Lectures

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).

Lecture Series: Frances Stark

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

Francis Stark’s deeply autobiographical practice centers on the mediation of self and the intimate spaces of communication. Her work spans many media including drawing, photography, video, collage, and mixed media painting, often combining text and imagery.

STUDIO Lecture: Jenny Odell

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

Jenny Odell's work combines the mining of online imagery with writing and research, usually in an attempt to highlight the material nature of our modern networked existence.

Lecture Series: Robb Hernández

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

Robb Hernández's forthcoming book, "Finding AIDS: Archival Body/Archival Space and the Chicano Avant-garde," examines the role of gender and sexual transgression in the formation of Chicano art.

STUDIO Lecture: Kelli Anderson

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

Kelli Anderson is an artist/designer and tinkerer who draws, photographs, cuts, prints, codes, and creates a variety of designed things for herself and others.