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Constellations, Clusters, Networks


Date & time
Friday, March 6, 2015 –
Saturday, March 7, 2015
6 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Cost

This event is free

Where

Engineering and Visual Arts Complex
1515 St. Catherine W.

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

2015 AHGSA (Art History Graduate Student Association) Annual Conference

Keynote Address: McKenzie Wark
Professor of Culture and Media Studies, The New School, New York
March 6, 18h

Full conference details can be found on our website: ahgsa.concordia.ca

Constellations, Clusters, Networks convenes a range of scholars and artists for a two-day interdisciplinary symposium. These emerging voices speak to the diverse ways in which networks figure in current art historical research and practice. They address key matters in this discourse:
How do images, objects, ideas, and bodies circulate within networks?
What new insights and methods are afforded to artists and researchers by network technologies?
In what ways do cities, infrastructures and architectures structure systems of movement?
How do social networks, institutions, kinships and collaborations form in response to pressing social concerns?
 
Join us on March 6 and 7, 2015 for presentations of research by:
Emily Bergsma, MA Art History, Concordia University
Amber Berson, PhD Art History, Queens University
Amanda Brownridge, MA Art History, Concordia University
Gillian Canavan, MA Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Katrina Caruso, MA Art History, Concordia University
Cliodna Cussen, MA Art History, York University
Aurelia Defrance, MA Curatorial Studies, Städelschule and Goethe University
Nima Esmailpour‏, PhD Art History, Concordia University
Béatrice Grenier, MA Art History, Columbia University
Sofia Kofodimos, MA Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Annette Lepique, MA Modern Art History, Theory, Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Alison Reiko Loader, PhD Communication Studies, Concordia University
Samuel Luterbacher, PhD Art History, Yale University
Steve Lyons, PhD Art History, Concordia University
Corina MacDonald, Project Manager for e-artexte
Vincent Marquis, MA History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art
Tomasz Neugebauer, Digital Projects & Systems Development Librarian, Concordia University Libraries
Taien Ng-Chan, PhD Humanities, Concordia University
Christopher Plenzich, MSc Biology, Concordia University
Dario Ré, MA Art History, Concordia University
Ksenia M. Soboleva, MA Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Felicity Tayler, PhD Humanities, Concordia University
Saelan Twerdy, PhD Art History, McGill University
Grace Woods-Puckett, PhD Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Full participant biographies can be found on our website.
Presentations will be made in English or French.
 
This symposium is made possible by the efforts of members of the Concordia Art History Graduate Student Association. Generous support comes from the Department of Art History, the Concordia Graduate Students’ Association, the Concordia University Small Grants Program, the Concordia Council on Student Life, the Concordia University Alumni Association, and the Networked Art Histories Research Group. Our institutional partners are the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, Spiffy Moves Anthology of Critical + Experimental Art Writing and Visual Art, and Art+Feminism. Our business partners include Copper Branch Vegan Powerhouse, Kafein Café, Novotel Hotels, and Château Versailles.
 
All presentations are free and open to the public. This event is wheelchair-accessible.
We are happy to provide childcare with advance notice.

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