Salon Conversation Facilitated by Dana Bishop - Root
Guests + time to be announced
Aug 27, 2020, 5:30–7:30pm
Salon Conversation Facilitated by Dana Bishop - Root Guests to be announced
August 27 - Times to be confirmed
Zoom link and registration information to follow.
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Honoring the collective health and wellbeing of each other, we shift our large group salon discussions to a space of shared intimacy with a welcome for a wide public as listeners and question askers. Building from the conversation between facilitator Dana Bishop-Root and artist Tourmaline (In This Not Unprecedented Time), the salon series will work to build a dialogue that accumulates conversations of individuals whose practices imagine and actualize what we are walking into--through the pandemic portal.
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.” - Arundhati Roy, April 3, 2020
Dana Bishop-Root has centered her work and heart in North Braddock for eleven years, is a founding member of Transformazium, General Sisters and is the Associate Director at the Braddock Carnegie Library Association.
Joy KMT Poetry Reading
Aug 13, 2020, 5–6pm
Joy KMT Poetry Reading
Thursday, August 13, 5-6pm
Zoom link and registration information to follow.
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Joy Tabernacle-KMT is a Reverent ass miracle worker & Maroon Opulence. As a poet, she has received residencies and fellowships from Heinz, MacDowell, Callaloo & VONA. Her work is informed by maroon futurisms, liberation & spiritual fugitivity.
She has been published in Callaloo, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Black Quantum Futurism Vol 1 & 2, Black Girl Dangerous, The Feminist Wire, Nepantla, Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, Blackberry, a magazine, Backbone Press, Fledgling Rag, Sugared Water, Adrienne, a Poetry Journal for Queer Women, Los Angeles Review of Books, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, The Blueshift Journal and others. She has performed for Trans-Q Live, Red Bull Music Festival, The Afrofuturist Affair, SIX X ATE, The People are the Light, Center for African American Poetics, The Sunstar Music Festival, Black Unicorn Library and others.
Virtual Tour 2: No Tutorial CMU BFA Exhibition
May 23, 2020, 1–2pm
Join us for Virtual Tours of our
CMU School of Art 2020 BFA Exhibition!
Facebook event
Saturday, May 23, 1pm - ZOOM LINK
Tour 2 will explore artists in No Tutorial whose works are associated with the themes: Body, Quiet, Nature, Atmospheric, Folklore, Family, and Personal Narrative
Students in Tour 2: Johanna McAllister, Chae Rin Hong, Stacie Nam, Taylor Vence, GyuEun Park, Liza Goncharova, Lumi Barron, Eun Soo Koh, Sydney Krantz, Isabelle Vincent, Yixin He, Cora Hickoff, Mairead Dambruch, Hannah Kim, Holly Scott, Selina Lee, Miranda Miller, Joshua Kery, Diane Lee, Izzy Stephen, Dayoung Chung
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The brilliance of these artists is evident in not only their individual projects, but in their imagining of the format of the exhibition itself and what is possible when the world is suddenly different.
As the culmination of the undergraduate experience at the CMU School of Art, the senior exhibition presents final projects from graduating students. The title for this year's show, No Tutorial, was a prescient title chosen before spring break, before classes became remote, and before our orderly plans for the exhibition were thrown in disarray by stay-at-home orders.
Rising to the challenge of our new online-only world, seniors self-curated a digital exhibition that takes full advantage of the web-based presentation of their work.
Exhibition co-produced by CMU School of Art
Virtual Tour 1: No Tutorial CMU BFA Exhibition
May 22, 2020, 1–2pm
Join us for Virtual Tours of our
CMU School of Art 2020 BFA Exhibition!
Facebook event
Friday, May 22, 1pm - ZOOM LINK
Tour 1 will explore artists in No Tutorial whose works are associated with the themes: Allegorical, Arrivals/departures, Future, Blurring Art and Design, Animation, Language, Remixing, and Image/Photo
Students in Tour 1: Zachary Rapaport, Katie Tender, Sophia Qin, Jacquelyn Johnson, Sarah Kim, Pat Miller Gamble, Keegan Barone, Ava Kling, Sophia Cao, Coco Allred, Anna Telmer, Sophia Videva, Michelle Janco, Sheenu You, Stephen Michaels, Yelim Kim, Nana Cheon, Peter Sheehan, Jackson Bridgers, Ema Furusho
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The brilliance of these artists is evident in not only their individual projects, but in their imagining of the format of the exhibition itself and what is possible when the world is suddenly different.
As the culmination of the undergraduate experience at the CMU School of Art, the senior exhibition presents final projects from graduating students. The title for this year's show, No Tutorial, was a prescient title chosen before spring break, before classes became remote, and before our orderly plans for the exhibition were thrown in disarray by stay-at-home orders.
Rising to the challenge of our new online-only world, seniors self-curated a digital exhibition that takes full advantage of the web-based presentation of their work.
Exhibition co-produced by CMU School of Art
Virtual Tour - Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI
May 15, 2020, 1–2pm
This live virtual tour looks at works by 11 contemporary artists in the exhibition, Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI.
Explore the primacy of the body as it sits at the precipice of potential fusion with artificial intelligence.
Screening and Conversation: In This Not Unprecedented Time
May 9, 2020, 2–3:30pm
Screening and Conversation:
In This Not Unprecedented. Time
Sat May 9, 2pm
Zoom link https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94914032242
Join us on Zoom for a Screening and Talkback with artist Tourmaline hosted by Dana Bishop-Root.
Tourmaline makes film and video that highlights the capacity of black queer/trans social life to impact the world while living what is simultaneously an invisible—and hypervisible—existence.
Dana Bishop-Root has centered her work and heart in North Braddock for eleven years, is a founding member of Transformazium, General Sisters and is the Associate Director at the Braddock Carnegie Library Association. Her work grows alongside local systems of communication, exchange, and resource distribution. Dana has been practicing facilitation in relationships, organizations, neighborhoods and spaces focusing on justice centered collective and collaborative group work.
