By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Eva Kekou: In your statement you define yourself as a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on sculpture, sound, space and the participant. Can you elaborate on this and tell us how you understand multidisciplinary work and what you would like to express through various artistic means? Cara-Ann Simpson: For […]
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Announcing 4Humanities@CSUN Mini-Documentary Backpack Project
By Kristin Cornelius This project facilitates the making of short, mini-documentaries that promote humanities scholarship by giving a narrative voice to the research process. Each mini-doc will depict the process of doing humanities research through interviews with students and scholars as they work on their scholarly activities. These short, 5-7 minute films will either be: […]
Michael Bérubé’s “The Humanities, Unraveled”: The Ongoing Crisis in Humanities Graduate Education
Michael Bérubé’s moving piece “The Humanities, Unraveled,” published today in The Chronicle of Higher Education, considers the state of graduate education in the humanities. Bérubé describes this state as “a seamless garment of crisis” that makes it “exceptionally difficult to discuss any one aspect of graduate education in isolation.” In a discussion that ranges from […]
Interview with Patrick Lichty
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Our interview this week is with Patrick Lichty, who, among many things, is a co-founder of the performance art group Second Front, an animator for the activist group The Yes Men, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago. We talked about art, Second Life, […]
Public/Not Public: Making the Humanities Count (UCHRI Panel)
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 from 5 – 7 pm PST, the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) will host a panel discussion entitled “Public/Not Public: Making the Humanities Count” on the public university in an era of dwindling public support and the place of the humanities in the university today. The panelists include […]
Interview with Anna Dumitriu
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Today’s interview is with Anna Dumitriu, a British artist based in Brighton, UK. Eva Kekou: “Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science with a strong interest in the ethical issues raised by emerging technologies.” Could you elaborate on your artist’s statement it a bit more? Anna […]
Interview with Curator Pavel Sedlák
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Pavel Sedlák, deputy director/curator at Ciant in Prague, Czech Republic is my interviewee. Pavel was born 1977 in the Czech Republic, and he studied philosophy and the philosophy of art in university. He co-initiated a number of projects in art and science internationally and locally. He is now based […]