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| Saturday, April 07, 2012 |
| Can We Talk Mediterranean?
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
9:00am "Mediterranean Studies at CU Boulder”
A panel featuring:
- Noel Lenski (Classics, CU Boulder) "Slave Raiding and Slave Trading among Pre-Islamic Arabs”
- Claire Farago (Art & Art History, CU Boulder) “Desiderata for the Study of Early Modern Art of the Mediterranean”
- Celine Dauverd (History, CU Boulder) “Cultivating differences: The Genoese Office of the Sea in the Constantinople of Sultan Mehmed II, 1453-1481”
Chaired by: Paul Hammer (History, CU Boulder)
10:45am A Round Table: “Can we talk Mediterranean?”
In response to the question, “Can we talk Mediterranean?” five scholars working on diverse aspects of pre-modern Mediterranean history and culture will discuss, with each other and with the audience, the nature of this emerging field, its possibilities and limitations.
Brian Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder/ History, UC Santa Cruz)
Cecily Hilsdale (Art History, McGill )
Peregrine Horden, (History, Royal Holloway)
Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
Moderated by:
Claire Farago (Art & Art History, CU Boulder) |
 | Exhibition: “the invisible connectedness of things”
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The exhibit the invisible connectedness of things created by internationally recognized visual artist Kim Abeles and co-presented by the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and EcoArts Connections will be on display Tuesday Jan. 17 – Monday Oct. 1, 2012.
The exhibit is inspired by the spectacular structure, colors and longevity of lichens and the fact that they are bio-monitors of pollution. With a 16’ video wall, photos, paintings, puzzles, sculpture, “smog collector" plates and more, the exhibit explores the effects that transportation choices have on Boulder’s air quality. The project has been created in collaboration with atmospheric scientists, emissions specialists, lichenologists, transportation professionals and middle school students, among others. This exhibit is commissioned by EcoArts Connections (EAC) and co-presented by the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and EAC in collaboration with Envirotest - Air Care Colorado, Manhattan Middle School and Spark: UCAR Science Education. |
 | CU Wizards
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Professor Susan Marie Frontczak will present her lecture "Marie Curie."
CU Wizards is a yearly series held on the CU Boulder campus once a month on Saturday throughout the academic year.
The CU Wizards are professors from departments across the spectrum, ranging from physics to psychology. During each session, one of these professors donates their knowledge and energy to create captivating and informative shows for the public.
Shows are free, and while all age groups are welcome, the shows will be geared towards kids in grades 5-9. |
| CU Wizards April 7 Update
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Update to CU Wizards' event on April 7, 2012 - the show and presenter have changed but all else remains the same. Professor Leslie Leinwand will present 'Hope for a Broken Heart!' During the show, the audience will get to measure their own heart rates and blood pressure and see and touch real hearts!
You'll also find out how particular activities and substances, like exercise and energy drinks, affect heart rates. You will also will learn about genetics and find out who in the audience has certain genes.
Professor Leinwand, who is internationally known for her research on genetic heart defects, is the chief scientific officer for the University of Colorado's Biofrontiers Institute, which was founded in 2003 to foster new research, teaching and technology development in the fields of life sciences, physical sciences, math, computational sciences and engineering.
For over three decades, the CU Wizards program has presented free monthly shows from September to June that entertain and teach children about the wonders of science. One Saturday morning a month, renowned University of Colorado professors and members of the community host interactive shows on the CU Campus that provide a perfect start to a fun-filled, informative weekend.
The shows are geared toward children and young adults in grades 5-9, but everyone in the community is welcome to join in.
For more info on CU Wizards visit our website: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/Web/wizards/cuwizards.html. |
 | Keeping It Real: Korean Artists in the Age of Multi-Media Representation
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Opening Reception February 2, 2012, 6-8pm with a major related symposium February 4, 2012 in ATLAS 100. Further details about the symposium to be announced.
Curated by J.P. Park, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Colorado Boulder
This exhibition comments on the contemporary state of South Korean art by offering a unique and unprecedented opportunity to experience new art forms pioneered by emerging Korean artists working in Seoul, New York, and Europe. The artists in this exhibition lead us into a mysterious, ironic, and hybrid reality, a reality that completely challenges our perceptions of the world as we are conditioned to think about it. The works on view are a series of dialogues that illuminate conjunctures between real life and fantasy which present objects and human behaviors through a creative and conceptual kaleidoscope. The virtual reality in their art—a hyper-reality materialized in scientific, technological, and global idioms—unerringly subverts our intellectual, experienced, and intuitive knowledge about art and society. These artists belong to a new generation, born since the tumultuous social and political phase of modern Korean society subdued; without the Cold War, without riot police, yet possessing access to the larger world via the internet, opportunities to travel abroad, and products promoted locally by global corporations. The exhibition features photography, video, site-specific installation, and sculpture and includes the work of eight artists including:
Kyung Woo Han
Yong-ho Ji
Yeondoo Jung
Shin-il Kim
Sun K. Kwak
Hyungkoo Lee
Jaye Rhee
Kiwoun Shin
This exhibition is generously supported in part by the NBT Charitable Trust, the HBB Foundation, Arts Council Korea, Wayne F. Yakes, MD, the CU Art Museum benefactors and members, as well as by the CU Boulder Student Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) fees. Additional funding for the related symposium is generously provided by the James and Rebecca Roser Visiting Artist Program and the Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder. |
 | The Anxiety of Influence: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Ceramics Collection
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director, CU Art Museum and Kim Dickey, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder
Drawing on Harold Bloom's seminal work of poetic criticism, "The Anxiety of Influence," to interpret the significant role that "influence" plays within the global history, culture, and tradition of ceramics, this exhibition will present Modern and Contemporary Ceramics as well as selected historic works from the CU Art Museum's permanent collection. The exhibition will feature major pieces by Scott Chamberlin, Rick Dillingham, Arthur Gonzalez, Wayne Higby, Anne Kraus, Graham Marks, Jim Melchert, Linda Sikora, Suo Tan, Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman and many others. The exhibition will also include works on paper by noted ceramic artists such as Robert Arneson and Ken Price to further explore the conceptual, aesthetic, and methodological influences on Modern and Contemporary ceramic artists. While many previous exhibitions have chronicled the decorative and technological influences of various ceramic traditions as they travelled across Eastern and Western cultures, this exhibition is the first to apply Bloom's complicated post-Freudian theories of "influence" to the realm of ceramics and its poetics, in order to construct a more complex understanding of the medium.
