A+D Lecture Series
A+D Lecture Series
World Listening Project
Wednesday, April 15 , 6:30 PM
Ferguson Hall, 600 Michigan Avenue
Listening means paying attention. If you want to change the world, you need to listen to it.
The Art + Design Department is proud to present the World Listening Project (WLP), who will talk about its current local and international efforts, and discuss opportunities for designers and artists to participate in the unrealized potential that lies in the field of acoustic ecology, in order to more fully realize an effective and creative response to an all too often neglected part of human experience and knowledge—the world of sound and our ability to listen.
The panel discussion’s participants include: Eric Leonardson, Jesse Seay, Chad Clark, Brett Balogh and Dan Godston.
Emiliano Godoy
January 29th, 6:30 pm
Room 203, 623 S. Wabash
Criteria
Curated by Jimena Acosta and Emiliano Godoy
Opening reception: January 29, 5-8 pm
January 15 - February 28, 2009
Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash
Please visit www.colum.edu/adgallery for more information.
Criteria explores the ethics and politics that embody contemporary notions of sustainability. Through a variety of media that gathers artworks and unconventional design approaches, this exhibition examines the utopia behind efforts to modify and push late capitalist consumption patterns as well as address the current contradictions between industrial and natural landscapes. Criteria juxtaposes critical and disenchanted views with poetic and symbolic discourses. Using art as a lens through which our unsustainable systems of production and consumption can be evaluated from an ethical perspective, the work in this exhibition pierces skepticism and challenges our preconceived notions on environmental and social trends.
Exhibiting artists include:
Siri Brekke, Edward Burtynsky, Dante Busquets, goldiechiari, Máximo González, Aylin Kayser and Cristian Metzner, Jason Middlebrook, MINE™, Paolo Pennuti, Diego Pérez (side image credit), Ricochet Studio (top image credit), Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray, Ariel Rojo, Vitamin, Uli Westphal, and Craig Zucker.
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
"Life Has Not Even Begun"
Opening Reception and Performance: January 29, 5-8pm
January 26-March 6, 2009
Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash, first floor
Panel Discussion: "Cuba: Art, Identity, Gender and Revolution"
Wednesday, January 28, 2:30pm
Film Row Cinema, 8th Floor, 1104 S. Wabash
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art + Design and the Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces
One of the most important artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba, María Magdalena
Campos-Pons creates multimedia installations, large-scale Polaroids, sculpture, painting and performance that investigate history and memory, and their roles in the formation of identity. Drawing from her personal narrative as an Afro-Cuban woman living in the United States, Campos-Pons' work transcends individual experience to explore cross-cultural, universal phenomenon. Issues such as cultural hybridity, displacement, ties to family and home, and the dualities present in each individual are themes that continue to permeate her work.
In this new body of work, Life Has Not Even Begun captures the anticipation and tension inherent in exploring the unknown. From the artist re-discovering her Chinese ancestry, to her intensive study of midnight-blooming flowers, to the unexposed horrors of war, to the future of an imagined peaceful world, each work in this exhibition makes its own unexpected revelation.
Prayer for Obama I (detail), 2008, Polaroid prints. Photo by Clements/Howcroft
Victor Margolin
World War II Propaganda: A Contemporary Perspective
February 4, 2009
6:30 - 7:30pm at Hokin Lecture Hall
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss propaganda from World War II and what it means to today's viewer. The lecture will address the propaganda used by Allied and Axis powers. It will include a range of materials from posters to comics and cartoons. Differences among the propaganda strategies of various countries will be discussed and reference will be made to the relation between the propaganda and the political values it represented. This lecture is part of our Scraping the Surface lecture series. Lecture will take place at Columbia College Chicago's Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash, room 109. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Koehler Ancona, This is the Enemy, Winner of the R. Hoe & Co. Award, National War Poster Competition, 1942
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
6:30-9 pm
The Rock Poster--A Panel Event
Ferguson Auditorium, 1st Floor, 600 S. Michigan
Sponsored by the Department of Art + Design in collaboration with Students In Design, a student group of AIGA
Come hear from the graphic culture that produces and spreads the rock image. Idiosyncratic, beautiful, and obscenely tied to consumer culture the panel will discuss the process and production of posters within this genre. Of course, poster sale to follow event. Cash only, 1 for $15 or 2 for $20. Come, load up, and be informed.
