Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series
by University of Michigan School of Art & Design
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Established with the generous support of alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Distinguished Speakers Series brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to engage with students, faculty, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities. Depending on the length of their stay and their particular areas of expertise, invited artists and designers may give public lectures, work with students in small workshops, participate in panel discussions, generate site specific installations, or give public performances.
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| 1 | VideoSound Unbound | In his Stamps presentation renowned composer, turntablist, multimedia artist and writer Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), explores the theme of sound in contemporary art, digital media, and composition, reconstructing the history of sound and recorded media through works by Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Moby, Chuck D, Pierre Boulez, Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Sterling, Manuel Delanda, and Naeem Mohaimen. Using the essays that are in Miller’s recent book, Sound Unbound, Miller creates a rip-mix-burn-lecture, using historic texts and rare audio recordings and films, to demonstrate the complex relationship between text and art in a multimedia context. | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoEnvisioning Ecological Cities | Named as one of "The 15 People the Next President Should Listen To" and " The 100 People Who Are Changing America" Dr. Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. With degrees from MIT, Harvard, and Columbia University he is currently an Associate Professor at NYU, and formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. Joachim discusses his non-profit design group, Terreform ONE that promotes green design in cities, developing innovative solutions and technologies for local sustainability in energy, transportation, infrastructure, buildings, waste treatment, food, water, and media spaces. | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoUtopia in Four Movements | Utopia in Four Movements is a multi-media documentary/lecture about the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the 21st century created by filmmaker Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf (both known for the academy award nominated film The Weather Underground). This "live documentary" includes narration by Green and a performance by the Brooklyn-based band The Quavers, with special guest Brendan Canty of Fugazi on drums. Note: this video is an excerpt of the March 24 performance. | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Video17 by 17 by 17 | Founded by Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler, Number Seventeen is a multi-disciplinary design firm working in print, television and online. Their projects include opening sequences for Saturday Night Live, the Daily Beast website, Lucky Magazine and the Sex in the City book. Using projects, including their own column in Newsweek, their comic strips, and more traditional design work, they use the occasion of their 17th year in business to take a look backwards to "see what the hell it is that we have done." | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoKeepers of the Water | Ecological artist Betsy Damon has made water the foundation for all her planning and design. She creates large-scale art parks featuring sculptural flow forms and public art events to help clean urban waterways and raise water awareness around the globe. In 1995 she conceptualized the Living Water Garden in Chengdu, China, and she continues to work on large-scale innovative projects, including an award winning plan for Beijing Olympic Park and the Trinity Lakes project in Dallas, Texas. Her nonprofit organization, Keepers of the Waters, provides information and technical support for others working with similar design principles and processes. | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoThe Global Water Crisis | The freshwater crisis is one of the greatest ecological issues of our time. Canadian author, activist, and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project Maude Barlow outlines the causes and dimensions of the crisis and offers a principle-based solution to a water-secure future. Barlow’s books include Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoUp Wake | Playwright and performer Natasha Tsakos creates theater where sound, computer-generated images and the performer address questions of the human soul. She has performed with Circ X and the Big Apple Circus, and writes, teaches and performs her own work worldwide. She is also the author of several plays, collections of poetry and the cartoon The Eskimans. Tsakos' presentation features her Live 3D animated show UP WAKE, and the use of new technologies within performance to raise awareness and inspire the generation of today and tomorrow to think differently about Art, Science, and Humanity. | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoInfluencing Train Design | International Transportation Design Consultant and Industrial Design Engineer Luis Chomiak has experience in all types of product design, rail vehicles and other forms of public and personal transportation. Recent projects include the China Zefiro VHS (Very High Speed) Train and Metro Singapore. His presentation discusses the complex issues that influence modern rail vehicle design, including service requirements, environmental conditions, infrastructures, interoperability, norms and standards, safety, human factors, special needs, green issues, cultural requirements, operator and passenger aspirations, manufacturing technology, and cost. With support from the College of Engineering, and UM SMART - Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation. | 12/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoMy Dirty Little Heaven | Kenyan born and New York-based collagist and painter Wangechi Mutu creates work that critiques gender, culture and mass media imagery. Exploring the female body as a site of engagement and provocation, Mutu's work is frequently populated by hybrid figures that possess an almost abject beauty. The artist samples imagery from disparate sources – medical diagrams, fashion magazines, anthropology and botany texts, pornography, and traditional African arts. The artist's signature aesthetic utilizes tactile and fleshy surfaces to readily engage in her own unique form of myth-making. With support from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Chelsea River Gallery, UM Museum of Art (UMMA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). | 12/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoGravity | In film, sculpture, photography and installation, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle investigates technology, climate change, immigration and the global impact of social, political, environmental, and scientific systems. His work has involved him in washing and breaking the windows of Mies Van Der Rohe buildings, building radio-telescopes to search for extra terrestrials on the US and Mexican border, creating cryogenic sperm banks for archiving specimens from artists and curators, monitoring heroin poppies with military night vision, as well as capturing actual clouds and icebergs. With support from UM Museum of Art (UMMA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). | 12/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoJohn Cage's Indeterminacy, with Director Laura Kuhn | Writer, director, performer, and John Cage collaborator, Laura Kuhn is Director and cofounder of the John Cage Trust, and the John Cage Professor of Performance Art at Bard College. She will perform Cage's Indeterminacy, a work of antecdotes, each, regardless of length, read precisely in one minute, accompanied by an improvised