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 | The Eye Be Not Assailed: The Spring 2012 MFA Exhibition
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The CU Art Museum and the Department of Art & Art History present The Eye Be Not Assailed: The Spring 2012 Graduate Thesis Show, held in the Projects Gallery of the CU Art Museum building, part of the Visual Arts Complex on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, APRIL 6,
5 - 7PM IN THE CU ART MUSEUM LOBBY
About the artists:
Sarah Biagini
Employing intricate re-photography and compositing techniques, Sarah Biagini's multi-layered films demonstrate the evolution of materials and images through many stages of transformation.
Adán De La Garza
Adán De La Garza's sound installation and performance works explore the territory between socially accepted auditory norms, the act of democratizing audio, and sonic warfare. De La Garza's work reflects on the growing practice of societies appropriating technologies from military tactics in everyday interactions with its citizens. He demonstrates how one can counteract the auditory invasion through small scale acts of repurposing everyday objects and take back control over their own sonic environments. Simultaneously simplistic and urgent, these calls to action suggest that individual political gestures can amass into a collective, stronger force.
Laura Shill
Laura Shill is a maximalist artist who makes work that is a collision of collecting, costuming, performance, installation and photography. Using reclaimed textiles and laborious craftwork, and drawing upon early photographic practices and the hidden mother tintypes of the 19th Century, Shill reimagines the photographer's studio as a feminine, domestic, bodily space where subjects reveal and conceal themselves for the camera.
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| 1+1=3: Order from Disorder, and the Amazing Elasticity of Liquid-Crystal Rubber
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
After embarking on a whirlwind tour of the magical world of condensed matter physics—where a whole is often much bigger than the sum of its parts—Professor Leo Radzihovsky will focus on the specific example of liquid-crystal rubber.
This amazing, newly developed material is an amalgam of a liquid-crystal and rubber—themselves fascinating examples of condensed matter familiar from everyday use.
While still a solid in many respects, because of the interplay of liquid-crystallinity and rubber elasticity, this solid liquid-crystal behaves like a liquid in many ways.
For example, at low temperature it can be stretched in some directions by as much as 400 percent, exerting virtually zero stress. Professor Radzhihovsky will discuss the mechanism behind this and a number of other bizarre behaviors, as well as a potential for their many applications ranging from from artificial muscle to heat engines and optical switches. |
 | Max Goes to the Moon
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ever wonder what its like to go to the Moon? Our newest show "Max Goes
to the Moon" takes the audience on such an adventure. Based on the
award winning children's book "Max Goes to the Moon" by Dr. Jeffrey
Bennett, this is the
story of Max the dog and his adventure to and from the Moon with his
friend Tory. This show has
science content that fits the current Colorado
education standards and is geared for children in grades 2-5. |
 | Undergraduate Student Recital: Florence Ling, violin
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
J.S. Bach - 'Ciaccona' from Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24, "Spring"
Brahms - Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78
Ravel - Tzigane
With Chia-Hui Lin, piano |
 | Laser: Space Odyssey
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
This family friendly laser show features space-themed music like Frank Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon and The Galaxy Song from Monty Python. |
 | Undergraduate Student Recital: Leigh Joseph, soprano, and Zac Garcia, bass-baritone
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Mozart - 'Là ci darem la mano' from Don Giovanni
Mozart - 'Una donna a quindici anni' from Così fan tutte
Schubert - Der Alpenjäger, Am Bach in Frühling, Der Kreuzzug, Fischerweise
Poulenc - Le Bestiaire
Fauré - Mandoline, Les Berceaux
Debussy - Nuit d'étoiles, Mandoline
Vaughan Williams - 'The Vagabond,' 'Whither Must I Wander,' 'Roadside Fire,' from The Songs of Travel
Argento - Spring, Winter
Amy Beach - The Summer Wind, Autumn Song
With Hsiao-Ling Lin and Chia-Hui Lin, piano. |
 | Doctoral Student Recital: Whitney Kelley, flute
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
George Philip Telemann - Sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No. 1
Kazuo Fukushima - Mei
André Jolivet - Chant de Linos
Albert Roussel - Deux Poèmes de Ronsard
Francis Poulenc - Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet
With Tee Tong Tang, violin; Christopher Thompson, piano; Emily Sinclair, soprano; Ciara Glasheen, oboe; Lucas Munce, clarinet; Michael Christoph, bassoon; Selena Adams, horn; and Christina Lalog, piano. |
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