Post-Discipline? Contemporary Artists and Research

A new public seminar series, co-organised with Lindsay Caplan and Katherine Carl for the Center for the Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center.

What can artistic approaches to research tell us about the relationship between history and its interpretation? And what creative lessons might artistic examples offer to researchers in the humanities? Does the restlessly hybrid character of these artistic endeavours provide a model for post-disciplinary research?

30 September - Walid Raad
28 October - Andrea Geyer
9 December - Trevor Paglen

Spring dates tbc - Jill Magid, Eyal Weisman and Antoni Muntadas

Reading and registration required - please sign up here.

Deskilling - The Aesthetics of Amateurism

A five-part interdisciplinary seminar series at CUNY Graduate Center, co-organised with Lindsay Caplan (graduate student, Art History), and open to everyone in the city (further info and registration click here).

Guest speakers:
15 October 2010: Caroline Jones, MIT
19 November 2010: Kenneth Goldsmith, writer and ubu.web
10 December 2010: Randy Martin, NYU
25 February 2011: Kristin Ross, NYU
8 April 2011: Gary Genosko, Lakehead

A blog about the seminar series can be found here.