liang
October 3, 2022
This program is collaboratively presented by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Visiting Artists Program, the Gene Siskel Film Center and SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation’s Conversations at the Edge series. Presented in partnership with the Ministry of Culture-Taiwan Cultural Center in New York, the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago, Doc Films, and Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Programmed with support from J. Michael Eugenio. Presented as part of Tsai Ming-Liang's US tour to Cambridge, Chicago, Washington DC, and New York City.
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Holland Cotter
October 18, 2022
Nicole R. Fleetwood in Conversation with Maria Gaspar
Artmaking and Incarceration
November 7, 2022
Presented in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival and the Terra Foundation series on American Art.
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Brendan Fernandes
We Came to Dance
February 28, 2023
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Torkwase Dyson
March 7, 2023
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Whitaker Malem
March 14, 2023
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Fashion Council and the Penny Stamps Speaker Series at the University of Michigan.
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Haas Brothers
March 21, 2023
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Athena LaTocha: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
April 4, 2023
Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Relations
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Firelei Báez (POSTPONED)
william cordova: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
September 14, 2021
Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Relations
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Katie Paterson
September 28, 2021
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Amitav Ghosh
October 5, 2021
Shirin Neshat: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor
October 12, 2021
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Hito Steyerl
October 19, 2021
Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu in Conversation
November 8, 2021
This program is presented in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, in conjunction with the multipartner, multivenue exhibition Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40.
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Cameron Rowland in Conversation with Richard Birkett
February 9, 2022
Presented in partnership with the Society for Contemporary Art
Trenton Doyle Hancock
February 22, 2022
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Department of Painting and Drawing
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Bani Abidi: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
March 1, 2022
Presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and SAIC Alumni Relations
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Barak adé Soleil
March 31, 2022
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Wellness Center and Department of Performance
Ikko Yokoyama
April 5, 2022
Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture Series in SAIC’s Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
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Fred Moten
May 12, 2022
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Low-Residency MFA program
Fred Wilson
September 22, 2020
Presented in partnership with the Society for Contemporary Art
Ocean Vuong
October 6, 2020
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Writing Program
Irma Boom
October 13, 2020
Presented in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago
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Ebony G. Patterson: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor
October 27, 2020
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Nyugen E. Smith: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
November 10, 2020
Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Relations
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Raqs Media Collective
November 17, 2020
Co-produced with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and the Stamps Gallery at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Yinka Shonibare CBE in Conversation with Delinda Collier
February 23, 2021
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Wellness Center and Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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Pedro Reyes
March 2, 2021
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Meg Onli: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
March 16, 2021
Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Relations
Miranda July in Conversation with Jennifer Reeder
March 30, 2021
Presented in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago and SAIC’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation
Ian Cheng
April 4, 2021
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation’s Conversations at the Edge series
Nayland Blake: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor
September 9, 2019
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles
September 24, 2019
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice
Park McArthur
October 1, 2019
Presented in partnership with the Society for Contemporary Art
Eddie Opara
October 15, 2019
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Jeffrey Gibson: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
October 28, 2019
Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Relations
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Aaron Williamson
November 5, 2019
Emil Ferris: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
February 11, 2020
Presented in partnership with SAIC Alumni Relations
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Industrial Facility
February 25, 2020
Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture Series in SAIC’s Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Suzanne Anker
March 10, 2020
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Conversations on Art and Science Series
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Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well
April 29, 2020
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Amanda Williams: Bill & Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor
September 10, 2018
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Cassils
September 17, 2018
Danh Vo in conversation with Hendrik Folkerts
October 3, 2018
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Sumakshi Singh: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
October 8, 2018
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Jeremy Deller
October 15, 2018
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Eyal Weizman
October 23, 2018
Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture Series in SAIC’s Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
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Ibrahim Mahama
November 5, 2018
Presented in partnership with SAIC's Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice
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Elmgreen & Dragset
February 5, 2019
Bouchra Khalili
February 20, 2019
Presented in partnership with the Society for Contemporary Art and SAIC’s Office of Multicultural Affairs
Emory Douglas
March 5, 2019
Rodney McMillian: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
April 3, 2019
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
Newton Harrison
April 6, 2019
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Conversations on Art and Science Series
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Martha Rosler
April 16, 2019
Presented in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago
Laura Owens: Bill & Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor
September 12, 2017
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
September 19, 2017
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
Do Ho Suh
October 9, 2017
Mark Dion
October 16, 2017
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Conversations on Art & Science Series
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Sarah Schulman
October 24, 2017
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Gareth Pugh in Conversation with Gillion Carrara & Caroline Bellios
November 1, 2017
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Department of Fashion Design and the Fashion Resource Center
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Stefan Sagmeister
November 13, 2017
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Department of Visual Communication Design. Additional support provided by the Architecture & Design Society at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Huma Bhabha
February 7, 2018
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Yuri Suzuki
February 13, 2018
Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture Series in SAIC’s Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects and the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Learning and Public Engagement and the Architecture & Design Society
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Işıl Eğrikavuk: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
March 6, 2018
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Alok Vaid-Menon
March 12, 2018
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, Department of Performance, and Writing Program
Simone Leigh
March 20, 2018
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Office of Engagement, Homan Square
Nari Ward
April 18, 2018
Maggie Nelson
April 30, 2018
Presented in partnership with the Poetry Foundation and SAIC’s Writing Program
Cao Fei
September 1, 2016
Presented in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Museum Education
Fischerspooner: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
September 21, 2016
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Claudia Rankine: President's Inaugural Distinguished Lecturer
September 27, 2016
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Office of the President and Diversity Advisory Group
Tal R
October 4, 2016
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Department of Painting and Drawing
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Juliana Huxtable
October 11, 2016
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Josh Kline
October 17, 2016
Ann Cvetkovich
November 2, 2016
Caroline Bergvall
November 15, 2016
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Ann Hamilton: Bill & Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor
February 7, 2017
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Sonya Clark: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
March 28, 2017
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
Daniel Joseph Martinez
April 3, 2017
Presented in partnership with the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies
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Wael Shawky
April 12, 2017
Presented in partnership with SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation's Conversations at the Edge series
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Walid Raad
April 25, 2017
Chris Ware: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor
September 3, 2015
Jeff Koons: 150th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture
September 21, 2015
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of the President and Office of Alumni Relations
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
September 29, 2015
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Kunlé Adeyemi
October 5, 2015
Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lectureship in the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects.
