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FEBRUARY Lecture by Chika Okeke-Agulu LOCATION: Lawrence 231 |
MARCH |
Wagner Free Institute of Science
For mor information, click here.Liza Johson, South of Ten Liza Johnson shot the film last January in the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast, working with nonactors who are residents of the area. There will also be a reception afterwards in the rotunda at WCMA. LOCATION: The Images Cinema |
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OCTOBER The Art and Science of Computer Graphics, by Prof. Donald H. House.Abstract: The roots of 3D Computer Graphics lie deep in the visual arts, psychology, computer science, physics and mathematics. Donald House will explore how these mature disciplines animate this new kid on the block, and are impelling it to become an academic and professional discipline on its own. Work from the highly interdisciplinary graduate programs in Visualization at Texas A&M University will explore the theme. Illustrations will include experimental animated films, as well as research projects in real-time wave simulation and computer directed drawing from 3D models. LOCATION: Spencer Seminar Room |
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| APRIL Sexual Violence Awareness Month panel discussion with Black Women Filmmakers. Focus will be on violence and human rights. Aishah Simmons and Roxana Canton Walker. Part of a running series of performances, films, and lectures on the theme of Terror. Sponsored by the Critical Theory Cluster, Africana Studies and the Williams College Multicultural Center. Panel moderated by Kara Keeling LOCATION: Griffin Hall, Room 6 When Good Objects Go Bad: A Look at Recent Events in the Lives of Malian Antiquities. By Kristina Van Dyke(Williams Class of 1999), Associate Curator for Collections. The Menil Collection. Thousands of terra cotta sculptures from the 12th-15th centuries offer insight into the lives of peoples who participated in the trans-Saharan trading empires of West Africa. Given the fact that these works potentially push back our understanding of art history in the region by centuries, surprisingly few art historians have taken up the challenge of this corpus. Because the majority of these sculptures were obtained through the art market as opposed to archaeological excavation, the perception of the terra cottas as tainted goods has effectively diminished their art historical potential. This talk challenges us to examine our assumptions about these objects and the political and ethical issues that come into play when collecting and studying African art. LOCATION: Lawrence Hall Oppositional Architectures: the Works of Frank Furness and H. H. Richardson. by James F. O’Gorman, Wellesley College. Professor O’Gorman is the Grace Slack McNeil Professor Emeritus of The History of American Art at Wellesley College. He is the author of numerous works, including The ABC of Architecture, Living Architecture: A Biography of H. H. Richardson, and The Architecture of Frank Furness. LOCATION: Lawrence Hall 231 |
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