Monday, January 6, 2014

Spring 2014 course

ART 309/509: Site and Time in Contemporary Art
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Semester:  Spring 2014

Wednesdays: 12:30PM - 3:15PM MIT B49
Lecturer: Nicole Ridgway
Contact: ridgwayn@uwm.edu
Office Hours: By appointment for face-to-face or real-time chat.

Course Description:

The main aim of this seminar is to advance student's understanding of some of the key theoretical approaches and relevant critical concepts, as well as the diversity of themes and artistic practices, concerning site and time in the contemporary art world.

The course will draw out a number of ideas and questions about the place and practice of both site and time (and their overlap) in recent art-writing and -making, exploring, for example, the idea of the dispersed site and the not-located site; the politics of memory and counter-memory, of memorialization versus monumentality; the power of anachronism and expanded time as artistic strategies; the place of the activated spectator and shifting notions of medium and materiality; the archival effect; or the turn to the notion of the heterotopia in recent installation art.

Drawing on examples from, amongst others, installation art, immersive environments, interactive art, earth work, video and performance art, public and community art, sculpture and painting, the class will look at a wide range of case studies, as well as examine key readings/theorists in the field.

Geography 905: City, Environment, Naturehttp://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/geography/faculty/syllabi/upload/geog905-holifield.pdf
Instructor: Ryan Holifield
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Phone: (414) 229-4868
Fax: (414) 229-3981
Email: holifiel@uwm.edu

The purpose of this seminar is to introduce graduate students to different ways of conceptualizing, theorizing, and researching urban environments and urban natures. Through close, intensive readings of a series of books and articles, we will examine several different approaches to urban ecology, including approaches grounded in systems theory, environmental history, radical urban political ecology, and actor-network theory, along with related poststructural approaches. In the process, we'll consider a wide range of substantive themes: urban ecosystems, natural resources, environmental justice, sustainable cities, health risks and hazards, and urban infrastructures, just to name a few. This seminar will be of potential interest to students in geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, history, sociology, urban education, biological sciences, and others interested in the relationships between cities and nature or the environment.

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Arch 750: Proseminar on Environment Design Research
Instructor: Arijit Sen
Associate Professor
Department of Architecture
Email: senA@uwm.edu
Office: AUP 320

This class examines how each of us may delineate an area of expertise and integrate it within our research and teaching portfolio. I hope to use the example of my own research and my own intellectual biography in order to critically reexamine how knowledge areas impact our work. We will meet for 3 hours every week and devote 1 hour to pragmatic concerns of life every other week. Your grades will be based on 1) quality of participation, level of intellectual engagement, written weekly assignments, if any, and preparation during class discussions (60%) and 2) final project (40%).  During this course you are expected to compile a final project made up of 1) your research portfolio, curriculum vitae, teaching portfolio and job application samples and 2) lead several in-class discussions, and 3) write your program of studies and/or preliminary examination prospectus.