Selected Events 2007-8
Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, 196X to 197X
ARCH+ at Documenta Magazines, Documenta 12
Kassel, Germany
June 16 - September 9, 2007
Architectural Association
London, UK
November 12 - December 7, 2007
Norsk Form Gallery
Oslo, Norway
May 15 - August 3, 2008
If Looks Could Kill: The Blindspot of Surveillance (a Hitchcock Dossier)
A lecture by Tom Cohen
October 18th at 7PM
Betts N101, School of Architecture
Cohen is a Professor at the University at Albany and he works in literary, cultural, and media studies.
His books include: Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock (1994), Ideology and Inscription:
"Cultural Studies" after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin (1998), Material Events: Paul de Man and the
Afterlife of Theory (2000, contributing editor), Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: a
Transdisciplinary Reader (2002, contributing editor), and, more recently, a rather amazing set
of books on Hitchcock, Hitchcock's Cryptonomies 1: Secret Agent/s (2005) and Hitchcock's
Cryptonomies 2: War Machines (2005).
Sponsored by the English Department, The Program in Media & Modernity, AMT (The Aesthetics &
Media Track in the German Department), the Department of Comparative Literature, and the
Committee on Film Studies
Alfredo Jaar: "it is difficult"
A talk by the artist that will include a screening of his film Muxima.
November 29th at 4:30PM
010 East Pyne
Alfredo Jaar is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown
extensively around the world. He has participated in the Venice, Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, Sydney,
Istanbul and Kwangju Biennales as well as Documenta in Kassel. Major solo exhibitions include the
New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Whitechapel in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Chicago, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He received a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 1985 and was chosen a MacArthur fellow in 2000.
Muxima (meaning "heart" in Kimbundu, an indigenous language of Angola) is a cinematic elegy
dedicated to the people of Angola. Jaar visited Angola in 2004 and 2005 to gather the visual material
used in the film. After accumulating over 25 hours of raw footage, he traveled to Namibia and began
the task of editing the material. Writes the artist: "The film was born out of my love for African
music. During the process of organizing my extensive collection of Angolan recordings, I discovered
that I had in my possession six different versions of a song called Muxima. And a film was born."
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, the Department of Art
and Archaeology, and the Program in Media and Modernity.
M+M PhD Colloquium
Martino Stierli, University of Basel
"In Sequence: Las Vegas and the Cinematic Perception of the City"
February 6th at 6:00PM
Room 107, School of Architecture
M+M PhD Colloquium
Noam M. Elcott (Art & Archaeology): "Screens with a Memory: Moholy-Nagy, Photograms, and the Exploded
Canvas"
Jonathan Foltz (English): "Cinema and Secret Language: A Reading of Virginia Woolf"
February 26th at 5:30PM
Room 107, School of Architecture
M+M PhD Colloquium
Screenings of Antfarm films (1968-1978) with Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier
March 25th at 6:00PM
Betts Auditorium
In conjunction with this event, Chip Lord and Felicity Scott present the House of the Future
in ARC 576, on March 27th at 10am in Room 107, School of Architecture.
M+M PhD Colloquium
Daniel Lopez-Perez (Architecture): "Columns, Obelisks, Pyramids and Sphinxes: The Pluralism of the Skyscraper in the 1970s"
Lydia Kallipoliti (Architecture): "Houses of Humours OR 'how to grow tomatoes out of household effluent': Whole Earth Worry and Recirculatory Systems in the 1970s"
April 1st at 6:00PM
Room 107, School of Architecture
Beyond Domesticity at War: Architecture and Surveillance
A Faculty Conversation with Beatriz Colomina
April 3rd at 6:00PM
Betts Auditorium
Architecture and Systems Research since WWII: Cedric Price, Gordon Pask et alts:
Japan Net, Generator and other Responsive and Evolving Environments
Presentation and Round Table Discussion with Gonçalo Furtado
Doctoral Dissertation at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
April 9th, 1:30PM
Room 106, School of Architecture