Arts@UChicago

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Artists and scholars from diverse fields at the University of Chicago talk about the nature and importance of art in public spaces, and their own experiences with touching, embracing, and continuously rediscovering the unique and arresting works on UChicago's campus.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago alumnus Philip Glass discusses how an early interest in music and his University education helped spark his illustrious career as a composer. A 1956 graduate of the College, Glass returned to UChicago in February 2016 for a three-day residency as a Presidential Arts Fellow, which included a master class with UChicago composition students, a public conversation with Professor Augusta Read Thomas at the Logan Center for the Arts, and a University of Chicago Presents concert at Mandel Hall of his piano etudes.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. View the public presentation of the University of Chicago’s Garfield Boulevard planning concepts as presented on July 26, 2014, at the Block Party: A Celebration of Arts and Culture on Garfield Boulevard at the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator. View comments from University of Chicago representatives Theaster Gates, Director of the Arts + Public Life Initiative; Lawrence Zbikowski, Deputy Provost for the Arts; William Towns, Assistant Vice President, Neighborhood Initiatives, Office of Civic Engagement; and Joanna Trotter, Director of Neighborhood Development, Office of Civic Engagement; and Lesley Roth, representing the planning consulting firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz, as they presented the cultural vision and plan concepts for the south side of Garfield Boulevard from Prairie Avenue to Martin Luther King Drive. During this event, participants reviewed and commented on a range of ideas for this one-block stretch of Garfield—many generated by community stakeholders during past meetings—and enjoyed a day of performances by several cultural partners.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. “The Distance Between” showcased the work of the five artists selected as the Arts + Public Life/Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture 2012/2013 artists-in-residence at the University of Chicago. This two-venue exhibition marked the culmination of the artists’ efforts, highlighting works that invited visitors to linger, look, and listen at each exhibition site, and also to travel the distance between the two venues. The exhibition, on view August 27 through September 29, 2013, featured the work of LeRoy Bach, Cecil McDonald Jr., Tomeka Reid, Cauleen Smith, and avery r. young. The opening event on September 15, 2013, showcased performances and artwork by the five artists, inviting the community to engage with the work at the Arts Incubator, Logan Center, and the spaces in between. Allison Glenn and Monika Szewczyk curated the exhibition. Learn more at http://arts.uchicago.edu/content/thedistancebetween.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. UChicago Arts presents “Envisioning China,” a festival of arts and culture at the University of Chicago featuring more than 40 events and exhibitions. From February to June 2014, explore the depths of China’s cultural legacy through never-before-exhibited paintings, rarely seen films, engaging talks, and magnificent performances by acclaimed artists, musicians, and more.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The University of Chicago’s Arts and Public Life initiative on March 8, 2013 opened its new Arts Incubator in the Washington Park neighborhood—providing a dedicated space for artists to grow professionally and build creative connections with the surrounding community. The newly renovated Arts Incubator, envisioned by internationally recognized artist and place strategist Theaster Gates, includes 10,000 square feet of studio space for artists-in-residence, a woodshop for design apprenticeship programming, and additional program space for exhibitions and events. The Arts Incubator, located at 301 E. Garfield Blvd., is housed in a two-story, terra cotta building dating to the 1920s. Learn more at: https://arts.uchicago.edu/artsandpubliclife/ai The ribbon cutting ceremony and opening reception included a reading by 2012/13 artist-in-residence avery r. young and remarks by the following speakers: Larry Norman, Deputy Provost for the Arts, University of Chicago Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Provost, University of Chicago Robert J. Zimmer, President, University of Chicago Theaster Gates, Director of Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago Michelle Boone, Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, City of Chicago Pat Dowell, 3rd Ward Alderman, City of Chicago

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Watch an exciting evening of new works and dynamic performances celebrating the opening of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, featuring UChicago faculty, students, and alumni, as well as partners and performers from across Chicago. This special dedication ceremony was webcast via UChicago Live. Program: - Performance by Manual Cinema - Welcome Remarks by Thomas Rosenbaum, Provost - Logan Promenades: composition by Shulamit Ran; Performed by Kari Lee and Matthew Lee - Introduction by Larry Norman, Deputy Provost for the Arts - Poem by Adam Zagajewski - "Great Art is Born Out of Community" video - Remarks by Michelle Boone, Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, City of Chicago - Spoken word performance by students of the University of Chicago Woodlawn Charter School - "Logan Center Teaser" video - Dedication Address by Robert J. Zimmer, President - "Remembering David Logan (1918-2011)" video - Introduction by Bill Michel, Executive Director of the Logan Center - Ribbon Cutting with a performance by the University Symphony Orchestra and University of Chicago Choirs

