-
This call for submissions is open to current U of A Department of Art and Design graduate students and senior undergraduate students.
Quotationalism is a call for visual work to question, meditate on and rework the problem of visual quotation. It will provide a forum for response to and redefinition of the objects that will be on view in the first exhibition of the China’s Imperial Modern series -- itself an exploration of the place of the copy in the painter’s practice in imperial China. Both shows will run concurrently at the University of Alberta during The Works.
-
Taken in the University of Alberta’s Museum of Zoology and Paris' La Musée Fragonard, these large-format photographs of pickled animals and their display settings is driven by questions about how we display and discuss animals. Maria Whiteman examines the rapidly-changing world of scientific classification where very old ideas—complicated hierarchical cate- gories built on careful observation—are being reexamined in an age of genetic catalogues.
-
The Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM Campus) and the University of Alberta have joined to develop a program called “The Academic Leaders of the University of Alberta at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara”. This program enhances the quality of ITESM students’ academic experience and it reaffirms ITESM’s commitment to developing and sharing knowledge within the university and in the greater community. The program consists in identifying prominent professors at the University of Alberta and inviting them to the Tecnológico de Monterrey campus in order to share their knowledge and experience with the students and professors in different programs.
- »
More news