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MA Thesis Symposium Schedule

Monday

10:30-11:00
Claire Daigle, Director of MA Programs – Welcome
Krista Lynes, Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Contemporary Art – Opening
Comments

11-12:30
Marly Hammer – Reclaiming the Public: Combative Billboards and Text-Based Art Practice
Pamela Campanaro -- Labors of Language: Crafting the Revival of Medium in Contemporary Art
Bokyung Kim – Presence in Present Tense: The Significant Moment in JoAnn Verburg, Carla Shapiro and Kimsooja
Question and Answer Session

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3
Casey Mouton -- Watts House Project and a Critical Vocabulary for Public Art in Practice
Sally Widdowson – The Potential for Influence: Artists’ Role in Urban Renewal
Heatherly Born -- Contested Terrain: The Historical Impact of Urban Development on African Americans in South Prescott, West Oakland
Question and Answer Session

3-3:15 Break

3:15-4:30
Kim Cook – Beyond Beuys: Defining Social Sculpture Today [presentation: Agents of Change: A Framework for New Methods of Engagement]
Claudia Schidlow – White Cube, Darkened Theater: Experiments in Display for the Projected Image
Melina de Hoyos – Docentry in the 21st Century: The Professionalized Volunteer in Museum Education
Question and Answer Session

Tuesday

10:30-12:30
Ian Alan Paul – Border Politics, Border Poetics
Emily Dippo – Planetary Visions: An Ecofeminist Atlas of Contemporary Site-Specific Art
Faustino Mendonça – The Landless and the Revenge of the Commons in Brazil
Kim Silva -- Those Who Do Not Sit on Golden Chairs: Queering My Barbarian’s PoLAAT Pedagogy in Madrid, Spain
Question and Answer Session

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3
Charlotte Miller – Gamescapes: Gaming Out Everyday Life in China
Meredith C. MacKenzie -- The Real Housework: Domestic Servitude in Postidentity TV Culture
Frida Cano Domínquez* – Mainsdream – A Reality that Overwhelms Dreams
Question and Answer Session

3-3:15 Break

3:15-4:30
Karl Nelson – Storyboarding: Light with Form: The Rise of an Epidermal Media
Allison Blomerth – Uprooted: Institutionalizing Grassroots and Ephemeral Art Practice in MoCA’s WACK! and Out of Actions
E. Maude Haak-Frendscho – Social Meal Spaces in Contemporary Art: Discursive and
Methodological Strategies for a New Critical Approach
Question and Answer Session

Thanks, Awarding of Outstanding Thesis

4:30-6 Celebration, SFAI Quad

*Fundación Colección Jumex Scholar and Recipient of the Program Beca para Estudios en el Extranjero 2010-2011 del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes