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A range of free, public programs will be offered virtually throughout October and November to dive deeper into the creation, content, and context of the commission. These include a conversation including world renowned architect Billie Tsien and others exploring the artwork’s relation to new media art, architecture, and liberal arts eduction; a conversation about art and politics in collaboration with the Institute of Politics; and a look into the history, evolution, and impact of the UChicago Core curriculum. Other events exclusively for UChicago students will look into the development of the AR experience and digital-born artworks respectively, and will highlight the voices of the many undergraduate and graduate students who collaborated with Holzer on this new artwork.
This workshop for advanced students in art history and media studies considers the increasingly blurred intersections between art historical writing, exhibition-making, and conservation of artworks with a technological component that unfold in a duration, including film, video, slides, holograms, and software. Case studies will include Simone Forti’s hologram Huddle, 1975-78; Gretchen Bender’s Total Recall, 1987; and Jenny Holzer’s YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020. How both analog and digital-born art works are imaged and accessed through reproduction complicates ‘object-based study’ and conservation alike. Students will critically engage with conservation plans—including how YOU BE MY ALLY might be documented and conserved—alongside art historical and curatorial questions. Conducted by Solveig Nelson, Julius Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellow and Postdoctoral Scholar and a Visiting Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago; with guest Sasha Arden, Rachel and Jonathan Wilf/Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Time-Based Media Conservation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation's Chicago Objects Study Initiative in the Department of Art History and the Art Institute of Chicago. To apply for the workshop students should send a paragraph explaining their interest and relevant experience to Laurel Darling <ldarling@uchicago.edu> by Tuesday November 17, 4pm
Time Smear: Approaches to Time-Based Media Conservation for Scholars and Curators
November 20, 3-5pm and additional date TBD in winter quarter
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