CALENDAR

EXHIBITIONS

November 14, 2009 - January 22, 2010
opening reception: Sat., Nov. 14, 6-8 p.m.
States of Exception
Curated by Dr. Terranova, States of Exception features the work of Atelier Van Lieshout, MVRDV, Dadara and Angel Cabrales. With artwork interrogating prison subjugation, torture and slaughter houses, States of Exception explores Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s writings on “bare life” and homo sacer. A large prison cell, an installation of hazmat suits, a video of a pig abattoir in sky scrapers and a Bombird grace the premises of Centraltrak. This exhibition shows work by two Rotterdam architecture-design firms, Atelier Van Lieshout and MVRDV, an Amsterdam arts think tank, Dadara and Denton artist Angel Cabrales. This exhibition was made possible by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Manhattan, the offices of Atelier Van Lieshout and MVRDV in Rotterdam and The Why Factory at the Technical University of Delft. More images...

This exhibition was made possible by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Manhattan, the offices of Atelier Van Lieshout and MVRDV in Rotterdam, The Why Factory at the Technical University of Delft, and Slight of Hand Metalworks in Austin, Texas.

in the cooridor...
Doors (Sonic Memories)is a sound installation by Dallas musician, sound designer, and painter, Patrick Murphy. Ten handmade wooden boxes are affixed to a single wall. Each box, when opened, plays a looped musical phrase derived from antique music boxes. Visitors to the gallery can open or close the boxes at will. When a single box stands open, a solitary phrase echoes delicately in the room. When all ten are open, a dense and complex musical composition resounds in the space. Visitors to the gallery direct the performance. In this way, the gallery itself becomes a musical machine not unlike the boxes from which the sounds are derived. More images...

February 13 - April 24, 2010
opening reception: Sat., Feb. 13, 6-8 p.m.
Transitive Pairing: Body Objects
Curated by Dr. Terranova, this exhibition consists of three installations each by a team made up an architect and artist whose work is fashion or fabric-based.  The “pairings” are: Sharon Odum and James Gilbert; Gary Cunningham and Gabriel Dawe; and Russell Buchanan and Sunny Sliger.

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LECTURES/ROUNDTABLES/SYMPOSIA

Technology, Mobility, and New-Media Hybrids Series: 

DIGITAL SENSE: Oct. 15 - 17, 2009
Lecture
Thurs., Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m.
Jonsson Performance Hall, UT Dallas
800 W. Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080
Visual studies scholar and theorist, W.J.T. Mitchell discusses “World Pictures: Globalization and Visual Culture.”
Co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute at UT Dallas. More

Reception
Fri., Oct. 16, 5 p.m., Centraltrak
Reception with Michael Fried (Johns Hopkins University), Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois at Chicago), and W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago). More

Symposium
Sat., Oct. 17, 4 p.m., Jonsson Performance Hall, UT Dallas
" Digital Sense: Sound, Image, and Object at the Interstices
of New Technology"
Each new technology of mass use (from iPhones to GPS) transforms the human sensorium. In keeping with media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s long ago decree, new tools of technology extend the human body, redirecting if not recreating its biological basis with every new digital turn. Please join us as we bring together three renowned scholars of Visual Studies and Literary Theory for a discussion of the effects of new technology on aesthetics and aesthesis, art and perception. Scholars include W.J.T. Mitchell, Professor of Art History and English, University of Chicago; Michael Fried, Professor of Humanities and Art History, Johns Hopkins University; and Walter Benn-Michaels, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago. More

Sat., February 20, 1-6pm
Kinetics of Urban Sprawl: Cybernetics and Urbanism in the 21st Century
We often lose sight of the fact that the American Interstate Highway System is a defense system. Instituted in 1956 and inspired by the Third Reich’s Autobahn, the American highway system functioned to decentralize the industrial base for protection against bombing and, by relation, hastened the decentralization of the American city. Renowned scholars of urbanism, architecture, and the history of science discuss the incarnation of a new urban existence. Scholars include Peter Hales, Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago; Robert Bruegmann, Professor of Architectural History, University of Illinois at Chicago; Mitchell Schwarzer, Professor of Visual Studies, California College of the Arts; Antoine Picon, Professor of Architecture, Harvard University; and Peter Galison, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University. (Supported by a grant of $7500 from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts)

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