Thursday, January 23, 2025
3PM – 4:30PM
Dudley Recital Hall

Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer. She holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from Bard College. Most recently, her work has been exhibited at Light Work, the Silver Eye Center of Photography, and at Le Rencontres d’Arles; it is currently in exhibition at the Bronx Museum of Art, with upcoming solo shows at the Des Moines Art Center, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC). Box has been an artist-in-residence at the Center of Photography at Woodstock, the Visual Studies Workshop and at Light Work. She has been awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Photography twice: in 2010 and in 2022, an En Foco Fellowship, and a Silver Eye Fellowship. In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, and the Prix De La Photo Madame Figaro. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston and of the Harvard Art Museums.

Thursday, February 6, 2025
5:30PM – 6:30PM
Dudley Recital Hall 

Helen Armstrong is a Professor of Graphic & Experience Design and the Director of the MGXD Program at NC State University. Her research focuses on digital rights, human-machine teaming, and accessible design. Armstrong authored Graphic Design Theory; Digital Design Theory; and authored Participate: Designing with UserGeneratedContent.Her current book, Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers ShouldCare About Artificial Intelligence, demystifies A.I.—specifically machine learning— while inspiring designers to harness this technology and establish leadership via thoughtful human-centered design.Armstrong is a past member of the AIGA National Board of Directors, the editorial board of Design and Culture, and a former chair of the AIGA Design Educators Community.NC State named her a University Faculty Scholar in 2018. Her research partners have included IBM, Redhat, REI, Advance Auto Parts, SAS, SealedAir, the Department of Defense, and the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
11:30AM – 1PM
Dudley Recital Hall

Jessica L. Horton is an associate professor of modern and contemporary Native North American art at the University of Delaware. Her first book, Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation (2017), traces the impact of Native American land-based struggles on artists working internationally since the 1970s. Her second book, Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art and Reciprocity, 1953–1973 (2024) examines how artists mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth at the center of Cold War international relations. Her scholarship has been supported by the Clark Art Institute, the Getty Research Center, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Book Award, among other honors.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
3PM – 4:30PM
Dudley Recital Hall 

Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa, b.1985) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Through a mixed media practice combining artificial and natural materials together, Baker creates abstract landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see, and explore within them. The materials, texture, shapes, and color relationships are guided by Baker's Mandan/Hidatsa culture to explore how identity can relate to innate objects. Baker has had recent solo exhibitions at de Boer, Los Angeles, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; Pied-à-Terre, San Francisco; and Interface Gallery, Oakland. Group exhibitions include Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, and Marin MOCA, Marin, CA. Baker is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow, and was an artist-in-residence at Fogo IslandArts in Newfoundland in 2022. Baker was the 2020 Native American fellow at the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, WY. She was a Tournesol Award artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA as well as a Headlands Affiliate artist-in-residence. Baker received her B.A. from Fordham University, and MFA from California College of the Arts.

Thursday, October 31, 2024
11:30AM – 1PM
TBD

Shahzia Sikander expands and subverts pre-modern and classical Central and South-Asian painting traditions through a broad range of materials and methods, including miniature painting, works on paper, video, mosaic, and sculpture. Distinguished for launching the neo-miniature movement, Sikander investigates conceptual premises in language, trade, empire, migration through feminist perspectives, colonial, and imperial power structures through her far-reaching practice. Sikander’s innovative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her traveling exhibition on the first 15 years of her art practice, Extraordinary Realities, opened at The Morgan Library in New York in 2021 and traveled to the RISD Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Shahzia Sikander: Unbound, opened in 2021 at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, and explored the artist’s innovative use of manuscripts. Sikander is a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and received the United States Medal of Arts in 2012. The artist became a Fukuoka Laureate in 2022 as a recipient of the Arts and Culture Prize from Fukuoka City, Japan. She earned her B.F.A. from National College of Arts in Lahore, an M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design, and participated in Glassell School of Art’s CORE Program at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

February 15, 6:30-8:30 pm
5:30–6:30 pm, Reception
Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building
Speaker Series Archive on Youtube! 