Virtual Tour Andrea Zittel: An Institute of Investigative Living
Apr 10, 2020, 1–2pm
Virtual Tour
Andrea Zittel: An Institute of Investigative Living
Friday April 10, 1pm
Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/2737659039790743/
Zoom link https://cmu.zoom.us/j/696606003
This "live" virtual guided tour looks at several works in the recent exhibition, Andrea Zittel: An Institute of Investigative Living, focusing on the questions, can art teach us how to live, and can living teach us how to practice art? This tour will visit all three floors of the exhibition which examines 15 years of Zittel's career, emphasizing the artist's vision of domestic spaces and how they can be reimagined through shifting rules, functions and desires. We will talk about the tensions between ultimate freedom and the rules or guidelines that keep things in order.
Free to join in, participation welcome but not mandatory!
Start your day with Haraway! - Miller ICA Virtual Reading
Apr 9, 2020, 10:30–11:30am
Start your day with Haraway!
Thurs. April 9, 10:30am
Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/260551594965852/
Zoom readings of Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” led by Molly Wright Steenson and Jongwoo Jeremy Kim.
Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto
http://users.uoa.gr/~cdokou/HarawayCyborgManifesto.pdf
Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/942155616
Start your day with Haraway! We'll all meet on Zoom to jointly read Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto," each of us taking a couple of paragraphs till we've read the whole text aloud. Come join us on April 9 at 10:30 am EDT from wherever you are in the mode. Dress code is future casual.
Zoom readings of Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” lead by Molly Wright Steenson and Jongwoo Jeremy Kim.
Please RSVP so we know how many of you will join.
Reception: Andrea Zittel
Jan 24, 2020, 6–8pm
Andrea Zittel: An Institute of Investigative Living
Curated by Elizabeth Chodos
Jan 25–Mar 8, 2020
Jan 24, 6-8pm: Reception
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Miller ICA is opening a solo exhibition of new and existing work by Andrea Zittel from January 24th-March 8th.
Andrea Zittel’s work rests at the intersection of art, architecture, and design. A world-builder, Zittel’s practice manifests within her live/work residence A-Z West– an artwork and homestead located on over seventy acres in the California high desert next to Joshua Tree National Park. Since its inception A-Z West has functioned as an evolving testing grounds for living—a place in which spaces, objects, and acts of living all intertwine into a single ongoing investigation into what it means to exist and participate in our culture today. “How to live?” and “What gives life meaning?” are core issues in both Zittel’s personal life and artistic practice. Answering these questions has entailed exploring complex relationships between our need for freedom, security, autonomy, authority, and control—observing how structure and limitations often have the capacity to generate feelings of freedom beyond open-ended choices. This exhibition surveys work spanning many years, and a wide range of media including furniture, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, painting, and two newly commissioned room-sized patterned tile-floors. The exhibition demonstrates the immersive gestalt of Zittel’s all encompassing practice where every material aspect of daily life is examined and her ethos for living guides all action.
About the Artist
Andrea Zittel was born in 1965 in Escondido California. She received her BFA in painting and sculpture (1988) from San Diego State University, and MFA (1990) in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. In the early 1990s she first established her practice in New York. One of her most visible projects in NY was A-Z East, a small row house in Brooklyn turned into a showroom or testing grounds for her prototypes for living. In 1998 she moved back to the west coast, eventually settling in the High Desert region next to Joshua Tree National Park where she founded A-Z West in 2000. A-Z West is the current site of her studio practice, as well as other living experiments including the Wagon Station Encampment and the Institute of Investigative Living. In 2002 Zittel cofounded High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites in the High Desert that supports works by both emerging and established artists.
Reception: CMU School of Design 2019
Dec 6, 2019, 6–8pm
Join the CMU Design Seniors as they celebrate their accomplishments and share their most recent projects! The work featured in the show offers insight into the culmination of four years of study, pushing the boundaries of medium and method in the field of design.
Bearance: a performance by Matty Davis & Ben Gould at Braddock Carnegie Library
Nov 16, 2019, 2–3:30pm
Sat, Nov 16, 2pm:
Bearance,a performance by
Matty Davis & Ben Gould
at Braddock Carnegie Library
419 Library St., Braddock, PA 15104
Presented as part of "This Skin of Ours," an exhibition on view at the Miller ICA, Oct 12 – Nov 17, 2019, Bearance is the culmination of a two-week residency by Matty Davis + Ben Gould at Braddock Carnegie Library.
Bearance is the second work in an evolving performance collaboration between Matty Davis and Ben Gould that continues the trajectory set forth by "Carriage," a work that radically explores control and empathy. Beginning in solitude in the library’s gymnasium, the performance will use "Carriage" as an energetic and emotional primer, readying new territory for evolving desire and possibility. Harnessing tools learned through Davis and Gould’s commitment to shared challenge and discovery, Bearance aims to unbury and make felt relationships between sensation, structure and meaning.
"This Skin of Ours," curated by Liz Park, features: Kader Attia, Matty Davis & Ben Gould, Victoria Fu & Matt Rich, Byron Kim, Kiki Kogelnik, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Wilmer Wilson IV.
Matty Davis is an artist and choreographer originally from Pittsburgh, where his grandfather worked in the steel mills and his father’s plane crashed. He grew up as an athlete, north of the city in Cranberry Township. Often collaborative—with other people, the land, and histories—his multidisciplinary work begins with the body and the mining of physical and psychological resources. Unpredictable relationships and undertakings are navigated through risk, trust, and intimacy in search of personal and interpersonal transformation. His work has been presented recently at Palais de Tokyo, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Max Ernst Museum, and Printed Matter. He has taught movement and performance workshops throughout the US, and is excited to return home for this exhibition.
