Doctoral Defense by PHD candidate Kim Phillips. This study considers three temporary, site-specific installations that for brief moments haunted such sites in Berlin during the first volatile years after 1990. Behind the mask of new architecture rapidly transforming Berlin’s visage in the years following Germany’s reunification in 1990 lie profound anxieties over the nature and […]
Final Doctoral Oral Exam – Colin Brent Epp “The Education of Rosalind Krauss, Peter Eisenman, and Other Americans: Why the Fantasy of Postmodernism Still Remains”
Final Doctoral Oral Examination – Dorothy Barenscott “Troubling Modernity: Spatial Politics, Technologies of Seeing, and the Crisis of the City and the World’s Exhibition in Fin de Siecle Budapest”
Thesis Title: Aestheticizing Mobilities: Art Deco and the Fashioning of Interwar Public Cultures Art Deco, as a mode of design, was a response to the conditions of post-World War I modernity, including the advent of “mass” culture, a desire for a return to order, and an intense interest in mobility—physical/geographical, conceptual, temporal, and social. This […]
Wall Wednesdays Afternoon Series. 4pm. Manuel Piña Baldoquín’s work is concerned with the tensions between power and individual freedom. His presentation will take the form of an artist talk. Starting from earlier work – created in Havana – to his current art projects and pedagogic practice; he will discuss the possibilities and challenges of politically-oriented […]
Michael Windover Doctoral Defense 
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