This document contains a list of events taking place from August to December 2015 for the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts at UIC. It includes over 30 lectures, exhibitions, films, and other special events on topics like urban planning, art, design, and more. The events will be held at various locations around the UIC campus and nearby sites in Chicago.

1. Walter Benn
Michaels
Lecture 1100 A+D Studios Building
845 W. Harrison St.
Join us for a lecture and reception celebrating the release of Michaels’
The Beauty of a Social Problem (UChicago Press, 2015).
31
Monday
5:30pm
CADA Welcome
Back Party
Special Event 1100 A+D Studios Building
845 W. Harrison St.
It’s been a long summer without our students and we are so happy to
welcome them back to campus.
27
Thursday
5:30pm
Voices:
Albert Toscano and Jeff Kinkle
Lecture Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.
In the book Cartographies of the Absolute, scholar Alberto Toscano
and artist Jeff Kinkle ask “Can capital be seen?” In their lecture, the
pair examines visual art, film, and texts that engage with the
representation of contemporary capitalism.
2
Wednesday
6:00pm
School of Design
Graduate Student
Welcome Reception
Special Event 3rd Floor A+D Studios
Building 845 W. Harrison St.
The UIC School of Design invites you to join us for a welcome reception
for our incoming graduate students.
2
Wednesday
6:00pm
Hal Foster
(Bad New Days)
with Blake Stimson
Special Event Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western
Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring
their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled
by neoliberalism and the war on terror.
9
Wednesday
6:00pm
Paul Dickinson:
To Do Sound Design
for artist Irena Haiduk
Exhibition Renaissance Society
5811 S. Ellis Ave.
UIC School of Art and Art History faculty Paul Dickinson will be doing
the sound design for Irena Haiduk’s Seductive Exacting Realism
11
Friday
6:00pm
Superimposed:
Activist Video and Collective Voices
Special Event Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S Peoria St.
This event summons film and video work by the spiritual predecessors
of Chances Dances, reflecting the collective practices and experimental
organizing models of radical artists since the 1960s.
16
Wednesday
7:00pm
Peterman’s Privacy
Preformance Event Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Ave
This collaborative work by Dan Peterman and Beate Geissler is comprised
of five mise-en-scenès that take up the question, “what is privacy?
16
Wednesday
6:30pm
Drone Fair:
A Communal Event
Artist Conversations and
Presentations
Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Ave
This event will provide a platform for a presentation of work and a
discussion about flying eyes, flying cameras, surveillance, privacy,
technology and the upcoming changes in FAA regulations
concerning drones.
19
Saturday
3:00pm
Voices:
Jamillah James
Lecture Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.
In this talk James discusses her formation as a curator, an unorthodox
trajectory that includes her time as a student in Chicago, booking live
music, and years of independent curating before working
within institutions.
22
Tuesday
6:00pm
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Art Performance
Gallery 400 Exhibition Space
400 S. Peoria St.
Moore gives a short performance narrating her work as a writer,
history as a queer, and experiences as someone who suddenly finds
herself living with a disability.
23
Wednesday
6:00pm
Dianna Frid in
Conversation with Jen Bervin
Lecture/discussion Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior St.
Prof. Frid discusses her work and relationship to text, form, and the book
in this gallery talk and conversation moderated by artist Jen Bervin.
25
Friday
12:00pm
Witch Hazel
Concert Gallery 400
400 S. Peoria St.
This project explores gender-queer adolescence through personal
experience and the dual lenses of pop-culture iconography by creating
time-based narrative art.
25/
26
Fri-Sat
10:00pm
The Exploding Museum
Lecture Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.
A Conversation Between Astria Suparak and Jen Delos Reyes
28
Monday
4:00pm
We Came to Sweat:
The Legend of Starlite
Film Screening Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.
When the survival of a black-owned LGBT institution came under
threat a passionate advocate engaged her community to save its
legacy. The movement, the subject of this film, is challenged by
necessitating patrons to “come out” from the anonymity offered
by the Starlite.
30
Wednesday
6:00pm
Meet Kaleidoscope
Presentation UIC Innovation Center
1240 W. Harrison Street
Come meet a Chicago-based brand innovation and product development
agency. Their designers have passion for building brand experiences
through products and packaging.
30
Wednesday
6:30pm
Spencer Nugent
Lecture UIC Innovation Center
1240 W. Harrison Street
Spencer runs several ID sketching websites, is currently a professor
at Brigham University, and has developed a large following with his
sketch-a-day blogs.
3
Saturday
10:00am
Voices:
Christiane Gruber
Lecture Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.
Prof. Gruber discusses a number of paintings of the Prophet Muhammad
produced in Persian and Turkish lands from the fourteenth century to
the modern day.
5
Monday
10:00am
Image of Research Exhibition
Opening Reception UIC Library Room 1-470
1750 W Polk St.
An annual interdisciplinary exhibit competition organized by the Graduate
College and University Library to showcase the breadth and diversity of
research at UIC.
9
Fridday
10:00am
Voices:
Frank B. Wilderson III
Lecture Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.
Join us for a lecture by an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist
and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa
as an elected official in the African National Congress during the
country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s
armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe.
13
Tuesday
6:00pm
Exhibiting Architecture
in Chicago and Milan:
A Conversation
Lecture Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.
Prof. Jonathan Mekinda is participating in a conversation associated with
the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
14
Wednesday
4:30pm
Walter Benn Michaels
in conversation with
Prof. Hannah B Higgins
Lecture The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.
This book examines the work of several contemporary artist-photogra-
phers whose work speaks to questions of political economy.
21
Wednesday
6:00pm
Discipline and Doctrine:
Graduate Symposium
Conferences/Symposia Gallery 400
400 S. Peoria St.
UIC’s Art History Graduate Student Association is hosting a symposium,
“Discipline and Doctrine,” in honor of Professor Peter B. Hales.
21-
23
Thursday
9:00am
Voices:
David Rueter
Lecture Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.
Rueter’s creative practice makes use of a range of new technologies
and a variety of traditional media, including sculpture, photography,
film, and performance.
3
Tuesday
3:00pm
Lisa Yun Lee:
Conversation with Armin Linke
Special Event Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Lee and Linke look broadly at the interrelation of invisible information
flows which have reshaped topography and commerce across the globe.
13Friday
6:00pm
Voices:
Letha Wilson
Special Event Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.
Join us for a talk about Wilson’s current projects and her artistic process
which combines photography with sculptural elements.
17
Tuesday
6:00pm
Book Invasion at Daley Library
Exhibition Richard J. Daley Library 2nd floor foyer
801 S. Morgan St.
Participants in Prof. Dianna Frid’s Intro to Drawing class found a
second-hand book to explore as a metaphoric field in which to make
drawings, collages and textual interventions.
18/
23
11/18–
12/23
Dimensional Typography
Exhibition 2nd Flr Design Gallery Hall A+D Studios
Building 845 W. Harrison St.
Graphic Design students present their work from the course Typography
III, exploring physical dimensions of typography.
2
Wednesday
3:00pm
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College of Architecture,
Design, and the Arts
Program of Events
Fall 2015