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Sarah Vowell: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
October 29, 2015
Presented in collaboration with the Chicago Humanities Festival and SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
Rona Pondick
November 4, 2015
Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lectureship in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies.
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Richard Mosse
November 12, 2015
Presented in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
Christian Boltanski
December 8, 2015
Presented in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
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Tom Kalin: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
February 10, 2016
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Xu Bing
February 22, 2016
Presented in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Museum Education and SAIC’s Printmedia department.
Joep van Lieshout
March 7, 2016
Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lectureship in the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects.
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Diane Simpson: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
April 5, 2016
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Sophie Calle
April 27, 2016
Theaster Gates: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor
September 2, 2014
Irene Hofmann: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
September 16, 2014
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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In Dialogue: Claire Bishop and Claire Doherty, Moderated by Mary Jane Jacob
October 2, 2014
Wade Guyton in Conversation with Susan Tallman
October 15, 2014
Lewis Hyde: The Common Self
November 6, 2014
Presented in conjunction with the symposium A Lived Practice on the occasion of the exhibition A Proximity of Consciousness: Art and Social Action, on view September 20 - December 20, 2014 at SAIC's Sullivan Galleries
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Anab Jain
November 11, 2014
Support provided by the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series of the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Henrik Håkansson
December 2, 2014
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Conversations on Art & Science lecture series
Wafaa Bilal: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
February 5, 2015
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
Christiane Baumgartner
February 23, 2015
Arlene Shechet
March 9, 2015
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Graham Pullin
March 16, 2015
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Daniel Sousa
April 9, 2015
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation’s Conversations at the Edge series
Natalie Chanin
April 21, 2015
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Andrea Zittel: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor
September 9, 2013
Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho
September 16, 2013
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies
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Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
September 24, 2013
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Conversations on Art & Science lecture series and supported in part by the Office of the President
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George Saunders
October 9, 2013
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Toyo Ito
October 15, 2013
Jointly supported by SAIC’s Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies; William H. Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects; the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; the Butler-VanderLinden Lecture on Architecture endowment for the Architecture & Design Society at the Art Institute of Chicago; and AIA Chicago. Additional support by the National Building Museum
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Kuho Jung
October 28, 2013
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Department of Exhibitions & Exhibitions Studies, and Department of Fashion Design
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
November 12, 2013
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Beatriz Milhazes
December 3, 2013
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Ron Athey
February 4, 2014
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program and Department of Performance
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Kendell Geers
February 20, 2014
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Trevor Paglen: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
March 3, 2014
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
Xaviera Simmons
March 12, 2014
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Jennifer Doyle
March 25, 2014
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program and Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Roberta Smith
April 2, 2014
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program, Department of Painting and Drawing, and New Arts Journalism program.
Catherine Opie: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor
September 10, 2012
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Stephen Burks
September 25, 2012
Andi Zeisler
October 3, 2012
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Tania Bruguera: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
October 15, 2012
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Aaron Koblin
October 25, 2012
Jean Shin
November 7, 2012
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Lari Pittman
November 12, 2012
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Martha Schwartz
February 5, 2013
Presented in partnership with the William H. Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
February 25, 2013
Presented in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute Chicago.
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Julie Ault
March 47, 2013
Jacob Hashimoto: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
March 19, 2013
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Josiah McElheny
March 27, 2013
Rosa Barba
April 11, 2013
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge and Video Data Bank.
Vaginal Davis
April 29, 2013
Homi K. Bhabha
September 8, 2011
Presented by SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program and Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago
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September 26, 2011
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Bill Fontana: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor
October 5, 2011
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Wolfgang Laib in Conversation with Mary Jane Jacob and Nora A. Taylor
October 17, 2011
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies
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Jenni Sorkin: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
November 2, 2011
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Amar Kanwar
November 16, 2011
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies and SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge.