Ben Gould is a visual and performance artist based in New York. After developing Tourette Syndrome four years ago, his studio practice has come to harbor a growing investment in the body—exploring resistance, the loss of control, and how energy is transformed and transferred. Gould has performed site-specific projects across the country, and his work has been presented by Palais de Tokyo, the Watermill Center, Human Resources, the Chicago Cultural Center, Judson Church, Sala Diaz, Creative Growth, and Open Spaces, among others. He was a 2015 Ox-Bow Fellow, and has been an artist in residence at Queens lab, Kickstarter Headquarters, Lightbox, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
Byron Kim & Carl Phillips in Conversation - In Simmons Auditorium Tepper Building, CMU
Oct 31, 2019, 6:30–8pm
Thurs, Oct 31, 6:30pm:
Byron Kim & Carl Phillips in Conversation
in Simmons Auditorium A, Tepper, CMU. Co-sponsored by CMU, Center for the Arts in Society with support from University of Pittsburgh,Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
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Byron Kim & Carl Phillips extend a conversation that began in 2017 when the Pulitzer Arts Foundation brought the pair together to discuss Phillips’s poems and Kim’s paintings. Kim’s recent series of bruise paintings, on view as part of the exhibition "This Skin of Ours" at the Miller ICA, were inspired by Phillips’s poem “Alba: Innocence.”
"This Skin of Ours" is on view October 12 – November 17, 2019 at the Miller ICA. Curated by Liz Park, the exhibition features: Kader Attia, Matty Davis & Ben Gould, Victoria Fu & Matt Rich, Byron Kim, Kiki Kogelnik, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Wilmer Wilson IV.
Byron Kim is an artist whose work sits at the threshold between abstraction and representation, between conceptualism and pure painting. He received a BA from Yale University in 1983 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1986. Among Kim’s numerous awards are the Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY (1993), the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1994), the National Endowment of the Arts Award (1995), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1997), and the Alpert Award in the Arts (2008).
His works are in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; the M+ Museum, Hong Kong; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, CA; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; and the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.
Carl Phillips is the author of 14 books of poetry, most recently Wild Is the Wind(FSG, 2018), winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Publisher’s Weekly,in a starred review, called it “haunting and contemplative as the torch song for which the collection is named.” His selected poems, Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006, was published by FSG in 2007. Other books include The Tether (FSG, 2002), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Double Shadow (FSG, 2012), winner of theLos Angeles Times Book Prize, and Silverchest (FSG, 2014), a finalist for the Griffin Prize. A four time finalist for the National Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, his other honors include the Lambda Literary Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, for which he served as Chancellor from 2006-2012.
Steiner Lecture Series: Morehshin Allahyari at STUDIO
Oct 17, 2019, 5–6:15pm
October 17, 5-6:15pm
Steiner Lecture Series: Morehshin Allahyari
Location: Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, CMU CFA 111
Lecture presented by Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, co-sponsored by Miller ICA.
This lecture is made possible by the Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series
Reception: This Skin of Ours + Intersections
Oct 11, 2019, 6–8pm
Join us for a reception of two exhibitions!
Friday, Oct. 11, 6-8pm
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This Skin of Ours
Curated by Liz Park
Oct 12 - Nov 17, 2019
Artists: Kader Attia, Matty Davis & Ben Gould, Victoria Fu & Matt Rich, Byron Kim, Kiki Kogelnik, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Wilmer Wilson IV
The exhibition is a topical investigation of skin as a sensing and protective organ, an artistic surface, and a metaphor for the boundary between the self and the other, pain and healing.
Intersections
Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry’s 30th Anniversary Exhibition
Oct 12 - Nov 17, 2019
Featuring artists and collectives including: Addie Wagenknecht, Aman Tiwari + Gray Crawford, Angela Washko, Ayanah Moor, Bill Shannon + Cornelius Henke, Claire Hentschker, CLOUDS, Deep Lab, Jacob Tonski, Jill Miller, Jon Rubin + Dawn Weleski, Suzie Silver + Hilary Harp, Madeline Gannon, Moon Arts Group, Tahir Hemphill, Teenie Harris Archive Investigation, The Last Billboard, and the Warhol Data Recovery Project.
This exhibition is the culmination of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry’s support for projects that redefine the role of artists in a quickly changing world. For three decades, the STUDIO's laboratory has specialized in supporting emerging artists, faculty, staff and students who create and adapt new technologies, who reimagine social norms, and who instigate and advance culture into new frontiers. Read more >>
An Atlas of Commoning - Curator's Tour - Sept. 21
Sep 21, 2019, 11am–12pm
Curator‘s Tour
Sat. Sept. 21, 11-12pm
Site visits to local projects
12-1:30pm
Exhibition information
An Atlas of Commoning:
Spaces of Collective Production
An ifa exhibition in collaboration with ARCH+
June 29–Sept, 22
Designing for a Commons Transition Symposium
Sept 19 - 21, 2019
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A symposium in conjunction with the travelling exhibition An Atlas of Commoning by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in collaboration with ARCH+ and the CMU School of Architecture on display at the Miller ICA.
Thur. Sept 19, 6:30pm
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman: Unwalling Citizenship at CMU Kresge Theater CFA
Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series in Creative Inquiry in collaboration with the CMU School of Architecture lecture series.
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Fri. Sept 20, 9am-4:30pm
Guest Lectures & Presentations in CMU College of Fine Arts 214
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Sat. Sept 21, 11am
Curator and Artist’s tour of An Atlas of Commoning at Miller ICA
Sat. Sept 21, 12:30-3:30pm
Bus Tour to local initiatives including
Food Coop (option to buy lunch), Construction Junction, Center for Creative Reuse and Community Forge. Tours and discussions with Francis Carter and Kate Safin, Mike Gable, Patrick Cooper.
