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This Week in Grad Lectures

Wednesday Nov. 12

Art and Technology Graduate Lecture: Noah Coleman 12:15–1:00 p.m. MacLean Center, 112 S. Michigan Ave., 4th floor, Black Box room 

Sculpture Graduate Lecture: Jeff Prokash 4:15–5:15 p.m. Columbus Building, 280 S. Columbus Dr., room 032 

Visual Critical Studies Graduate Lecture: Tina Tahir + Michal Lynn Schumate 4:15–5:30 p.m. 116 S. Michigan Ave., room 1428

Thursday Nov 13

Printmedia Graduate Noontime Lecture: Leah Mackin 12:00–1:00 p.m. Columbus Building, 280 S. Columbus Dr., room 220 

Fiber Graduate Lecture: Jessica Fu 12:00–1:00 p.m. Sharp Building, 37 S. Wabash Ave., room 903 

Writing Graduate Lecture: Caitlin Farella and Katie Wall 4:15–5:45 p.m. Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor 

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GENERAL OBJECTS: Group Show

Ballroom Projects is proud to present GENERAL OBJECTS a group show curated by Danny Floyd. featuring: Joseph Grigely (Professor of Visual and Critical Studies) Kyle Nilan Jeff Prokash Betany Porter Elliott Mickleburgh (BFA '13) Jameson Doody Arièle Dionne-Krosnick (MA Visual and Critical Studies '14) & Didier Morelli  Opening Oct. 18 at 7pm Running through Nov. 8 by appointment  GENERAL OBJECTS concerns how the familiarity of image archetypes helps construct the narrative of daily life. The works in this exhibition channel recognizable objects through the often mysterious process material rearticulation, creating both space for serious contemplation and humorous formal puns. They also engage with an art historical ebb and flow of reductionist aesthetics, which in this case aim simultaneously towards a clarity of representation and an openness toward viewer interpretation. While reliant of the legacies of “Specific Objects,” Minimalism, and its antecedents, the artists deploy images and objects for the vary reason of referring to concepts and stories outside of the work itself.  Location: 3012 S. Archer Ave #3 Ashland stop Orange Line

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Introducing HAIR CLUB

HAIR CLUB is a collaborative research initiative into the multivalent topic of hair in our wider culture. The initiative is powered by the EAGER Grant and the Shapiro Center. HAIR CLUB is comprised of three graduate students, Suzanne Gold (MFA Writing '15), Kelly Lloyd (MA Visual and Critical Studies & MFA Painting and Drawing '15 , and Michal Lynn Shumate (MA Visual and Critical Studies '15) 

Throughout the academic year 2014-2015, HAIR CLUB will be around to service all of your hair-related needs. This will be a collaborative space for sharing how the concept/s of Hair weave into issues of creative and social unrest, make material for art, live after death, tango with fashion, and stuff about how we all have it and if we don’t, not having it is a central aspect of how we move through the world. 

Incorporating practices in Writing, Painting, Art History, and Visual & Critical Studies, HAIR CLUB aims to high-five across disciplinary lines.

Come convene with HAIR CLUB on September 30 (from 4:30-6pm in the Sullivan Galleries) as they unveil a year of programming, research, exhibitions, creative collaboration, readings, parties, and more!

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Grad Student Kevin B Lee Gains Critical Acclaim for Transformers "Premake"

On Friday, June 20 graduate student Kevin B. Lee presented Transformers: The Premake at the Nightingale. Although the twenty-five-minute-long YouTube video had premiered days prior to the viewing, Lee showed the film to a sold out audience. 

Lee's website describes the Premake as [utilizing] a “'desktop documentary' technique that acknowledges the internet’s role not only as a boundless repository of information but as a primary experience of reality. It creatively depicts the process in which we explore a deep web of images and data to reach moments of discovery and decisive action. In a blockbuster cinema culture rife with insipid remakes of franchise properties, The Premake presents a critical counter-image in which personalized digital media asks what Hollywood is really doing in the world."

Lee has achieved much critical acclaim for this newest project, including spotlight from RogerEbert.com and Filmmaker Magazine.

Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, film critic and video essayist. He is Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor Keyframe and founding partner of dGenerate Films (a distribution company for independent Chinese cinema). He was supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Film Video New Media and Animation and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.