University of Michigan . Art & Design

University of Michigan . Art & Design
THE PENNY W. STAMPS WINTER 2002 DISTINGUISHED VISITORS SERIES

Established with the generous support of alumna Penny W. Stamps, the
Distinguished Visitors Program brings respected emerging and established
artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to engage with students, faculty, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities.

Depending on the length of their stay and their particular areas of expertise, invited artists and designers may give public lectures, work with students in small workshops, participate in panel discussions, generate site specific installations, or give public performances.

Instituted in 1998, the Program has hosted such noted artists and designers as: Dale Chihuly, world renowned glass artist; Laurie Anderson, international performance artist; Mierele Ukeles, public and collaborative installation artist; Taro Yamasaki, Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist; and May Stevens, noted New York painter and photomuralist.

Elliott Earls 01.10.02 5:00 pm Media Union Video Studio		The head of 2-D design at Cranbrook, Elliott Earls works in nonlinear digital video, spoken-word poetry, music composition and performance art. His commercial practice, The Apollo Program, includes clients such as Elektra Entertainment, Scribner Publishing Co., Elemond Casabella (Italy), the Cartoon Network (U.K.), Nonesuch Records and Janus Films.
Janet Williams 01.17.02 5:00 pm Art +Architecture Auditorium		British born Janet Williams is an installation artist. Her lecture coincides with the opening of her "Register Series" installation at the Residential College. This work is part of her ongoing exploration of themes of memory and loss, focusing here on the transformative function of fire in ceramics. Her UM residence is supported by the Institute for the Humanities’ Jill S. Harris Memorial Fund and the Residential College.
Amelia Amon 01.24.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		Amelia Amon is an industrial designer who develops solar, water, and energy-efficient systems at Alt.Technica. Her current works include an interactive solar exhibit for Liberty Science Center, a fountain with integral photo voltaics for the National Design Museum of the Smithsonian, and a solar freezer cart for Ben & Jerry's Inc.
Christopher Csikszentmihályi 01.31.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		Christopher Csikszentmihályi is the Director of the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab. An installation artist working with new technologies, he has shown and lectured internationally. His most recent installation, "Natural Language Processor," was shown at the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki.
Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss 02.07.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		Monika Fleischmann is a research artist with a background in fashion design, art, drama, and computer graphics. Wolfgang Strauss is an architect focusing on developing methods for intermedia representation in Mixed Realities. Together they co-founded Art + Com, Berlin, one of the first transdisciplinary institutes for computer-assisted media research.
Suzanne McClelland 02.14.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		Suzanne McClelland’s work focuses on transmuting hearing, speech and sound into visual language. In her paintings, she explores the everyday uses of speech, particularly tone, phrasing and volume and their transposition onto a surface through touch, color and space. As she notes, her interest "lies in the gap between the spoken and the written, the written and the drawn and what is gained and lost in translation."
Satoru Takahashi 02.21.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		Installation artist Satoru Takahashi is a visiting faculty member in the School. He describes his work as follows: "I hit my head with a bottle to shatter myself. Only the bottle broke into pieces and I got a flash of lightning in my pain. By collecting fragments of the bottle, I tried to reconstitute the flash of lightning. Montage of perception and montage of media: these are some of the modules for my installations."
Frank Grunwald 03.07.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		An industrial designer with training in painting, sculpture and furniture design, Grunwald is currently the Manager of Strategic Design at Thomson Multimedia in Indianapolis. He has lectured at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Arizona State University, Purdue University, ITT Technical Institute and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Kara Walker 03.10.02 3:00 pm UM Museum of Art Apse		Often using the medium of cut paper, Walker addresses slavery and its continuing legacy in the American consciousness through provocative images pervaded by themes of social power, race, gender, sexuality, and violence. This lecture is presented in conjunction with her creation of a panoramic frieze installation in the UM Museum of Art Apse. Walker’s visit is supported, in part, by the Friends of the Museum of Art and the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund.
Griselda Pollock 03.14.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		A Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Pollock is the author of Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, Framing Feminism, Art and the Women’s Movement, and Vision and Difference. Sponsored by "Looking Into Visual Culture," a program at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender; with supplementary support from the Humanities Institute, and the UM Museum of Art.
Stephanie Rowden 03.21.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		Stephanie Rowden’s installations are visual, aural, interactive and deeply private. An invitation to listen is at the heart of experiencing her work. Rowden’s presentation will examine sound as an art medium – from the gathering of audio material, to the designing of sound scores and their integration into her installations. Rowden is a visiting faculty member in the School.
Heidi Kumao 03.28.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		Heidi Kumao creates intimate installations, digital animations, and kinetic sculptures that expose the underlying mechanisms and psychology of everyday situations. A visiting faculty member in the School, she has exhibited nationally and internationally and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Leslie King-Hammond 04.04.02 Art + Architecture Auditorium		Art historian and essayist King-Hammond’s publications include Masks and Mirrors: African American Art (1750 - Now), Gumbo Ya Ya: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Women Artists, and Three Generations of African American Women Artists. She served as Director of the Ford Foundation-Philip Morris Fellowships for Artists of Color Working in the Visual Arts, and is currently Dean of Graduate Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Krzysztof Wodiczko 04.11.02 5:00 pm Art + Architecture Auditorium		Krzysztof Wodiczko is renowned for his large-scale projections on architectural facades and monuments and for his series of nomadic instruments for homeless and immigrant operators. His work is exhibited nationally and internationally. In 1998 he received the Hiroshima Prize for his contribution as an artist to world peace. Wodiczko’s visit is partially supported by the UM Copernicus Endowment and the International Institute.

For more information contact Kate West.

Calendar of this months's lectures and events