The Diana Cooper Memorial Lecture Series
First inaugural lecture honouring:
The Role of L
ibrarians in Intellectual Inquiry
This talk will examine the work and
archives of two contemporary artists:
Felipe Ehrenberg and Lynn Hersh
man. Both artists consider their archives\, and the associated documents a
nd multimedia objects therein\, to be works of art. Ehrenberg\, a self-ide
ntified neologist\, sees his archive as a work of Conceptual art and as a p
erformance piece. Hershman envisions her archive to be a collage of time a
nd as a site rife with interactive possibilities that came to fruition with
her creation of an online work in the virtual world called Second Life. Dr
awing from her experience with the archives\, interviews with the artists\,
and her knowledge of archival practices\, Kam explores the multifaceted re
lationships between the artists and their archives.
D. Vanessa Kam ea rned Master’s Degrees in Art History and in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a Kress Fellow in Art Lib rarianship at Yale University Arts Library in 2000\, and worked as Associat e Art Librarian and Exhibits Manager at the Stanford University Libraries f rom 2000-2005. She is currently Head of Fine Arts\, UBC Library.
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