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Shulamit Ran, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago, discusses how the new Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts inspired her composition "Logan Promenades," which premiered at the launch of the Logan Center in October 2012.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Internationally recognized and award-winning architect Helmut Jahn explains blending the aesthetics of machinery and outdoor space in his cutting-edge West and South Utility Plants design for the University of Chicago. Learn more at http://uchic.ag/utility

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Visit http://www.arts.uchicago.edu/apl for more information on Arts and Public Life. Learn about the University of Chicago's Arts and Public Life initiative and its new Arts Incubator in Washington Park on Chicago's South Side. Envisioned by artist Theaster Gates, the new Arts Incubator, along with the Logan Center for the Arts on the University of Chicago campus, are art-focused spaces that strive to make creative connections on Chicago's South Side. Video produced by UChicago Creative © The University of Chicago, 2013

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Los Angeles-based writer Joshuah Bearman gave a reading at Midway Studios on November 8, 2012. Bearman has written for LA Weekly, Rolling Stone, Wired, Harper's, and McSweeneys, and he is a contributor to the radio program This American Life. An article he wrote for Wired in 2007 became the basis for the screenplay to the film Argo.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Los Angeles-based writer Joshuah Bearman gave a reading at Midway Studios on November 8, 2012. Bearman has written for LA Weekly, Rolling Stone, Wired, Harper's, and McSweeneys, and he is a contributor to the radio program This American Life. An article he wrote for Wired in 2007 became the basis for the screenplay to the film Argo.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Portions of contemporary artist Danh Vo's "We the People" are scattered across the world, including on the University of Chicago campus. Segments of "We the People"—a dismantled, full-scale replica of the Statue of Liberty—are on display through December 16, 2012, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Law School, Renaissance Society, and Oriental Institute Museum. Learn more at https://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/special/people/

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Portions of contemporary artist Danh Vo's "We the People" are scattered across the world, including on the University of Chicago campus. Segments of "We the People"—a dismantled, full-scale replica of the Statue of Liberty—are on display through December 16, 2012, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Law School, Renaissance Society, and Oriental Institute Museum. Learn more at https://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/special/people/