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This symposium brings together diverse perspectives exploring the role and responsibility of architecture and urban design in the struggle for more pluralistic, radically democratic and just cities. At a time of Pittsburgh’s renewed growth, the commons perspective urges us to revisit the city's community design legacy, and explore how it might be reinvigorated in the face of rising inequity.
Speakers include Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Renée Tribble, Kristin Hughes and Mary-Lou Arscott, Tobias Armborst, Antje Steinmuller, Karen Abrams, Anne-Marie Lubenau, Terri Baltimore, Stefani Danes and Christina Howell. Organized and curated by Stefan Gruber and Jonathan Kline.
This event is made possible through the generous support the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series, the Carnegie Mellon University and ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).
An Atlas of Commoning - Site visits to local projects
Sep 21, 2019, 12–1:30pm
Curator‘s Tour
Sat. Sept. 21, 11-12pm
Site visits to local projects
12-1:30pm
Exhibition information
An Atlas of Commoning:
Spaces of Collective Production
An ifa exhibition in collaboration with ARCH+
June 29–Sept, 22
Designing for a Commons Transition Symposium
Sept 19 - 21, 2019
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A symposium in conjunction with the travelling exhibition An Atlas of Commoning by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in collaboration with ARCH+ and the CMU School of Architecture on display at the Miller ICA.
Thur. Sept 19, 6:30pm
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman: Unwalling Citizenship at CMU Kresge Theater CFA
Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series in Creative Inquiry in collaboration with the CMU School of Architecture lecture series.
View more details here.
Fri. Sept 20, 9am-4:30pm
Guest Lectures & Presentations in CMU College of Fine Arts 214
View full program here.
Sat. Sept 21, 11am
Curator and Artist’s tour of An Atlas of Commoning at Miller ICA
Sat. Sept 21, 12:30-3:30pm
Bus Tour to local initiatives including
Food Coop (option to buy lunch), Construction Junction, Center for Creative Reuse and Community Forge. Tours and discussions with Francis Carter and Kate Safin, Mike Gable, Patrick Cooper.
RSVP on Eventbrite for limited Tour Bus Seats.
This symposium brings together diverse perspectives exploring the role and responsibility of architecture and urban design in the struggle for more pluralistic, radically democratic and just cities. At a time of Pittsburgh’s renewed growth, the commons perspective urges us to revisit the city's community design legacy, and explore how it might be reinvigorated in the face of rising inequity.
Speakers include Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Renée Tribble, Kristin Hughes and Mary-Lou Arscott, Tobias Armborst, Antje Steinmuller, Karen Abrams, Anne-Marie Lubenau, Terri Baltimore, Stefani Danes and Christina Howell. Organized and curated by Stefan Gruber and Jonathan Kline.
This event is made possible through the generous support the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series, the Carnegie Mellon University and ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).
An Atlas of Commoning - Symposium: Designing for a Commons Transition
Sep 19, 2019, 12–6pm
Symposium: Designing for a Commons Transition
Thurs. Sept. 19–Sat. Sept. 21
A forum for exchange between local and international practices of commoning
Designing for a Commons Transition SymposiumSept 19 - 21, 2019
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A symposium in conjunction with the travelling exhibition An Atlas of Commoning by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in collaboration with ARCH+ and the CMU School of Architecture on display at the Miller ICA.
Thur. Sept 19, 6:30pm
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman: Unwalling Citizenship at CMU Kresge Theater CFA
Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series in Creative Inquiry in collaboration with the CMU School of Architecture lecture series.
View more details here.
Fri. Sept 20, 9am-4:30pm
Guest Lectures & Presentations in CMU College of Fine Arts 214
View full program here.
Sat. Sept 21, 11am
Curator and Artist’s tour of An Atlas of Commoning at Miller ICA
Sat. Sept 21, 12:30-3:30pm
Bus Tour to local initiatives including
Food Coop (option to buy lunch), Construction Junction, Center for Creative Reuse and Community Forge. Tours and discussions with Francis Carter and Kate Safin, Mike Gable, Patrick Cooper.
RSVP on Eventbrite for limited Tour Bus Seats.
This symposium brings together diverse perspectives exploring the role and responsibility of architecture and urban design in the struggle for more pluralistic, radically democratic and just cities. At a time of Pittsburgh’s renewed growth, the commons perspective urges us to revisit the city's community design legacy, and explore how it might be reinvigorated in the face of rising inequity.
Speakers include Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, Renée Tribble, Kristin Hughes and Mary-Lou Arscott, Tobias Armborst, Antje Steinmuller, Karen Abrams, Anne-Marie Lubenau, Terri Baltimore, Stefani Danes and Christina Howell. Organized and curated by Stefan Gruber and Jonathan Kline.
This event is made possible through the generous support the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Sylvia and David Steiner Lecture Series, the Carnegie Mellon University and ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).
Rachel Mica Weiss
Held Together
at Tepper Quad
Sep 10, 2019, 6–8pm
Rachel Mica Weiss: Held Together
CMU, Pittsburgh, PA
On view through December 13
Opening Reception:
Tues, Sept. 10, 2019, 6-8pm
Artist remarks at approximately 6:20pm
3rd Fl, MBA Commons. Tepper Quad,
4765 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA
Held Together is a solo presentation of work by artist Rachel Mica Weiss.
It features the artist's new bound obsidian boulder installation as well as two concrete Folds (2017) and a selection of pieces from her Frameworks series (2018).
The exhibition addresses relationships among structures that house the body, ranging from the geological to the architectural, from textile structures to our own psychological constructs.
Held Together is the most recent exhibition of the EMERGENCE initiative. A collaboration between Accelerate and the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, EMERGENCE is an interdisciplinary leadership program unique to Carnegie Mellon University. Through a rotating series of exhibitions in the MBA Commons of the Tepper Quad, EMERGENCE helps students learn critical thinking, cultural literacy, and self-awareness by engaging with art in their everyday environment. EMERGENCE is made possible by the generosity of the Citrone family.
