PROGRAM
10:00 - 10:30 |
ARRIVAL & COFFEE Zachry Engineering Education Complex, Chevron Rooms 297-298 |
10:30 - 11:30 |
TOUR OF ZACHRY ENGINEERING EDUCATION COMPLEX Including site-specific commissions by Daniel Canogar, Olafur Eliasson, Laurie Frick, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and others |
11:30 - 01:00 |
BREAK |
01:00 - 01:15 |
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION Jorge Vanegas, Dean | College of Architecture Susanneh Bieber | Departments of Visualization and Architecture |
01:15 - 02:45 |
SESSION ONE: BODIES IN CRISIS Chair: Liz Kim | Texas Woman’s University Beyond “Bad Girls”: Facing the White and Brown Maids of Pop Kalliopi Minioudaki | Independent Scholar, New York, NY and Athens, Greece Trans/Formations: Lucas Samaras' Matters Antje Krause-Wahl | Goethe University, Frankfurt |
02:45 - 03:00 |
COFFEE & TEA |
03:00 - 04:30 |
SESSION TWO: SCULPTURE IN ENVIRONMENT Chair: Sabrina Carletti | Texas A&M University Monumental Objects as Counter-Architecture in Non-Western Contexts: East European and Latin American Artists in Dialogue with Claes Oldenburg Katarzyna Cytlak | National University of San Martín, Buenos Aires Cinetismo and Sistemas: Situating the Work of Hans Haacke within Advanced Art Exchanges in the Americas John Tyson | University of Massachusetts Boston |
04:30 - 05:00 |
REFRESHMENTS |
05:00 - 06:15 |
KEYNOTE LECTURE The Future is a Rectangle: Modernist University Architecture and the Human Being Joshua Shannon | University of Maryland |
06:15 - 08:00 |
RECEPTION Special welcome by M. Katherine Banks, Dean | College of Engineering Location | 4th floor HP Deck & Green Roof Garden |
09:00 - 09:15 |
WELCOME Tim McLaughlin, Head | Department of Visualization Robert Warden, Head | Department of Architecture |
09:15 - 10:45 |
SESSION THREE: SYSTEMS OF CIRCULATION Chair: Natilee Harren | University of Houston Visions of a Decolonizing World: Donald Evans’s Stamp Catalog Sophie Cras | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Disordering Circuits and Borders: Open Systems, Politics and the Origins of Institutional Critique in 1960s Argentina Christine Filippone | Millersville University of Pennsylvania |
10:45 - 11:00 |
COFFEE & TEA |
11:00 - 12:30 |
SESSION FOUR: ALTERNATIVE SPACES Chair: George Flaherty | University of Texas at Austin Audience and Discourse: Cross-Atlantic Exchanges in the Context of the IAUS in New York City, or Inventing New Eurocentric Architecture Institutions in the 1970s Marcelo López-Dinardi | Texas A&M University Future Cities: Conceptual Art as Radical Architecture Kirsten Swenson | University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
12:30 - 02:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
02:00 - 03:30 |
SESSION FIVE: TRANSCULTURAL POP Chair: Daniil Leiderman | Texas A&M University Diaspora Pop: Roger Shimomura’s Minidoka Series and Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII Hiroko Ikegami | Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University Michael Ray Charles Takes on Pop Cherise Smith | University of Texas at Austin |
03:30 - 03:45 |
COFFEE & TEA |
03:45 - 04:45 |
INTERDISCIPLINARY ROUNDTABLE Chair: Stefanie Harries, International Studies | Texas A&M University Emily Brady, Philosophy | Texas A&M University Roger Malina, Physics | University of Texas at Dallas and Leonardo Vanita Reddy, English | Texas A&M University Joshua Shannon, Art History | University of Maryland |
04:45 - 05:00 |
CLOSING REMARKS Susanneh Bieber | Texas A&M University |