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Steve Wiesenthal, Associate Vice President and University Architect at the University of Chicago, moderated a panel discussion featuring architects and designers Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Ann Beha, and Jamie Carpenter. All of the panelists have designed new projects or renovated existing buildings on the University of Chicago campus. With this experience, each panelist provided different insights into recent initiatives to revitalize the campus while also preserving its underlying unity. The Architecture and Design Society sponsored the event, which was held at the Art Institute of Chicago on May 24, 2012.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michael Ondaatje, Kestnbaum Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago, discusses his writing in poetry, fiction, memoir, and film among a large group of students. Ondaatje is known for his novel "The English Patient," which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. Ondaatje also read from his poetry collection and answered students questions about his writing process.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michael Ondaatje, Kestnbaum Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago, discusses his writing in poetry, fiction, memoir, and film among a large group of students. Ondaatje is known for his novel "The English Patient," which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. Ondaatje also read from his poetry collection and answered students questions about his writing process.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Naseem Jamnia, Michael Lipkowitz, and Caroline O'Donovan, winners of the University of Chicago's second undergraduate "Writing About Chicago" contest, read from their winning works in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Naseem Jamnia, Michael Lipkowitz, and Caroline O'Donovan, winners of the University of Chicago's second undergraduate "Writing About Chicago" contest, read from their winning works in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Join us in welcoming Jessica Stockholder, as she assumes her new role as Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts (DOVA) at the University of Chicago. The artist, whose work has brought a shared understanding of what sculpture could be, will share insights into her art, reflecting on how her work has evolved and what is currently informing her artistic practice.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Join us in welcoming Jessica Stockholder, as she assumes her new role as Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts (DOVA) at the University of Chicago. The artist, whose work has brought a shared understanding of what sculpture could be, will share insights into her art, reflecting on how her work has evolved and what is currently informing her artistic practice.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Tilo Schulz, artist and curator, discusses his work and research on art and exhibition. His work shifts between the modalities of art, craft, design, and architecture as it comments on the status of art in the representation of the social and the political.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Tilo Schulz, artist and curator, discusses his work and research on art and exhibition. His work shifts between the modalities of art, craft, design, and architecture as it comments on the status of art in the representation of the social and the political.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Kitty Scott, Director of Visual Arts at the Banff Centre. discusses the idea of curatorial intelligence and her role in various projects, including dOCUMENTA (13).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Kitty Scott, Director of Visual Arts at the Banff Centre. discusses the idea of curatorial intelligence and her role in various projects, including dOCUMENTA (13).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. AA Bronson, a New York City artist, discusses the history of art from the 1960s when he left university to found a free school, a commune, and an underground newspaper. Bronson formed the artists’ group General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal. For the next 25 years they lived and worked together to produce art and be involved in punk, queer theory, and AIDS activism.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. AA Bronson, a New York City artist, discusses the history of art from the 1960s when he left university to found a free school, a commune, and an underground newspaper. Bronson formed the artists’ group General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal. For the next 25 years they lived and worked together to produce art and be involved in punk, queer theory, and AIDS activism.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Barry Schwabsky discusses "writing about drawing" and art projects today. He presents a series of quotations on the subjects.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Barry Schwabsky discusses "writing about drawing" and art projects today. He presents a series of quotations on the subjects.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Oleg Kruglyakov, balalaika virtuoso, and Terry Boyarsky, masterful pianist, give a concert of soulful, passionate music. Their collaboration highlights the mysterious sounds of the balalaika underscored by the vast expressive range of the piano. Featuring vocals and Russian percussion, their extensive repertoire draws from Russian folk music, romances, dances, classical music, gypsy melodies and Russian songs.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Oleg Kruglyakov, balalaika virtuoso, and Terry Boyarsky, masterful pianist, give a concert of soulful, passionate music. Their collaboration highlights the mysterious sounds of the balalaika underscored by the vast expressive range of the piano. Featuring vocals and Russian percussion, their extensive repertoire draws from Russian folk music, romances, dances, classical music, gypsy melodies and Russian songs.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Interdisciplinary artist, writer and Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons/The New School for Design, COCO FUSCO, presents "Torture, the Feminine Touch: Exploring Military Interrogation as Intercultural Performance." This presentation draws on her most recent work on the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror, including Operation Atropos (a film about interrogation training), A Room of One's Own (a monologue about female interrogators), and her 2008 book, A Field Guide For Female Interrogators. Fusco is a 2009-2010 CSRPC Artist-in-Residence.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Laura Mulvey's lecture will draw upon two British films from the very end of the silent era to reflect on differing representations of femininity and class.Both are about transgressive love and a modernity that enables their female protagonists to cross, if only temporarily, traditional British class boundaries. But while Hindle Wakes, set in a Northern industrial milieu and adapted from Stanley Houghton's Ibsen inspired play, remains within a realist register, Piccadilly, scripted by Arnold Bennett and devised as a vehicle for Anna May Wong, depends on melodrama to deal with an affair that is inter-racial as well as trans-class.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A look at the rich history or art practice and theory at the University of Chicago, the incredible alumni who have made their mark on the world and the role the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts will play in shaping the future of campus and local art.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Larry Norman, deputy provost for the arts and associate professor in Romance languages and literature, theater and performance studies, and the College, and Steven Wiesenthal, University architect and associate vice president for facilities services, cordially invite you to celebrate Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects at the unveiling of their design for The Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts.Scheduled to open in Spring 2012, the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts will embody the experimentation and multidisciplinary inquiry, teaching, performance, and production inherent in the University's vision for the arts through the innovative design of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The Logan Arts Center will become an architectural and cultural destination in Chicago, opening the creative and critical core of the University to the neighborhood and the city as never before. It will serve as a southern gateway to campus where distinguished local and international artists and scholars will create, debate, exhibit, and perform

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Larry Norman, deputy provost for the arts and associate professor in Romance languages and literature, theater and performance studies, and the College, and Steven Wiesenthal, University architect and associate vice president for facilities services, cordially invite you to celebrate Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects at the unveiling of their design for The Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts.Scheduled to open in Spring 2012, the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts will embody the experimentation and multidisciplinary inquiry, teaching, performance, and production inherent in the University's vision for the arts through the innovative design of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The Logan Arts Center will become an architectural and cultural destination in Chicago, opening the creative and critical core of the University to the neighborhood and the city as never before. It will serve as a southern gateway to campus where distinguished local and international artists and scholars will create, debate, exhibit, and perform