Paul McNeil is a graphic designer, educator, and writer. In 2009, he co-founded MuirMcNeil with Hamish Muir, a London-based practice focused on exploring systematic methods in design for visual communication. McNeil has extensive experience in design education and was Course Director of the Master’s Programme in Typographic Design at the London College of Communication from 2010 to 2015. The Visual History of Type, McNeil’s definitive survey of typefaces from 1450–2015, was published in 2017, and Letters from M/M (Paris), his monograph on the renowned French studio’s type and letterforms, in 2022.   

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March 28, 3-5:00 pm, CT
Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building
Speaker Series Archive on Youtube! 

Zora J Murff is an artist and educator living in Northwest Arkansas. In 2019, Murff was named an Aperture Portfolio Prize finalist, a PDN 30 honoree, and a Light Work Artist-in-Residence; he was one of eight artists chosen for the most recent iteration of the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography series, Companion Pieces: New Photography 2020. His work was presented at the 2021 Rencontres d’Arles, France, as part of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award. His works are housed in many notable US institutions and collections including, Studio Museum, SFMOMA, LACMA, and MoMA.

“Zora J Murff. He is Black; therefore, he is.”

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October 17, 2:30-4:30 pm
Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building

Joan Kee is a professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on how modern and contemporary artworks challenge our understanding of words like “world,” “value,” “abstraction,” and “scale.” Published in 2023, her latest book The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity, asks how we might tell a history of art that begins with the global majority, spanning Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe. Kee is a contributing editor at Artforum, an editor at large for the Brooklyn Rail, as well on the advisory boards of Art History, the Oxford Art Journal, Modernism/modernity, and Art Margins. She was the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History at Williams College in 2021, a 2019 Kresge Artist Fellow, and a 2022–23 Ford Scholar at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

October 26, 3-5:00 pm
Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building

Na Mira lives in Los Angeles. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include Whitney Biennial 2022, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Company Gallery, New York; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; Paul Soto and Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Art Sonje Center, Seoul; and Blaffer Art Museum, Houston. Mira graduated from University of California Los Angeles, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches at University of California, Riverside. Her works are in the public collections of Walker Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Wendy’s Subway published the first collection of Mira’s writing.

November 2, 3-5:00 pm
Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building
Speaker Series Archive on Youtube! 

Un Trabajador social usa la metáfora y la analogía para desempolvar la historia y activar la memoria a través de la conciencia y el sentido para cristalizar y materializar el modo ancestral al mundo del arte. Ex-cultor por conciencia, Des-pintor por desobediencia, subraya EL CODIGO ETICO EPICO ANCESTRAL. Estudia en la Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas Rafael Rodríguez Padilla Guatemala. Diversas exposiciones colectivas en Guatemala y en el extranjero. Propone la Iniciativa de ley 42-2016 al Congreso de la República de Guatemala el cambio del nombre del estadio nacional de futbol Matero Flores, 9 de agosto 2016 cambia el nombre del estadio a ‘’Doroteo Guamuche’’. Propone y suplica al estado de Guatemala el retorno de la ´´Silla´´ de Atanasio Tzul, por 201 años estuvo fuera de su lugar, el 12 de julio 2021 el Estado de Guatemala entrega la´´silla´´ a las autoridades de los 48 cantones de Totonicapán, y al pueblo de Totonicapán. Exposiciones personales: ‘’Sangre de mi Sangre’’ San Pedro Lago Atitlan, Guatemala 2016. ‘’Madre Nosotros También Nosotros Somos Historia’’ Casa Pensativa, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala 2016. “Diamante Típico” galería Pilar, Sao Paulo, Brasil 2015. “Muxu’x” Ciudad de la Imaginación, Quetzaltenango. Guatemala 2015. Exposición “Chunches” en el MADC Museo de Arte de Diseño Contemporáneo. San José, Costa Rica 2014.

November 9, 3-5:00 pm
Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building

Mark Thomas Gibson's personal lens on American culture stems from his multifaceted viewpoint as an artist—as a black male, a professor, and an American history buff. These myriad and often colliding perspectives fuel his exploration of contemporary culture through languages of drawing, painting, print, and sculpture revealing a vision of a satirical, dystopian America where every viewer is implicated as a potential character within the story.

Mark Thomas Gibson (b. 1980, Miami, FL) received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. He is represented by M+B in Los Angeles and Loyal in Stockholm. In 2016, he co-curated the traveling exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo. Gibson has released two artist books, Some Monsters Loom Large (2016) and Early Retirement (2017).

In 2021, Gibson was awarded residencies at Yaddo and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency. He was awarded a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, PA and a Hodder Fellowship from Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Gibson was most recently awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY

February 2, 6:30-8:30 pm, CT
Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building
also on Instagram Live and Youtube!

Reception: 5:30–6:30 pm

Liza is the Creative Director at Studio Dumbar/DEPT®. Studio Dumbar/DEPT® is an award winning international agency with a Dutch heritage, specialising in visual branding and motion. Liza is directly involved with all main projects such as the visual identity for NGO Alzheimer Nederland, D&AD Creativity festival, brand refresh of the van Gogh Museum and co-initiator of Demo - Design in Motion Festival. She is an MA Design graduate from the Royal College of Art, London. Before joining Studio Dumbar she worked for Pentagram London for several years.


Liza is cofounder and host of Typeradio.org the first podcast station to focus on type and design with over 550 episodes giving a voice to the established and upcoming designers from all around the world. 

As of 2018 she has been elected member into the prestigious design association AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale. And since 2020 she has been appointed as co-President of the ADCN - the Advertising and Design Club of Creativity in the Netherlands.

 

February 16, 3-4:30 pm, CT
Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building
also on Instagram Live and Youtube!

 

William Camargo is an Arts Educator, Photo-Based Artist and Arts Advocate born and raised in Anaheim, California, he is currently serving as Commissioner of Heritage and Culture in the city of Anaheim and holds an M.F.A at Claremont Graduate University. He is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos.  He attained his BFA at the California State University, Fullerton, and an AA from Fullerton College in photography.

William has held residencies at Project Art, the Chicago Artist Coalition, ACRE, and at LA Summer held at Otis School of Art and Design. He has also participated in the New York Times Portfolio Review,  NALAC's(National Association of Latino Arts & Culture) Leadership(2018), and Advocacy(2020) Institutes. He is a current member of Diversify Photo an initiative started to diversify the photography industry. He was awarded the Friedman Grant and J. Sonneman Photography Prize from CGU and has given lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Gallery 400(Chicago), University of San Diego,  Cal State Long Beach, the Claremont Colleges, USC Roski School of Art, Stanford(upcoming).

February 23, 3-4:30 pm, CT
Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building
also on Instagram Live and Youtube!

 

Samara Golden was born in Michigan in 1973 and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2009. Her most recent project “The Meat Grinder’s Iron Clothes” was featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Golden has had recent solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; YBCA, San Francisco; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; and CANADA, New York. Her work was included in the 2014 Hammer Biennial, and Room to Live at MOCA Los Angeles. In 2015 a monograph on Golden was published by MoMA PS1, and her work has been written about in ArtForum, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Mousse, among other publications. Golden’s work is in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum, New York; LACMA, and MOCA Los Angeles; The Zabludowicz Collection, London; and Yuz Museum, Shanghai. She lives in Los Angeles.

Sama Alshaibi, 2001, image: Zakiriya Gladney

February 3, 6 pm, CT
Reception, 5–6 pm

In person: Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building
also on Instagram Live!

Sama Alshaibi, Guggenheim Fellow and internationally renowned artist, makes art at the intersections of photography, performance and sculpture. In this lecture, she will discuss her performances that depict her body as a powerful feminized site resisting the pretext for subjection in the aftermath of war and migration. Her talk will touch on the themes that animate her work: dispossession, mobility, margins, refuge, entropy and future/historic imaginings.   