Graphic novelist Ivan Brunetti will moderate the panel including: Mark Greenberg (formerly of the Coctails), Keith Herzik (artist/designer), Steve Walters (artist/designer), and Eileen Yaghoobian (filmmaker/fan).
Carl Pope
Wednesday, November 12th
6:30 pm
623 S. Wabash, Room 109
Sponsored by the Departments of Art + Design and Photography
THE ART + DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENTS are presenting a lecture by artist Carl Pope at Columbia on Wednesday, November 12th at 6:30 PM in Room 203 of the 623 S. Wabash building. Originally trained as a photographer Pope's wide ranging practice has earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship and exhibitions in numerous museums and galleries worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago among many others. Pope is committed to art making as an enlightening, engaging, and uplifting social practice. This promises to be a provocative and engaging evening.
Alison Knowles
Wednesday, October 29th
6:30 pm
623 S. Wabash, Room 203
Sponsored by the Departments of Art + Design and Interdisciplinary Arts
Alison Knowles is one of the original members of the Fluxus group of the 1960s, she was a founder of Something Else Press (with her husband Dick Higgins), the source of numerous iconic publications connected to Fluxus, including Notations, the book she edited with John Cage. Her works have encompassed performance, sound, conceptual art, sculptural work incorporating found objects, pieces made from handmade paper, printmaking, and artists’ books. Her work is collected internationally, and she has an active career as a practicing artist and as a guest lecturer and teacher. In 2008 alone, she has done residencies in New York; Minneapolis; Durham, NY; London; Cologne; Cardiff, Wales; and Genova, Italy. After her visit to Columbia College, she will be performing in Berne and Zurich, Switzerland, and will have an exhibition of her series “Rake’s Progress” in Berlin.
Wednesday, April 15 , 6:30 PM
Ferguson Hall, 600 Michigan Avenue
Listening means paying attention. If you want to change the world, you need to listen to it.
The Art + Design Department is proud to present the World Listening Project (WLP), who will talk about its current local and international efforts, and discuss opportunities for designers and artists to participate in the unrealized potential that lies in the field of acoustic ecology, in order to more fully realize an effective and creative response to an all too often neglected part of human experience and knowledge—the world of sound and our ability to listen.
The panel discussion’s participants include: Eric Leonardson, Jesse Seay, Chad Clark, Brett Balogh and Dan Godston.
Emiliano Godoy
January 29th, 6:30 pm
Room 203, 623 S. Wabash
Criteria
Curated by Jimena Acosta and Emiliano Godoy
Opening reception: January 29, 5-8 pm
January 15 - February 28, 2009
Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash
Please visit www.colum.edu/adgallery for more information.
Criteria explores the ethics and politics that embody contemporary notions of sustainability. Through a variety of media that gathers artworks and unconventional design approaches, this exhibition examines the utopia behind efforts to modify and push late capitalist consumption patterns as well as address the current contradictions between industrial and natural landscapes. Criteria juxtaposes critical and disenchanted views with poetic and symbolic discourses. Using art as a lens through which our unsustainable systems of production and consumption can be evaluated from an ethical perspective, the work in this exhibition pierces skepticism and challenges our preconceived notions on environmental and social trends.
Exhibiting artists include:
Siri Brekke, Edward Burtynsky, Dante Busquets, goldiechiari, Máximo González, Aylin Kayser and Cristian Metzner, Jason Middlebrook, MINE™, Paolo Pennuti, Diego Pérez (side image credit), Ricochet Studio (top image credit), Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray, Ariel Rojo, Vitamin, Uli Westphal, and Craig Zucker.
