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èß䯯½â Makes a Strong Showing at Two Major Art Conferences this October

October 18, 2018

We are pleased to announce nine èß䯯½â students and alumni presenting at two major art conferences this October, some at both conferences: SECAC at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

2018 Fall Conference participants
Clockwise from top left: Jeff Siemers, Paige Lunde, Neely Patton, Jason Hoelscher, Mary Mazurek, Kathryn McFadden, Jonathan Morgan, Kalia Brooks, Angela Whitlock (in the center).

Angela Whitlock

Cohort '16

Paper at MACAA: "The Virtu-Real"

Paper at SECAC: "The Inescapable within a Seemingly Escapist Utopia: How Consumerism is Ingrained within Virtual Reality"

Jason Hoelscher

Alumnus 2018

Co-Chair of Panel at SECAC: Art and Aesthetics in an Era of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Art: The Future Will Be the Now, or Will It?

Paper at SECAC: "Ten Theses on Art and Artificial Intelligence"

Paige Lunde

PhD Candidate

Chair of Panel at SECAC: Our Problem with the Concept of Time

Paper at SECAC: "The Educational Apparatus: Our Problem with Time"

Chair of Panel at MACAA: Virtual Repeatability

Paper at MACAA: "Detachment and Reduction: Our Changing Orientation Toward Technology"

Kalia Brooks

Alumnus 2017

Paper at SECAC: "Lil' Kim and Baudelaire: Ayana Evans's Exhibitionist Takeover in Operation Catsuit"

Kathryn McFadden

Alumnus 2017

Chair of Panel at SECAC: AMBUSHED! Pussy Grabs Back, Y'all: Exhibitionism in Art and Performance

Paper at SECAC: "An Aesthetic of Anxiety: Art, Pussy and Philosophy"

Jonathan Morgan

PhD Candidate

Paper at MACAA: "Fabricated Fear: Artists, Technology and Manual Labor"

Chair of Panel at SECAC: Is This Mic On? Considering Humor

Mary Mazurek

PhD Candidate

Paper at SECAC: "Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink: A Brief History of Noise in Art and Music"

Jeff Siemers

PhD Candidate

Paper at SECAC:"The Subversive Event: Overturning Institutionalized Identities through Difference"

Neely Patton

Cohort '16

Paper at SECAC: "Filtering Art, Filtering Self: Through the Lens of the Selfie"