Lectures

Lecture Series: Angela Dufresne

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Angela Dufresne’s work articulates porous ways of being in a world fraught by fear and possession.

Lecture Series: Sarah Oppenheimer

The Mattress Factory 500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, United States

Sarah Oppenheimer is an artist operating on the boundary conditions of spatial and temporal adjacency.

STUDIO Lecture: Gene Kogan

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Gene Kogan is an artist and a programmer who is interested in generative systems, artificial intelligence, and software for creativity and self-expression.

Lecture Series: Allison Smith

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Allison Smith takes an expansive view of sculpture, combining social practice, performance, and traditional crafts to examine how American history has been constructed and how it may be revised, retold, and reinterpreted.

Lecture Series: Cristóbal Martínez

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Cristóbal Martínez's work seeks to reveal the vexing nature of our complex memories, amnesias, behaviors, beliefs, assumptions, choices, and relationships to create experiences that move beyond the human instinct to simplify.

Lecture Series: Dread Scott

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Dread Scott works in a range of media including performance, photography, screen-printing, and video, challenging viewers to reexamine unifying ideals and values of American society, often by focusing on African American experience.

Angela Washko Plays “The Game: The Game”

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

To coincide with her current solo exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image and the online release of "The Game: The Game," Professor Angela Washko will discuss the multi-year research process behind her pick-up artist dating simulator.

Lecture Series: Andrea Zittel

Carnegie Museum of Art Theater 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Since the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel has used the arena of her day-to-day life to develop and test prototypes for living structures and situations to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life and how arbitrary any choice of structure can be.

STUDIO Lecture: Bruce Sterling

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

A futurist, journalist, science-fiction author and design critic, Bruce Sterling is best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg & Chelsea Manning

McConomy Auditorium 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Heather Dewey-Hagborg will give a joint talk with Chelsea Manning, the collaborator for her most recent work, Probably Chelsea (2017).