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.
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.
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.
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.
Hirsch Perlman’s lecture will draw from his latest work, and his developing thought about art and embodiment, and why we cannot help but make meaning, metaphors, and narrative out of anything and everything from simple wood blocks to piles of garbage.
B★A Presentations are short, five minute artist talks where undergraduate art students can present their work to the CMU community and beyond and be inspired by what their fellow students are doing.
Mimi Onuoha is an artist and researcher examining the implications of data collection and computational categorization.
Taking its name from a French publisher of school stationery, Claire Fontaine is an artistic partnership between James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale, formed in 2004. Their work responds to global events, politics and society through the use and misuse of powerful symbols and status objects.
Inspired by the physicality of sound, experimental musician Lesley Flanigan builds her own instruments using minimal electronics, microphones, and speakers.
"Something Nothing" is a presentation of papers by first year MFA candidates.