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The Department of the History of Art and Architecture is hosting a research symposium in the Gerlinger Lounge (201) this November 16 - 17 from 8 am to 5:30 pm.
8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture is hosting a research symposium in the Gerlinger Lounge (201) this November 16 - 17 from 8 am to 5:30 pm.
5:00–7:00 p.m.
In an era where wood is being revisited for its sustainable potentials, this talk will revolve around formal, spatial, and material explorations that attempt to produce new forms of knowledge around this medium.
Nader Tehrani
For his contributions to architecture as an art, Tehrani is the recipient of The American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States. He is also the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Design, and the Design Visionary by Cooper Hewitt and the Smithsonian Museum of Design National Design awards. Tehrani is Founding Principal of NADAAA, an interdisciplinary practice with a body of work in infrastructure, urbanism, architecture, and installations. Tehrani is also the former Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. The works of Nader Tehrani have been widely exhibited at MOMA, LA MOCA and ICA Boston.
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Meet with Counseling Services Rachel Barloon at Peterson 203 or click here: https://zoom.us/j/98335445813
Let’s Talk is a service that provides easy access to free, informal, and confidential one-on-one consultation with a Counseling Services staff member. See our website for six additional Let’s Talk days/times offered throughout the week.
Let’s Talk is especially helpful for students who:
Have a specific concern and would like to consult with someone about it. Would like on-the-spot consultation rather than ongoing counseling. Would like to consult with a CS staff member about what actual therapy looks like. Would like to meet with one of our CS identity-based specialists. Have a concern about a friend or family member and would like some ideas about what to do.How does Let’s Talk work?
Let’s Talk will be offered via Zoom and/or in satellite locations across campus. As a drop-in service, there is no need to schedule an appointment and no paperwork to be completed. Students are seen individually on a first-come, first-served basis at the times listed below. There may be a wait in the Zoom waiting room if the Let’s Talk staff member is meeting with another student. Please wait and we will be with you as soon as we can. Let’s Talk appointments are brief (usually between 15-30 minutes) and are meant to be used on an as-needed basis.
3:00–5:30 p.m.
One slide and three minutes. That's all that graduate student competitors can use during this lively part of the Graduate Research Forum taking place on Thursday, November 21, 2024. This is a great opportunity for competitors to hone their presentation skills, network early in the academic year, and get a chance to qualify to represent the UO at national and international 3MT competitions. (And win cash prizes!). Winners of the UO 3MT competition win cash prizes (First place wins $500; second place $300; third place $200). The first place competitor will be eligible to participate in the regional competition hosted by the Western Association of Graduate Schools in mid-March 2025.
Come support graduate student presenters as they compete in the preliminary rounds between 3pm and 4:30pm at the Crater Lake Rooms and in the Diamond Lake Room. Then, join us to watch the six finalists in Crater Lake Room North!
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
In 2024, Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought opened the exhibition, Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN--the first comprehensive retrospective for the Louisiana-born artist, Tina Girouard (1946-2020). Moving between genres and geographies, Girouard invested objecthood with meaning through ritual, performance, role-playing, and community participation. From the 1970s until her death, Girouard played a galvanizing role in the founding and development of communities and organizations, including the Anarchitecture Group, the interdisciplinary cohort of 112 Greene Street, FOOD restaurant, The Kitchen, P.S. 1, the Festival International de la Louisiane, and as a collaborator in artist communities in Louisiana, New York, and Haiti. Her practice indelibly shaped community-engaged, feminist, craft, textile, performance, and video art of the last century and invested New York’s avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s with ritual and vernacular knowledge of the American and global south. And yet, Girouard’s practice has been largely erased from canonical histories of the avant-garde. This lecture places Girouard and her fellow female collaborators at the center of major philosophical shifts in postwar American art, and points to the archives as a site of her defiant, radical praxis of care.
