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Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies Virtual Information Session
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6–7 pmCan’t make it to campus for a visit but want to learn more about the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies at CCA? A virtual information session may be just the thing you need!
What the session covers:
• Program highlights
• Curriculum
• Campus facilities available to graduate students
• Financial aid resources
• Application process and requirements
There will be a variety of sessions each month from January through May and will be lead by the Director of Graduate Admissions. To find the date and time that’s right for you, check out our events calendar.
Meeting with us online lets us connect with you, anywhere, in real time. Here's all you'll need:
• A computer or wireless device with an Internet connection
• An audio connection - either through your computer or phone
• A webcam (optional)
RSVP is required.
A link with a log-in and password to the Virtual Information Session will be sent to the email address indicated on the RSVP one day before the session.
ShareCategories: Graduate Admissions Visual and Critical Studies
Blind Field Shuttle walking tour
Visual and Critical Studies Special Forum Lecture SeriesFriday, February 17, 2012, 4–5 pm
San Francisco campus
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Info: 510.356.8001 or acachia@cca.edu
Preceding the What Can a Body Do? Investigating Disability in Contemporary Art Symposium (taking place at 7 p.m. in the Helzel Boardroom on CCA's San Francisco campus) is this Blind Field Shuttle walking tour, a nonvisual shuttle service in which the Portland-based artist Carmen Papalia transports groups of people to and from given locations: tourist spots, art galleries, restaurants and so on, from his vantage point as one with a visual impairment. Participants will form a line behind Papalia and keep their eyes closed for the duration of the walking tour, an element that requires an exchange of trust. The trip culminates in a group discussion regarding the experience. As participants traverse familiar landscapes nonvisually, they become aware of their sensory perceptions and the many ways in which one can experience and explore space.
Support provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program, the CCA President's Diversity Steering Group, and the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies.
(image: Carmen Papalia, "Blind Field Shuttle, Oakland," 2011, photo by Heather Zinger)
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What Can a Body Do? Investigating Disability in Contemporary Art Roundtable Discussion
Visual and Critical Studies Special Forum Lecture SeriesFriday, February 17, 2012, 7–9 pm
Florence and Leo B. Helzel Boardroom, San Francisco campus
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Info: 510.356.8001 or acachia@cca.edu
Speakers are Georgina Kleege, Carmen Papalia, Ann Millett-Gallant, Katherine Sherwood, Tobin Siebers, Laura Swanson, Sunaura Taylor and Rosemarie Garland Thomson, moderated by Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies student Amanda Cachia.
The intent is to explore the dominant paradigms at the intersection of disability and contemporary art. How can reductive representations of the disabled body, ranging from the freak, cripple, deformed, grotesque and the monster, as seen in Western artistic and curatorial discourses, be destabilized? How can the contemporary art world begin to shift these negative perceptions and meanings of the disabled body in order to make room for its more nuanced, complex representation across diverse artistic fields? What are some new methodologies and strategies being employed by disabled artists today in conveying a new visual and textual language around the association between visual representation and identity?
Preceding the roundtable from 4-5 p.m. will be the Blind Field Shuttle walking tour, a nonvisual shuttle service in which the Portland-based artist Carmen Papalia transports groups of persons to and from given locations. The tour culminates in a group discussion regarding the experience.
Support provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program, the CCA President's Diversity Steering Group, and the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies.
(artwork: Sunaura Taylor, No Arms! (Self-Portrait), 2010)
Categories: Diversity Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies
Ecopoesis: Spring Graduate Studies Symposium
March 7–9, 2012
San Francisco campus
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Info: ecopoesis@cca.edu
Artists, filmmakers, writers, and scientists come together to explore frontline concerns around climate, biodiversity, and spatial expressions through film screenings, lectures, performances, and an expo of speculative + practical designs + art. The collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship with ideas of nature and to offer fresh understandings of the places we live + research + create around + in. This symposium is a collaborative effort of the graduate programs in Design and Fine Arts, with a sponsored reading in Graduate Writing.
More info will be posted as it becomes available!
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Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies Virtual Information Session
Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 6–7 pmCan’t make it to campus for a visit but want to learn more about the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies at CCA? A virtual information session may be just the thing you need!
What the session covers:
• Program highlights
• Curriculum
• Campus facilities available to graduate students
• Financial aid resources
• Application process and requirements
There will be a variety of sessions each month from January through May and will be lead by the Director of Graduate Admissions. To find the date and time that’s right for you, check out our events calendar.
Meeting with us online lets us connect with you, anywhere, in real time. Here's all you'll need:
• A computer or wireless device with an Internet connection
• An audio connection - either through your computer or phone
• A webcam (optional)
RSVP is required.
A link with a log-in and password to the Virtual Information Session will be sent to the email address indicated on the RSVP one day before the session.
Categories: Graduate Admissions Visual and Critical Studies
Reports from the Field: Works in Progress in Visual Criticism
Visual and Critical Studies Special Forum Lecture SeriesFriday, March 30, 2012, 7–9 pm
Florence and Leo B. Helzel Boardroom, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.551.9251 or kmoore@cca.edu
Two Visual and Critical Studies alumni -- Adrienne Skye Roberts (MA 2009) and Duane Deterville (MA 2009) -- together with core faculty members Jeanette Roan and Tina Takemoto present new and evolving work in the field of Visual and Critical Studies. Adrienne Skye Roberts's work combines the vocations of curator, critic, community organizer, social practitioner, and poet. Duane Deterville's visual art practice focuses on drawings that address the intersection between symbols and ritual in African diasporic religions; his criticism and scholarship surveys diasporic practices from Brazil to Oakland. Jeanette Roan's research concerns cultural transactions in and through popular genres; her book Envisioning Asia: On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism (2010) investigates films as a form of virtual travel and a source of knowledge about cultural difference. Tina Takemoto is an interdisciplinary scholar, theorist, and performance artist. Her film Looking for Jiro Onuma, which explores the hidden dimensions of queer sexuality during the incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II, premiered at MIX 24: New York Queer Experimental Film Festival in fall 2011.
Categories: Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies
Visual and Critical Studies Spring Symposium
Saturday, April 28, 2012, 10 am–5 pmTimken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.551.9251, kmoore@cca.edu, or www.cca-viscrit.com
Visual and Critical Studies took shape as a new academic discipline in the 1990s in response to demands for alternate models of cultural analysis. For more than a decade, students in CCA's program have contributed to the expansion of this field's parameters in ways that reveal the ideological infrastructures of vision, visuality, and visibility. Having completed a rigorous program of interdisciplinary study and a sustained research project, graduating students distinguish themselves by their ability to think critically through writing about the the seen world. At this symposium, presentations by our graduating class will share critical perspectives and professional narratives that affirm the centrality of the visual.
Categories: Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies
Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies Virtual Information Session
Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 6–7 pmCan’t make it to campus for a visit but want to learn more about the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies at CCA? A virtual information session may be just the thing you need!
What the session covers:
• Program highlights
• Curriculum
• Campus facilities available to graduate students
• Financial aid resources
• Application process and requirements
There will be a variety of sessions each month from January through May and will be lead by the Director of Graduate Admissions. To find the date and time that’s right for you, check out our events calendar.
Meeting with us online lets us connect with you, anywhere, in real time. Here's all you'll need:
• A computer or wireless device with an Internet connection
• An audio connection - either through your computer or phone
• A webcam (optional)
RSVP is required.
A link with a log-in and password to the Virtual Information Session will be sent to the email address indicated on the RSVP one day before the session.
Categories: Graduate Admissions Visual and Critical Studies