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
"Life Has Not Even Begun"
Opening Reception and Performance: January 29, 5-8pm
January 26-March 6, 2009
Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash, first floor
Panel Discussion: "Cuba: Art, Identity, Gender and Revolution"
Wednesday, January 28, 2:30pm
Film Row Cinema, 8th Floor, 1104 S. Wabash
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art + Design and the Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces
One of the most important artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba, María Magdalena
Campos-Pons creates multimedia installations, large-scale Polaroids, sculpture, painting and performance that investigate history and memory, and their roles in the formation of identity. Drawing from her personal narrative as an Afro-Cuban woman living in the United States, Campos-Pons' work transcends individual experience to explore cross-cultural, universal phenomenon. Issues such as cultural hybridity, displacement, ties to family and home, and the dualities present in each individual are themes that continue to permeate her work.
In this new body of work, Life Has Not Even Begun captures the anticipation and tension inherent in exploring the unknown. From the artist re-discovering her Chinese ancestry, to her intensive study of midnight-blooming flowers, to the unexposed horrors of war, to the future of an imagined peaceful world, each work in this exhibition makes its own unexpected revelation.
Prayer for Obama I (detail), 2008, Polaroid prints. Photo by Clements/Howcroft
Victor Margolin
World War II Propaganda: A Contemporary Perspective
February 4, 2009
6:30 - 7:30pm at Hokin Lecture Hall
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss propaganda from World War II and what it means to today's viewer. The lecture will address the propaganda used by Allied and Axis powers. It will include a range of materials from posters to comics and cartoons. Differences among the propaganda strategies of various countries will be discussed and reference will be made to the relation between the propaganda and the political values it represented. This lecture is part of our Scraping the Surface lecture series. Lecture will take place at Columbia College Chicago's Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash, room 109. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Koehler Ancona, This is the Enemy, Winner of the R. Hoe & Co. Award, National War Poster Competition, 1942
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
6:30-9 pm
The Rock Poster--A Panel Event
Ferguson Auditorium, 1st Floor, 600 S. Michigan
Sponsored by the Department of Art + Design in collaboration with Students In Design, a student group of AIGA
Come hear from the graphic culture that produces and spreads the rock image. Idiosyncratic, beautiful, and obscenely tied to consumer culture the panel will discuss the process and production of posters within this genre. Of course, poster sale to follow event. Cash only, 1 for $15 or 2 for $20. Come, load up, and be informed.
Graphic novelist Ivan Brunetti will moderate the panel including: Mark Greenberg (formerly of the Coctails), Keith Herzik (artist/designer), Steve Walters (artist/designer), and Eileen Yaghoobian (filmmaker/fan).
Carl Pope
Wednesday, November 12th
6:30 pm
623 S. Wabash, Room 109
Sponsored by the Departments of Art + Design and Photography
THE ART + DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENTS are presenting a lecture by artist Carl Pope at Columbia on Wednesday, November 12th at 6:30 PM in Room 203 of the 623 S. Wabash building. Originally trained as a photographer Pope's wide ranging practice has earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship and exhibitions in numerous museums and galleries worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago among many others. Pope is committed to art making as an enlightening, engaging, and uplifting social practice. This promises to be a provocative and engaging evening.
Alison Knowles
Wednesday, October 29th
6:30 pm
623 S. Wabash, Room 203
Sponsored by the Departments of Art + Design and Interdisciplinary Arts
Alison Knowles is one of the original members of the Fluxus group of the 1960s, she was a founder of Something Else Press (with her husband Dick Higgins), the source of numerous iconic publications connected to Fluxus, including Notations, the book she edited with John Cage. Her works have encompassed performance, sound, conceptual art, sculptural work incorporating found objects, pieces made from handmade paper, printmaking, and artists’ books. Her work is collected internationally, and she has an active career as a practicing artist and as a guest lecturer and teacher. In 2008 alone, she has done residencies in New York; Minneapolis; Durham, NY; London; Cologne; Cardiff, Wales; and Genova, Italy. After her visit to Columbia College, she will be performing in Berne and Zurich, Switzerland, and will have an exhibition of her series “Rake’s Progress” in Berlin.