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Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago Receives First Major Exhibition, at University of Chicago’S Smart Museum of Art, February 11 – June 12, 2016
Contact C.J. Lind | 773.702.0176 | [email protected] For Immediate Release “One of the most important Midwestern contributions to the development of American art” MONSTER ROSTER: EXISTENTIALIST ART IN POSTWAR CHICAGO RECEIVES FIRST MAJOR EXHIBITION, AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO’S SMART MUSEUM OF ART, FEBRUARY 11 – JUNE 12, 2016 Related programming highlights include film screenings, monthly Family Day activities, and a Monster Mash Up expert panel discussion (January 11, 2016) The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, will mount Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago, the first-ever major exhibition to examine the history and impact of the Monster Roster, a group of postwar artists that established the first unique Chicago style, February 11–June 12, 2016. The exhibition is curated by John Corbett and Jim Dempsey, independent curators and gallery owners; Jessica Moss, Smart Museum Curator of Contemporary Art; and Richard A. Born, Smart Museum Senior Curator. Monster Roster officially opens with a free public reception, Wednesday, February 10, 7–9pm featuring an in-gallery performance by the Josh Berman Trio. The Monster Roster was a fiercely independent group of mid-century artists, spearheaded by Leon Golub (1922–2004), which created deeply psychological works drawing on classical mythology, ancient art, and a shared persistence in depicting the figure during a period in which abstraction held sway in international art circles. “The Monster Roster represents the first group of artists in Chicago to assert its own style and approach—one not derived from anywhwere else—and is one of the most important Midwestern contributions to the development of American art,” said co-curator John Corbett. -
The Leeds Arts Club and the New Age: Art and Ideas in a Time of War by Tom Steele Thank You Very Much Nigel, That's a Very Generous Introduction
TRANSCRIPT Into the Vortex: The Leeds Arts Club and the New Age: Art and Ideas in a Time of War by Tom Steele Thank you very much Nigel, that's a very generous introduction. Thank you for inviting me back to the Leeds Art Gallery where I spent so many happy hours. As Nigel said, the book was actually published in 1990, but it was a process of about 5 or 6 year work, in fact it's turned into a PHD. I've not done a lot of other work on it since, I have to say some very very good work has been done on Tom Perry and other peoples in the meantime, and it's grievously in danger of being the new edition, which I might or might not get around to, but maybe somebody else will. Anyway, what I'm going to do is to read a text. I'm not very good at talking extensively, and it should take about 40 minutes, 45 minutes. This should leave us some time for a discussion afterwards, I hope. Right, I wish I'd thought about the title and raw text before I offered the loan up to the gallery, because it makes more sense, and you'll see why as we go along. I want to take the liberty of extending the idea of war to cover the entire decade 1910-1920, one of the most rebellious and innovative periods in the history of British art. By contrast, in cultural terms, we now live in a comparatively quiet period. -
The Passage of a Transdisciplinary Movement Through an All-Too-Brief Moment in Time. Review of the Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Cognitive Systems Research 43 (2017) 119–124 www.elsevier.com/locate/cogsys Book review The Passage of a Transdisciplinary Movement through an All-Too-Brief Moment in Time. Review of The Cybernetics Moment: or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, Ronald R. Kline. Johns Hopkins (2015). 336 pp. Action editor: Peter Erdi Peter Cariani Center for Hearing Research, Boston University, United States Received 30 December 2016; accepted 31 December 2016 Available online 27 February 2017 1. Review bemoan the thin index and lack of a separate bibliography. Here is where the text-searchable, electronic Kindle edition The Cybernetics Moment focuses on the history of could come in handy. The wealth of details that Kline has cybernetics and information theory in the US as mid-20th amassed will create many small surprises and revelations in century research programs during the period of roughly the minds of those already familiar with cybernetics and 1940–1975. Kline’s scholarly yet highly readable book pur- information theory. But because relatively little effort is sues three major intertwined threads: cybernetics, informa- devoted to introducing the essential ideas of these move- tion theory and the information age. The text mainly ments, readers less familiar with these fields may find the presents the interactions between major players in these going a bit tougher. fields in a roughly chronological order. For the most part, The book complements a relatively small but growing the book’s trails revolve around Norbert Wiener, Claude historical literature on cybernetics research that includes Shannon, and the Macy conferences on cybernetics Steve Heims’ John von Neuman and Norbert Wiener: From (1946–1953). -
