Come See My Wonderful MA Students Present Their Projects in SFAI's Annual Symposium

2013 MASTER OF ARTS SYMPOSIUM

Monday, May 13 and Tuesday, May 14, 2013

10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Chestnut Street Lecture Hall

Thesis Presentations

Graduating students in SFAI’s Master of Arts 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 two-day-long public event. Engaging a diverse and interdisciplinary range of topics across global contemporary art practices, the MA Thesis Symposium represents the capstone of a two-year process of research, critical inquiry, and writing.

MA Thesis Symposium Schedule

Monday, May 13

9:45-10:00 AM

Welcome

Coffee/Light Breakfast

10:00-10:15 AM

Claire Daigle, Director of MA Programs

Opening Remarks and Introductions

10:15-12:00

Presentations

Joël Frudden

The Grounds of War

Zach Mitlas

Performative Pictures: Experience in Still Life Painting as a Product of Bedeviled Temporality

Orlando Lacro

Structurally American, Foreign in Detail:  The Context of Contemporary Filipino-American Art

Saher Sohail

Chorr Dau Jidhwal:  Permeating the Boundaries of Pakistan through the Neo Miniature

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-2:15 PM

Presentations

Christina Elliott

Cracked Aura: The Delegation of Relics

Suzanne Minatra

The Articulated Book: Discovering a New Book Medium Based on the Interplay between Page- and Screen-Based Reading

Sarah Nantais

Thomas Kinkade and “The Village” in Vallejo, CA:  Revitalizing Contemporary Suburbs through Branding Strategies and the Visual Arts

2:15-2:30 PM

Break

2:30-4:00 PM

Presentations

Malic Amalya

Divine Abjection: Queer Bodily Tactics in Experimental Film, John Waters, George Kuchar, Jennifer Reeder, & Zackary Drucker

Ariel Zaccheo

In the Temple of the Screen: Religiosity and Ritual in Cult Cinema

Aimee Harlib

Incendiary Images: A Reading of Radical AIDS Activism through Punk Aesthetics, San Francisco, 1979-Present

Angelica Jardini

The Rhetorical Slut: Politics of Sexuality and Gender in Feminist Performance

Tuesday, May 14

9:45-10:00 AM

Welcome

Coffee/Light Breakfast

10:00-12:00 PM

Presentations

Regina Velasco

Mobile Mexico: Street Level Citizenship

Martin Strickland

The Conversation Continues:  Dialogue Created through Digital Technology and Media within Museums

Stephanie Tran

The Ubiquitous Apple Product: Negotiating Curatorial Strategies in Exhibitions of Architecture and Design

Carolyn Jean Martin

Negro Expositions:  Portrait Photography in the Nineteenth And Twenty-First Centuries

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1-2:30 PM

Presentations

Zoe Martell

Brass Monkey Wrench in the Gears: Streampunk’s Trickster

Danielle Gravon

Playing with Text: Tactility and Wonder in The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer

Amy Mutza

Unruly Threads, Queer Handicrafts

2:30-3:00 PM

Break

3:00-4:00 PM

Presentations

Carlos Garcia-Montero

The Myth/The Ghost: The Spectral Presence of Tino Sehgal

Manuela Ochoa Ronderos

The Uninhabited Stages/Los Escenarios Inhabitados: Stepping into Feliza Bursztyn’s House

Kira Dralle

My Body Knows Unheard-of Songs: The Sexed Body in New Music Performance Practice

4:00-5:00

Reception in the Café Courtyard