Tom McDonough in conversation with British artist Liam Gillick

On Friday 7 October, Tom McDonough, Professor of Art History, will hold a conversation with artist Liam Gillick about A Variability Quantifier (2022), a weather station he has designed for Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada. Known colloquially as The Fogo Island Red Weather Station, Gillick’s artwork forms part of a larger collaborative project that unites 28 arts organizations around the world through the World Weather Network in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada and Fogo Island Arts. Their dialogue takes place 5:00 – 6:00 PM in the Gathering Hall at the Fogo Island Inn. For more information, see: https://www.fogoislandarts.ca/fia-x-liam-gillick-a-variability-quantifier/.

Next VizCult Talk: Claire L. Kovacs on Wednesday, September 28

VizCult: The Art History Department’s Visual Culture Workshop
2022 Fall Semester

presents

Claire L. Kovacs, Curator of Collections + Exhibitions at the Binghamton University Art Museum

“SisterSerpents’ Provocations”

Wednesday, September 28 at 5:15 PM in FA 143

This year, VizCult, the department’s visual culture workshop, enters its twenty-sixth season, having run continuously since Fall 1997, undeterred by financial crisis, pandemic or the vicissitudes of academic fashion. VizCult is more than just a speakers’ series. It has shaped a unique space within the life of the department in which we can come together to share current work in progress and experience ourselves as an intellectual community–something that often gets lost in the rush of administrative and teaching deadlines. All are invited to come along and participate.

Dissertation Defense: David Thomas

David William Thomas

The Art History Department is pleased to announce that

David William Thomas
BA, University of North Texas, 2010
MA, University of Arizona, 2014
and candidate for the doctoral degree in Art History

will defend his dissertation

“Turn on, Tune In, Don’t Drop Out: Pulsa’s Computer-Based Ecology”

Friday 26 August, 3:00 PM via Zoom Meeting ID 910 4485 4065

before a committee comprising
Professors Kevin Hatch (chair), Tom McDonough, Julia Walker, and
Zabet Patterson (Department of Art, Stony Brook University), Outside Examiner

Dissertation defenses in the Art History Department are important moments in our academic life and are by definition and tradition public events, open to all.

Dissertation Defense: Ismail Kugu

DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY

Dissertation defense

Ismail Kugu, PhD candidate

“The Consumption of Coffee Cups in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Court”

Committee members: Nancy Um, chair; Pam Smart; John Tagg; Kent Schull (Department of History), Outside Examiner

Monday, August 1, 2022 – 11:00 a.m. EDT

This defense is open to the public and will take place on Zoom. Participants must be signed in to Zoom and must register in advance. The registration URL is: https://getty.zoom.us/j/94677270096

Anonymous, “Servants Serve Coffee to Sultana in the Harem,” Le Sérail et divers personnages turcs, c. 1720, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84523871/f13.item.

Dissertation Defense: Yuri Chang

Chung-up Kim, The World Peace Gate at the Olympic Sculpture Park, 1988, 24m x 62m x 37m,  © Korean Tourism Organization.

DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY

Dissertation defense

Yuri Chang, PhD candidate

“Negotiating Urban Identities: International Art Events and the Cultural Identities of Korean Cities, 1988-1995″

Committee members: Thomas F. McDonough, chair; Jeffrey W. Kirkwood; Julia W. Walker; Sonja M. Kim (Department of Asian and Asian American Studies), Outside Examiner

Friday, May 20, 2022 – 12:00 p.m. EDT

This defense is open to the public; due to the ongoing pandemic, it will take place on Zoom. Participants must be signed in to Zoom and must register in advance. The registration URL is: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvfuyrrz8qEtL9XaclNPW1wedtXlq16VLb

Dissertation Defense: Jeffrey Youn

Anonymous, “Whole Map of Suwon,” from Records of the Construction of Hwaseong Fortress, woodblock print, 1801, 8.5 x 13.5 inches, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.

Dissertation defense

Jeffrey Youn, PhD candidate

“The Planning, Construction, and Operations of Suwon in Late-Eighteenth-Century Korea: A Genealogy of the Joseon City and the Modernization of Korean Production and Markets”

Committee members: Karen-edis Barzman, chair; Thomas F. McDonough; John W. Chaffee (Department of History); Sungdai Cho (Department of Asian and Asian American Studies), Outside Examiner

Monday, May 2, 2022 – 10:00 a.m. EDT

This defense is open to the public; due to the ongoing pandemic, it will take place on Zoom. Participants must be signed in to Zoom and must register in advance. The registration URL is: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtc-6tpzMiG9beY4-g3I35KIq9ptFmIKd-

Please join us to celebrate Julia Walker’s book, Berlin Contemporary: Architecture and Politics After 1990

Celebrity Sighting!

Spotted in the museum store at Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, our own Tom McDonough!

Kasumi Kugo & Kaeun Park at the AAS Conference 2022

Panelists attending the AAS reception: Kasumi Kugo, Elise Voyau, Kaeun Park, and Amy Kahng (from left to right)

Kaeun Park (MA 2018)  and Kasumi Kugo (Doctoral candidate) participated in the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2022 on March 25th. They organized the panel “Gendered Bodies in Postwar East Asian Photographs” and presented their papers “Gendered Representations of Body and Labor in Everyday Life Photography in Late 1950s South Korea” (by Kaeun) and “‘Discover Japan”: Transfiguration of the Avant-garde, Girls’ Subjectivity, and Nationhood in 1970s Japan” (by Kasumi). The session abstract is below and for more information click here.

The Pre-Modern Art History: New Approaches Lecture Series will feature Mohit Manohar, PhD Candidate, Yale University on Friday March 4

PRE-MODERN ART HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES LECTURE SERIES

presents

MOHIT MANOHAR

PhD candidate, Art History, Yale University

FRIDAY 4 MARCH

4:00 PM

“A MONUMENTAL GIFT FROM A SLAVE TO HIS MASTER: THE CHAND MINAR AT DAULATABAD IN DECCAN INDIA”

via Zoom click here to join

The Pre-Modern Art History: New Approaches Lecture Series will feature Zachary Stewart, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University on Wednesday March 2

PRE-MODERN ART HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES LECTURE SERIES

presents

ZACHARY STEWART

Assistant Professor, Architecture, Texas A&M University

WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH

10:00 AM

“PARISH, CHURCH, AND CHAPEL: COMPETITIVE ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND”

via Zoom click here to join

The Pre-Modern Art History: New Approaches Lecture Series starts on Friday, February 18 with Matthew Gin, Visiting Professor, Northeastern University

PRE-MODERN ART HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES LECTURE SERIES

presents

MATTHEW GIN

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, Architecture, Northeastern University

Friday 18 February

4:00 PM

“Paper Monuments: The Politics of Ephemeral Festival Architecture in Enlightenment France”

via Zoom, click here to join meeting