Working between photography, video, and installation, Sama Alshaibi (b. 1973, Iraq) links themes of dispossession, mobility, margins, refuge, entropy, and future/historic imaginings. Alshaibi's performances depict her body as a powerful feminized site resisting the pretext for social subjection in the aftermath of war and migration. In 2021, Alshaibi was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, and a recipient of the Phoenix Art Museum's 2021 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award. She was also a recipient of a 2019 Artpace San Antonio residency and the 2018 Arab Fund for Arts & Culture Visual Arts Grant. Alshaibi’s exhibitions include the 55^th Venice Biennale; State of the Art 2020 (Crystal Bridges Museum of Art); 2019 Cairo International Biennale; 2017 Honolulu Biennial; American University Museum, Washington D.C.; SMoCA; MARTa Herford Museum (Germany); Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (NY); MoMA (NY); Arab American National Museum (Michigan); Pen + Brush (NYC); Institut Du Monde Arabe (Paris); and Ayyam Gallery (UK/UAE). Her monograph, Sama Alshaibi: Sand Rushes In (New York: Aperture, 2015), features her Silsila series. Alshaibi is Professor of Photography, Video and Imaging at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

February 24, 6 pm, CT
Reception, 5–6 pm

In person: Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building
also on Instagram Live!

Ramón Tejada is a (New Yorkino / Afro-Caribbean / American) designer (as Estudio Ramon) and educator based in Providence, RI. He works in a hybrid design/teaching practice focusing on collaboration, inclusion, unearthing and the responsible expansion of design a practice he has named “puncturing.” Ramon is an Assistant Professor in the Graphic Design Department at RISD.

April 7, 6 pm, CT
Reception, 5–6 pm

In person: Dudley Recital Hall
132D Fine Arts Building
also on Instagram Live!

Rubén Ortiz-Torres was born in Mexico City in 1964. Educated within the utopian models of republican Spanish anarchism soon confronted the tragedies and cultural clashes of post-colonial third world. Being the son of a couple of Latin American folklore musicians he soon identified more with the noises of urban punk music. After giving up the dream of playing baseball in the major leagues, and some architecture training (Harvard Graduate School of Design) he decided to study art. He went first to the oldest and one of the most academic art schools of the Americas (the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City) and later to one of the newest and more experimental (CalArts in Valencia CA). After enduring Mexico City's earthquake and pollution he moved to Los Angeles with a Fulbright grant to survive riots, fires, floods, more earthquakes, and proposition 187. During all this he has been able to produce artwork in the form of paintings, photographs, objects, installations, videos, films, customized machines, curatorial projects and even an opera. He is part of the permanent Faculty of the University of California in San Diego. He has participated in several international exhibitions and film festivals. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Artpace in San Antonio, the California Museum of Photography in Riverside CA, the Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid Spain among others. After showing his work and teaching art around the world, he now realizes that his dad's music was in fact better than most rock’n roll.

March 30, 1 p.m., CT

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Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition movement, starting the first Transition initiative in his town of Totnes in 2006. He is the author of several books on the subject including The Transition Handbook and The Power of Just Doing Stuff. His most recent book, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want, explores the decline of imagination in our culture and what we might do about it. He hosts the podcast series “From What If to What Next” and lectures and writes widely on the subject. He has a PhD from the University of Plymouth and honorary ones from the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. He has done 1 TED Global talk, and 4 TEDx presentations, and he is a founder director of the New Lion Brewery in Totnes. His blog is robhopkins.net, and you'll find him on Twitter as @robintransition. In his spare time he draws and makes lino prints.

April 1, 6:30 p.m., CT

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Lisa E. Harris, Li, is an independent and interdisciplinary artist, creative soprano, performer, composer, improvisor, writer, singer/songwriter and educator from Houston Texas. Recognized by Huffington Post as "one of fourteen artist transforming Opera," Li’s work resists genre classification as she focuses on the energetic relationships between body, land, spirit and place. Using voice, theremin, movement, improvisation, meditation and new media to explore spatial awareness, relationality, panoptical surveillance and sonic profiling, she maintains a focused concentration on healing in performance and living.  She is the founder and creative director of Studio Enertia, an arts collective and production company in Houston Texas. Studio Enertia is the producer of Harris’s recently completed 10-year durational work, Cry of the Third Eye, a new opera film in Three Acts that archives the effects of gentrification on her Houston neighborhood. Li recently created and curated Houston’s inaugural Free Time Flow Festival at MacGregor Park, celebrating the intersections of basketball, electro-acoustic music and improvisational performance. She is responsible for instating and curating Pauline Oliveros Day at Discovery Green Houston. Li can be heard on her much-anticipated release EarthSeed a live performance album based on the writings of Octavia Butler, composed by Lisa E Harris and Nicole Mitchell on FPE records.