Coming Close: What an Interview Can Reveal About Creativity in the Contemporary Art Music Composer
JOURNAL OF OF RESEARCH ONLINE MusicA JOURNAL OF THE MUSIC COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA COMING CLOSE: WHAT AN INTERVIEW CAN REVEAL ABOUT CREATIVITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSIC COMPOSER Introduction RICHARD WILLGOSS he term ‘creativity’, used linguisticly in a musical context, gains a first significance by being used to describe a value judgement on a composer’s output, both as a score and a performance. The relevance of an investigation ■ Sydney Conservatorium of Music Tinto why and how the term is used in this context then gains a second significance University of Sydney in that, buried within being creative, are notions as to why some music is selectively Sydney , New South Wales valued, rather than all of what is on offer. These two premises find weak support from Australia, 2000 parametric approaches to their substantiation. However, gathering and interpreting information in a rational, sensible way should always remain an important step to understanding the subject matter. The major difficulty in resolution that arises is with assumptions made about what might be found, and upon what epistemology it should be based. [email protected] Art music composers create compositions that mainly sit as innovations on or extensions to the western classical music tradition. The use of the term in this research is not meant to imply any elitism or intellectual, social or cultural bias. However, it is innovations on, and links that can be made to, the present classical tradition (or lack of them) that often give rise to calling art music creative. Composers who choose to compose in this manner often devote much of their compositional efforts to this www.jmro.org.au end. -
Ivon Hitchens & His Lasting Influence
Ivon Hitchens & his lasting influence Ivon Hitchens & his lasting influence 29 June - 27 July 2019 An exhibition of works by Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) and some of those he influenced 12 Northgate, Chichester West Susssex PO19 1BA +44 (0)1243 528401 / 07794 416569 [email protected] www.candidastevens.com Open Wed - Sat 10-5pm & By appointment “But see Hitchens at full pitch and his vision is like the weather, like all the damp vegetable colours of the English countryside and its sedgy places brushed mysteriously together and then realised. It is abstract painting of unmistakable accuracy.” – Unquiet Landscape (p.145 Christopher Neve) The work of British painter Ivon Hitchens (1893 – 1979) is much-loved for his highly distinctive style in which great swathes of colour sweep across the long panoramic canvases that were to define his career. He sought to express the inner harmony and rhythm of landscape, the experience, not of how things look but rather how they feel. A true pioneer of the abstracted vision of landscape, his portrayal of the English countryside surrounding his home in West Sussex would go on to form one of the key ideas of British Mod- ernism in the 20thCentury. A founding member of the Seven & Five Society, the influential group of painters and sculptors that was responsible for bringing the ideas of the European avant-garde to London in the 30s, Hitchens was progres- sive long before the evolution of his more abstracted style post-war. Early on he felt a compulsion to move away from the traditional pictorial language of art school and towards the development of a personal language. -
Pat Adams Selected Solo Exhibitions