electronic score involving certain of Cage’s works manipulated by a DJ-turntableist. This performance features DJ Tadd Mullinix, Ghostly International recording artist. A featured event of ONCE. MORE. - a 50th Anniversary Celebration of the ONCE Festival presented in collaboration with the Institute for the Humanities, the University Musical Society (UMS), the School of Music Theater & Dance, and the Center for Performing Arts Technology. | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoChance and Skill | Although often described as a painter, Matthew Ritchie creates works on paper, prints, light-box drawings, floor-to-wall installations, freestanding sculpture, web sites, and short stories that tie his sprawling works together into a personal mythology drawn from creation myths, particle physics, thermodynamics, and games of chance, among other elements. Ritchie's presentation includes performances by Shara Worden of the band My Brightest Diamond. With support from UM Museum of Art (UMMA), Chelsea River Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoMy Designs Inside Your Body | Designers who work with food are often called food designers. According to Marije Vogelzang, food is already perfectly designed by nature. She designs from the verb "to eat." She is inspired by the origin of food, its preparation, etiquette, history and culture. Rather than calling herself a "food designer" she sees herself as an "eating-designer." Her wide-ranging practice includes the design of restaurant, medical and educational projects, as well as creating installations and new food rituals. Vogelzang discusses the exploration and potential of a new approach to the act of eating. Or is it a new approach to design? With support from the Zingerman's Community of Businesses. | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoTaboos | Author of Lilith's Return and founder of controversial Jasad (Body) magazine, renowned Lebanese poet and journalist Joumana Haddad discusses who is the "Arab Woman" today? What are her characteristics, strengths and flaws? What are the cliches still linked to her in the West? What taboos are still keeping her from expressing her body and mind? And most importantly, what is behind the lure of those cliches? What lies beyond the myths, prejudices, over-simplifications and stereotypes, beyond the still persisting Orientalist perspective and the so-called "clash" between the East and the West? With support from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoConflict Theory | Since 1990, British artist Simon Grennan and American Christopher Sperandio have collaborated on a variety of interactive, public artworks, often in the form of comic books. Their international collaborations include projects for WIRED magazine, London's Channel Four, DC Comics, MOMA/PS1, and London's Institute of Contemporary Art. Awarded the 2010 Witt Artists Residency at the School of Art and Design, they are spending the fall semester engaging the UM community in their gaming project, Conflict Theory, creating simulated battles across a scale model of Ann Arbor. A featured event of the "Play makes life worth living" theme semester collaboration with support from the University Musical Society. | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoWhat the Bible Teaches us About Robotics | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a researcher and author on creativity, renowned as the architect of the idea of "flow" in creative work, and recognized as one of the world's leading researchers on positive psychology. His son, Christopher, works at the intersection of new technologies, media, and the arts, lecturing and exhibiting world-wide. He currently directs the MIT Media Lab's Computing Culture group, as well as the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. A featured event of the "Play makes life worth living" theme semester collaboration with support from Arts Engine, University Musical Society (UMS), and the LSA Theme Semester. | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoThinking in Pictures | Temple Grandin is a Doctor of Animal Science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry in animal behavior. Facilities she has designed are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed for meat plants. Curved chute and race systems she has designed for cattle are used worldwide and her writings on the flight zone and other principles of grazing animal behavior have helped many people to reduce stress on their animals during handling. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons. With support from the UM Autism and Communication Disorders Center. | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoFrom Design to Design Thinking | Tim Brown is the CEO of IDEO, a global innovation and design firm. Among the 20 most innovative companies in the world, IDEO is a design consultancy that contributed to such innovations as the first Apple mouse and the Palm V. In addition to design for the world's leading brands, IDEO's work addresses sustainability, the design of communities, health and wellness, and enterprise for people in the world’s lower income groups. An industrial designer by training, Brown's own work has earned him numerous design awards and been exhibited internationally. With support from the College of Engineering, the Design Science Program, and UM’s IDSA Student Chapter. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoKilling Me Loudly: On the Abdication of the "King" of Instruments | With its grandiose, stereotyped image, and an association with the Christian church, probably no instrument is more in need of innovation than the organ. Grammy-nominated virtuoso organist Cameron Carpenter provides that creative transformation with work that has been the subject of both acclaim and controversy. His presentation includes demonstrations on piano, as well as performances on the Michigan Theatre’s Barton organ. With support from the University Musical Society (UMS) and the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoThe Cross-Pollination of Inspiration | Describing herself as a graphic artist, Marian Bantjes is known for the detailed and lovingly precise vector art, obsessive hand work, patterning and highly ornamental style that have brought her international recognition as a visual designer. Bantjes discusses the curious and unexpected paths of inspiration; how early experiences, travels and a variety of interests have shaped her work; and how design contributes to culture and promotes inspired thinking in others. With support from AIGA Detroit, the professional association for design. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoNature's Industry: The Role of Biomimicry in the New Green Economy | To create products and processes that are well-adapted to life, innovators are turning to a new design discipline called biomimicry, consciously emulating life’s genius - making fibers like a spider, computing like a cell, and running a business like a redwood forest. Dr. Dayna Baumeister, co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild, discusses biomimicry and its role in ensuring the success of this new industrial revolution. With support from the Life Sciences Institute, Taubman College, the Graham Sustainability Institute, the College of Engineering, the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and the Program in the Environment. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoMetaphors & Aphorisms | James Geary is an author and journalist based in London. A writer for Time Magazine for more than a decade where he wrote about everything from neuroscience to politics. Geary was founding editor of timeeurope.com, and Time's Europe editor. The author of the bestseller The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism and Geary’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Aphorists. Geary will discuss the short, funny, philosophical sayings known as aphorisms. His presentation includes a mix of memoir, literary history, and live juggling. With support from the Institute for the Humanities. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoYes is More | Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke Ingels has achieved an international reputation as a member of a new generation of architects who combine shrewd analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humor. For Ingels, "Architecture evolves from the collision of political, economical, functional, logistical, cultural, structural, environmental and social interests, as well as interests yet unnamed and unforeseen. How to tell such a complex story in a simple way?" With support from Taubman College, the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and the Program in the Environment. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoStupid Money: Cultural Patronage in America | Dave Hickey is a MacArthur fellow and one of America’s best known cultural critics. He has served as writer and/or editor for: Art in America, The Village Voice, Art Issues, Parkett, Context, The Rolling Stone, Art News, Artforum, Interview, Harpers Magazine, Vanity Fair, Nest, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Art Newspaper, among others. His books of critical essays include The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty and Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy. Hickey is currently working on an exhibition co-curated with Frank Gehry for the Guggenheim Bilbao and other venues. With support from the Program in the History of Art, UMMA, the Knight Wallace Fellows, and MOCAD. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoA Question of Strategy & Objectives | In conjunction with his UMS performance, Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray, renowned dancer and choreographer Bill T Jones discusses how a work is made and the process of understanding it. Jones is the recipient of a Tony Award, Obie Award, the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the Harlem Renaissance Award; and the MacArthur "Genius" Award. In 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named him An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure. With support from the University Musical Society (UMS), and the School of Music, Theatre and Dance. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoClose Listening | Stephanie Rowden's installations and radio projects explore the ways in which sound and story can shift and stretch our understanding of the world and ourselves. Her recent projects include an audio documentary about old age and friendship, and a collaborative public dialog installation in the historic Jewish quarter of Krakow. Rowden is co-curator of the Sounds of the State series on Michigan Radio and is an assistant professor at the School of Art & Design. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoBody Architecture | Trained as a fashion designer but working as an artist since the 1990s, Lucy Orta created "architectures with soul.", objects that evoke the need for change, poetically prefiguring reality and suggesting alternative life styles. She has produced numerous interventions and actions, putting on stage crucial themes of the contemporary world: community, social exclusion, dwelling, mobility, sustainable development and recycling. With support from the UM Museum of Art (UMMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), and the Chelsea River Gallery. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoNew York Design | Graphic designer Paula Scher has been a partner at Pentagram since 1991 where she has developed identity and branding systems, promotional materials, environmental graphics, and publication designs for clients world wide. She is a recipient of the Chrysler Award for Innovation and the AIGA medal. With support from AIGA Detroit - the professional association for design. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoIntent | Photographers Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison continue to pursue, with absorbing psychological and sensory effect, the ever-bleakening relationship linking humans, technology, and nature. At once formally arresting and immeasurably loaded with sensations—the work has a powerful impact both visually and viscerally. With support from the UM Museum of Art (UMMA). The ParkeHarrison's lecture is complemented by an exhibition of their work in the School of Art & Design's Slusser Gallery October 16 though November 13. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoHacking Civilization | Stewart Brand is president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created the Whole Earth Catalog, and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL. His books include The Clock of the Long Now; How Buildings Learn; and The Media Lab. His most recent book is Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (October 2009). | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoWhat Art Tells Us About the Brain | Neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explores why some Impressionist paintings shimmer, why some op art paintings seem to move, principles of Matisse's use of color, and how the Impressionists painted "air". She explores how artists have intuited important features about how our brains extract relevant information about faces and objects, and why learning disabilities may be associated with artistic talent. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoIntrospective Gestures | Integrating traditional craft, fine art, and digital technology, Anne Mondro's work explores the human body’s physical and emotional complexity. Her solo exhibitions include those at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art and ARC Gallery in Chicago, as well as the International Museum of Surgical Science and the University of Northern Colorado. She is currently at Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Art ' Design. | 1/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoNew Wars in Progress | Iconoclastic architect Bernard Khoury is currently working on projects in the Arabian Gulf region. His commissions include banks and apartment buildings in Beirut, shopping malls in Kuwait, a women's spa in Saudi Arabia, a 30-story office tower in Dubai, and a new media center in Armenia that are each, in different ways, a reflection of the cultural and economic transformation underway throughout the region. With support from the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). | 10/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoLearning to Listen: Reflections of a Public Artist | Since the early 1970s, installation artist Doug Hollis has translated his interest in landscape and natural phenomenon into wind and water activated sound structures that have an oasis-like quality where people can pause to catch their spiritual breath in the midst of their everyday lives. With support from the UM Health Systems Gifts of Art and Chelsea River Gallery. | 10/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoExcavations and Iterations: The Museum Unveiled | Photographer Richard Barnes discusses his ongoing project "Animal Logic" examining how our relationship to the natural world is reflected in natural history collections. Outcomes of the project include exhibitions at the UMMA and Cranbrook Institute of Science, and a book. In conjunction with the UM LSA theme semester Meaningful Objects: Museums in the Academy, and in partnership with Cranbrook, the UM Museum of Art, the Institute for the Humanities, and the Exhibit Museum of Natural History. | 9/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoThe Past, Present, and Future of Humor | From primate play to The New Yorker cartoons, The Daily show, and the latest Youtube mashups, Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of the New Yorker magazine, demonstrates how all humor is an act of cooperative creativity. With support from the UM Institute for the Humanities, and the Department of Psychology. | 9/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoThe Logic of Emotion | Dr. G. Clotaire Rapaille is an internationally known expert in creativity and communication. His marketing strategies have grown out of his work in the areas of psychiatry, psychology, and cultural anthropology, combining a pyschiatrist's depth of analysis with a business person’s attention to practical concerns. He has written more than ten books including, Creative Communication, recognized as the standard reference for the French advertising community. His most recent book, the best selling, The Culture Code, sheds light not just on business but on the way every human being acts and lives. With support from the UM Yaffe Center for Persuasive Communication at the Ross School of Business, the UM Institute for the Humanities, the UM College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, and UM Arts on Earth. | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoBody and Camera | Through the lens of the historic record and art history, Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom employ tactics of spectacle and humor to provide critical re-evaluations of cultural and historical narratives. Displayed as immersive projections or installations, their work simultaneously fuses video art's tendencies towards the visually spectacular and its legacy as a tool for social change. Carlson and Strom examine the moving body within a range of "landscapes": the physical western vista, the economic terrain of late-capitalist America, and the artistic tradition of constructing these literal and ideological images. With support from the UM Department of the History of Art, the UM Department of Dance, and MOCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoAn Unauthorized History | Filmmaker, painter, collagist, activist and contrarian George Manupelli is the founder of the Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 1963, while teaching at the UM School of Art & Design and collaborating with the ONCE Group, he established the Ann Arbor Film Festival as a counterpoint to the New York destination art world. Manupelli directed the festival for 20 years defining it with his aesthetic sense of festival as event and film as art. He made numerous films while in Ann Arbor including the "Dr. Chicago" trilogy. Over 400 exhibitions of his art works, films, music, and performance pieces have been held throughout Europe, North, Central and South America. With support from the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival. | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoA Conversation with Richard Saul Wurman | Richard Saul Wurman is an architect, a cartographer, the creator of the Access Travel Guide Series, and the author and designer of more than eighty books, including Information Architects (1996), Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1991) and Information Anxiety (1989). He has also served as chairman and creative director of the TED conferences. For Wurman: "The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable. In the end, all I am ever trying to do with every project I do is to do good work." With support form the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, UM School of Information, and AIGA Detroit, the Professional Association for Design. | 3/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoGlobal Sustainability | Jacque Fresco is a futurist, industrial designer, behavioral scientist, artist, inventor, author and a master of "out of the box thinking". Fresco offers a bold new way of looking at our world and its unworkable social systems. He envisions a global civilization in which science and technology are applied in tandem with human and environmental concerns to secure, protect, and encourage a more humane world for all people, where human rights, are no longer paper proclamations but a way of life. With support from the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. | 3/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoPublic Art Then and Now: From the Strange to Spectacular and Back Again | Anne Pasternak is the President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, an organization that has been commissioning and presenting innovative art in New York City since 1972 Pasternak is committed to initiating projects that give artists opportunities to innovate, preserve public space as a place of creative expression, and respond to timely issues. Over the past decade, she has worked closely with such artists as Doug Aitken, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Steve Powers, Cai Guo Qiang, and many many more. Pasternak also curates independent exhibitions, consults on urban planning initiatives, and contributes essays to cultural publications. With support from the UM Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission, ArtServe Michigan, and Chelsea's River Gallery. | 2/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoScience Communication through Art and Technology | Astronomer and science visualizer Jose Francisco Salgado uses his skills in astronomy education and visual arts to create multimedia works that communicate science in engaging ways. Currently on staff at the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum in Chicago, Salgado’s education and outreach efforts include Spanish-language programs, an Emmy-nominated astronomy news segment, and astronomy video suites created to accompany live performances of classical music concerts. In his presentation, Salgado discusses these programs and techniques and the ways Adler astronomers use the museum's Space Visualization Laboratory to communicate science. With support from the UM Winter 2009 LSA Theme Semester, The Universe: Yours to Discover. | 2/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoCommunity Narratives | Graphic designer Hannah Smotrich's work centers on issues of community, cultural history, identity and voice. Her projects explore the stories of our individual lives and the collective narratives of our communities, the many ways in which we communicate—and the walls we construct that complicate connection. Recent work includes a participatory public art project at the Jewish Cultural Festival in Krakow, Poland, an integrated system of street signs and publications for Neighborhood Heritage Trails in Washington, DC, and an exhibit for Museum L-A on the lives and community of textile workers in Lewiston, Maine. | 1/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | Video(re)creating Gilgamesh: The Artistic and Technical Exploration of an Ancient Epic | Clarinetist and Composer Kinan Azmeh and Visual Artist Kevork Mourad have collaborated to illuminate the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, using both music and painting as vehicles for story telling. In this presentation, prior to their weekend UMS performances, the artists discuss the origins of the project and their creative collaboration. They also demonstrate the fusion of music, painting, and technology through performance excerpts and examination of the more technical aspects of their work. | 1/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoInterruptions for Everyday Life | A lifelong participant-observer of street life and the social life of public places, Nick Tobier creates work that reflects his belief in the power of social dynamism and the fundamental role of artist as catalyst and conduit. Through individual and collective work, Tobier's interest in the potential of public places has manifested itself in built public projects and actions in San Francisco, Detroit and New York, internationally from Toronto to Tokyo, and performances on the stage and in the streets from Milan to Paramaribo, Suriname and at The Edinburgh, Minneapolis and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals. His short performance films have been shown across the world. He is also the author of a series of critical and speculative writings on city space, itinerant entertainment, and forms of public entertainment as radical social strategy. | 1/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoThe Great Pretender | Since about 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been working hard on new forms of life. Plastic yellow conduit is used as the basic material of this new nature. He makes skeletons that are able to walk on the wind. Eventually he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives. Sponsored by the College of Engineering, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, the School of Music, Theater, & Dance, and the Program in the Environment. | 12/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoCoexistence as harmonization of law, morality and culture | Antanas Mockus is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician. As mayor of Bogotá for two terms, Mockus became known for his surprising and often humorous initiatives. He has taken a shower in a commercial about conserving water, walked the streets dressed in spandex and a cape as Supercitizen, hired 20 mimes to make fun of traffic violators, and established one "Night for Women" to honor women's roles in society. Under Mockus's leadership, Bogotá saw improvements that included a 40% decrease in water usage, creation of 7000 community security groups and a 70% drop in the homicide rate. Traffic fatalities decreased by over 50 percent, drinking water was provided to all homes (up from 79 percent in 1993), and sewage systems were provided to 95 percent of homes (up from 71 percent). | 12/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoSeed Banks and Polar Bears: The Quest to Save Agriculture's Past and Our Future | Cary Fowler is the Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which recently drew global media attention when the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors to 100 million seeds for permanent safekeeping in the Artic. The Trust will fund the Global Seed Vault and the work of developing countries and international seed banks to send their seeds for safekeeping. In his presentation, Dr. Fowler will address the history of the Trust and its efforts to secure crop diversity in the midst of global climate change. In 1985 Dr. Fowler was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize) by the Swedish Government. Fowler has been profiled on CBS 60 Minutes and the New Yorker, is the author of several books on the subject of crop diversity and more than 75 articles. Sponsored by the Ford School of Public Policy and the School of Natural Resources and Environment. | 10/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | ExplicitVideoShooting Democracy | Michael Moore is an Academy-Award winning filmmaker, author, actor and political commentator. He is the director and producer of three of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Bowling for Columbine. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth, which continue his trademark style of presenting serious documentaries in humorous ways. In 2005 Time Magazine named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people. Sponsored by Screen Arts & Cultures. | 10/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoMy Road | Illustrator, sculptor, painter and photographer Stasys Eidrigevićius, (Stasys) is perhaps best known for his graphics and poster art. Characterized by pierced bodies, grotesque demons, and masked faces, his style was shaped by his experiences living in an eastern European communist world. Stasys has had over 60 solo exhibitions in 20 countries and been honored with numerous awards for his work. A collaboration among the Copernicus Endowment of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, and the School of Art & Design. | 10/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoThird Nature | Reaching back to nature primordial and existing through existential transformation is the work of Michele Oka Doner. In her career of over four decades Oka Doner has taken nature at its most basic level - a stick, a twig, a palm leaf and the spiraling of galaxies - and made it the subject of her art. In her talk Oka Doner will present a selection of her public art projects, sculpture, jewelry, furniture and design objects. Oka Doner's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. | 4/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoJulie Mehretu | Julie Mehretu is a painter and a 2005 McArthur Award winner. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970, Mehretu draws inspiration from numerous sources including social and political events and historical painting. Through the energetic tensions of a world spinning out of control, Mehretu also reveals a nostalgic impulse of utopian longing for a past that never was and a future of positive social agency. | 4/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoEric Staller | Out of My Mind is the title of artist and designer Eric Staller's new book about his art and life; a life that took him from Ann Arbor (B Arch 1971), to NYC, to Amsterdam where he lives today. His work focuses on pedal power and devices that stimulate community, which cars don't. He is known worldwide for his startling "urban UFOs", high-tech gadgets that "sneak up behind people, and goose them into thinking and feeling." His circular 7 person ConferenceBikes have been seen on the TV's "Amazing Race" and are now being marketed. Staller will be demonstrating a "CoBi" in Ann Arbor. Everyone is invited! | 3/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoA Number of People | Often called "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design, Knopf art director and author Chip Kidd has designed more than 2,000 book covers for authors from Michael Crichton to John Updike. Kidd has compiled his graphic design work in "Book One"; written a well-reviewed novel, "The Cheese Monkeys", loosely based on his college experiences, and exhibited his work at Cooper Union in 2006. Kidd's newest piece of fiction, "The Learners", made its debut in 2004 online as part of USATODAY.com's Open Book series. | 3/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoTrimpin: A Kinetic Retrospective | Trimpin's work is an ongoing exploration of sound, vision and movement, introducing our senses to a totally new experience. Although he uses the latest technologies, he works with "natural" elements - water, air, light, fire, etc. - reconfiguring them in new and unusual applications, pushing them to the limits, and beyond, of their traditional roles. | 3/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoOn the Line: Now Here and Nowhere | How are self, place, and communication established in communities and how can we understand the systems within systems of which each is composed? Takahashi explores these issues through multi-media, large-scale works incorporating body movements, perception and memory. Considering the relationship between memory, history and the architecture of large-scale spaces such as cities, gardens and buildings, Takahashi's works aim to produce both a place of meditation and a meditative experience. | 2/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoBody-as-Screen | Using multi-channel projections, Cynthia Pachikara's installations imagine a spectator's shadow as a void waiting to be filled with implicative video and photographic imagery. Stemming from her experience as the daughter of immigrants, these projects attempt to engage the viewer as the subject in situational quandaries about movement, space, and identity. Her presentation will survey a series of extruded video works that contemplate the notion of a body-as-screen. | 2/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoPerformative Technologies | Working at the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, Heidi Kumao presents carefully sculpted moments that explore personal responses to imposed social structures. Her work demonstrates the poetic affect that memory and emotion instill in our everyday interactions. Her "Performative Technologies" generate artistic spectacles using forgotten technologies from previous centuries and powerful tools from the digital age. | 2/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoInventing Puppetry | Dan Hurlin has been creating original puppet theater since 1980 when he began directing a collaborative program between children ages 8 to 18 and internationally known artists. His work has been presented at New York's The Kitchen, and Dance Theater Workshop; and Minneapolis' Walker Art Center. Hurlin's presentation follows the trajectory of his artistic career, from making theater for children, to being a solo theater artist in the East Village during the '80s, to his current experimentations with puppetry and object based theater. Supported by the UM Department of Theatre & Drama. | 1/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoThe Deportment of Corrections | Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself, and doesn't mind if you laugh. The body is Oleszko's armature for ideas. Utilizing elaborate costumes and props, she has created lithe performances, films, and installations that include trees, knees, breasts, and elephants. She has worked from the popular art forms of the street, party, parade and burlesque house, to the Museum of Modern Art, from Sesame Street Magazine to Ms, Playboy, and Artforum. Supported by the UM Department of Theatre & Drama, UM Institute for Research on Women & Gender, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. | 1/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 62 | VideoEverything that Rises: A Defense of Loose Synapsed Moments | In his recent award winning book, Everything that Rises, as well as in the contest it spawned on McSweeneys.net, the Humanities Institute he has been directing at NYU, the Chicago Humanities Festival over which he presides, and his twenty-some-odd years as a staff writer at the New Yorker, Lawrence Weschler has regularly seemed willing to entertain leaps that transcend more orthodox academic and scholarly categories. Has this been a good or a bad thing? Even he is not sure, but he discusses the matter across a powerpoint and internet fueled lecture. Supported by the UM Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies. | 12/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 63 | VideoPhotosynthesis, Ping-pong Meditation and Other Camera-Less Acts | How can not taking a picture be a photographic act? In her tour of photographic practices, Rebekah Modrak liberates the technology from the domain of the fine art print to include operations of the human eye, protests of the atomic bomb, and a collection of iconic paintings in the Otsuka Museum of Art. Modrak's recent projects include her soon to be published book on those photographic practices embedded in many actions and disciplines; the three-dimensional people she has constructed in order to bring to life her imagined childhood; and ebayaday, which used eBay as a site to distribute and contextualize artists' works. | 12/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 64 | VideoBetween Image and Text | Working in a wide range of media, Xu Bing creates installations that question the viability of conveying meaning through language. Many of his works examine the disconnection between official and private uses of language, and the inevitability of mistranslation across cultures. He received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award in 1999, presented to him for "originality, creativity, self-direction, and capacity to contribute importantly to society." Supported by the UM Museum of Art, and the UM Chinese Theme Year - ChinaNow: a contemporary exploration. | 11/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 65 | VideoA Journey and Still Searching | For over 70 years, renowned Detroit-based artist Charles McGee has created works that have evolved from charcoal drawings and photography to avant-garde three-dimensional multimedia pieces. His themes chronicle the black experience and celebrate his lifelong love of nature. McGee says of his work, "The logic found in nature's system of opposites, which governs universal order, is the source from which I constantly borrow and rely on to construct my imagery. It is also within this broad organizational context that my life takes form and has meaning." McGee is a founder of the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. | 11/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 66 | VideoThe Musical Image | Andy Kirshner's performance work is a dynamic synthesis of jazz improvisation, performance art, music composition, electronic multimedia, postmodern dance, and experimental theater. With wry humor, musical sophistication, and a deft theatricality, Kirshner's large-scale "opera" projects address themes that range from the existential to the political, the spiritual to the technological, the sublime to the purely ridiculous. | 10/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 67 | VideoDesign, Innovation and Leadership | Put your design skill to use and make an impact in whatever you do! Carole Bilson, vice-president for global design and usability at Pitney Bowes, discusses how "design thinking" is used for product innovations and general problem solving. Learn how an award-winning, passionate design and human factors department can create the future they want, both at the individual level as well as Company-wide. Supported by UM Ross School of Business, and the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA). | 10/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 68 | VideoYour Response Ability | Established as a design collective in 1993 by Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers, Droog incorporates the work of an international cadre of contemporary designers working with low-cost industrial or recycled materials to create a broad assembly of international designs that are plain and practical. With more than 150 diverse objects whose only criteria is that they must be informed by cultural developments and by the designer's intuition, Droog advises its designers to act more as fine artists, developing concepts that make people think. Supported by UM Ross School of Business, and the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA). | 10/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 69 | VideoDesign Tantrum | Find out how design has become a democratic medium for doing, not just making. Ellen Lupton, designer, writer, curator, teacher, and blogger, has been creating discourse about graphic design for over twenty years. Her books include D.I.Y: Design It Yourself, and Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office. Director of Maryland Institute College of Art's graphic design MFA program, and a curator of contemporary design at New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Lupton recently received the AIGA Gold Medal, one of the highest graphic design honors. Supported by UM Arts of Citizenship, UM Institute for Research on Women & Gender, the American Institute of Graphic Designers (AIGA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. | 4/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 70 | VideoThose who control the past control the future. | Jeremy Deller has been described as 'part alchemist and part social–anthropologist'. Acting as producer, director, or curator of a broad range of projects including orchestrated events, films and publications, Deller draws attention to forms of culture on the fringes of the mainstream. Deller received the Turner Prize in 2004 for his installation, Memory Bucket, a documentary about Crawford, Texas the hometown of George W Bush and the siege in nearby Waco. Supported by the UM Program in Creativity & Consciousness Studies, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. | 4/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 71 | VideoDance Meets Genetics | Liz Lerman, founder and artistic director of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, recently completed a four-year collaboration between scientists and choreographers culminating in Ferocious Beauty: Genome, a multi media dance/theater work that explores the human implications of discoveries in genetic science. Created with geneticists from organizations including The Institute for Genomic Research, Wesleyan University, Stanford University, Princeton University and Howard University, Ferocious Beauty has toured from Connecticut to California, deepening dialogue between science and the arts. Lerman will be joined by two dancers who will perform excerpts from Ferocious Beauty: Genome. Co-sponsored by Life Sciences and the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics. | 4/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 72 | VideoKunstkompatible Projekte | Franz John works with human and mechanical interfaces, using both new and old media to identify the barely noticeable and visualize it, making the unobservable visible through large scale installations which engage, variously, architecture, place, or geological phenomena. For instance Military Eyes, in which he transformed disused military bunkers surrounding the Golden Gate Bridge into huge walk-in Camera Obscuras. Another project, Salt Axis, stretches 55 miles overland, creating awareness of the subterranean salt deposits laid down by an evaporated ancient ocean in Muensterland, Germany. One of his recent projects, Turing Tables, was shown last year at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA to mark the centennial of the Great Earthquake of 1906. According to the artist, this installation examines online and live "the archaic feeling and consciousness that the earth is an organism, that it moves and that it can be understood as an organism in constant flux." | 4/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 73 | VideoSpace/Time and Worries | For more than forty years, director, cinematographer, actor and master of the avante garde Ken Jacobs, has engaged in an aesthetic, social, and physiological critique of projected images. For Jacobs, cinema has become "a concentration on the computer screen, where what a friend called 'the age of cheap miracles' is taking image and sound to places no one could dream of when we were coming up in the nineteen-sixties. We're entering the undreamable, unless the misery we've caused in Iraq spreads here. Walking to Chinatown for a break, I see the streets are full of metal posts to interfere with suicide bombers. Wall Street has moved to New Jersey. I'm shaping a bright new cinema to hand over to posterity but wondering will it arrive?" | 4/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 74 | VideoBig Thinking at the Small Design Firm | By taking advantage of the computer's ability to display dynamic, flexible, and adaptive typography and imagery, the Small Design Firm, headed by David Small, invents new ways for people to read, interact with, and assimilate information. In combining innovative visualization with architectural space and well-designed physical interfaces, the firm creates potentially limitless spaces. In his presentation, Small discusses the firm's history of innovation and focuses on the interplay between computer technology, dynamic typography and information design. Co-sponsored by AIGA Detroit, the Professional Association for Design. | 3/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 75 | VideoPlace: Engaging the Senses | Peter Richards believes that the concept of place — where we are from, where we live and where we have been — defines us as human beings. Richards, Senior Artist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, a museum of science, art and human perception, will discuss current museum projects focused on understanding place; how understanding of one's surroundings can be translated into broader perspectives; and how his own work reflects his interest in place and its influence on human behavior. One of Richards' most notable works is the Wave Organ, which employs wave action and tide changes to create musical sounds in a series of pipes that extend down into the Pacific ocean. He also assisted in the creation of a new artist community in Charlotte, North Carolina that supports creativity and provides residencies for up to 24 artists a year. Co-sponsored by Program in the Environment, and School of Natural Resources and Environment. | 2/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 76 | VideoMaking Art Public | On the day before the international exhibition Shrinking Cities opens at both MOCAD and Cranbrook, a panel of creative practitioners discuss art in Detroit and the Shrinking Cities project, moderated by Detroit artist and MOCAD curator, Mitch Cope. Shrinking Cities was initiated in 2002, when Germany's Federal Cultural Foundation, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, commissioned teams in Detroit (USA), Manchester/Liverpool (Britain), Ivanovo (Russia), and Halle/Leipzig (Germany) to investigate and document why and how these urban areas were shrinking in population and business. In the resulting exhibition, artists, architects, filmmakers, journalists, culture experts, and sociologists reveal and illuminate the changing realities of these cities, toward developing better approaches to contemporary urban issues. Co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and The Ginsburg Center at U-M. | 2/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 77 | VideoPeople and Pixels | 2x4 is a multidisciplinary design firm founded in 1995 by Michael Rock, Susan Sellers, and Georgianna Stout. The studio's focus is on the dynamic visual display of unexpected content for art, design, architecture, and cultural clients. 2x4 works in print, film/video, web, and environment design on such projects as graphic design, wallpaper and film for the Prada New York Epicenter; environmental design for new Vitra showrooms; sets and costumes for Trisha Brown Dance Company; environmental design for a new building in downtown Tokyo with Tadao Ando; the editorial concept for a special issue of Wired magazine with AMO; and a new line of textiles for Knoll. Co-sponsored by AIGA Detroit, the Professional Association for Design. | 2/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 78 | VideoCreating Place, Creating Resistance | Janie Paul is a painter who maintains a relationship between her studio practice and her work with inner city school children and incarcerated men, women and teenagers. In these difficult places, filled with the pressures of poverty and social injustice, Paul and her students work to co-create spaces of imagination and growth. Her background as a painter has informed this work, and in turn, the courage, resilience and inventiveness of the people in these sites of resistance have influenced her studio practice. Paul is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. | 2/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 79 | VideoLiminal Networks | Anne Wilson"s sculpture, drawings, videos, and installations evolve in that conceptual space where social and political ideas encounter the processes of handwork and industry. Her work has been shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Upcoming 2007 exhibitions include the Museum of Arts & Design in New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Wilson has received numerous awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a professor and chair of the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Co-sponsored by Ann Arbor Art Center and River Gallery. | 2/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 80 | VideoThe Art of Science | What are the limits of knowledge when it comes to something as grand as the universe? Chris Impey will explore the way we learn about the universe we live in, make parallels to art and music, and show that discovery is as much an art as a science. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Impey is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona, Academic Head of the nation's largest undergraduate majors program in astronomy, and Vice President of the American Astronomical Society. He is one of six people nationwide named Distinguished Teaching Scholar by the National Science Foundation. | 12/18/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 81 | VideoWatertowers, Erratics and Stump Rugs | Susie Brandt discusses textiles and the wonder of cloth through her ongoing investigations into the relationship between textiles and the landscape - including material gathering, the cultivation of pattern, and camouflage as a phenomenon. Brandt's work has been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally and published in Sculpture Magazine, the Washington Post and the New Art Examiner. Co-sponsored by the Ann Arbor Art Center. | 11/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 82 | VideoTattoos on the Heart: Lessons From the Barrio | Father Boyle, Jesuit priest and founder of Jobs for a Future and Homeboy Industries, will share some of the strategies utilized to develop his employment referral center for at-risk youth and his economic development program. Father Boyle's career has been dedicated to working with gang-involved youth. He will share stories about his work, the young people he works with, and community as a response to youth violence. Co-sponsored by the Shelter Association of Washtenaw County, the School of Social Work, and the Department of Sociology. | 11/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 83 | VideoContext is Everything | Born in the United Kingdom, Ellen Harvey now lives and works in New York. Utilizing video, installation and painting, she examines the theoretical and social implications of art. Solo exhibitions include those at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Mullerdechiara Gallery in Berlin, and the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York. Harvey recently completed a MTA Arts for Transit commission for a 2,000 sq. ft. mosaic "Look Up, Not Down" for the Queens Plaza subway station. Her book, The New York Beautification Project, was published in 2005. Co-sponsored by the Ann Arbor Art Center. | 10/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 84 | VideoVisual Literacy and Experiencing Animation | Peter Chung has worked in the animation industry since 1981. He created MTV's animated series "Aeon Flux" and directed the pilot for the "Rugrats" cable series. Chung has also worked on "Alexander"; the Korean animated series "Little Hammer"; and was director of filmography for "Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury". Using examples from his animated films, he will discuss the need for visual literacy as a way to understand today's complex mass media landscape and non-traditional narrative forms. Co-sponsored by Screen Arts & Cultures. | 10/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 85 | VideoSights, Sounds and Secrets | Alicyn Warren is a composer of electronic music whose pieces often include video images and text to focus on topics such as blindness, betrayal, and aging. Her works are performed and broadcast around the world. Warren is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, with a joint appointment in the School of Music (Performing Arts Technology) and the School of Art & Design. | 10/23/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 86 | VideoParts and Projects | Korean artist Nikki S. Lee is internationally known for photographic self-portraits investigating personal and social identity. She has posed among various subcultures, assuming the appearance of punk rockers, yuppies, exotic dancers, lesbians, and skateboarders. Her latest undertaking is a feature-length documentary film about the artist Nikki S. Lee that blurs the lines between the staged and the spontaneous. Co-sponsored by the Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. | 10/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 87 | VideoWar, Elections, and Independent Media | The host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, independent news program, Amy Goodman is also an investigative journalist who has reported from Qatar, East Timor, Nigeria, Mexico, Haiti and Cuba. Goodman is the co-author, with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of the New York Times best seller, "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them". | 10/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 88 | VideoYes Men | Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno "dress up in suits and impersonate some of the biggest corporate criminals around." Co sponsored by the Department of Theater and Drama. | 4/10/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 89 | VideoOrlan | French artist Orlan uses plastic surgery as her medium. Since 1990, she has undergone a series of choreographed surgical "performances". Her intention is not to become "beautiful" but rather to suggest that the "objective (beauty) is unattainable and the process horrifying." In partnership with the Program in Comparative Literature and the Department of English Language & Literature. | 4/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 90 | VideoHolly Hughes | Holly Hughes is a performance artist and writer whose books, plays and performance pieces address questions of sexuality and identity with a trademark blend of humor, provocation and lyricism. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Art & Design. | 3/29/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 91 | VideoJay Allison | Jay Allison is an independent broadcast journalist whose work airs on NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, PRI's This American Life, ABC News' Nightline, and other national programs. He is now heard weekly on NPR as the curator and co-producer of This I Believe. In partnership with the Knight Wallace Fellows Program. | 3/29/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 92 | VideoMatthew Coolidge | Matthew Coolidge is the Founder and Director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in Los Angeles, a non-profit art/research organization that employs a multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to increase and diffuse knowledge about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized and perceived.In partnership with the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the LSA Program in the Environment. | 3/29/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 93 | VideoAnna Schuleit | Anna Schuleit is a visual artist based in NYC, whose installations revolve around sites of trauma and isolation, particularly the ruins of institutional architecture, examining the site-specific aspects of memory. In partnership with the Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies and the Department of Psychiatry & the Depression Center. | 2/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 94 | VideoTyree Guyton | Through the Heidelberg Project and his other work, Tyree Guyton draws attention to the plight of Detroit's forgotten neighborhoods and spurs discussion and action. Co-sponsored by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the School of Social Work. | 2/17/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 95 | VideoSplit Britches | Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, with Deb Margolin, are the co-founders of Split Britches, a Lesbian Feminist Theatre Company that since 1981 has offered vaudevillian satirical gender-bending performances. Presented in partnership with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. | 2/8/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 96 | VideoTed Rall | A cutting-edge political cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate, Ted Rall is also a graphic novelist, an award-winning journalist, illustrator, columnist, and radio commentator. Presented in partnership with the Institute for Humanities. | 2/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 97 | VideoZbigniew Libera | A Penny Stamps Distinguished Visitor and Annual Copernicus Lecturer, Zbigniew Libera (b. 1959) is one of Poland's most recognized contemporary visual artists. He will be speaking on "How Artists are Tamed! Zbigniew Libera and the Polish Press 1980-2005." | 1/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 97 Episodes |