https://lisaeharris.com/

April 8, 6:30 p.m., CT

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Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and performer based in Los Angeles. Coming from a background in animation, Matreyek creates live, interdisciplinary performances where she interacts with her animations as a shadow silhouette, at the intersection of cinematic and theatrical, fantastical and physical, and the hand-made and digital. Her work exists in a dreamlike visual space that makes invisible worlds visible, often weaving surreal and poetic narratives of conflict between humanity and nature as embodied performed experiences. She has presented her work all around the world, including animation/film festivals, theater/performance festivals, art museums, science museums, tech conferences, and universities. A few past presenters include TED, MOMA, SFMOMA, New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival, REDCAT, The Walker, The Wexner, and many more. Her newest solo piece, Infinitely Yours, was awarded the grand prize for Prix Arts Electronica’s Computer Animation category.

April 30, 2 p.m., CT

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Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is a specialist of modern and contemporary art addressing issues concerning gender, sexuality, and race. Professor Kim is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918 (Ashgate). In his co-edited, interdisciplinary anthology Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry (Routledge), Kim discusses Robert Gober and anti-patriarchal temporality. Currently, he is completing his next book, Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood, which explores narratives of subjectivity formation and corporeal incoherence in the works by Aubrey Beardsley, Jean Cocteau, Francis Bacon, Robert Gober, David Hockney, and Andrew Ahn.

http://www.art.cmu.edu/people/jongwoo-jeremy-kim/

Coral Forest, at Lehigh University Art Galleries (2019). Photo © Institute for Figuring

January 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Dudley Recital Hall
Fine Arts Building, Room 132

Reception, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Dudley Recital Hall

Margaret Wertheim is an internationally noted writer, artist and curator whose work focuses on relations between science and the wider cultural landscape. Her work is animated by a two-fold proposition: that science is both a field of conceptual enchantment, and a socially embedded activity with political and communal consequences. The author of six books, including The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Physics on the Fringe, she has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, Cabinet, Aeon and many others. Margaret and her twin sister Christine are founders of the Institute For Figuring, a Los Angeles-based practice devoted to the aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics – theiff.org. The sisters have created exhibitions for the Hayward Gallery (London), Science Gallery (Dublin), Mass MOCA (MA), Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles), and elsewhere. Their Crochet Coral Reef project has been shown nationally and internationally including at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Deutsches Museum (Munich), the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (Washington D.C.), and the 2019 Venice Biennale. Margaret has worked professionally on all seven continents and stood on the South Pole.

Science Class from Hale County This Morning, This Evening.
© IDIOM Film, Courtesy RaMell Ross & Cinema Guild

February 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Dudley Recital Hall
Fine Arts Building, Room 132

Reception, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Dudley Recital Hall

RaMell Ross earned a BA in both English and Sociology from Georgetown University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and his writing has appeared in such outlets as The New York Times and Walker Arts Center. He was part of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2015, and a New Frontier Artist in Residence at the MIT Media Lab. In 2016, he was a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, winner of an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant and a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow. In early 2017, he was selected for Rhode Island Foundation’s Robert and Margaret Maccoll Johnson Artist Fellowship. RaMell is currently on faculty at Brown University’s Visual Arts Department. Hale County This Morning, This Evening is his first feature documentary.

Hand-held, 2012. Produced at Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts contemporains

February 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Fine Arts Building, Room TBA

Reception, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
TBA

David Rokeby's early work Very Nervous System (1982-1991) was a pioneering work of interactive art, translating physical gestures into real-time interactive sound environments. It was presented at the Venice Biennale in 1986, and was awarded a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art in 1991.

Several of his works have addressed issues of digital surveillance, including Taken (2002), and Sorting Daemon (2003). Other works engage in a critical examination of the differences between human and artificial intelligence. The Giver of Names (1991-) and n-cha(n)t (2001) are artificial subjective entities, provoked by objects or spoken words in their immediate environment to formulate sentences and speak them aloud.

 He has exhibited and lectured extensively in the Americas, Europe and Asia. His awards include a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2002), a Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Interactive Art (2002), and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts “BAFTA” award in Interactive art (2000).

He is the Director of the BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.