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Department of Art and Art History

2011 Viewpoint Series

The Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce that Viewpoint 2011 will be presented for the twentieth consecutive year. This series of concentrated visits, lasting several days, are spread throughout the semester. Viewpoint guests are leading curators, critics, and scholars involved in the diverse and multifaceted contemporary art world.

Thomas Y. Levin and Carrie-Lambert-Beatty, this year's returning invitees, will present public lectures, conduct seminars, and give individual critiques to the fine art graduate students.

Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton University, is a media theorist, cultural critic and curator whose work explores the intersection of aesthetics, technology and politics. Following his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Yale, he was a fellow at the Getty Research Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study (Budapest), and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. Levin’s scholarship on a wide range of media theoretical topics has appeared in October, Parkett, Grey Room, New German Critique, Screen, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Musical Quarterly, ARCH+, Cahiers du MNAM, and Texte zur Kunst. The translator and editor of Siegfried Kracauer’s The Mass Ornament (Harvard UP, 1995), Levin was also part of the curatorial collective responsible for the first exhibition on the Situationist International (Centre Pompidou, Paris; ICA London & ICA Boston) in 1989. Levin also conceived and curated the exhibition CTRL [SPACE], Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother at the ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology) in Karlsruhe in late 2001 and edited the catalogue under the same title (MIT Press) the following year. His most recent book is a co-edited volume of Walter Benjamin’s media-theoretical writings published in 2008 by Harvard UP as The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Essays on Media.

Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Harvard University, is an art historian whose research focuses on art since 1960, especially performance and video. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2002 and has been a fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and the Getty Research Institute. Her writing on performance art, postmodern dance, and minimalism has been published in exhibition catalogs and in journals such as Trans, Art Journal, and October magazine, of which she has been an editor since 2008. Her book Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (MIT Press, 2008) was the 2008 winner of the de la Torre prize for scholarship on dance. Lambert-Beatty is working on a new project on recent intersections of art and activism, parts of which have been published in the journals Signs (Winter 2008) and October (Summer 2009).

 

Viewpoint Events Calendar

Map to Art Building (ART)

  • Thursday, February 24
    Public Lecture
    4–6 p.m. — Art Building, Room 1.102
  • Friday, February 25
    Seminar, 3–5 p.m. — Art Building, Room 3.206
  • Saturday, February 26
    Private Graduate Student Critiques – Contact Sarah Canright for appointment
  • Thursday, April 7
    Public Lecture
    4–6 p.m. — Art Building, Room 1.102
  • Friday, April 8
    Seminar, 3–5 p.m. — Art Building, Room 3.206
  • Saturday, April 9
    Private Graduate Student Critiques – Contact Sarah Canright for appointment
  • Thursday, April 28
    Public Lecture
    4–6 p.m. — Art Building, Room 1.102
  • Friday, April 29
    Seminar, 3–5 p.m. — Art Building, Room 3.206
  • Saturday, April 30
    Private Graduate Student Critiques – Contact Sarah Canright for appointment

Past Viewpoint programs have included the following pairs of art critics or curators:

  • Phung Bui and Leah Ollman
  • Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders
  • Johanna Burton and Tim Stokes
  • Lowery Stokes and Ralph Rugoff
  • Michael Duncan and Marcia E. Vetrocq
  • Chrissie Iles and Tom Eccles
  • Robert Storr and Ingrid Schaffner
  • David Pagel and Nancy Princenthal
  • Lisa Liebmann and Brooks Adam

For further information contact:

Sarah Canright at 471–0907 or rococo@mail.utexas.edu