SENSATIONAL! SENSING MEDIA ARTS THEORY AND PRACTICE COLLOQUIA IN CONCEPTUAL STUDIES 2007-2008

The Colloquia in Conceptual Studies are intended as a forum in which to interrogate and initiate new models of media theory, history, and practice. This year, in focusing on intersensory perception, we will present some of the leading media artists, scholars, and critics shaping the forms and discourse of contemporary culture today. Presenters will explore avenues not only between the senses, but also between cinema and the other arts, between academic disciplines, and, most importantly, between theory, practice, and embodied experience. Appropriate to the topic, the colloquia will feature a number of presentations that explicitly engage an active dialogue between an artist and media theorist/historian. The series is programmed by Dr. Jennifer M. Barker and Dr. Michele Schreiber.

Lectures take place at Kenilworth Square East, 1925 E. Kenilworth Pl., 4th Floor, and are free and open to the public.

September 28, 2007 at 2 pm
Dr. Vivian Sobchack
Professor of Critical Studies and Associate Dean, Retired, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media
University of California, Los Angeles
The Dream (Ol)Factory: On Making Scents of Cinema

November 30, 2007 at 2 pm
Tom Recchion
Experimental artist/composer/art director
&
Jonathon Rosen
Painter/illustrator/animator/filmmaker
Department of Illustration, School of Visual Arts
Radio Nurse: live audio-visual contamination and disintegration

April 18, 2008 at 6 pm
Caroline Jones
Professor and Director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
&
Sissel Tolaas,
Conceptual artist
Sensorium
This event is part of the Kenilworth Square East Spring Open House.