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. For months Oyekunle Oyegbemi had his eye on hosting an event at University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. His group, the IFA Yoruba Contemporary Art Foundation, had University ties that made Rockefeller an ideal venue for a performance by one of the organization's founding board members Grammy award-winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. For months Oyekunle Oyegbemi had his eye on hosting an event at University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. His group, the IFA Yoruba Contemporary Art Foundation, had University ties that made Rockefeller an ideal venue for a performance by one of the organization's founding board members Grammy award-winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Carl Phillips is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (FSG, 2007), and Speak Low (FSG, 2009). He is also the author of Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004) and the translator of Sophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford, 2004). His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Lambda Book Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was elected a Chancellor in 2006. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Carl Phillips is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (FSG, 2007), and Speak Low (FSG, 2009). He is also the author of Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004) and the translator of Sophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford, 2004). His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Lambda Book Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was elected a Chancellor in 2006. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Carl Phillips is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (FSG, 2007), and Speak Low (FSG, 2009). He is also the author of Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004) and the translator of Sophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford, 2004). His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Lambda Book Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was elected a Chancellor in 2006. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Carl Phillips is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (FSG, 2007), and Speak Low (FSG, 2009). He is also the author of Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004) and the translator of Sophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford, 2004). His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Lambda Book Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was elected a Chancellor in 2006. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Vitaly Komar was born in Moscow, USSR in 1943, graduated from the Stroganov School of Art and Design in 1967, and has been living in New York since 1978. He was one of the founders of the Sots Art movement (Soviet Pop/Conceptual Art) and a pioneer of multi-stylistic post-modernism (1972-73).Vitaly Komar worked in collaboration with Alex Melamid from 1973 to 2003, exhibiting widely around the world. They were the first Russian artists invited to Documenta 8 in Kassel (1987) and they were also the first Russian artists to receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (1982). After the Symbols of the Big Bang exhibited at the Yeshiva University Museum (New York, 2002-03), Vitaly Komar started New Symbolist works. His project Symbols of the Three -Day Weekend was exhibited at Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York; Matthew Bown Gallery, London; Marina Sandman Gallery, Berlin; Mina Lit!in!!sky Gallery, Denver; Ben Uri Gallery"i? 1/2 The London Jewish Museum of Art (receiving the International Jewish Artist of the Year Award); Humanities Gallery at Cooper Union, New York (with a catalog by Dore Ashton and Andrew Weinstein) in 2005. In 2007, he was a Special Guest of the Moscow Biennale (Marat Guelman Gallery and Tretiakov State Gallery).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Part of University of Illinois Chicago's Voices lecture series at Gallery 400.Arturo Herrera (Venezuelan, born 1959) received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Selected solo exhibitions of Herrera"i? 1/2 s work include those held at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2007), Art Gallery of Ontario (2002), Whitney Museum of American Art (2001), UCLA Hammer Museum (2001), Centre d"i? 1/2 Art Contemporain, Geneva (2000), Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1998), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995). Selected group exhibitions include Comic Abstraction (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007), The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Torino (2003), Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2003), Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), The Americans (Barbican Art Centre, London, 2001), and Painting at the Edge of the World (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2001). Selected awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2005), DAAD Fellowship (2003), Pollock-Krasner Foundation award (1998), and an ArtPace Fellowship (1998). The artist lives in Berlin.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Artist Geof Oppenheimer and political sciences Professor Julie Cooper will discuss Oppenheimer's work as it is situated in the arena of the aesthetics of politics, and contemplate the future possibilities of contemporary art in the broader social fabric. Geof Oppenheimer is currently a Harper & Schmidt Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts. He has exhibited at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY; The Project, New York; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; MC, Los Angeles; Cohan & Leslie, New York; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley; Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester and SF Camerawork, San Francisco. He has received awards from the Eisner Foundation (2001), Grand Mariner Foundation (2001) and is a recipient Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship (2005), . He is represented by The Project, New York. Julie Cooper is Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include early modern political theory and Jewish political thought. She is currently completing a book entitled Modesty and Dignity in Modern Political Theory.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Part of University of Illinois Chicago's Voices lecture series at Gallery 400.Arturo Herrera (Venezuelan, born 1959) received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Selected solo exhibitions of Herrera"i? 1/2 s work include those held at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2007), Art Gallery of Ontario (2002), Whitney Museum of American Art (2001), UCLA Hammer Museum (2001), Centre d"i? 1/2 Art Contemporain, Geneva (2000), Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1998), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995). Selected group exhibitions include Comic Abstraction (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007), The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Torino (2003), Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2003), Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), The Americans (Barbican Art Centre, London, 2001), and Painting at the Edge of the World (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2001). Selected awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2005), DAAD Fellowship (2003), Pollock-Krasner Foundation award (1998), and an ArtPace Fellowship (1998). The artist lives in Berlin.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones participates in a workshop examining genealogies of black, gay, male dance to students in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; the Center for Gender Studies; and the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project. Contributing in the workshop are Waldo Johnson, Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and George Chauncey, Professor in History and interim Director of the Center for Gender Studies.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Provocative choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones gives a presentation entitledThe Persistence of Questions.Jones, who was named anirreplaceable dance treasureby the Dance Heritage Coalition, will also enters a public conversation with WBEZ's Gretchen Helfrich on the questions that he continues to mull as both an artist and thinker, such as the meaning of the dance company, the nature of style and how the discourse of an era influences a companys work.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The 2008 University of Chicago Artspeaks Fellows Program presents Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR),Composer/Violinist/Multi-media artistProgram to include: etudes4violin&electronix (aka Sonata for Violin & Turntables) with DBR & Elan Vytal aka DJ Scientific followed by a talkback moderated by Travis Jackson, Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities.