Jackson State University
Department of Art
Conference Dates: October 15–17, 2020 Online Question Submission Deadline: September 15, 2020 By April 2020, a third of the world population was on lockdown. As schools, businesses, and cultural institutions shut their physical doors to... more
Conference Dates: October 15–17, 2020 Online Question Submission Deadline: September 15, 2020 By April 2020, a third of the world population was on lockdown. As schools, businesses, and cultural institutions shut their physical doors to the world, organizations turned to digital technology to provide and enhance virtual cultural spaces online. While numerous digital initiatives, such as Google Arts & Culture began to preserve and provide access to cultural heritage objects online long before the global pandemic, the current situation has expanded the number of digital initiatives. Art history educators worked collaboratively in compiling lists of online resources to assist students and colleagues worldwide. Although the internet has helped many, the lockdown highlights significant connectivity and access inequality. In this roundtable, we will be addressing issues of access, equity, and diversity in online art resources, such as the digitization of collections and archives. What voices have overtaken digital spaces? How can we ensure that art is truly accessible to anyone, anywhere in 2020? Panellists: Elizabeth Guffey, Professor of Art and Design History, State University of New York, Purchase College; Kanika Gupta, Visual Artist and Graphic Storyteller; Adrienne Huard, Graduate Student in Criticism and Curatorial Practice, OCAD University; Key Jo Lee, Assistant Director of Academic Affairs, The Cleveland Museum of Art; Sequoia Miller, Chief Curator, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art; Isabel Pedersen, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, UOIT; Director, Decimal Lab; Canada Research Chair in Digital Life, Media and Culture. We seek questions for the roundtable panellists pertaining to challenges academic and cultural institutions face in making their spaces accessible, solutions to overcoming accessibility barriers, etc. https://accessingartroundtable.wordpress.com/ #virtualartaccess
Conference Dates: March 4–5, 2021 Online Abstract Submission Deadline: January 11, 2021 Keynote Speakers: Ngarino Ellis (The University of Auckland) and Mohammad Gharipour (Morgan State University) The Graduate Union of the Students of... more
Conference Dates: March 4–5, 2021 Online Abstract Submission Deadline: January 11, 2021 Keynote Speakers: Ngarino Ellis (The University of Auckland) and Mohammad Gharipour (Morgan State University)
The Graduate Union of the Students of Art (GUStA) at the University of Toronto is pleased to present the Eighth Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium in cooperation with the Department of Art History.
The world is connected by waves of movement and exchange, from land-based and ocean-faring migration to networks of objects and encounters. This symposium seeks to explore the historical and contemporary currents of networked mobility and places of exchange. We invite papers that reflect critically on ideas of geographies, scales, mobility, exchange, navigation, and migration. Papers will ideally engage with the boundaries of disciplines, area studies, and methodologies. We encourage submissions from students and scholars engaging with art and visual and material culture in any period, as well as those considering the visual through the lenses of history, sociology, literary and cinema studies, museum studies, and urban studies.
The Graduate Union of the Students of Art (GUStA) at the University of Toronto is pleased to present the Eighth Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium in cooperation with the Department of Art History.
The world is connected by waves of movement and exchange, from land-based and ocean-faring migration to networks of objects and encounters. This symposium seeks to explore the historical and contemporary currents of networked mobility and places of exchange. We invite papers that reflect critically on ideas of geographies, scales, mobility, exchange, navigation, and migration. Papers will ideally engage with the boundaries of disciplines, area studies, and methodologies. We encourage submissions from students and scholars engaging with art and visual and material culture in any period, as well as those considering the visual through the lenses of history, sociology, literary and cinema studies, museum studies, and urban studies.
- by Samantha Chang and +2
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- Art History, History of Art
Through the lens of "navigation" and "relocation," this symposium gathered together emerging scholars on the Asia-Pacific world, investigating the important role of transit, mobilities, encounters, and urbanization in the history of art... more
Through the lens of "navigation" and "relocation," this symposium gathered together emerging scholars on the Asia-Pacific world, investigating the important role of transit, mobilities, encounters, and urbanization in the history of art and visual culture.
- by Julia Lum and +1
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- Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, History of Art
The eighth annual Wollesen Memorial Symposium “Matrix of Mobility: Networks of Objects and Exchange” explored the historical and contemporary currents of networked mobility and places of exchange. Faced with the immobility associated with... more
The eighth annual Wollesen Memorial Symposium “Matrix of Mobility: Networks of Objects and Exchange” explored the historical and contemporary currents of networked mobility and places of exchange. Faced with the immobility associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the symposium investigated the history of a world connected by waves of movement, from land-based and ocean-faring migration to networks of objects and encounters
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, artists and scholars have pursued connections between modern art movements and scientific exploration and expertise. Particularly in discussions of Cubism and Futurism, artists and... more
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, artists and scholars have pursued connections between modern art movements and scientific exploration and expertise. Particularly in discussions of Cubism and Futurism, artists and historians have employed the terms 'fourth dimension', 'simultaneity', and 'space-time' in their artistic theories. Select scholars have connected the use of these terms with Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. This paper presents brief notes on this perceived intersection between Western science and art during the early to mid-twentieth century. It focuses on the Bauhaus master Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, for whom ideas of "space-time" offered new and dynamic possibilities for art and perception. Rather than solely trying to interpret or represent Einstein's theories in art, Moholy-Nagy considered the artistic implications of a theory that challenged the notion of absolute time and space. His writing on technology and the use of projected light to produce spatial modulation greatly impacted subsequent generations of artists. Moholy-Nagy also viewed greater collaboration within the disciplines of science and art as necessary. He argued that in order to best respond to the twentieth century a new generation of artists must be equipped with both technical and scientific expertise. 1 The use of the term 'primitivism' in Art History is indicative of how the Western world viewed non-Western cultures. In the early to mid-twentieth century, forms from African and Oceanic art in particular were employed by Western artists to announce a break with formal traditions of