Graduate Student Activities: Wylie Schwartz and Arcades Project, this Friday

Doctoral student Wylie Schwartz would like to invite the Binghamton Art History community to the fourth edition of Arcades Project, a curated art marketplace that Wylie co-founded in 2011. This year’s guest curators are Mara Baldwin, Assistant Director of the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, and Clara Hess, a visual artist and co-director of ‘Complimenta,’ an artists’ residency program in Ithaca. Keep your eyes out for work by doctoral student Amanda Beardsley.

Arcades Project, started in 2011, is a curated, one-night event for the exhibition and sales of limited edition works produced by small and independent presses, artists, and other creative practitioners (art books, book arts, prints, image and text works, artist multiples). Arcades also hosts workshops, performances, screenings, and readings. Arcades, although an opportunity to sell work, is an event that hopes to subvert the expected context of commerce by switching themes and locations every year. This May will be the fourth incarnation of the Arcades Project– an event that wears many guises, at once a museum, a mall, a swap shop, a school, a pub, & a party.

Please follow the link for more information!

Save the date for “Writing the Global City: A Tribute to Professor Anthony D. King”

Mark your calendars! The Department of Art History at Binghamton University cordially invites you to Writing the Global City: A Tribute to Professor Anthony D. King, an international conference to be held on campus, October 4 – 5, 2013.

The program and registration information will be posted on the conference website during the summer:
http://www2.binghamton.edu/art-history/news/anthonykingconference.html

We look forward to seeing you in Binghamton in the fall!

Today at “Crossing the Boundaries XXI: Dis/Place”

Join us at “Crossing the Boundaries XXI: Displace” for today’s events, including graduate panels on “Museological Practice,” “The Fragmented Body,” In Ruins,” and “Interior/Exterior,” Be sure not to miss the last event of the conference, Ariella Azoulay’s keynote address. Follow the links for times and locations.

Today at “Crossing the Boundaries XXI: Dis/Place”

Join us at “Crossing the Boundaries XXI: Displace” for today’s events, including the undergraduate panel, graduate panels on “Performance & Performative Spaces” and “Media/Text/Countermedia,” a conversation between John Tagg and Ariella Azoulay, and Julia Walker’s keynote address. Follow the links for times and locations.

Undergraduate Activities: Opening for “Framing Perspectives” this Thursday

Associate Professor Pam Smart‘s course, “Museums and the Art of Exhibitions,” will be opening their student-curated exhibition “Framing Perspectives” on Thursday, April 25th from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the University Art Museum. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/events/250095551799201/.

Faculty Activities: Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman at IASH, TODAY

Department Activities: Crossing the Boundaries XXI: Dis/Place

The date is fast approaching for Crossing the Boundaries XXI: Dis/Place, a multidisciplinary, multivocal academic conference with a global geographic and broad temporal reach, presented by the Art History Graduate Student Union this Friday and Saturday.

Please join us for all of this weekend’s activities, including a conversation between Professor John Tagg (Binghamton University) and this year’s keynote speaker Ariella Azoulay (Brown University), to be held on Friday, April 26 at 3:30 in the University Art Museum. Entrance is free.

For more information about the conference, visit http://ctbconf.wordpress.com/.

Alumni Activities: Paul Eli Ivey

 

Congratulations to Paul Eli Ivey (PhD 1992), whose book Radiance from Halcyon: A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science has just been published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Radiance from Halcyon is an intriguing account of how the little-known utopian religious community Halcyon—located on California’s central coast in the early 1900s—profoundly influenced modern science. Paul Eli Ivey’s narrative offers a wide-ranging cultural history, encompassing Theosophy, novel healing modalities, esoteric architecture, Native American concepts of community, socialist utopias, and innovative modern music.

As radiant as the utopian world it excavates, Paul Eli Ivey’s deeply researched and immensely original work provides an x-ray vision of an esoteric California on the edge of global Theosophy. Radiance from Halcyon is a mesmerizing tale of mystical kinship and communitarian experiments fusing architecture, landscape, music, and science that reverberate powerfully into the present.

—Molly McGarry, author of Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America

Paul Eli Ivey is associate professor of art history at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894–1930.

Follow the link for more information.

Alumni Activities: Cindy Stelmackowitch

Cindy Stelmackowitch (Ph.D. 2010) is enjoying an extremely productive time as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia,where she is a participant in the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Strategic Knowledge Cluster on “Situating Science.” During her fellowship, she has enjoyed fruitful exchanges with leading scholars in the broad interdisciplinary field of science studies, while reworking her dissertation as a book provisionally titled From Body to Book: An Anatomy of the Nineteenth-Century Medical Atlas. She is also curating an exhibition, Model Bodies, featuring historical anatomical models, medical artifacts, scientific instruments and recent biomedical images, and most recently coordinated a symposium under the title “Bodies Laid Bare in Anatomy, Law and Culture,” in which she spoke on the history of the representation of human cadavers.

Faculty Activities: Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman at IASH

Next VizCult: Mia Fineman, Metropolitan Museum of Art, TODAY

Opening reception Thursday for the Annual Student Art Show at University Art Museum

The Annual Student Art Show is now open at the University Art Museum (FA-213) and will run thru May 11. The reception for the show will take place from 5-7 p.m. April 18, with awards at 6 p.m. Music by Mu Phi Epsilon. Museum hours are: noon-4 p.m., Tuesday–Saturday; and noon-7 p.m. Thursday. Admission is free.