Steve Roden Lecture

April 6th, 7:00 p.m, Danforth Lecture Hall,

Roden is an American sound and visual artist who pioneered the lowercase style of music where quiet, usually unheard, sounds are amplified to form complex and rich soundscapes. Roden has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since the mid 1980s and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including: Mercosur Biennial Porto Alegre Brazil, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art EMST in Athens, Greece, Singuhr-Horgalerie in Parochial Berlin, Center for Book Arts, New York, The Kitchen, New York, Pomona College Museum of Art, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Susanne Vielmetter LA and Berlin Projects, Studio la Citta Verona Italy and others. In 2010, curator Howard Fox organized the exhibition steve roden / in between: a 20 year survey, which opened at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. Sponsored by Herringer Graduate Lecture Series.

Nicholas de Monchaux

February 17th, 2016

Local Code: 3,659 Reflections on Gordon
Matta-Clark and the Nature of Cities

Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.

Nicholas De Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural and urban history of the Apollo Spacesuit. He was also awarded the Eugene Emme award from the American Astronautical Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize. His work has been exhibited at the 2010 Biennial of the Americas, the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale and San Francisco’s SFMOMA. De Monchaux received his B.A. with distinction in Architecture from Yale, and his M.Arch. from Princeton. Prior to his independent practice, he worked in the offices of Michael Hopkins & Partners in London, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York. Sponsored by Corenah Wright Lecture Series/Art Dept

Mills Art Lecture Series: Yasufumi Nakamori

Yasufumi Nakamori
February 3rd, 2016

FOR A NEW WORLD TO COME: EXPERIMENTS IN
JAPANESE ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY, 1968–1979

Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.

In this lecture Nakamori will shed light on the development of photo conceptualism found in Japan in the 1970s. Nakamori argues that, after the 1960s, when the force of avant-garde art and the tension in politics peaked, many artists devoted themselves to experiments with the camera, individually searching for new and vital directions in their practice, exploring such emerging notions as conceptualism, post-minimalism, and international contemporaneity. He will make a case for the emergence of a shared field of practice between art and photography, and for the critical role that photography played in the emergence and development of contemporary art in the 1970s Japan. Nakamori is an associate curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where he focuses on art and photography made after 1945. He also teaches the history of modern and contemporary Japanese art and architecture at Rice University. He has authored a dozen scholarly essays, and the book titled Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture. Sponsored by Corenah Wright Lecture Series/Art Dept.