An Atlas of Commoning - Curator's Tour - Aug 24
Aug 24, 2019, 12–1pm
Curator‘s Tour
Sat. July 27, 12-1pm
Sat. Aug. 24, 12-1pm
Sat. Sept. 21, 11-12pm
Exhibition information
An Atlas of Commoning:
Spaces of Collective Production
An ifa exhibition in collaboration with ARCH+
June 29–Sept, 22
An Atlas of Commoning - Curator's Tour - July 27
Jul 27, 2019, 12–1pm
Curator‘s Tour
Sat. July 27, 12-1pm
Sat. Aug. 24, 12-1pm
Sat. Sept. 21, 11-12pm
Exhibition information
An Atlas of Commoning:
Spaces of Collective Production
An ifa exhibition in collaboration with ARCH+
June 29–Sept, 22
Salon Series: Neither Public, Nor Private
Jul 18, 2019, 6–8pm
Salon Series: Neither Public, Nor Private
Thurs. July 18, 6-8pm
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Respondents: Bekezela Mguni, Betty Marin, Emma Hedditch
READ Research and References from our Guest Respondents.
Facilitator: Dana Bishop-Root
Supported by The Heinz Endowments
In concert with the Miller ICA's current exhibition, An Atlas of Commoning, Neither, Public Nor Private will be a conversation that gives space to define both implicit and explicit rules around what makes public, and what makes private - while interrupting a binary of public and private to learn about how we practice, survive and locate our selves/community in all of the spaces in between. From multiple life experiences and disciplines we will ask how many publics can exist within a public and how many things become private when we assert a singular construction of public?
The Miller ICA Salons are facilitated topical conversations that include the general public and guest respondents whose life practice explores the chosen topic. The goal of these Salons is to engage in conversation and exchange across difference and discipline in free and public space. The 2019 Miller ICA Salons are a co-organized by the Miller ICA and facilitator, Dana Bishop-Root.
Free + open to the public
Bios
Emma Hedditch (born in 1972, GB) lives in New York. Hedditch has worked with Cinenova, a feminist film and video distributor (1999–present), Copenhagen Free University (2001–2008), No Total, a site for performance (2012–2017) and Coop Fund, a member organized funding cooperative (2018- present). Hedditch has participated in group exhibitions including Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff, Artists Space (2018), Finesse, curated by Leah Pires, Wallach Art Gallery, New York (2018) and recently completed the project +493024345953 at KW in Berlin. Hedditch has published texts in Afterall, Mute Magazine, and Art Monthly, and contributed to the books Rereading Appropriation (If I Can’t Dance, 2015) and self-published work includes A Political Feeling, I Hope So, Coming to Have a Public Life, Is it Worth it? and the e-book of scripts, I Don’t Want you to Work as Me, I Want you to Work for Me.
Betty Marín is a cultural worker from Wilmington, CA. Her work centers on creating educational spaces that encourage dialogue and solidarity between different communities. She is currently based in her home city of Los Angeles, where she continues to explore the theory and practice of popular education. She is a proud member of the language justice collective Antena LA, the pop ed and research collective School of Echoes, and the Los Angeles Tenants Union, which she helped found in 2015.
Bekezela is a creative, queer, Black Femme. She directs the Black Unicorn Library and Archives Project. She works to create libraries as sites of possibility, imagination and freedom. She celebrates memory and storytelling, and the relationship between literacy and liberation. Bekezela was selected as an Emerging Artist in the 2016 Three Rivers Arts Festival and won the Juror's Choice award for her visual artwork. She is currently a member of BOOM Concepts Studios and serves as the Education Program Director for Dreams of Hope, which affirms and uplifts the voices of LGBTQ youth through the arts and by building community spaces with queer and Trans young people in Pittsburgh.
Reception: An Atlas of Commoning
Jun 29, 2019, 5:30–7:30pm
An Atlas of Commoning
June 29–Sept 22, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION
Sat. June 29, 5:30-7:30pm
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+ Open Space Workshop: Commoning Pittsburgh
Sat. June 29, 1-5:30pm
An Atlas of Commoning: Open Space Workshop
Jun 29, 2019, 1–5:30pm
Open Space Workshop
Sat., June 29, 1 – 5:30 pm
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The Open Space workshop, preceding the exhibition opening of An Atlas of Commoning, brings together community-led initiatives for building meaningful relations between people, places, and the environment in the pursuit of a more just and resilient Pittsburgh. The workshop provides a platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge, and marks the beginning of a summer-long conversation around practices of commoning. Join us in building a network of initiatives that propose another possible world, and one which is already in the making.
For more information please contact Stefan Gruber at smgruber@andrew.cmu.edu
Salon Discussion:
Not Neutral
May 6, 2019, 6–8pm
Not Neutral - Salon Series
Guest respondents: Deana Haggag, Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Alicia Grullon, LaTanya S. Autry
May 6, 6-8pm
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In his response to the Walker Art Center's call for New Year Resolutions, Anthony Romero makes a suggestion to arts institutions to: "Recall that your institution is not part of some distant European colonial past but remains part of the ongoing project of colonial domination and that your function as a bastion of cultural legitimacy and valuation is predicated not only on your participation in the enduring colonial project of displacement and erasure but those of capitalism, hetero-patriarchy, able-ism, and white supremacy, as well." This series takes up Romero’s prompt for it’s May Salon: Not Neutral. This discussion will focus on how institutional practices assume a neutrality of place, or experience, and will explore how these false presumptions of neutrality belie the complex and often violent histories and structures that maintain its existence.
The Miller ICA Salons are facilitated topical conversations that include the general public and guest respondents whose life practice explores the chosen topic. The goal of these Salons is to animate engaged citizenship through conversation and exchange across difference and discipline in free public space. The 2019 Miller ICA Salons are a co-organized by the Miller ICA and facilitator, Dana Bishop-Root, who is an artist living and working in Braddock, PA.
Free + open to the public
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Deana Haggag is the President & CEO of United States Artists, a national arts funding organization based in Chicago, IL. Before joining USA in February 2017, she was the Executive Director of The Contemporary, a nomadic and non-collecting art museum in Baltimore, MD, for four years. In addition to her leadership roles, Deana lectures extensively, consults on various art initiatives, contributes to cultural publications, and has taught at institutions such as Johns Hopkins University and Towson University. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art and Illinois Humanities Council, as well as on the Advisory Council of Recess. She received her MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA from Rutgers University in Art History and Philosophy.
Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities (2012; 2016). His article “Filming the Queerness of Comfort Women: Byun Young–Joo’s The Murmuring, 1995” was published in positions: asia critique in 2014. Most recently, Kim co-edited with Christopher Reed the interdisciplinary anthology Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry: Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture (2017), which includes his essay on queer temporality and late twentieth-century sculpture, “Now and (N)ever: Robert Gober’s Beeswax Time Machines.” Kim is currently working on his next book, Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood, which advances current scholarly debates on subjectivity formation by reassessing the historical narrative of corporeal incoherence in images and objects. Artists Male Bodies Unmade treats include Aubrey Beardsley, Jean Cocteau, Francis Bacon, Robert Gober, David Hockney, and Andrew Ahn. Kim serves as President of the Historians of British Art, an international organization for scholars and curators specializing in British art and architecture from every area and period. In 2007, Kim received his Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, where he worked with Linda Nochlin. His book “Picturing the Edwardian Family Man: The Nicholsons at Home” will be published in Art History in November this year.
As a cultural organizer in the visual arts, LaTanya S. Autry centers social justice and public memory in her work. In addition to co-creating The Art of Black Dissent, an interactive program that promotes public dialogue about the African-American liberation struggle, she co-produced #MuseumsAreNotNeutral, an initiative that exposes the fallacies of the neutrality claim and calls for an equity-based transformation of museums and the Social Justice and Museums Resource List, a crowd-sourced bibliography.
LaTanya has curated exhibitions and organized programs at Yale University Art Gallery, Artspace New Haven, Mississippi Museum of Art, Tougaloo College, and the Crane Art Center. Through her graduate studies at the University of Delaware, where she is completing her Ph.D. in art history, LaTanya has developed expertise in art of the United States, photography, and museums. Her dissertation The Crossroads of Commemoration: Lynching Landscapes in America, which analyzes how individuals and communities memorialize lynching violence in the built environment, concentrates on the interplay of race, representation, memory, and public space.
Alicia Grullón, a 2018-2019 Hemi Artist in Residence, directs her interdisciplinary practice towards critiques of the politics of presence, arguing for the inclusion of disenfranchised communities in political and social spheres. She is co-organizer and co-author of the People’s Cultural Plan, a coalition of artists, cultural workers, and activists responding to New York City’s first ever cultural plan in 2017. Her work has been shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, BRIC Arts, Spring/Break Art Show, and Performa 11, among others. Grullón is also a contributing author to "Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts: But How Does it Work?", ed. Nicola Mann and Charlotte Bonham-Carter (Palgrave Macmillan, London) 2017 and "Building Communities through Socially", ed. Alice Wexler and Vida Sabbaghi (Routledge) 2019. Recent activities include the Shandaken Project inaugural artist residency on Governors Island and the Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Alum program at 80 White Street. Grullón is an adjunct professor at The School of Visual Arts and City University of New York (CUNY).
Reception: Bounce! CMU School of Art Senior Exhibition
May 3, 2019, 6–8pm
Reception: CMU School of Architecture Thesis Exhibition
Apr 19, 2019, 6–8pm
April 18-24, 2019
Reception: April 19, 6:00-8:00pm
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Project Reviews: April 19-20
Join the CMU School of Architecture Fifth-Years to see the work of Thesis, the final year studio where architectural ideas are developed to operate critically within the discipline. The project installations illustrate challenging proposals that explore contemporary questions. During the exhibition, students will present their work for discussion and critique.
Earth Making Workshop with Zain Islam-Hashmi
Apr 18, 2019, 2–5:30pm
Join student Zain Islam-Hashmi on Thursday April 18th for a hands-on workshop of traditional earthen construction techniques as part of the project, "Dirt Forms." Learn the basics of adobe brick-making and rammed earth, and leave your mark on the exhibit by making your own earthen pieces as part of the installation. The workshop is free and open to the public, visitors can stop by anytime between 2-5:30pm. Pieces made will be available for pick-up closing day of the exhibition on April 24th.
Black Radical Imagination:
Fugitive Trajectories
at Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Mar 30, 2019, 8–9:45pm
Saturday, March 30
8-10pm / Kelly Strayhorn Theater
5941 Penn Ave
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“A carefully selected body of work responding to what it means to be Black in the 21st Century.”
—CCH Pounder
Co-presented with Miller Institute for Contemporary Art
With afrofuturist, afro surrealism and magical-realist aesthetics, the experimental short films in Black Radical Imagination highlight new stories from within the African diaspora. Fugitive Trajectories is the latest edition in the series, and this program meditates on the various ways Black people attend to their lives, despite traumatic histories—both personal and collective—and a troubling present. In addition to films curated by Jheanelle Brown and Darol Olu Kae, live performances by Pittsburgh luminaries share the stage to invoke powerful expressions of grief, kinship and the dynamism of Blackness and Black culture.
Co-founded by Erin Christovale and Amir George, Black Radical Imagination is a touring program of visual shorts that delves into the worlds of new media, video art and experimental narrative.
