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Emerging Curators Retreat 2019 at Otis College of Art and Design

OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Emerging Curators Retreat in Los Angeles Jamillah James and Meg Cranston, Emerging Curators Retreat 2018. Photo: Paulina Samborska. Priority deadline:  January 30, 2019 Otis College of Art and Design 9045 Lincoln Blvd 90045 Los Angeles, CA www.otis.edu Instagram  /  Facebook  /  Twitter  /  YouTube The two-week  Emerging Curators Retreat  focuses on Los Angeles’ international art scene with powerhouse visiting curators. Perfect for emerging and diverse individuals looking to advance their artistic and curatorial skills. Through a series of talks, conversations, and presentations with professional curators, artists, and thinkers, and site visits to museums, galleries, studios, and alternative spaces, participants will be able to engage with the local art community and advance their careers as curators. This retreat focuses specifically on the Los Angeles’ art scene while partic...
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CalArts: upcoming lecture events and call for applications

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California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)

Public events and call for applications for
MA Aesthetics and Politics program

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Apply for fall 2014: calarts.edu/financial-aid
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The MA Aesthetics and Politics Program offers a one-year degree that encourages interrogations of the arts and politics in an expanded field. Students specialize in Critical Theory, Global Studies, or Media and Urban Studies and get up close and personal with key contemporary artists and thinkers.

Faculty: Arne De Boever (director), Douglas Kearney, Chandra Khan, Norman Klein, Martín Plot, James Wiltgen

Recent visiting speakers: Étienne Balibar, Jodi Dean, Diedrich Diederichsen, Catherine Malabou, Fred Moten, Sianne Ngai, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Financial aid packages are available in the form of scholarships, grants, research assistantships, and teaching assistantships. For general questions, or to schedule an information session, please contact Admissions Counselor Seth Blake at sblake@calarts.edu or T +1 661 253 7716.

Please join us for these upcoming events:

WHAP! lecture series:

Santiago Zabala, "Emergency Aesthetics," with Ashley Hunt as respondent
Friday, February 28, 8pm 
West Hollywood Public Library, Common Room
Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor in the Department of History of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. Ashley Hunt is an artist and activist who uses video, photography, mapping, and writing to engage social movements, modes of learning and public discourse.

Pascal Gielen, "Creativity and Other Fundamentalisms," with Matias Viegener as respondent
Friday, April 25, 8pm
West Hollywood Public Library, Common Room
Pascal Gielen is professor of sociology of the arts at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and directs the research group Arts in Society. Matias Viegener is the author of 2500 Random Things About Me Too, a book of experimental non-fiction that was hailed as the first book composed on and through Facebook.

Visit our website for a more detailed program.


Interventions lecture series:

Fred Moten
March 18, 7pm
BB4 (Butler Building), CalArts
Known as a compelling and brilliant speaker and performer, Fred Moten works at the intersection of performance, poetry, and critical theory.

Ian Bogost
April 1, 7pm
BB4 (Butler Building), CalArts
Ian Bogost is an award-winning author and game designer whose work focuses on video games and computational media.

More information on the Interventions lecture series is available here. 

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