Theme: TIME

Wednesday, 2/10/16, 12pm to 2pm
Subjects: Media, storytelling, history, science, presentation, cinema/film, practice, motion, anthropology, space, craft, technology... 

Theme: SENSES

Wednesday, 3/2/16
Subjects: Materials, platforms,user interface, decoration, sound, speech, technology, interactivity, food, dance, music... 

Theme: SYSTEMS

Wednesday, 4/13/16
Subjects: Ritual, sustainability, new materials, urbanity, humanity, government, studio practice, gender, engineering, community, branding, language, communication, race, collaboration, technology, museums... 

Ben Luzzatto
Interdisciplinary Sculpture
Ben Luzzatto presented work in which he imagines a new societal relationship to carbon by citing an often overlooked ancient practice from the 15th century. By integrating pyrolysis into whole-home and small-community waste stream systems, individuals (as opposed to only corporations and governments) will be able to participate in a future carbon credit economy.

Learn more about this presenter: benluzzatto.com

Feedback for this presenter? 
Ben can be emailed at bluzzatto@mica.edu

Janet Olney
Painting
Janet Olney discussed the theme of systems as a generative and conceptual influence in the studio and the classroom. Her work explores the mash-up of analog and digital systems in the making process and how these systems lead to invention.

Learn more about this presenter: janetolney.com

Feedback for this presenter? 
Janet can be emailed at jolney@mica.edu

Adriane Pereira & Vanessa Lopez
MA in Teaching (MAT)
Adriane Pereira and Vanessa Lopez shared the results of an MAT emergent, student-centered, curriculum and pedagogy that responded to the events of the Baltimore Uprising. MAT faculty and students engaged in dialogues about race, privilege, and equity through readings, debates, discussion, and a series of lectures which informed student-teachers' curriculum development, teaching philosophies, and personally-driven arts-based research. In a roundtable discussion, Vanessa and Adriane shared their experiences implementing these curricular changes in response to current events.

Feedback for these presenters? 

Adriane can be emailed at apereira@mica.edu
Vanessa can be emailed at vlopez@mica.edu

Past Presenters

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