Suzanne Lee
December 6, 2011
Sam Lipsyte and Ben Marcus
February 7, 2012
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Writing Department
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Emily Pilloton: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
February 16, 2012
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Marilyn Minter
March 12, 2012
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Brent Green
March 28, 2012
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge
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Kellie Jones
April 5, 2012
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Pearl Fryar
April 18, 2012
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Roger Brown Student Collection and Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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Tehching Hsieh
April 24, 2012
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Harry Pearce
September 21, 2010
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María Martínez-Cañas: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
October 5, 2010
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Camille Utterback
October 25, 2010
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Martha Wilson
November 9, 2010
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Lynda Barry
November 15, 2010
Richard Sennett
December 6, 2010
Presented in collaboration with the William H. Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lecture Series in the Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects and Fiber and Materials Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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José Muñoz
February 7, 2011
Presented in collaboration with DePaul University, LGBTQ Studies Program
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Lisa Freiman
February 28, 2011
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Kori Newkirk: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
March 8, 2011
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Painting and Drawing Department and Office of Alumni Relations
Yael Bartana
March 10, 2011
Tobias Putrih
March 31, 2011
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Wangechi Mutu
April 12, 2011
Learning Modern
This lecture series bridges the historic roots of American modernism with the critical practices of contemporary artists and architects and is presented in conjunction with the Learning Modern exhibition at SAIC's Sullivan Galleries on view September 26, 2009-January 9, 2010. These timely reappraisals of the Modern coincide with Chicago's Burnham Plan Centennial, the opening of the Art Institute's Renzo Piano Modern Wing, and the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus in Germany—with its dream of artists, architects, and designers, working together to make a better world. This series also springs from recognition of artist-educator László Moholy-Nagy’s emigration to Chicago in 1937, followed by architect Mies van der Rohe one year later, transplanting Bauhaus ideologies expunged from wartime Germany. Learning Modern speakers bring this living legacy into our own time. This series is part of the Living Modern Chicago program, a collaboration of SAIC and the Mies van der Rohe Society/Illinois Institute of Technology, in partnership with other cultural institutions in Chicago and is sponsored in part by SAIC Department of Exhibitions, the Mies van der Rohe Society at IIT, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Getty Images and Alicia Rosauer and Robert Segal.
Narelle Jubelin
September 16, 2009
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
September 24, 2009
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Andrea Deplazes
October 8, 2009
Presented in collaboration with The William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture Series presented by SAIC’s Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects in collaboration with the Consulate General of Switzerland, Think Swiss and the Goethe-Institut Chicago
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Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
October 13, 2009
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations and Department of Exhibitions and Exhibitions Studies.
Christian Veddeler
October 19, 2009
Presented in collaboration with ACADIA, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Chicago, and the Goethe-Institut Chicago
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Liisa Roberts
October 28, 2009
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge
Jorge Pardo
November 10, 2009
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Saya Woolfalk: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
February 2, 2010
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Doug Aitken
February 22, 2010
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Amy Franceschini
March 11, 2010
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Doris Salcedo
March 15, 2010
Presented in collaboration with the William H. Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lecture Series in the Department of Fiber and Materials Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Matt Keegan
April 6, 2010
Ryan Trecartin
April 14, 2010
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge.
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Hybrid Realities
This lecture series brings together artists using classical or figurative imagery to negotiate contemporary reality. Many of the participating artists are interested in hybridizing the vast encyclopedia of available images, reworking influences from art history, fairy tales, low art and advertising culture, which combined with technical virtuosity can result in a hybrid fiction, a post-surrealist, neo-romantic or futuristic space connected by the urgency of narrative.
Alison Bechdel
September 23, 2008
Patrick Rosenkranz
October 7, 2008
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Nicole Eisenman
October 14, 2008
Piotr Dumala
November 13, 2008
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Inka Essenhigh
December 1, 2008
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Sanford Biggers: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
September 3, 2008
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Marek Cecula
October 22, 2008
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Omer Fast
October 23, 2008
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge and Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies
Candice Breitz
November 4, 2008
Jenny E. Sabin
November 17, 2008
Presented in collaboration with the William H. Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lecture Series in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Art and the Right to Believe
In a world where the freedom to see from any and every perspective brings about confusion and clarity in equal measure, this series brings together artists and other thinkers to address the questions generated by examining the relationships between art, lived experience, culture, institutions, and ultimately, the nature of belief itself.
Andrea Fraser
February 12, 2009
Terry Eagleton
February 18, 2009
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Mark Bauerlein
March 3, 2009
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Gareth James
March 18, 2009
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Joe Zucker in conversation with Klaus Kertess: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
April 7, 2009
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations and SAIC’s Department of Painting and Drawing
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Richard Tuttle and Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
April 16, 2009
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The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production
This lecture series accompanies the release of the publication The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production, published by SAIC Press and MIT Press and edited by Joan Livingstone and John Ploof. Exploring the personal, political, social, and economic meaning of work through the lens of art and textile production, the ubiquity of cloth in everyday life, the historically resonant relationship of textile and cloth to labor, and the tumultuous drive of globalization make the contemporary issues raised by this series of special interest. Supported in part by the William H. Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lecture Series in the Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects and Fiber and Materials Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Joan Livingstone and John Ploof
September 6, 2007
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Pepón Osorio
September 12, 2007
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Barbara Layne
September 26, 2007
Kevin Murray
October 3, 2007
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Janis Jefferies
October 10, 2007
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Art and Politics
This lecture series features artists and scholars addressing the ebb and flow of contemporary political art and explores the pitfalls and possibilities of making art that engages both politics and society.
Joshua Mosley: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
September 24, 2007
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Dan Perjovschi
October 8, 2007
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Donald H. Russell
November 7, 2007
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Andrea Bowers and Marcos Ramírez ERRE
November 15, 2007
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Andy Bichlbaum from The Yes Men
November 28, 2007
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Fiona Wright
October 15, 2007
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Department of Performance
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky
November 7, 2007
Presented on the occasion of Link City Chicago, a collaboration between SAIC and the Chicago History Museum.
