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Sunday, May 06, 2012

Come See The Work of My Marvelous Students at SFAI's MA Thesis Symposium

Monday, May 7, 2012 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
Lecture Hall
Free and open to the public
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco

Graduating students in SFAI’s Master’s of Art programs in Exhibition and Museum Studies, History and Theory of Contemporary Art, Urban Studies, and the MA/MFA Dual Degree will present selections of their completed Master’s theses in a day-long public event. Engaging a diverse range of topics across global contemporary art practices, the MA Thesis Symposium represents the capstone of a two-year long process of research, critical inquiry, and writing.

MA Thesis Symposium Schedule

9:45-10:00 Coffee/Light Breakfast

10:00-10:30 Opening Remarks and Introductions -– Claire Daigle, MA Program Director

10:30-12:00 Presentations

Nadia Khismatulina, Crude Politics: Post-Soviet Sites of Aesthetic Radicalism
Sheeka Arbuthnot, WHERE? THERE. ANA MENDIETA. Citing Performance/Performing Citation Across Contemporary Cuban Conceptual Art
Hadass Mor Gerson, Re-illumiNATIONS: Political Imagination in Contemporary Visual Art at the 54th Venice Biennale

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:30 Presentations

Emily Shallman, Reaching for the Arts: Unequal Access in Contemporary Arts Education
Candace Cui, Bridging the GAP: Audience Interaction in the Digital Age and the Google Art Project
Alicia Soja, Raiders, Erasures, and Crusaders: The Collection, Re-Collection, and Constitution of Iraq’s Cultural Heritage

2:30-3:00 Break

3:00-4:00 Presentations

Rebecca D. Ahrens, Hotel Stationary: Hospitality and Contemporary Art
Cole M. Robbins, Volatile Traversal: Explorations of Home and Body Bound by Recollection

4:00-5:30 Reception in the Café Courtyard

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