Materiality of Resistance Symposium - Day 2: March 8, 2024

Registration and coffee

9:15–9:45 am

Welcome, Land Acknowledgment, and Re-Opening Reflection

9:50–10 am

• Helen Maria Nugent, Professor and Dean of Design at CCA
• Elizabeth Mangini, Professor and Chair of History of Art & Visual Culture at CCA

Panel IV: Material Interventions into the Landscape

10–11:30 am

Moderated by: William Littmann

• Elizabeth Fair, “Recarving a Cultural Landscape: Inscriptions at the Angel Island Immigration Station”
• Eloise Seda, “On Shifting Sands: Land and Image in Mariana Ramos Ortiz’s Playgrounds and Caña Gorda.”
• Silvia Bottinelli, “The Materiality of Landscape: Critiquing Lawns through Edible Gardens in Contemporary American Art”
• Genevieve Hyacinthe, “Unearthing Elizabeth’s Rebel Hillside Fecundity: Thoughts on Crucian Sister–Land Bonds in the Work of La Vaughn Belle”

Roundtable II: Architecture & Design Roundtable

11:45–12:45 pm

Panelists:

• Rachel Berger, Associate Professor, Graphic Design
• Neeraj Bhatia, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Irene Cheng, Chair and Associate Professor, Graduate Architecture
• Donald Fortescue, Professor, Furniture Program
• Lauryn Menard, Faculty, MFA Design

Panel V: Data & Communication

1:30-2:45 pm

Moderated by: Christoph Steger

• Charlotte G. Chin Greene, “Martin's End: Image-Makers in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
• Kitty Whittell, “‘Modelling Big Data’: A Portrait of a User”
• Natalie Pellolio, “The Open Letter: Félix González-Torres and the Materiality of Communication”

Panel VI: Transmission of Culture & Memory

3:15–4:45 pm

Moderated by: TT Takemoto

• Tess McCoy, “Unbroken Connections: Customary Materials in Contemporary Alaska Native Art”
• Danielle Ridolfi, “Layers of Power: 19th Century Scrapbooks as Complex Sites of Material Resistance in the Industrialized Age”
• Thomas Michael Pierce-Reyes, “Protests from Latino Arts: San Francisco’s Mission District”
• Nilgun Bayraktar, “Spectral Sounds, Alien Landscapes in Bogota: Listening to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021)”

Creative Citizens in Action Exhibition Reception

4:45–5:30 pm in the Nave

Celebrate work created by CCA students in response to the symposium’s theme. This event is funded by an endowment gift supporting The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series at CCA, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.

Closing Performance & Workshop

5:30–7 pm

Rogue Gestures (Excerpts) by Nava Dance Theatre

The performance is funded by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series at CCA, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.

Brought to you by History of Art & Visual Culture at CCA & Terra Foundation for American Art