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Rirkrit Tiravanija
January 30, 2008
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Department of Exhibitions & Exhibition Studies and the open Practice Committee/Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, with assistance from the Chicago Cultural Center
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Willie Doherty
February 5, 2008
Susanne Lorenz
March 17, 2008
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Ângela Ferreira
March 24, 2008
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Suzie Silver: Distinguished Alumni Performance
April 25, 2008
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
Art and Environmental Consciousness
Natalie Jeremijenko
September 27, 2006
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Beth Coleman
October 4, 2006
Mel Chin
October 11, 2006
Accra Shepp
October 25, 2006
Negotiated Localities: Artists, Designers and Citizens in a Green City
This lecture series invites a diverse community to dive deeply into the subject of how a city is best sustained. Interactive sessions, workshops and installations by leading artists and thinkers—global and local— will focus on Chicago as a site for sustainable urban practices. Refreshments from local green eateries, an expert-guided bus tour of sustainable initiatives and projects throughout Chicago and the ability to make your voice heard through Open Mic, makes this first-time event one not to be missed. Presented in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s symposium Massive Change and the City: Global Visionaries Symposium featuring Mayor Richard M. Daley, Bruce Mau, Stewart Brand, Hazel Henderson, and John Todd. Supported by Mayor Daley and the Chicago Department of Planning and Development and SAIC’s Betty Rymer Gallery.
Chris Luebkeman
November 19, 2006
Eames Demetrios
November 19, 2006
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Michele Gambetta/ The RIDER Project
November 19, 2006
Veronica Cordeiro
November 19, 2006
Tracey Rose
September 13, 2006
Presented in collaboration with Polvo; the Liberal Education Department at Columbia College; Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College, and Radio Arte
Nato Thompson
October 16, 2006
Maria Korosteleva
October 30, 2006
CEC Artslink Fellow
George Kuchar and Anne McGuire
November 1, 2006
Wagner Malta Tavares
November 6, 2006
Artist-in-Residence, Iberê Camargo Foundation Grant
Elizabeth Peyton
November 8, 2006
Magdalena Abakanowicz
November 13, 2006
Chris Johanson
November 29, 2006
Paul Chan: Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Lecture
December 5, 2006
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations.
Gender At Issue
This lecture series will examine renewed constructions of gender.
Alma Lopez
February 26, 2007
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Sadie Benning
March 7, 2007
Presented in collaboration with Video Data Bank.
Kalup Linzy
March 28, 2007
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Judith Halberstam
April 9, 2007
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Global Fits
This lecture series features an international selection of fashion designers, providing a global perspective on contemporary, innovative design. Funded in part by Shirley Schnackenberg, Lisa Warshauer and the Baila Foundation.
Strangelove: Ziemek Pater and Carlo Gibson
April 4, 2007
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House of Diehl: MJ Diehl and Roman Milisic
April 11, 2007
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Caroline Evans
April 18, 2007
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Lucy Orta
April 25, 2007
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Symposia
A New Institutionalism? Where Artists and Curators Meet
February 24, 2007
Larry Rinder, Eungie Joo, Michael Brenson, Ute Meta Bauer and Lisa Wainwright
This symposium will consider the manifestation of a “new institutionalism” in the academic and public programs of art schools. Locating their remarks within their present institutional contexts, the panelists will discuss their practice— making exhibitions, commissioning artists’ work, creating new art projects and academic initiatives, and undertaking disciplinary art research within the academic environment.
John Gerrard: Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
March 12, 2007
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Office of Alumni Relations
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Lida Abdul
February 19, 2007
Visiting artist-in-residence with SAIC’s Performance Department
States of Art Criticism Symposium: What do art critics do?
This series of lectures, seminars, workshops, and roundtables represents a major international event focused on art criticism featuring some of the world's most important art critics and theorists.
James Elkins: Conditions of Art Criticism
October 10, 2005
Hélène Cixous: Arts of Escaping: Simon Hantai, Roni Horn and Other Writers
October 10, 2005
James Panero: Why Critics Are Not Your Friends
October 11, 2005
Dave Hickey: Art After Criticism
October 11, 2005
Public Round Table
October 11, 2005
Ariella Budick, James Elkins, Dave Hickey, Stephen Melville, Michael Newman, James Panero
Reaction: A Response to States of Criticism Round Table
October 31, 2005
Michelle Grabner, Kathryn Hixson, Lane Relyea, Hamza Walker, Terry Myers
Co-presented with SAIC’s Department of Painting and Drawing
Criticism in the State: Nuts & Bolts, Hopes & Fears of Local Art Criticism
November 21, 2005
Elijah Burgher, Ruth Lopez and Deb Wilk, Moderated by Michelle Grabner and Kathryn Hixson
Barry McGee
October 19, 2005
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Isaac Julien
October 26, 2005
J. Morgan Puett
November 9, 2005
Co-presented with SAIC’s Sculpture Department
Alison Knowles
November 16, 2005
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Allan deSouza
November 28, 2005
Rodney Graham
November 30, 2005
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Image & Text: Writing Off The Page
This lecture series examines the relationship between image and text in contemporary art. It explores the work of artists who skillfully employ written language or text in their projects as well as writers whose projects have visual meaning and significance.
The Critical Front (Patricia J. Williams, Ben Vinson III, Sheri L. Parks and Stanford W. Carpenter)
February 23, 2006
Clarissa Sligh
March 1, 2006
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Thomas Hirschhorn
March 13, 2006
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William T. Wiley
April 6, 2006
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Raymond Pettibon
April 10, 2006
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Steve Tomasula
April 17, 2006
Elliott Earls
April 26, 2006
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Kimsooja
May 3, 2006
Peggy Phelan
March 16, 2006
Diego Piñón
March 20, 2006
Co-sponsored by Links Hall.
/ Mapping / Culture / Border / Hacking /
This lecture series examines the work of artists, artist-collaboratives, and film/video makers whose work addresses or proceeds from shifts in articulations of global culture, politics of the border and dilemmas of transnational or diasporic identities as a spatial concern. Special attention is given to artists who use the gesture and organizational logic of mapping, cartographic sciences and the grid to locate identity as well as its displacements. Lead Corporate Sponsor: Sara Lee Foundation.