Jordan Amirkhani is Curator and Head of Research and Project Development at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought—a non-profit organization based in New Orleans, Louisiana committed to research and publishing, exhibitions and convenings on art of the global diaspora. Prior to taking on these roles, Amirkhani held academic positions at American University in Washington, DC, and the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN. Recent curatorial projects include Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN (2024); Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul (2023); Troy Montes Michie: Rock of Eye (2022); Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind (2021), co-curated with Andrea Andersson; and the2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction. Amirkhani has written scholarship and essays on the work of historical and contemporary artists such as Tina Girouard, Helen Cammock, Wendy Red Star, Sheida Soleimani, Soheila Sokhanvari, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Vesna Pavlović, and the British collective Art + Practice. Her work has been featured in many national and international publications, including: The Paris Review Daily, Artforum, Art in America, Baltimore Arts, Boston Art Review, X-Tra, Mousse, and Burnaway.org. Her emphasis on contextualizing contemporary art and artists working in the American South garnered her a prestigious Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation “Short-Form” Writing Grant in 2017 and three nominations for The Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
This lecture is made possible by the Critical Conversations program, a partnership between the Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon Department of Art's Center for Art Research with Reed College’s Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Portland State University.
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Center for Art Research Exhibition
On view in the UO Design Library Camilla Leach Room, from November 22 – December 6 Artist Talk: Friday, November 22 at noon Hours: Monday- Friday from 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Metrica is an installation that delves into the psychological breakdown of a building management system. As the room’s lights switch on and off at irregular intervals, a receipt printer emits transcripts of an ongoing dialogue, one that resembles a psychotherapy session mandated by the system’s employer. Referring to the contents of state archives—including the earliest recorded land ownership claims to the exhibition site—the system interprets its own lighting decisions, regurgitating and rationalizing fragments from these official histories as if they were its own memories. The surrounding reading room becomes an extension of this psychic, literary struggle, with a mise-en-scene that suggests states of deep storage: certain books are ceremonially sealed and packed, while others seem to have lost their sense of stability as the images on their dust jackets slide off at oblique angles.
Metrica Vol. 1 was exhibited in the library of Rupert (Lithuania) for the Earth Bonds symposium (2023). Metrica Vol. 2 was exhibited in the library of the Headlands Center for the Arts (2024).
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter‘s (USA/NL) collaborative site-adapted videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings intercept infrastructural platforms and linguistic architectures from official worlds. They have exhibited work in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (BR); 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (IT); Msheireb Museums (QT); The Renaissance Society (US); The Arts Club of Chicago (US); The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, US); Ditch Projects (US); and Contemporary Art Brussels (BE). Their work has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (US), the National Endowment for the Arts (US), the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation (US), and the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (NL); they have participated in residences at Rupert (LT), the Banff Centre (CN), the Jan van Eyck Academie (NL), and the Headlands Center for the Arts (US); and their work has been reviewed by Artforum (US), Revista (BR), Agenda Magazine (BR), and Hyperallergic (US), and published with Mousse Publishing (IT).
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Center for Art Research Exhibition
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter: Metrica Vol. 3
On view in the UO Design Library Camilla Leach Room from November 22 – December 6
Artist Talk: Friday, November 22 at noon Hours: Monday- Friday from 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
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Center for Art Research Exhibition
On view at the UO School of Art + Design 510 Oak Building from November 23- December 6, 2025 Reception: Saturday, November 23 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. First Friday ArtWalk: Friday, December 6 from 5:00- 7:00 p.m. Hours: Saturday- Sunday from noon- 4:00 p.m.
Metrica is an installation that delves into the psychological breakdown of a building management system. As the room’s lights switch on and off at irregular intervals, a receipt printer emits transcripts of an ongoing dialogue, one that resembles a psychotherapy session mandated by the system’s employer. Referring to the contents of state archives—including the earliest recorded land ownership claims to the exhibition site—the system interprets its own lighting decisions, regurgitating and rationalizing fragments from these official histories as if they were its own memories. The surrounding reading room becomes an extension of this psychic, literary struggle, with a mise-en-scene that suggests states of deep storage: certain books are ceremonially sealed and packed, while others seem to have lost their sense of stability as the images on their dust jackets slide off at oblique angles.
