Langmead Spearheads NEH-Funded AI Pedagogy Project
Alison Langmead was recently awarded funding from the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “Teaching Art History with AI.” The project will focus on the “pedagogical use of computational image generation technologies in art history, visual culture, and media studies.” Learn more about other ODH winners on the NEH website.
Vuković Presents at SECAC
On October 13, 2023, PhD candidate Vuk Vuković presented his paper "Unraveling Highways of Inequity: Nam June Paik and Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii (1995)" as part of the "American Art" panel at SECAC Annual Conference. His paper examined how Korean-born artist Nam June Paik, under the guise of flashing screens in his monumental work "Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii" (1995), deconstructs images of Hollywood films.
Larson Leads Student-Curated Exhibition of Chinese Video Art
In conjunction with her Fall 2023 course “Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Art”, Ellen Larson (PhD 2022) has organized a student-curated pop-up exhibition titled Ephemeral Architectures: Early Performance and Video Art from China, which will take place across the University of Chicago campus. Read more about the exhibition on the University of Chicago website.
Vuković Presents and Chairs at ASAP/14
On September 30, 2023, PhD candidate Vuk Vuković presented his paper "Deconstructing Americana: Nam June Paik and Electronic Superhighway" as part of the "Fugitive Media: Aesthetics and Escape" panel at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/14) Annual Conference. His paper examined how Korean-born artist Nam June Paik, under the guise of flashing screens in his monumental work "Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii" (1995), deconstructs typical Americana images.
Flatto Presents at the Congreso Internacional de Teoría e Historia de las Artes XX
PhD candidate Diana Flatto presents her paper "El antifascismo y feminismo rioplatense en la obra de Demetrio Urruchúa, Amalia Polleri y Carmen Garayalde: construyendo redes sub-regionales" at the Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte, CAIA's annual conference in Rosario, Argentina, October 4-7, 2023. Her paper explores the role of women in the formation of a rioplatense visual language of political activism through their collaboration on the 1939 mural La mujer compañera del hombre (Women, companion of man).
Diana Flatto Publishes in H-ART
Drawing from her dissertation research, PhD candidate Diana Flatto publishes "Images of Gender in the AIAPE’s Magazines:Rioplatense Antifascism through Female Figures" in the Universidad de los Andes peer-reviewed journal H-ART. Revista De Historia, teoría Y crítica De Arte. In Argentina and Uruguay, between 1935 and 1943, artists Raquel Forner, María Rosa de Ferrari, and Antonio Berni reproduced works in three periodicals published by the Agrupación de Intelectuales, Artistas, Periodistas y Escritores (Association of Intellectuals, Artists, Journalists, and Writers, AIAPE).
David Wilkins to Present at the National Gallery of Art
History of Art and Architecture Professor Emeritus David Wilkins will be giving a a paper on the topic of "Looking at Isabella Anew" on October 20, 2023, at the National Gallery/Julliard School conference on "Women in Art and Music in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries".
Serrato Doyen Publishes in Newest Volume of Intervenxions
Graduate student Kale Serrato Doyen has contributed to Intervenxions Volume 2, to be launched in print October 5, 2023. Intervenxions is a publication of the Latinx Project at NYU committed to exploring contemporary Latinx art, politics, and culture. Anticipate Serrato Doyen’s article and read more about the journal on The Latinx Project website.
Larson Publishes in Arts
Ellen Larson (PhD 2022) published a new article, “‘Blast Off!’: The Afterlives of Nostalgia in Su Yu Hsin’s Blast Furnace No. 2”, in the journal Arts. Larson explores how Su Yu Hsin’s 2022 video installation “constellates temporal spaces of socio-political and environmental nostalgia, predicated upon both remembered and imagined understandings of the past, present, and future.” Read the article on the Arts website.
Taylor Interviewed for Hagley Museum’s Podcast Episode
Alex Taylor’s recent book Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s has been featured in the Hagley Museum’s long-running History Hangouts podcast series exploring topics in the history of American capitalism and business. The podcast is available on Apple and Spotify.
Pitt Students Present Public Sculpture Tour at Hartwood Acres
Three Museum Studies students presented a two-hour walking tour of the Carol R. Brown Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres Park on Saturday, August 12, 2023. The tour showcased research by Fine Foundation fellows Audrey Desnain and Layne Schaffer, alongside recent museum studies graduate Samantha Wert.
Alison Langmead Receives Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring
Dr. Alison Langmead is the recipient of the 2023 Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring. This award recognizes the considerable efforts and effective mentorship of members of graduate faculty across all divisions of the Dietrich School. Her achievement will be honored at an awards ceremony on September 14, 2023. Learn more about the graduate mentoring awards on the DSAS website.
Krystle Stricklin Appointed Assistant Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Krystle Stricklin (PhD 2022) has been appointed Assistant Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Prior to this position, Stricklin was the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Curatorial Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. To learn more about the photography collection at SAAM, please visit the museum’s website.
Fava-Piz Appointed Assistant Curator at Denver Art Museum
Clarisse Fava-Piz (PhD 2021) was recently announced as the Assistant Curator of European and American Art before 1900 at the Denver Art Museum. In this new role at the museum, Fava-Piz will organize exhibitions, conduct research on the museum’s extensive European and American Art collections, and collaborate with museum staff on installation and interpretation as well as provenance research.
Castro Co-Curates “Sitting on Chrome” at SFMOMA
Maria Castro (PhD 2020) recently co-curated Sitting on Chrome, a new three-person exhibition at SFMOMA. Featuring artists Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales, the show “engages the visual language of lowriders and explores cruising as a practice of resistance and community visibility.” The exhibition is complemented by a program of performances by esparza. Read more about the exhibition on the SFMOMA website.