Emily Jacir
September 16, 2004
Mark Bradford
October 6, 2004
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Brian Holmes
October 13, 2004
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Matthew Coolidge
November 10, 2004
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Ellen Gallagher
November 15, 2004
Coco Fusco
November 18, 2004
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Roddy Bogawa
November 1, 2004
Noon-Hour Talks
This series of lunch box talks address the increasing number of artists responding to issues such as uneven development, gentrification, and the increasing privatization of public, intellectual and creative space using acts of mapping. These contemporary forms of intervention challenge the spatial and political norms of organization and representation. SAIC staff, faculty, students and alumni have been asked to present their work, and the work of others, to help foster institutional dialogue.
Confronting Division and Difference: Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe and the European Union
Elena Jovanova and Paige Sarlin
October 12, 2004
Landscapes and Monuments
Deborah Stratman and Ellen Rothenberg
November 9, 2004
Artist as Urban Planner
Emily Forman and Eric Triantafillou
November 23, 2004
Kip Fulbeck
October 7, 2004
Co-sponsored by SAIC’s Dean’s Office and Campus Life. Fulbeck performed the work “Sex, Love, Hapa Men and You.” (Screening)
Tina Barney
October 20, 2004
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Roddy Bogawa and Chris Brokaw
November 1, 2004
Sebastian Cichocki
November 11, 2004
Co-sponsored by Fundação Iberê Camargo and CEC Artslink. A film screening featuring the works of Igor Krenz, Artur Zmijewski, Hubert Czerpok, and Ksawery Kaliski presented in conjunction with Chichocki’s lecture.
Thick Design
This lecture series describes the work of artists and designers who explore the denseness of space, time, networks, text, and material in their projects. Notions of ThickSpace, ThickWare, ThickThought, ThickProduction, and ThickPractice will be explored. Co-presented by SAIC’s Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects; Art and Technology Studies; Film, Video and New Media; and Visual Communication Design Departments. Lead Corporate Sponsor: Sara Lee Foundation.
Casey Reas
February 24, 2005
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Petra Blaisse
March 7, 2005
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Vito Acconci
March 16, 2005
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Karim Rashid
March 30, 2005
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Enzo Mari
April 20, 2005
DEARRAINDROP: Joe Grillo, Laura Grant and Billy Grant
March 23, 2005
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Nick Lowe
April 11, 2005
David Adjaye
April 26, 2005
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Call and Response: Art in the Age of Hip-Hop Culture
This lecture series explores the influence of hip-hop music and culture on global art making and art discourse. In keeping with the "call and response" nature of hip-hop music, many of the events will be in the form of discussions or dialogues which examine the impact that hip-hop culture has had on contemporary art making as well as art historical scholarship.
Lydia Yee
September 24, 2003
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Marcyliena Morgan
October 2, 2003
Adrian Piper
October 9, 2003
President’s Council Honorary Visiting Artist
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Greg Tate
October 22, 2003
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Fred Brathwaite aka Fab 5 Freddy with Charlie Ahearn
November 5, 2003
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Renée Green
November 12, 2003
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Panel Discussion
Local Round-Up
December 3, 2003
Miguel Aguilar, Max King Cap and Dzine, Moderated by Raymond Codrington
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Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment and Matthew Goulish of Goat Island
February 3, 2004
Co-sponsored by Performing Arts Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Supported in part by the British Council.
The Atlas Group/ Walid Raad
February 25, 2004
Andrew Bolton
March 10, 2004
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Chakaia Booker
March 17, 2004
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Un-Framed
In an effort to reclaim some space for artists (and art making) outside of, or beyond, the production of a narrative or framing structure, the Visiting Artists Program is theme-less for the Spring 2004 season.
Experimental Narrative Films from India
March 4, 2004
These film screenings feature two contemporary Indian filmmakers exploring the boundaries of documentary and fiction. Co-presented by SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge and Student Life.
Vipin Vijay
KSHURASYA DHARA (THE RAZOR’S EDGE) (2002)
Pooja Kaul
WINTER TRAIL (2002)
RASIKAN RE (O LOVER OF LIFE) (2002)
Chicago Critics Caucus: The Critic Speaks
April 21, 2004
Susan Snodgrass, Michael Workman, Terence Hannum, Polly Ullrich and Margaret Hawkins, Moderated by James Yood
This lecture series features Chicago based art correspondents for Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Sculpture, New City, Fiberarts, the Chicago Sun-Times, GLASS, Bridge, tema celeste, Aperture, Metalsmith, Frieze, American Craft, panel-house.com, Art & Auction, etc. assessing the role and relevance of art criticism in Chicago today. Among the topics to be addressed are the changing role of art criticism in contemporary art, the possibilities of regional art criticism, the responsibilities of a critic to his or her community, and the viability of print and magazine criticism in an increasingly diversified media environment. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Art Critics Association.
Amazwi Abesifazane: Voices of Women
Several representatives from South Africa will discuss the embroidered and beaded artworks, called "memory cloths," created by South African women to document their lives during and after apartheid and featured in Amazwi Abesifazane: Voices of Women, exhibit at the Betty Rymer Gallery. A project of the Durban-based organization Create Africa South, the Chicago presentation of this exhibition marks the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid. Supported in part by the South African Consulate, Office of the Deans, Department of Fiber and Material Studies, Department of Visual Critical Studies, William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lectureship in Fiber and Material Studies, and The Sara Lee Foundation.
Panel Discussion
April 28, 2004
Andries Johannes Botha, Promise Tholakele Zuma and Lindiwe Baloyi, Moderated by Carol Becker
Near: Alternative Models for Creative Practice
April 29, 2004
Carol Becker, Maria Benfield, Pat Guy, Michael Piazza and Amazwi Abesifazane project representatives
This panel discussion looks specifically at projects and artists that engage directly with community to create a space for dialogue, community empowerment and social history.
Marketing Memory/Collecting Culture gallery talk by Roger Brown Study Collection curator Lisa Stone
May 11, 2004
Peter Schjeldahl
May 4, 2004
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Jeremy Blake
May 5, 2004
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A Particular Time and Place: 1980's East Village Art
This lecture series highlights the phenomenon of art production in New York's East Village during the 1980s, and explores the intricacies of this particular art scene. Featuring artists, critics and historians whom will expand upon Artforum’s 1999 lament, and reframe the East Village art phenomena in terms of community, relationships to irony and pop culture.
David Robbins
September 18, 2002
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Arto Lindsay
September 23, 2002
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René Ricard
October 2, 2002
Peter McGough (of McDermott and McGough)
October 7, 2002
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Jeffery Deitch
October 16, 2002
Sponsored by the President’s Council
Panel Discussion
Local Round-Up: 1980s East Village Art
October 23, 2002
Michelle Grabner and Gregory Sholette, Moderated by Romi Crawford
After the End of History: Rethinking the Image of the Past
This lecture series features artists and scholars whose works address the problem of historical representation.
Eleanor Antin
November 6, 2002
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Glenn Ligon
November 11, 2002
James Young
November 18, 2002
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Jeremy Deller
November 25, 2002
Panel Discussion
Local Round-Up: Representing History
December 4, 2002
Moderated by Dan Eisenberg
Catharine Draper
October 8, 2002
Ralph Bourque
October 9, 2002
Deconstructing God
This lecture series includes artists whose works employ and also critique traditional religious doctrine, imagery and ideology, with a special emphasis on exploring feminist or womanist revisions of established religious doctrine.
Renée Cox
February 26, 2003
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Helène Aylon
March 5, 2003
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Christian Jankowski
March 12, 2003
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Bernard Williams
March 19, 2003
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Alicia Ostriker
April 14, 2003
Forcefield
March 26, 2003
Co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds
April 10, 2003
Co-presented by SAIC’s Art Education and Visual and Critical Studies Departments
Ricardo Dominguez
April 28, 2003
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Dave Eggers
July 23, 2003
Co-sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of Minimalism - Part 1
This lecture series examines the powerful impact of minimalism on contemporary art, its steady influence on art practitioners, and our ironic relationship to its aesthetic and anti-aesthetic value. Despite its elite artistic valuation, minimalist art remains controversial; yet Minimalism continues to provide young artists with the principles of objectivism, seriality, industrial finish, and new materials, and the minimalist ethic provides a context for some of today’s most significant art.
Hal Foster
September 20, 2001
Julian Dashper
September 17, 2001
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
October 1, 2001
James Meyer
October 4, 2001
Athena Tacha
October 17, 2001
David Batchelor
October 29, 2001
Vanessa Beecroft
November 28, 2001
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Panel Discussion
The Legacy of Minimalism
October 15, 2001
Jeffrey Skoller, Kathryn Hixson, Julio Simms and Carrie Lambert, Moderated by David Raskin
Technophilia: Media Interventions, Creative Technologies, and the Digital Influence on the Arts - Part 1
This lecture series explores the relationship of digital media and new technologies to various art fields and disciplines, intended to highlight the "new" interdisciplinary spirit, which often determines art practice in this decade of rapidly developing computer technologies.
Mark Tribe
October 24, 2001
Michael Rees
November 5, 2001
Ben Knapp and Andy Hope
November 7, 2001
Kodwo Eshun
November 12, 2001
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David Antin
November 15, 2001
Janet Zweig
November 20, 2001
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David Rokeby
November 26, 2001
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Dan Collins
December 3, 2001
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Brian Tokar
December 5, 2001
Design Initiative: Cutting-Edge Issues in Contemporary Design
This lecture series explores issues ranging from the impact of technology to how design can act as a provocative art form, with a focus on how critical design can re-work attitudes of contemporary material and visual culture.
Michael and Katherine McCoy
December 6, 2001
Technophilia: Media Interventions, Creative Technologies, and the Digital Influence on the Arts - Part 2
This lecture series explores the relationship of digital media and new technologies to various art fields and disciplines, intended to highlight the "new" interdisciplinary spirit, which often determines art practice in this decade of rapidly developing computer technologies.
Jessie Shefrin
February 13, 2002
Arthur Jafa
February 20, 2002
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Victoria Vesna
February 27, 2002
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Lev Manovich
March 6, 2002
Deborah Willis
March 11, 2002
Anne Trubek
March 14, 2002
Act/Art: Art with Community
This lecture series investigates how art programs can genuinely become integrated into various types of "communities" to serve social, educational, therapeutic, and aesthetic ends. Art practices that involve residents or constituents of local communities in the making of art are addressed and the timeless question about the role of the artist in society is posed, begging us to consider the import and impact of art making on the public sphere.
Omayra Amaya, Joaquín Encinias and José Valle “Chuscales” Fajardo
March 18, 2002
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Dan Kwong
March 25, 2002
Janis Timm-Bottos
April 10, 2002
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Phyllis Kornfeld
April 15, 2002
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Daoud Kuttab
April 22, 2002
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Tom Poole
April 29, 2002
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Elizabeth Barret
May 6, 2002
Panel Discussion
Art with the Local Community
April 27, 2002
This panel discussion focuses on local art, activism and community projects. It is one of a series of events held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Critical Mass at University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art.
