Visiting Artist Lecture

Anne-Marie Oliver
TODAY(4/27) 6pm
CSB 110/117

ANNE MARIE OLIVER is a cultural theorist, photographer, and documentarian, whose workexplores collaborations and collisions between art, religion, politics, media, and technology. Her interests range from surveillance, bio-art, and political terror to urban planning and ecology to poetics, portraiture, and the relation of visual and literary modes of representation. Following studies at Emory, Yale, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she taught at MIT, Georgia Tech, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and, for many years, was a Visiting Scholar and consultant at Harvard University. She has lectured at institutions across the United States, including Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, UCLA, The San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, The LA Public Library, The Annenberg School for Communication at USC, and TheCarnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Her work has appeared in Public Culture, Critical Inquiry, Partisan Review, and The International Journal of Comparative Sociology as well as SalonThe New Republic, and Le Monde diplomatique. Her book, The Road to Martyrs’ Square, a study of the political ephemera and underground media of the intifada co-authored with Paul Steinberg, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004, and was a Quill Award nominee, with documentary work supported by the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation. She has appeared on radio and television shows in the U.S. and abroad, including CNN, CSPAN,National Public Radio, the BBC, MSNBC, Air America, and Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Most recently, she was interviewed for the new NPR series “The Really Big Questions.” She is Assistant Professor of Intermedia and Contemporary Art Theory in the Department of Intermedia and the MFA Program in Visual Studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and the Ford Institute for Visual Education and Research Scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

thanks to Derek Franklin for designing this week’s poster.

Rutgers Photography Club & CoLAB Arts Gallery present “Still Segues”

Opening Reception: April 22 7-10pm

Second Reception: April 29th 7-10pm

Collaborative Arts is pleased to present Still Segues, a two-month exhibition that features the emerging artists of the Rutgers Photography Club, which is curated by Skyla Pojednic and Theresa Francisco.

Featured Artists:

Matt Drews, Samantha Kelly, Emily Kohl-Mattingley, Skyla Pojednic, Mary Kate Riecks, Pablo Ruiz, and Ceaphas Stubbs

CoLAB Arts Gallery

49 Bayard Street, 3rd Floor

Gallery Hours: Fridays 3-10pm & Sundays 6-10pm

John Cohen – Tuesday 26 April at 5:00 p.m.

On Tuesday 26 April at 5:00 p.m. in the Bloustein Auditorium we will have our second annual BFA Distinguished Artist Lecture in honor of the graduating class of 2011. Our speaker is John Cohen, and to get a sense of the breadth of his interests and the people he has worked with as a photographer, film maker, artist, and musician, see his web site. http://www.johncohenworks.com/home.html

The presentation will be followed by a reception in the Mason Gross Galleries from 6:00 to 7:00.