THE ART OF THE NEWS SYMPOSIUM: November 19th – 20th

The symposium will feature artists from “The Art of the News: Comics Journalism” exhibit at the JSMA: Joe Sacco, Sarah Mirk, Gerardo Alba, Dan Archer, Tracy Chahwan, Jesús Cossio, Ben Passmore, and Andy Warner.

Curated by NMCC faculty affiliate Katherine Kelp-Stebbins (Assistant Professor, English), with associate curator and director of Comics Studies, Ben Saunders (Professor, English), The Art of the News is the “first major retrospective devoted to this increasingly influential genre of visual narrative.”

Symposium Schedule:

Friday, November 19 
12-12:30pm: Opening Remarks, JSMA Ford Hall
1-2:30pm: Artist Roundtable (Alba, Archer, Mirk, Passmore), JSMA Ford Hall
3-4:30pm: Artist Talks in the Gallery (Chahwan, Cossio, Sacco, Warner), JSMA Barker Gallery
5:30-7pm: An Evening with Joe Sacco, PLC 180

Image source: Baseera Khan, By Faith, 2020, The Kitchen at Queenslab. Photo: Ariana Sarwari.

Lumi Tan: “Invisible Rooms: Performance and Institutions”
Critical Conversations Lecture

Thursday, October 28, 4:00 PM
Live on zoom and on the Department of Art Facebook.
Free and open to the public; details here.

Lumi Tan will speak about “the ways in which performance practices shift institutional value systems through her work curating time-based art for the white cube gallery, black box theater, and most recently, the computer screen. Thinking of issues of process, intimacy, documentation, audience, and site, Tan will connect this current work to the historical context of The Kitchen and the role of small scale institutions in the contemporary art ecosystem.”

Image source: Still from FKA Twigs – “Cellophane” directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.

Andrew Thomas Huang: “Queer Morphologies & Digital Spirits”
Davis Family Lecture

Thursday, November 18, 4:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall, Room 177
Free and open to the public; details here.

Huang will share an overview of his “mixed media filmmaking career which interweaves live action, visual effects, puppetry and animation with his passion for folklore, mythology and queer futurism. The lecture will explore the process of world building and focus on the emergence of hybrid methodologies within one’s visual practice. This talk will also explore how combining digital tools with performance can enable new forms of self-reinvention and the construction of digital identities.”

Both lectures are part of the Department of Art and the Center for Art Research’s Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lectures.

UO Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art presents Digital GLAM Spaces

ONLINE · November 10th, 2021
Opening Keynote featuring Snowden Becker at 9 AM PST
11 panels, presentations, and lightning talks from 10 AM – 3:30 PM

“Digital GLAM Spaces is a free conference about building community around web accessibility and user experience. It’s a place for GLAM practitioners to share definitions and best practices for what is UX and accessibility; communicate digital strategies for incorporating user research into digital projects; and talk about the people, skillsets, and support needed to be better and make web accessibility and user experience part of our work instead of bolted on.”

Registration + details here.

Image source: Dan Archer, “What is Comics Journalism?,” 2014, digital.

NOW SHOWING: The Art of the News: Comics Journalism
September 24th, 2021 to January 16th, 2022
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Curated by NMCC faculty affiliate Katherine Kelp-Stebbins (Assistant Professor, English), with associate curator and director of Comics Studies, Ben Saunders (Professor, English), The Art of the News is the “first major retrospective devoted to this increasingly influential genre of visual narrative.”

“By focusing not only on the finished works, but also on the methodology and techniques that each artist employs—the painstaking gathering of information through extensive research and interviews, and the labor-intensive production of comics pages—the exhibition highlights the ethical imperatives that drive this form of documentation.”

View The Art of the News through January 16th, 2022, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Museum hours and details here.

ANNOUNCING NMCC’s Fall 2021 Invited Panel: Technology | Media

Featuring Lexi Neame and Jake Fraser:

Lexi Neame, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College, is a political theorist and science and technology studies scholar. More on Lexi’s work here.

Jake Fraser, Assistant Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College, works at the intersections of media history, literature, and philosophy. More on Jake’s work here.

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