Stylistic Hybrids: Contemporary Indian Figurative Painting - Part 2
This lecture mini-series focuses on the significance of contemporary Indian figurative painting with two of India's most revered living artists and a well-respected curator of Indian art.
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
April 16, 2002
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Geeta Kapur
April 17, 2002
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Bhupen Khakhar
April 18, 2002
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Noon-time Lectures
These noon-time lectures, presented in conjunction with Stylistic Hybrids- Part 2, provide a grounding for the series. Co-presented by SAIC’s Painting and Drawing Department.
Barbara Rossi
India’s Popular Painting Traditions and Contemporary Visual Culture
April 9, 2002
Betty Seid
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Indian Painting in the 20th Century
April 10, 2002
Michael Rabe
Cave and Court-Painting in Pre-Colonial India
April 11, 2002
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of Minimalism - Part 2
This lecture series examines the powerful impact of minimalism on contemporary art, its steady influence on art practitioners, and our ironic relationship to its aesthetic and anti-aesthetic value. Despite its elite artistic valuation, minimalist art remains controversial; yet Minimalism continues to provide young artists with the principles of objectivism, seriality, industrial finish, and new materials, and the minimalist ethic provides a context for some of today’s most significant art.
Sarah Caplan
January 30, 2002
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Ernie Gehr
April 11, 2002
Curators and Critics
This lecture series investigates the processes inherent in framing contemporary art from the perspectives of presentation and interpretation of work in concert with its critical analysis.
Diedrich Diederichsen
September 6, 2000
Co-sponsored by The University of Chicago’s Renaissance Society
Cay-Sophia Rabinowitz
September 11, 2000
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Grant Kester
September 25, 2000
Franklin Sirmans
October 2, 2000
Jeffrey Kipnis
October 9, 2000
Marjorie Perloff
October 18, 2000
Valerie Steele
October 25, 2000
Eddie Chambers
December 11, 2000
Dick Hebdige
September 30, 2000
Stylistic Hybrids: Contemporary Asian Art - Part 1
This lecture series investigates aspects of stylistic hybridity in the work of contemporary Asian artists. Providing a cross-section of artists from all regions of Asia including Vietnam, China, India, Korea, and Iran, these individuals have engaged in the migratory patterns of nomadic global citizen— their voices have been shaped not solely by the inherited culture of their birthplace, but also by geographic and cultural encounters.
Vong Phaophanit
November 1, 2000
Xu Bing
November 6, 2000
Rina Banerjee
November 13, 2000
Fariba Hajamadi
November 20, 2000
Yeon Kim Yu
November 27, 2000
Cai Guo-Quiang
December 6, 2000
Attack of the Killer Animation
This lecture series highlights the "new wave" of animation and its phenomenal infiltration of both popular culture and contemporary art. Animation as a cultural phenomenon amongst Baby Boomers and Generation Xers has given rise to the significant cultural, social, and moral shifts in society. This series features artists working as animators and cartoonists, as well as other artists whose work incorporates animation, or the animation format, as a primary tool.
Laylah Ali
February 22, 2001
Michael Ray Charles
February 26, 2001
Joe Sacco
March 7, 2001
Arturo Herrera
March 12, 2001
Chris Sperandio
March 16, 2001
Roger Shimomura
March 26, 2001
The Art of Club
This lecture series explores the intersection of sound and the visual arts. Since the 1960s, artists and musicians have collaborated in live performances, giving rise to aspects of early video and sound art, as well as significantly impacting the disciplines of sculpture, fashion, poetry, prose, and performance. Today, the widespread use of technologies has enabled an expansion of this tradition from the art museum into popular culture (dance halls, clubs, etc.). Through an investigation of the historical antecedents and present day manifestations, this series demonstrates the intimate relationship between two seemingly disparate worlds.
Piotr “Style” Wyrzkowski
March 29, 2001
Renata Stih and Dr. Freider Schnock
April 2, 2001
Paul D. Miller, aka D.J. Spooky
April 5, 2001
Robert Ashley
April 9, 2001
Jem Cohen
April 16, 2001
Steina and Woody Vasulka
April 23, 2001
Charlie Ahearn
April 20 2001
John Lurie
May 16, 2001
Into Space: Reconciling the Physical through Digital Technology
This lecture series investigates the deconstruction and re-materialization of the physical through digital technology. Artists featured throughout this two-month series engage technology to explore issues of the body, social interaction, architecture, and cityscapes, as well as the new frontier of interactive media.
Steve Kurtz
September, 22, 1999
Animal Charm (Rich Bott and Jim Fetterly)
September 29, 1999
Bill Lundberg
October 4, 1999
Elizabeth Diller
October 13, 1999
Asymptote (Hani Rashid and Lisa Anne Couture)
October 18, 1999
Dan Sadin
October 25, 1999
Michal Rovner
October 27, 1999
Sadie Plant
November 3, 1999
Co-presented by SAIC’s Fiber and Material Studies Department.
Cry of my Birth: Five contemporary African Artists
This lecture series augments Cry of My Birth, a consortium residency project developed by the Visiting Artists Program. The project, which celebrates the next generation of contemporary artists from Africa, integrates studio programs, seminars, and other public programs at SAIC, the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gallery 400, the Renaissance Society, Columbia College, and Northwestern University. “Conversations in the Ballroom” is a component of the residency project designed to engage core resident artists in a dialogue with both scholars and artists. Funded in part by the Lannon Foundation.
