CFP: Dennis Reinhartz Transatlantic History Award
Date: Sunday, March 07, 2010

Call for Papers

The History Department at the University of Texas at Arlington, home of one of the nation's first PhD programs in transatlantic history, announces its annual nationwide competition for the Dennis Reinhartz Transatlantic History Award, sponsored by the E. C. Barksdale Essays in History and our Omicron Kappa Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. We invite advanced undergraduate students and MA students who have written essays or research papers on topics related to the interconnection and interrelations of people and cultures around and across the Atlantic Ocean from 1500 to the present time to submit their essays for our contest. Essays should be between 10 and 50 pages long. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2010. Announcements about the prize of $250 will be made by October 15, 2010.

For more information contact: Professor Thomas Adam at adam@uta.edu

Thursday, March 4
Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
6:00 pm

In 2008, the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) presented the exhibition "The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries," celebrating the completion of a 13-year-long conservation project of the AIC's permanent collection of European tapestries. Christa Thurman, AIC's curator emerita of textiles and head of the museum's textile department for 42 years, will recount the story of the complex conservation project, as well as illustrate the art of tapestry design and production, through examples from the AIC's impressive collection.

The MIA is kindly offering free tickets for students. To receive their discounted ticket call (612-870-6323). You will need to show your ID at the door to pick up your ticket from will call at the front lobby when you arrive.

Bruce Jenkins, Professor of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is in town today -- Friday, February 26th -- at the University of Minnesota.

Jenkins is a former Walker Art Institute Film and Video Curator, and editor of On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton.

There is free lunch at the event (!). It looks to be an interesting essay / presentation: "The Machine in the Museum Revisited (or What New Media Can Learn from Old Media)."

The Book House, 429 SE 14th Ave., a Dinkytown landmark for over 30 years, will hold the second in a series of public conversations on Sunday, February 28th from 3:30-5:30pm on "Public Spaces-Disappearing or Transforming?" The forum will explore how changing economic circumstances and technological innovation have redefined both the need for, and availability of, public space. In the age of Facebook and Twitter, are we less likely to see engagement and interaction in physical spaces? And how will spaces that have traditionally provided this service--like museums, cafes, theaters and bookstores--function in this shifting landscape?

Featured speakers David Unowsky, founder of the legendary Hungry Mind bookstore, Jay Walljasper, Senior Fellow at Project for Public Spaces and editor of OnTheCommons.org, and Michelle Filkins, Associate Professor, Library and Information Services at Metropolitan State University, will join others in discussing how we use public space to shape a personal sense of belonging and community.

Monte Bute, Associate Professor of Sociology at Metropolitan State University, will moderate the discussion.

For more details check www.bookhouseindinkytown.com or call 612-331-1430

Thursday, February 25
In-flux lecture space room E110, Regis Center for Art
7:00pm

The University of Minnesota Department of Art is pleased to welcome New York artist Gedi Sibony as a part of the ongoing visiting artist lecture series. Sibony's lecture is the third in the series of related events organized in conjunction with the opening of the new exhibition Abstract Resistance at the Walker Art Center curated by Yasmil Raymond.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Sibony's installation work featured in this exhibition, is a recent Walker Art Center acquisitions acquired from the 2007 Gedi Sibony exhibition: The Science of Imaginary Solutions at Midway Contemporary Arts in Minneapolis.

Gedi Sibony lives and works in New York. He is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, New York. He has been the subject of monographic exhibitions at The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France; and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN. In addition he has been included in numerous group exhibitions including "Unmonumental" at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York; "Day for Night," the 2006 Whitney Biennial; and Greater New York 2005, PS1 Contemporary Art Center.

www.gladstonegallery.com/sibony.asp
www.greenenaftaligallery.com/artist/Gedi-Sibony
www.contemporarystl.org/GediSibony.php?month=12&year=2008

Tuesday, February 9
Room 430
7:00pm

Night Critiques are student organized critiques happening every other Tuesday. Open to all majors, departments, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff.

For the first meeting all work brought will be discussed, and the structure of the critiques will be decided on before each session.

Work may be installed on the wall outside of room 430 prior to 7 pm on Tuesday the 9th, or critiqued in the classroom or any other location within the school/school grounds.