PAT ADAMS Born: Stockton, California, July 8, 1928 Resides: Bennington, Vermont Education: 1949 University of California, Berkeley, BA, Painting, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Epsilon 1945 California College of Arts and Crafts, summer session (Otis Oldfield and Lewis Miljarik) 1946 College of Pacific, summer session (Chiura Obata) 1948 Art Institute of Chicago, summer session (John Fabian and Elizabeth McKinnon) 1950 Brooklyn Museum Art School, summer session (Max Beckmann, Reuben Tam, John Ferren) SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont 2011 National Association of Women Artists, New York 2008 Zabriskie Gallery, New York 2005 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, 50th Anniversary Exhibition: 1954-2004 2004 Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont 2003 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, exhibited biennially since 1956 2001 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, Monotypes, exhibited in 1999, 1994, 1993 1999 Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flyn Performing Arts Center, Burlington, Vermont 1994 Jaffe/Friede/Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 1989 Anne Weber Gallery, Georgetown, Maine 1988 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Retrospective: 1968-1988 1988 Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1988 New York Academy of Sciences, New York 1988 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. 1986 Haggin Museum, Stockton, California 1986 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 1983 Image Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1982 Columbia Museum of Art, University of South Carolina, Columbia, -
Critical Mass: Collectivity and Collaboration in the History Of
CRITICAL MASS: COLLECTIVITY AND COLLABORATION IN THE HISTORY OF MULTI-AGENT INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS By Rachel Bergmann Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University, Montreal November 2019 A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts in Communication Studies © Rachel Bergmann 2019 Table of Contents List of Figures i Abstract/Résumé ii Acknowledgements iii Introduction 1 The Need for a Longer History 3 Notes on Terminology 13 Chapter Outline 15 Chapter 1: “The Vietnamese Don’t Live on the Quarter System”: Countercultural Politics at SRI and SAIL 18 Building a Lab’s Culture 21 “Zoe Pictures 1971” 26 The Other Lab: SRI and the Anti-War Movement 36 Conclusion 43 Chapter 2: Critical Mass: Protocol Feminism in AI Research 45 Forming the network 51 People and language itself: feminist AI research protocols 61 Conclusions and contradictions 65 Chapter 3: Whose SharedPlans? Scripts, Collaboration, and Feminist AI Research 68 Scripts, Plans, and SharedPlans 71 Going off-script: resonances in STS and feminist theory 81 Destabilizing the master-slave analogy in AI 85 Multi-Agent Systems and the limits of feminist AI research 89 Conclusion 93 Bibliography 108 Figures Figure 1. Home page of SAILDART.org. 20 Figure 2. Photo of the D.C. Power Building. 23 Figure 3. “Engineering School Seeks to Enrol More Women.” The Stanford Daily, 1973. 27 Figure 4. “Join the Women’s Liberation.” The Stanford Daily, 1969. 28 Figure 5. “Make $3,000 by Jply If You Are Female, Attractive, Uninhibited.” The Stanford Daily, 1971. 32 Figure 6. -
R.B. Kitaj Papers, 1950-2007 (Bulk 1965-2006)
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3q2nf0wf No online items Finding Aid for the R.B. Kitaj papers, 1950-2007 (bulk 1965-2006) Processed by Tim Holland, 2006; Norma Williamson, 2011; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé. UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Manuscripts Division Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/ © 2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Finding Aid for the R.B. Kitaj 1741 1 papers, 1950-2007 (bulk 1965-2006) Descriptive Summary Title: R.B. Kitaj papers Date (inclusive): 1950-2007 (bulk 1965-2006) Collection number: 1741 Creator: Kitaj, R.B. Extent: 160 boxes (80 linear ft.)85 oversized boxes Abstract: R.B. Kitaj was an influential and controversial American artist who lived in London for much of his life. He is the creator of many major works including; The Ohio Gang (1964), The Autumn of Central Paris (after Walter Benjamin) 1972-3; If Not, Not (1975-76) and Cecil Court, London W.C.2. (The Refugees) (1983-4). Throughout his artistic career, Kitaj drew inspiration from history, literature and his personal life. His circle of friends included philosophers, writers, poets, filmmakers, and other artists, many of whom he painted. Kitaj also received a number of honorary doctorates and awards including the Golden Lion for Painting at the XLVI Venice Biennale (1995). He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1982) and the Royal Academy of Arts (1985). -
Understanding the Process of Creation: a New Approach DOI: 10.7595/Management.Fon.2017.0021
