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Art Wed Jul 09 2008
Art Theorists Dock in Chicago for Week-Long Institute
The Stone Summer Theory Institute, a week-long seminar on contemporary art, comes to the School of the Art Institute from July 13-19. Each year the series brings more than 30 top scholars, critics and artists to the city, and the entire event is transcribed and published in book form. This year, the institute asks participants to dwell on the bedrock of art-making: "What makes visual objects different from written ones? What are images? What are pictures? The art world depends on these ideas, and yet they are rarely theorized."
Several lectures and roundtable discussions are open to the public, so art-smarties should get out their calendars and pencil in talks like, "What Does Seeing an Image Mean?" More info here.
spudart / July 10, 2008 1:14 PM
Hey there! Thanks for writing about this. It sounds very interesting. Here is a direct link to their calendar: http://www.imagehistory.org/texts/2008/2008-schedule-public.pdf