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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Come See My Wonderful MA Students Present Their Projects in SFAI's Annual Symposium
2013 MASTER OF ARTS SYMPOSIUM
Monday, May 13 and Tuesday, May 14, 2013
10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Chestnut Street Lecture Hall
Thesis Presentations
Graduating
students in SFAI’s Master of Arts programs in Exhibition and Museum
Studies, History and Theory of Contemporary Art, Urban Studies, and the
MA/MFA Dual Degree will present selections
of their completed Master’s theses in a two-day-long public event.
Engaging a diverse and interdisciplinary range of topics across global
contemporary art practices, the MA Thesis Symposium represents the
capstone of a two-year process of research, critical
inquiry, and writing.
MA Thesis Symposium Schedule
Monday, May 13
9:45-10:00 AM
Welcome
Coffee/Light Breakfast
10:00-10:15 AM
Claire Daigle, Director of MA Programs
Opening Remarks and Introductions
10:15-12:00
Presentations
Joël Frudden
The Grounds of War
Zach Mitlas
Performative Pictures: Experience in Still Life Painting as a Product of Bedeviled Temporality
Orlando Lacro
Structurally American, Foreign in Detail: The Context of Contemporary Filipino-American Art
Saher Sohail
Chorr Dau Jidhwal: Permeating the Boundaries of Pakistan through the Neo Miniature
12:00-1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00-2:15 PM
Presentations
Christina Elliott
Cracked Aura: The Delegation of Relics
Suzanne Minatra
The Articulated Book: Discovering a New Book Medium Based on the Interplay between Page- and Screen-Based Reading
Sarah Nantais
Thomas
Kinkade and “The Village” in Vallejo, CA: Revitalizing Contemporary
Suburbs through Branding Strategies and the Visual Arts
2:15-2:30 PM
Break
2:30-4:00 PM
Presentations
Malic Amalya
Divine Abjection: Queer Bodily Tactics in Experimental Film, John Waters, George Kuchar, Jennifer Reeder, & Zackary Drucker
Ariel Zaccheo
In the Temple of the Screen: Religiosity and Ritual in Cult Cinema
Aimee Harlib
Incendiary Images: A Reading of Radical AIDS Activism through Punk Aesthetics, San Francisco, 1979-Present
Angelica Jardini
The Rhetorical Slut: Politics of Sexuality and Gender in Feminist Performance
Tuesday, May 14
9:45-10:00 AM
Welcome
Coffee/Light Breakfast
10:00-12:00 PM
Presentations
Regina Velasco
Mobile Mexico: Street Level Citizenship
Martin Strickland
The Conversation Continues: Dialogue Created through Digital Technology and Media within Museums
Stephanie Tran
The Ubiquitous Apple Product: Negotiating Curatorial Strategies in Exhibitions of Architecture and Design
Carolyn Jean Martin
Negro Expositions: Portrait Photography in the Nineteenth And Twenty-First Centuries
12:00-1:00 PM
Lunch
1-2:30 PM
Presentations
Zoe Martell
Brass Monkey Wrench in the Gears: Streampunk’s Trickster
Danielle Gravon
Playing with Text: Tactility and Wonder in The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
Amy Mutza
Unruly Threads, Queer Handicrafts
2:30-3:00 PM
Break
3:00-4:00 PM
Presentations
Carlos Garcia-Montero
The Myth/The Ghost: The Spectral Presence of Tino Sehgal
Manuela Ochoa Ronderos
The Uninhabited Stages/Los Escenarios Inhabitados:
Stepping into Feliza Bursztyn’s House
Kira Dralle
My Body Knows Unheard-of Songs: The Sexed Body in New Music Performance Practice
4:00-5:00
Reception in the Café Courtyard
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1 comment:
I came the other day, but only to the monday afternoon ones; I especially liked the Kinkade presentation, and now I want to crash their bucolic pads. I wanted to say hello too, but I was too nervous, so I left instead. But great work all around!
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