All are welcome regardless of whether or not you bring work to be critiqued. Contact David Frohlich or Kelsey Olson with questions or for more information.

Hope to see you there!

Monday, February 8
Weisman Art Museum
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Free

Surging beyond the traditional catalogue of literary classics, Greil Marcus and the editors of A New Literary History of America chose to depict America as "a nation making itself up as it goes along" by focusing on the country's speeches and images, letters and poetry, fiction, movies, technological inventions, and popular music, from the extraordinary to the mundane.

Come to the Library & find out more about this Friday's visiting artist, Chloe Piene.

Among the materials we offer is, Chloe Piene: Drawings, the catalog of an exhibition held at Carré d?Art-Musee d?Art Contemporain de Nîmes, France in 2007. It includes an essay by the American critic and poet, Barry Schwabsky and an interview with the artist. We also have a number of recent articles which discuss her video work as well as her drawing. Stop by and have a look!

To find out about relevant material the Library has on upcoming visiting artists check the Library news blog on our homepage regularly:

http://artliblog.blogspot.com/

See you in the Library!

Please see the following message from the US Department of State and our insurance provider about travel to Haiti.

We all feel the urge to help but please pay attention to the recommendations in the event you are thinking about traveling to offer assistance.

There is a strong desire to help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of last week's earthquake. Travel to do so, however, is discouraged by the U.S. Department of State, rescue groups, and aid providers, unless the persons are trained medical providers. This may not dissuade some students, faculty, and staff to look for ways to travel to Port-au-Prince with the belief they can help.

The attached Travel Alert provided by Gallagher's Higher Education Practice will explain the warnings and situation on the ground in more detail.

Want see more examples of work by the designers in the Next Generation show, find out about other leading makers of studio furniture and developments in the practice over the last few decades? Then come to the Library! We've assembled a bounty of lavishly illustrated books and magazines about studio furniture & its designers from the collection. They're on display NOW in the main reading room. Check us out!

Hello,

I hope this note finds you well! I am writing to let you about a few Labor Camp items:

http://laborcamp.mcad.edu

Although, as always, I have been busy with a number of projects at the same time, the 2009 was spent with the focus on the Theater of Operations. After the massive installation in 2008 at the historic Allen Theatre:

http://laborcamp.mcad.edu/00_theater_tmp.html

The Theater of Operations was re-configured and installed in Minneapolis in early 2009:

http://laborcamp.mcad.edu/00_theater_09.html

Meanwhile work on brand new content w under way, which eventually became the Part Two of the Theater of Operation project, entitled White Star Cluster. This new audio/video installation premiered in October of 2009, and is currently on display at the the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial in Gijon, Spain:

http://laborcamp.mcad.edu/00_WSC_09.html

Culminating the work on the Theater of Operations series was a release of the CD containing audio recordings from all the installations. The CD is now available from the Labor Camp site:

http://laborcamp.mcad.edu/00_TO_CD.html

and will soon be available through iTunes.

White Star Cluster and Theater of Operations are sound environments that echo current events in Iraq--sonic reenactments exploring perceptions of war. Both projects are based on spoken texts transcribed from videos of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. White Star Cluster focuses specifically on footage captured in Ramadi on December 4, 2006, in which American soldiers come under friendly fire attack. These dialogues were then performed in the studio by a cast of players. From quiet, intimate voices to aggressive and confrontational language and sounds, the recordings span a range of human emotions as the soldiers' reenacted dialogue reflects a sobering and at times discomforting truth. The pieces also include a repeated score based on Erik Satie's Vexations. Satie wrote a number of compositions intended to be presented not onstage, but in the lobby of a concert hall; not during the performance, but rather at intermission. A similar strategy is adopted here by shifting attention away from the actual videos to the invisible sound content. In this layout, we absorb more readily the artificial rendering of war, while allowing the hidden reality of it to unfold elsewhere, unacknowledged.

In conjunction with the White Star Cluster, a new Labor Camp Study Room was constructed. Labor Camp Study Room D is also currently on display at the LABoral until April 2010:

http://laborcamp.mcad.edu/00_study_D.html

As always it is nice to hear from you, so keep in touch, and pass this info on to anyone you think might be interested!

Yours,
For The Labor Camp,
p.

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