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SPRING
2004
March 31
Bodily and Pictorial Surfaces. The Representation
of Skin in late 18th- and 19th-Century France
Mechtild Fend, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgesichte
Sponsored by the Department of Art History, the Program for
the Study of Imagination, and the Science in Human Culture Program.
5:00 pm at Kresge Hall, Room 3-430 (Art History Seminar Room),
Northwestern University
April 16
Colloquium in Art and Technology: Database
Documentaries from the Labyrinth Project
Marsha Kinder, Professor of Cinema, Comparative Literature
and Spanish, University of Southern California
Sponsored by the Center for Art and Technology; Mary and Leigh
Block Museum of Art; Block Cinema; the Program on the Study of
the Imagination; and the Department of Radio, Television and Film.
3-6 pm at the Louis Hall Auditorium
April 26
Woman Inside Out: Art, Gender and Anatomy
in the Renaissance
A symposium co-sponsored by the Program in the Study of Imagination,
the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, and the Department
of Art History.
Women's
Secrets: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
Katharine Park, History of Science and Women's Studies,
Harvard University
The
Significance of Perceiving 'Mona Lisa's' Beating Pulse in the
Renaissance
Fredrika Jacobs, Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University
Moderator:
Lyle Massey, Art History, Northwestern University
5 PM, at the
Pick-Laudati Auditorium, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
April 28-May
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Performing Imagination
Performing Imagination is a cross-disciplinary, cross-school,
multi-media and multi-cultural event that draws together a wide
range of creative artists and scholars who work with various concepts
of imagination and the imaginary in action. Performances, lectures
and installations will be presented at a variety of campus locations
from April 28 through May 2. Performing Imagination is co-sponsored
by the Program in the Study of the Imagination, the Center for
Art and Technology, the Program in Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, and the New Music Marathon.
Thursday
April 29
Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion and Trancers
Judith Becker, Professor of Ethnomusicology, School of
Music, University of Michigan
4:30-6:00 PM at the Pick-Laudati Auditorium, Mary and Leigh Block
Museum of Art
The Smiths
Performance Group presents Nothing Ever
Happens (an Evening of Disappearing Acts), as created by
Northwestern University Dance Faculty Lisa Wymore and Sheldon
B. Smiths.
Eric Tal and Maghan O'Halloran, Northwestern University
CIRA grant winners, present a performance of their multi-media
piece featuring alternative ways of capturing movement on video.
8:00-10:00 PM at the Ballroom Studio of the Marjorie Ward Marshall
Dance Center
Friday
April 30
Colloquium in Art and Technology: Monsters
and Marvels and Other Permutations of the Wireless Imagination
Gregory Whitehead is the director of the renowned Laboratory
For Innovation and
Acoustic Research (LIAR), and the founder of the award-winning
International
Institute for Screamscape Studies. Sponsored with the Center for
Art and Technology.
3:00-6:00 PM at Louis Hall Auditorium
Nortec Collective members Fussible, Bostich,
and VJ CBrown
The Nortec Collective is a group of musicians and visual artists
from Tijuana who combine elements from norteno and banda music
and culture from the north of Mexico and the American Southwest
with the technology of electronic and techno.
8:00 PM at the Ballroom Theater of the Marjorie Ward Marshall
Dance Center
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies.
Saturday
May 1
Exhibitions of multi-media works by Northwestern
University students and faculty.
Works presented include:
"Wave Harmonies," Annette
Barbier and Drew Browning
"The Singing Brook," Gary
Kendall
"E V O," Oliver Hockenhull
All Day in Louis Hall.
Creating Works of Imagination: Intermedia
and Collaborations
Two participatory panel discussions with artists from Performing
Imagination events and Northwestern University Faculty.
1:00-4:00 PM at Louis Hall Auditorium
Reception
for Performing Imagination
5:00 PM at Louis Hall
Performances
by Lucid
Dream Ensemble
under the direction of Northwestern University Music Technology
faculty Virgil Moorefield; and Fool's Paradise, a virtual reality
and live music collaboration by Northwestern University faculty
Paul Hertz and composer Stephen Dembski, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, with soprano Juliet Petrus.
8:00 PM, in the Louis Hall Room 106
Sunday
May 2
New Music Marathon
Northwestern University's annual New Music Marathon will feature
over a dozen exhiliarating performances of contemporary composed
and improvised music. Highlights include pianist Amy Dissanayake's
brand new Tango Project, electric guitarist/composer Elliott Sharp
playing original works and improvising, the expansive sound world
of flute pioneer Robert Dick, works for instruments and electronics
by Amnon Wolman, pianist Winston Choi with flutist Tom Robertello,
Pinotage, Quintet Attaca, Eighth Blackbird, the German experimental
Ensemble Integrales, and a number of works by featured composer
Bernard Rands, who will be in attendance.
2-10 PM, the auditorium of the Block Gallery and Pick-Staiger
Concert Hall
May 6
Visionaries and Animators in Post-Mannerist
Italian Painting
Michael Cole, Assistant Professor of Art History, University
of Pennsylvania
Sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Program
in the Study of Imagination.
5:00pm at Kresge Hall, Room 3-430 (Art History Seminar Room),
Northwestern University
May 20-22
IMAGO
Sarah Graber, Writer/Director
Kerstin Mercer, Producer
IMAGO is a mask play based on Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene,
using circus arts, projections of images, shadow art, live originally
composed music, and storytelling to present the journey through
the Castle of Alma. This production has received the full CIRA
grant and the Program in the Study of the Imagination grant.
All performances
will take place in the Louis Room of the Norris University Center.
Show times include:
Thursday, May 20, at 8:00pm
Friday, May 21 at 8:00pm and 11:00pm
Saturday, May 22 at 8:00pm and 11:00pm
Tickets will be $5
For abstracts
of the papers and further information, please contact psi@northwestern.edu
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