Reception: Above, Below, After, Until: CMU MFA Exhibit
Mar 22, 2019, 6–8pm
ABOVE, BELOW, AFTER, UNTIL
CMU MFA EXHIBIT
March 16–April 7, 2019
Artists: Nicholas Crockett, Joy Poulard Cruz, Shohei Katayama, Erin Mallea
Reception: March 22, 6–8pm
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Featuring new work by 2019 School of Art MFA candidates, Above, Below, After, Until examines the dynamic relationships between land, labor, and cultural memory through experiential installation, sculpture, and video. In a moment marked by political and ecological precarity, the artists create spaces of ritual, reflection, and fantasy in search of moments of solidarity and human / non human kinship.
Reception: CMU School of Design Exhibition
Feb 21, 2019, 6–8pm
Generous Feedback
CMU 2019 School of Design Exhibition
Thursday, Feb. 21, 6-8pm: Reception
Join the CMU Design Seniors as they celebrate their accomplishments and share their most recent projects! The work featured in the show offers insight into the culmination of four years of study, pushing the boundaries of medium and method in the field of design.
Workshop:
Not The Only One
at BOOM Concepts
Feb 3, 2019, 3–5pm
WORKSHOP: Not The Only One
Sunday, Feb. 3, 3-5pm
BOOM Concepts, 5139 Penn Ave
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In this workshop artist, Stephanie Dinkins will talk the importance of black communities participating in the creation, testing and design of the AI future and the making of N'TOO, a voice interactive artificially intelligent storyteller trained on oral histories collected from the artist's family. Workshop participants will also have the opportunity to interact with the AI.
Related exhibition
Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI
Curated by Elizabeth Chodos
On view through Feb 3
http://miller-ica.cmu.edu/exhibitions/#48/upcoming-paradox-the-body-in-the-age-of-ai
Symposium - Paradox: Frames and Biases in Art and AI
Jan 28, 2019, 5:30–8:30pm
Symposium
Paradox: Frames and Biases in Art and AI
Jan. 28, 5:30–8:30pm
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Organized by Eunsu Kang and Elizabeth Chodos
Panel members: Manuela Veloso, Alexandra Chouldechova, Sey Min, Jillian Mayer, and Kerry Doran.
This panel discussion explores the ways bias is inherently built into the structure and function of Machine Learning. In order to make predictions or identify patterns, AI requires that a person set specific instructions that have the potential to reinforce bias and oppressive social structures, particularly when ML is being used in everything from policing to determining someone’s credit score. This panel will also explore the role that contemporary art can play in challenging and refiguring these biases by calling into question the frameworks underpinning our assumptions. As ML and AI continue to influence more aspects of everyday life, conversations around how we can use these tools to undo harmful biases, as opposed to reinforcing them, is increasingly urgent.
Manuela Maria Veloso
Manuela Maria Veloso is a world renowned AI expert. Currently she is the head of artificial intelligence research at J.P. Morgan. She was the head of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University & Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She served as president of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American …
Manuela Maria Veloso
Manuela Maria Veloso is a world renowned AI expert. Currently she is the head of artificial intelligence research at J.P. Morgan. She was the head of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University & Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She served as president of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics and also a known supporter in solving ethical issues of AI.
Alexandra Chouldechova
Dr. Chouldechova is an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University, Chouldechova’s research has centered on fairness in algorithmic decision making. Her research studies computational and statistical issues surrounding algorithmic bias in systems deployed in public sector domains such as criminal justice and child welfare. Her work has been published in venues such as NeurIPS, CHI and FAT*, and has received media mentions from outlets including ProPublica, New York Times Magazine and Nature.
Sey Min
Sey Min is a data visualization artist and designer, who is interested in dealing with live data sets in various media formats. She makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technologies, to societies and cities, and to environments. Combining elements of environmental studies, visual art, programming, and data storytelling, her projects range from building a real-time interactive information graphics system for a music club (Gender Ratio, 2007) to visualizing Seoul City expenditure data (City DATA: Seoul Daily Expenditure, 2014).Her work has been shown at NIPS 2018, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; TED 2011; TEDGlobal 2012; Art Center Nabi in Seoul, and Lift Conference, and featured on CNN Asia, Lift09 etc. After serving as an urban information design researcher at MIT SENSEable City Lab, She was selected as a 2011 TED Fellow and Senior Fellow from 2012 to 2013. Her work is also available at ttoky.com
Jillian Mayer
Jillian Mayer’s artistic practice is a means of processing how our physical world and bodies are impacted and reshaped by our participation in a digital landscape.Through videos, photography, painting, performance, sculpture, and installation, Mayer’s projects explore how technology affects our identities, lives, and experiences. Mayer flows between the points of tension between our online and physicals worlds and makes work that attempts to inhabit the increasingly porous boundary between the two.
Her works and performances have been premiered at galleries and museums internationally such as MoMA, MoCA:NoMi, BAM, Bass Museum, MoMa PS1, the Contemporary Museum of Montreal and film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Rotterdam, and New York Film Festival. She's been featured in Art Papers, ArtNews, Art in America, and Art Forum discussing identity, Internet and her artistic practices. Her video was selected for the Guggenheim’s Youtube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video and was exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany.
Mayer is a recent recipient of the prestigious Creative Capital Fellowship for 2015, the South Florida Cultural Consortium's Visual/Media Artists Fellowship 2011 and 2014, Cintas Cuban Foundation Fellowship 2012, and was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. She is also a fellow of the Sundance New Frontiers Lab Program for 2014 and the Zentrum Paul Klee Fellowship in Bern, Switzerland for 2013. Recently, she has been included in Prospect 5, PST LA/LA, and currently has solo shows at the Kunsthalle Aarhus (Denmark) and the UB Art Galleries in Buffalo, New York.
Kerry Doran
Kerry Doran is a writer and curator based in New York and Buenos Aires. The writing and shows she produces center around time-based media and performance because of their particular engagement with new technologies. Her research looks at the critical applications of such tools by artists to better understand their cultural implications—economically, politically, and socially. Doran contributes to exhibition catalogs, artist books, and independent publications, including BOMB, Flash Art, Foam, Rhizome, Terremoto, and SFMOMA’s Open Space. Her curatorial projects have been featured in Artforum, ARTnews, Modern Painters, The New York Times, Página/12, Rhizome, and The Village Voice, among others. She has presented her research at the British Computer Society, Harvard, the ICP Museum, Goldsmiths, M+ Museum, MIT, and Virginia Tech. Previously, Doran was the director of bitforms and Postmasters, respectively, and a member of the inaugural team at the New Museum’s NEW INC. She holds a master’s with distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she was an Associate Scholar at the Research Forum.
Eunsu Kang
Eunsu Kang is a Korean media artist who creates interactive audiovisual installations and AI artworks. Her current research is focused on creative AI and artistic expressions by Machine Learning algorithms. Creating interdisciplinary projects, her signature has been seamless integration of art disciplines and innovative techniques. Her work has been invited to numerous places around the world including Japan, China, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Germany, and the US. All nine of her solo shows, consisting of individual or collaborative projects, were invited or awarded. She has won the Korean National Grant for Arts three times. Her researches have been presented at conferences such as ACM, ICMC, ISEA, and NeurIPS. Kang earned her Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Experimental Media from DXARTS at the University of Washington. She received an MA in Media Arts and Technology from UCSB and an MFA from the Ewha Woman's University. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Art and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University.
Salon, let’s be in conversation: Not Normative: In the Age of AI
Nov 8, 2018, 6–8pm
Guest Respondents:
Jes Fan is a sculptor whose interdisciplinary work is invested in the materiality of identity politics.
Molly Wright Steenson is a K&L Gates Associate Professor of Ethics & Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon & Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts. Related book available online "Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape".
In community with others striving for disability justice, Dustin is actively engaged in the struggle for freedom and liberation.
Please join us for the first Miller ICA Salon. We are excited to be in conversation with you.
The first conversation will generate and evolve out of the current exhibition, Paradox: The Body in Age of AI.
Our guest correspondants, Dustin, Molly and J will each be sharing points of reference and interest that they have.
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The exhibition engages artists who transverse, locate and dislocate their (or other) bodies in relationship to Artificial Intelligence. AI has a design and breadth to be utilized and to impact all of us every day in different ways, it simultaneously exists as a tool for liberations (whos) and for oppressions (from who). We acknowledge AI as a system that is being built, funded and reinforced within a system and language that maintains that a normative exists. This same normative that is a control for maintaining a binary. Though, there are …
The exhibition engages artists who transverse, locate and dislocate their (or other) bodies in relationship to Artificial Intelligence. AI has a design and breadth to be utilized and to impact all of us every day in different ways, it simultaneously exists as a tool for liberations (whos) and for oppressions (from who). We acknowledge AI as a system that is being built, funded and reinforced within a system and language that maintains that a normative exists. This same normative that is a control for maintaining a binary. Though, there are also possibilities that AI can destroy the binary - that furthering technology can allow us to exist in the fullest possibility of ourselves. How would AI develop if there was not a normative? Where do you enter? What is the spectral ever changing relationship between your body and technology? How does english language as a technology insist on maintaining binaries? How do we decenter supremacy, dominance and binaries when the english language still centers the violence (non binary, non white, anti-capitalist, anti, racist, non normative)? What interrogation needs to happen so that the words of the potential of a liberating AI, access, diverse, public, do not remain tools of oppression?
The 2018/2019 Miller ICA Salons are a four-part discussion series co-organized by the Miller ICA and facilitator, Dana Bishop-Root, who is an artist living and working in Braddock, PA.
The Miller ICA Salons are facilitated topical conversations that include the general public and guest respondents whose life practice explores the chosen topic. The guest respondents have been invited to do or share existing research or inquiry on each conversation topic. The research compiled by each respondent will be made available to the public through the Miller ICA website prior to the Salon, and the public will have access to it before joining the discussion as supplemental information. Research that is shared can range from reading lists to lists of people to follow, to podcasts. Three moderators of various backgrounds will be chosen for each discussion to bring a wealth of cross disciplinary ideas, perspectives and modalities to the conversation, creating a space where the public can access free college-level, seminar-style discussions on pressing issues. The goal of these Salons is to animate engaged citizenship through conversation and exchange in free public space.
Miller ICA Open House
Oct 14, 2018, 12–6pm
Miller ICA Open House
Sun., Oct. 14
12-6pm: Inflatable artwork by ClaireAshley outside the Miller ICA at CMU
1-1:30pm: Curator's tour of Paradox exhibit
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On Sunday Oct 14th Miller ICA will be hosting an open house, featuring a free curator's tour of Paradox and a Inflatable Sculpture by Claire Ashley that will be up for one day only! The open house will coincide with the Keyword International tour.
Keyword: International Map + Bus Tour
Sun., Oct. 14, 1:30pm
As a part of the Keyword: Internationalinitiative, Miller ICAis creating a map of participating artist-run spaces, curatorial ventures, and projects. CDCP will offer one-day-only tours of these spaces on shiny yellow school buses! Enjoy an afternoon with the heART of Pittsburgh’s creative community.
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Reception Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI
Oct 4, 2018, 6–8pm
PARADOX: THE BODY IN THE AGE OF AI
Curated by Elizabeth Chodos
Oct. 5, 2018 - Feb. 3, 2019
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event on all three floors
Reading Women
Autumn House Press Reading + Reception
Sep 7, 2018, 6–8pm
6–7pm: Autumn House Press Reading featuring Adriana Ramirez, Sherrie Flick, Judith Vollmer, and Toi Derricotte
7–8pm: Reception
