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History of Arts and Architecture

History of Arts and Architecture HARC

Info session poster with text: Information session & Flatbread lunch, HARC-Major/Minor, Tuesday, October 28th, 12:30-1:30pm, MAC Lower Lobby

HARC Information Session

Sponsored by:
History of Arts and Architecture

Please join HARC Faculty and Majors from both the Art History and Architectural Studies tracks, to learn more about the major/minor requirements, in addition to department opportunities, trips, funding, and fun.

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

Closed to the Public
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Screening of Mariam Ghani's Documentary Film, There's a Hole in the World Where You Used to Be

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art, Studio Art, Arabic, History of Arts and Architecture, and Religion

Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work examines places, spaces, and moments where social, political, and cultural structures manifest in visible forms, encompassing video, sound, installation, photography, performance, text, and data. 

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public
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Extracting the Past: How the 'AI' Industry Exploits Art History & What We Can Do to Stop It

Sponsored by:
History of Arts and Architecture

Over the last several years, universities and museums have partnered with commercial technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their AI products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises, however, are not supported by the reality of what computer vision—the branch of AI most relevant to the history of art—can achieve. So why have major institutions in education and the arts been so quick to take up these firms’ offers?

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public
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“Where the tree ends and your head begins” – Listening to Gloria Anzaldúa’s Multi-Species Meditations

Sponsored by:
Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, Biology, History of Arts and Architecture, Axinn Center for the Humanities, and Creating Art Together

This practice-based activity is open to anyone on campus, but especially those interested in thinking about ecology beyond traditional Western disciplinary lenses. We will use drawings and sound to consider the boundaries between more-than-human nature and embodied experience that Gloria Anzaldúa set out in her mediations, which proposed a feminist approach to the spaces and places at the U.S-Mexico border.

Axinn Center 229

Free
Open to the Public