Metrica Vol. 1 was exhibited in the library of Rupert (Lithuania) for the Earth Bonds symposium (2023). Metrica Vol. 2 was exhibited in the library of the Headlands Center for the Arts (2024).
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter‘s (USA/NL) collaborative site-adapted videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings intercept infrastructural platforms and linguistic architectures from official worlds. They have exhibited work in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (BR); 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (IT); Msheireb Museums (QT); The Renaissance Society (US); The Arts Club of Chicago (US); The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, US); Ditch Projects (US); and Contemporary Art Brussels (BE). Their work has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (US), the National Endowment for the Arts (US), the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation (US), and the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (NL); they have participated in residences at Rupert (LT), the Banff Centre (CN), the Jan van Eyck Academie (NL), and the Headlands Center for the Arts (US); and their work has been reviewed by Artforum (US), Revista (BR), Agenda Magazine (BR), and Hyperallergic (US), and published with Mousse Publishing (IT).
Image caption: Metrica Vol. 1 (2023) from Rupert, in Vilnius, LT
5:00–7:00 p.m.
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter: Metrica Vol. 3 Reception: Saturday, November 23 from 5:00- 7:00 p.m.
On view at the UO School of Art + Design 510 Oak Building from November 23- December 6 Hours: Saturday- Sunday from noon- 4:00 p.m.
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Join us for a Grad Research Funding Fair! Explore campus funding opportunities to support your graduate research!
Discover:
- Funding options for thesis, dissertation, and research projects
- Eligibility criteria and application processes
- Tips for crafting compelling proposals
Open to all University of Oregon graduate students. Contact cllas@uoregon.edu for questions. We look forward to seeing you there!
5:00–7:00 p.m.
A pop-up shop put on by the Winter ARTD 463 Communication Design class at 510 Oak Street on December 3rd from 5-7 PM! This is your chance to buy one-of-a-kind, student-made t-shirts that will never be available again for just $15! Lines are usually out the door for this thang so make sure you get there early to ensure you get the best selection of our shirts! No tickets or anything required-- just show up and get excited for GRUX!
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Why YOU should come to this Expo...
You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world. You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!). You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply. You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about. Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner.WHO'S COMING? Find your career fit with over 70+ employers comprised of private industry; public, educational, and non-profit organizations; local government, the federal government, law enforcement, and military--ALL on campus and excited to share more with you about their organization and early career talent opportunities. Open to students from ALL majors, classifications, and identities. Every expo looks a little different so come each term to keep exploring and expanding your career opportunities!
WHAT NEXT? Register for the Expo on Handshake today to learn about all the companies coming, and positions of interest you can be researching. We'll also send you tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo, including Career Readiness Week workshops like our Resume Extravaganza so you can have a great resume to hand to potential employers!
The University Career Center thanks Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Winter Career Readiness Week events and workshops, and Techtronic Industries (TTI) for sponsoring the Expo!
For a full list of Winter Career Readiness Week (January 24-31) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events
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Why YOU should come to this Expo...
You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world. You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!). You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply. You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about. Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner. You want a FREE professional headshot! Dress to impress and get a headshot taken you can use on your Linkedin!WHO'S COMING? Find your career fit with over 70+ employers comprised of private industry; public, educational, and non-profit organizations; local government, the federal government, law enforcement, and military--ALL on campus and excited to share more with you about their organization and early career talent opportunities. Open to students from ALL majors, classifications, and identities. Every expo looks a little different so come each term to keep exploring and expanding your career opportunities!
WHAT NEXT? Register for the Expo on Handshake today to learn about all the companies coming, and positions of interest you can be researching. We'll also send you tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo, including Career Readiness Week workshops like our Resume Extravaganza so you can have a great resume to hand to potential employers!
The University Career Center gives a special thanks to Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Spring Career Readiness Week events and workshops!
For a full list of Spring Career Readiness Week (April 11–18) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events