Moshekwa Langa
November 1, 1999
Ghada Amer
November 8, 1999
Siemon Allen
November 15, 1999
Fatimah Tuggar
November 22, 1999
Julie Mehretu
November 29, 1999
Conversations in the Ballroom, Part 1: Visual Language, Visual Linguistics and Contemporary African Art
November 7, 1999
Diran Adebayo, Andrea Barnwell, and Tumelo Mosaka, Moderated by Olu Oguibe
This panel discussion, presented in conjunction with “Cry of My Birth,” is designed to bring together artists participating in the project in dialogue with scholars, historians, critics and other practitioners in order to provide a context for contemporary art practice.
Conversations in the Ballroom, Part 2: Romantic Nomadism and the Landscape of Contemporary African Art
Carol Becker, Quincy Troupe, Okwui Enwezor
December 5, 1999
Jim Hodges
November 17, 1999
Co-presented by SAIC’s Fiber Department. Supported in part by the William H. Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lecture Series in the Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects and Fiber and Materials Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Alison Ferris
October 11, 1999
Co-presented by SAIC’s Fiber Department. Supported in part by the William H. Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lecture Series in the Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects and Fiber and Materials Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bill Viola
October 15, 1999
Museum of the 21st Century
This lecture series contemplates the notion of the museum of the 21st century through the voices of contemporary art curators, practitioners, and architects. Through their investigations of the museum's physical form- its collections, as well as the expansion of new genres- audiences will delight in the prospect of the future.
Peter Wollen
February 21, 2000
Zaha Hadid
February 28, 2000
Co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Irit Rogoff
March 1, 2000
Connie Wolf in dialogue with Mary Jane Jacob
March 6, 2000
John R. Clarke
March 13, 2000
Liisa Roberts
March 27, 2000
John Hanhardt
April 3, 2000
Painting Symposium 2000
This symposium explores issues confronting the practice of painting and visual language. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Telesthesia and Amnescopia on view at the Betty Rymer Gallery. Co-presented by SAIC’s Painting and Drawing Department.
Lane Relyea
March 6, 2000
Barry Schwabsky
March 8, 2000
Jan Avgikos
March 8, 2000
Telesthesia and Amnescopia
March 9, 2000
Anoka Faruqee, Stuart Elster, Julia Fish and Nick Frank, Moderated by Matthew Girson
Pictures and Institutions
March 9, 2000
Barry Schwabsky, Francesco Bonami, James Rondeau and Sarah Gavlak, Moderated by Marilu Knode
Virtually Formal
March 9, 2000
David Robbins, Kerry James Marshall, Susanne Doremus and Alex Brown, Moderated by Lane Relyea
Contemporary Cinema: Selections from the Whitney Biennial 2000
This lecture series explores the theoretical, thematic, and technological movements in contemporary film and video through the voices of five artists included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial 2000 in conjunction with screenings of the Biennial’s Cinematic Touring Exhibition. Co-presented by the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Rethinking Documentary
April 12, 2000
Although their subjects vary, these works share a critical relationship in their inquiry into the nature of “truth” and the reliability of the documentary genre through the use of devices such as simulation, silence, and the complicity with the subject.
Jem Cohen and Fugazi
INSTRUMENT (1999)
Ruth Leitmen
ALMA (1998)
American Life
April 19, 2000
Perhaps more than any other medium, contemporary film and video have investigated the rich fabric of regional American values and identities. In these works, particular attention is given to the contours and aspects of American identity often suppressed or ignored by mainstream media.
Robin Bernat
EFFORTLESS: THREE PRELUDES BY CHOPIN (1998)
Nic Nicosia
MIDDLETOWN (1997)
Chris Sullivan
CONSUMING SPIRITS (Part 1) (1997-2000)
Obsessions
April 26, 2000
The works in this program embody a particularly intense exploration of subject matter, imagery and the filmmaking craft itself. A complex array of imagery is revealed which examines the artist’s preoccupation with form, technique, and visual intensity.
Rolf Belgum
DRIVER 23 (1998)
Nathaniel Dorsky
VARIATIONS (1992-98)
Joe Gibbons
MULTIPLE BARBIE (1998)
Les LeVeque
2 SPELLBOUND (1999)
Jennifer Reeder
NEVERMIND (1999)
Tran, T. Kim-Trang
OCULARIS: EYE SURROGATES (1997)
Alloy Orchestra Performs Live!
METROPOLIS (1926) (accompaniment)
May 1, 2000
Transforming Personae
May 4, 2000
A focus of individuals, both real and imagined, who have struggled to achieve a sense of self and unburden themselves of cultural prejudices, and societal and familial opposition.
Sadie Benning
FLAT IS BEAUTIFUL (1998)
Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake
THE HISTORY OF GLAMOUR (1998)
Mandy Morrison
DESPERADO (1997)
Ayanna U’Dongo
ABORIGITRON: AFFAIRS OF THE HYBRID HEART (2000)
Rethinking Documentary II
May 8, 2000
Although their subjects vary, these works share a critical relationship in their inquiry into the nature of “truth” and the reliability of the documentary genre through the use of devices such as simulation, silence, and the complicity with the subject.
Sharon Lockhart
TEATRO AMAZONAS (1999)
Wars of Our Time
May 10, 2000
Films screened in this series range from explorations of lesser-known consequences of the wars in Cambodia and Lebanon to works that engage—both on fantastic and practical levels—the simmering conflicts created by a current web-based guerilla operation that targets corporate America, and a history of corporate warfare on media freedom.
Rebecca Baron
OKAY BYE-BYE (1998)
Walid Raad
THE DEAD WEIGHT OF A QUARREL HANGS (1999)
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Bringing IT to YOU! (1998)
Tran T. Kim-Trang
EKLEIPSIS (1998)