The Arts Research Collaboration initiative (ARC) at the Spencer Museum of Art continues its investigation of collaborative research bridging the arts and sciences with a colloquium on May 14, 2015, from 2:30–5:00 pm at the University of Kansas. The colloquium is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed online. The event is a follow-up to the Museum’s recent international conference, “Hybrid practices in the arts, sciences, and technology from the 1960s to today.”
The colloquium opens with a talk by Shepherd Steiner, assistant professor of contemporary art history and theory in the School of Art, University of Manitoba, Canada. Steiner’s lecture, “Bernd and Hilla Becher: Spring Points, Technical Extensions, Degree Zero,” will examine the practice of a German conceptual art duo known for their extensive photographic series of the twentieth-century industrial landscape. The Bechers’ work raises questions about objectivity, technical knowledge, and scientific truth that can benefit critical reflection on hybrid art-science-technology research more generally.
Following Steiner’s talk, there will be a roundtable for conference participants to identify common threads in the research presented at the conference and to begin synthesizing that information to make it broadly relevant to the field. Viewers are encouraged to submit questions to the presenters via Twitter using @SpencerMuseum and #HybridPractices. Find out more