Management: Journal of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies 2017/22(3) Gennady Shkliarevsky1 Bard College, USA Understanding the Process of Creation: a New Approach DOI: 10.7595/management.fon.2017.0021 Abstract: Our contemporary civilization increasingly relies on creative approaches and solutions. This grow- ing dependence makes issues of control, regulation and management of the process of creation ever more important.This article finds two major current theoretical perspectives on creativity and the process of creation to be vulnerable in one important respect: their explanation of the production of disequilibrium, which plays a singularly important role in the process of creation, does not pass the test of rational justification. This arti- cle suggests that the production of disequilibrium is intimately related to equilibration — the essential opera- tion of rational thought processes. The emphasis on the role equilibration makes a rational justification of the production of disequilibrium possible. The new theoretical perspective opens the path toward a comprehen- sive and objective understanding of the process of creation, which is the main condition for regulating, con- trolling, and managing this process. Key words: Creativity, the process of creation, equilibration, the production of disequilibrium, Margaret Boden, computation. JEL classification: B59,O31 1. Introduction Every age has its defining characterization. If one had to choose a characterization for our age, the most likely candidate would be “the era of creativity” (Kirstetter et al., 2013). Creativity is at the center of public atten- tion. It is the subject of discussions by politicians, scientists, business people, media and public figures, and by ordinary people. -
Patrick Heron
PRESS RELEASE 20 March 2018 PATRICK HERON Tate St Ives 19 May – 30 September 2018 Turner Contemporary, Margate 19 October 2018 – 6 January 2019 The acclaimed British artist Patrick Heron (1920–99) will be celebrated in this retrospective exhibition, the first major show of his work for twenty years. One of the most significant and innovative figures in twentieth century British art, Heron played a major role in the development of post-war abstract art. This exhibition – spanning over fifty years of work from 1943 to 1996 – provides a rare opportunity to experience the scope and ambitious scale of Heron’s painting as well as his consistent attachment to the subject of colour. In 1962 he explicitly claimed that ‘colour is both the subject and the means; the form and the content; the image and the meaning, in my painting today.’ Heron’s abstraction is a direct response to the light, colour and shape that he encountered every day. An art of pure visual sensation, his paintings are the result of his experience of looking acutely at the world and though they do not represent the garden and landscape surrounding his home and studio in Cornwall, those forms resonate in his painting in fundamental ways. The exhibition in the new top-lit gallery at Tate St Ives is the first opportunity to bring together a group of these large-scale expansive works to Cornwall, reveal the full evolution of his vibrant abstract language, unlock new insights into his art and encourage the viewer – immersed in the rich aesthetic sensibility of his colour-saturated paintings – to enjoy the simple and joyous act of looking. -
Art-Related Archival Materials in the Chicago Area
ART-RELATED ARCHIVAL MATERIALS IN THE CHICAGO AREA Betty Blum Archives of American Art American Art-Portrait Gallery Building Smithsonian Institution 8th and G Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20560 1991 TRUSTEES Chairman Emeritus Richard A. Manoogian Mrs. Otto L. Spaeth Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin Mrs. Richard Roob President Mrs. John N. Rosekrans, Jr. Richard J. Schwartz Alan E. Schwartz A. Alfred Taubman Vice-Presidents John Wilmerding Mrs. Keith S. Wellin R. Frederick Woolworth Mrs. Robert F. Shapiro Max N. Berry HONORARY TRUSTEES Dr. Irving R. Burton Treasurer Howard W. Lipman Mrs. Abbott K. Schlain Russell Lynes Mrs. William L. Richards Secretary to the Board Mrs. Dana M. Raymond FOUNDING TRUSTEES Lawrence A. Fleischman honorary Officers Edgar P. Richardson (deceased) Mrs. Francis de Marneffe Mrs. Edsel B. Ford (deceased) Miss Julienne M. Michel EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES Members Robert McCormick Adams Tom L. Freudenheim Charles Blitzer Marc J. Pachter Eli Broad Gerald E. Buck ARCHIVES STAFF Ms. Gabriella de Ferrari Gilbert S. Edelson Richard J. Wattenmaker, Director Mrs. Ahmet M. Ertegun Susan Hamilton, Deputy Director Mrs. Arthur A. Feder James B. Byers, Assistant Director for Miles Q. Fiterman Archival Programs Mrs. Daniel Fraad Elizabeth S. Kirwin, Southeast Regional Mrs. Eugenio Garza Laguera Collector Hugh Halff, Jr. Arthur J. Breton, Curator of Manuscripts John K. Howat Judith E. Throm, Reference Archivist Dr. Helen Jessup Robert F. Brown, New England Regional Mrs. Dwight M. Kendall Center Gilbert H. Kinney Judith A. Gustafson, Midwest -
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