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Binghamton Art History
1w ago
The Art History Graduate Student Union kindly invites you to the 29th annual Crossing the Boundaries conference on Friday, April 12th and Saturday, April 13th.
The keynote speakers for the event are Vialcary Crisóstomo Tejada from the University of Rochester on Friday and our devoted Professor Tom McDonough on Saturday. Thanks to Professor McDonough’s generosity, a reception will be held at his home on Friday at 6:00 PM. On Saturday, an after-party will take place at Factory by Beer Tree at 6:00 PM. Addresses can be found in the conference programs, which will be available at th ..read more
Binghamton Art History
1w ago
Ammar Azzouz, architect and academic based at the University of Oxford, will speak about his recent book Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria on Thursday 11 April at 4:30 PM in LH 9. This talk is sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies ..read more
Binghamton Art History
1w ago
Please join the Spatial Humanities Working Group (Wed Apr 10 @ 3pm – Science Library 209) for a conversation about methods, workflows, and challenges to creating a modern GIS from historical textual and cartographic materials. This is the culminating step of Esra Nalbant’s Ottoman Lighthouses SHWG project. The conversation will be centered upon specific methodological challenges, such as the conversion of historical map coordinates into modern geographic coordinate systems, georeferencing and digitizing historical maps, designing databases to merge and compare various textu ..read more
Binghamton Art History
1w ago
Tom McDonough’s essay “The Artist as Typograpaher” has been published in the new issue of Portable Gray, the journal of The University of Chicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. You can read it at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/728272 ..read more
Binghamton Art History
1w ago
Professor Jeffrey West Kirkwood’s essay on the state of media theory has just been published in the newly released book, Technics: Media in the Digital Age. His text is one of ten statements on technics offered by artists and media scholars, including Laura Mulvey, Tom Gunning, Shane Denson, Beth Coleman, and Yuriko Furuhata.
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048564552/technics ..read more
Binghamton Art History
2w ago
Please join the Art History Department in welcoming Denva Gallant on Wednesday, April 10th. Gallant will present her research on “Approaches to Alterity: Race and Othering in Late Italian Art History.”
The Feber Lecture is co-sponsored with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
The event will take place in the IASH Conference Room, Library North 1106, at 5:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join and we hope to see you there!
Click here to view the full VizCult schedule for Spring 2024 ..read more
Binghamton Art History
2w ago
On April 19, 2024, Tom McDonough will moderate a conversation between readymade artist Claire Fontaine and Anita Chari, author of A User’s Manual to Claire Fontaine. The event will take place at the Palazzo Tiepolo Passi in Venice. Details can be found here ..read more
Binghamton Art History
3w ago
Crossing the Boundaries, the Art History Graduate Student Union’s annual conference, returns on Friday 12 April in the Kenneth C. Lindsay Study Room of the Binghamton University Art Museum (Fine Arts 179).
This year’s theme is Ghostly Matters where our speakers will discuss their research that considers futurity and subversion. They will approach this topic within the perspective of “haunting,” a concept which is to be thought of as an emergence of the repressed status from social problems such as racism, gender, and stereotypes. Further, the speakers will think of these ghostly effects ..read more
Binghamton Art History
3w ago
As part of “Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse,” his intervention in the Syracuse University Art Museum, Josh Franco (PhD ’16) will be staging performances to activate the space, 4-6 April. For more information click here ..read more