Interdisciplinary Forums Speaker Series

Associate Professor, Paul Mathieu, will present Situating Craft in the Art School as part of the AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums Course and Public Lecture Series.

Studio Critique

Liz Magor, Diyan Achadi, Kyla Mallet
Thursday October 2, 3:50-5:30 pm in the Lecture Theatre

Join three teaching artists for a discussion on the role, methodology and approach to critique in the studio.

As a form of pedagogy, the critique is a foundational concept within the Art School and how its curriculum is structured. Each speaker has been asked to consider the following question:

"What are the connections for you between how you conduct critiques and the principles of pedagogy that you were exposed to in art school? How is what you do today either an extension, opposition or a dialogue with the education system you emerged from?"

The Art School AHIS 333 INTERDISCIPLINARY FORUMS COURSE AND PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

Join former NSCAD President Garry Neil Kennedy in conversation with David MacWilliam about the origins of NSCAD and the pedagogies, social networks and histories that have shaped it.

“How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education--and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself--in the 1960s and 1970s? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (aka NSCAD) in the 1970s redefined the means and methods of art education and the shape of art far beyond Halifax.”

September 18 | Randy Lee Cutler
Radical Education: From the Bauhaus and to Black Mountain College

AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums Presents Fall 2014 Lecture Series:
Histories | The Art School, The University + Pedagogy

Archives of Emotion: Interdisciplinary Forums Spring 2014 is a course co-taught by Vanessa Kwan and Kimberly Phillips.

The word "emotion" dates to 1579, when it was adapted from the French word émouvoir, which means "to stir up."

This is the point of departure for the exploration that forms the focus of Archives of Emotion. More than simply an explosion of feeling or the root of tears, this course will investigate emotions as starting points for a variety of creative, political and social actions.

Please join us for a public lecture by sessional faculty member Kimberley Phillips and Vanessa Kwan as part of the Interdisciplinary Forums lecture series.

Responding to the course theme of Audience + Affect, Phillips and Kwan will present a talk entitled Crowd Studies: The Porous Practice of Curating, Events and Publics

Please join us for a public lecture by Associate Professor Mimi Gellman as part of the Interdisciplinary Forums lecture series.

Responding to the course theme of Audience + Affect Professor Gellman will present a talk entitled Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork: Affects and Embodiment.

Please join us for a public lecture by Laura U. Marks, part of the AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums Lecture Series.

Laura U. Marks, Ph.D. is an American media theorist and artist. She is a Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture studies in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, and a professor at the European Graduate School. Marks has worked as an editor, curator, professor, critic and scholar.

Please join us for a public lecture by Am Johal  - The Uses and Misuses of Social Media, part of the AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums lecture series.

Am Johal works at the Vancity Office of Community Engagement in the SFU Woodward's Cultural Unit. He has previously worked on the Vancouver Agreement in urban economic and social development. He was the co-founder of UBC's Humanities 101 program and was Chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition. He has been an advisor to two provincial cabinet ministers representing Transportation and Highways and Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers.