Events

Past Events

2021

Feb 03, 2021, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM | FarBar: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
In collaboration with the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, a FarBar conversation on crossover applications and understandings of optics within filmmaking, physics, and neurobiology with artist and filmmaker Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, physicist Sidney Nagel (UChicago), and Ph.D. candidate in neurobiology Jennifer Ding (UChicago).
Thursdays, 5:30 pm, April 8 – May 27
Physics & Contemporary Architecture Guest Lecture Series, Spring ‘21
These 8 public lectures are part of the course PHSC11800 Physics & Contemporary Architecture at the University of Chicago and they are open to anyone interested. All lectures take place on Thursdays at 5:30 pm CST and they will be presented online as live video conferences.

2020

April 2, 6 pm | Ellie Ga: Film screening and discussion
This event was canceled due to Covid-19 restrictions.

The Arts, Science, + Culture Initiative and the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts are pleased to welcome artist Ellie Ga, who will present a screening version of her video installation Gyres 1-3. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist about her artistic trajectory and working method.

2019

February 11, 6pm | Slop Chest: Notes on Trade, a talk by Hannah Burnett (PhD Candidate, Anthropology) and Tucker Rae-Grant (Artist, MFA '14), with UChicago professors Shannon Lee Dawdy (Anthropology) and Matthew Jesse Jackson (Art History; Chair, Dept. of Visual Arts).
May 8, 5pm | Graduate Collaboration Final Presentations and Exhibition
The Arts, Science + Culture initiative invites you to the final presentations and exhibitions of the 2018–19 Graduate Collaboration Grantees. This year’s grants were awarded to six collaborative teams of graduate students from UChicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
October 24, 2019, 7pm | Liam Young: Film Screening and Talk. A talk and film screening with speculative architect Liam Young, presenting works that move among the realms of architecture, film, and fiction.
October 24, 2019, 7:30pm | Hear in Now, a performance by the collaborative trio of original jazz-tinged avant-classical compositions.

2018

January 25, 5pm | Polluted Wildlife: Reconstructing the Anthropocene in the Museum, a public talk by Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay.
February 22–23 | Wang Bing's Crude Oil, a two-part film screening and discussion
May 9, 5pm | Arts, Science + Culture Graduate Collaboration Grant Final Presentations
Oct 18–19 | Disciplines of Experiment, Symposium/Practicum
Nov 8, 7pm | Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Experimental Music Series

2017

February 2, 7pm | Containment, film screening and Q&A with filmmakers—Peter Galison and Robb Moss.
February 3, 3-5pm | Roundtable discussion with Containment filmmaker Robb Moss and a panel of scholars and scientists.
May 10, 5pm | Arts, Science + Culture 2016–17 Graduate Collaboration Grant final presentations.
October 3, 6pm | Dan Peterman: Slipping and Jamming: Variable Installation of Z-Forms, Opening event
October 4, 6pm | Matter / Structure / Architecture: Round Table Discussion with Tomás Saraceno
October 5, 6pm, Chicago Cultural Center | In Conversation: Tomás Saraceno and Yasmil Raymond
October 12, 7pm | Ingrid Laubrock's Serpentines
November 9, 6pm | Dan Peterman and Heinrich Jaeger in Conversation
November 30, 7pm | Simon Starling: Film Screening and Artist Talk
December 2, 7pm | Alumni & Student Music Composers: Chicago Pile-1 Commemoration

2016

March 15, 3:30pm | Closed Loop: 3D Printing Workshop with Keeley Haftner and Will McFadden
April 15, 4:30pm | Lecture: Stefan Helmreich on The Water Next Time: Changing Wavescapes in the Anthropocene, South and North
April 27, 4:30pm | Expose Yourself! Molecular Movement, Magnifying Identity, Syntax & Songbirds
May 4, 5pm | Arts, Science + Culture 2015–16 Graduate Collaboration Grant final presentations.
May 13, 7pm | Screening: Un lac (A Lake), and Philippe Grandrieux in conversation with Raymond Bellour
May 14, 2pm | Screening: White Epilepsy with Philippe Grandrieux
May 14, 7pm | Screening: Malgré la nuit with Philippe Grandrieux
November 9 | Lecture: Johannes Goebel, founding director of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York

2015

January 15, 5pm | Lecture: Carolyn L. Kane on Lillian Schwartz, Experimental Color, and Digital Art at Bell Laboratories, 1965–1984
April 19, 7pm | Lecture: Michael Light on Gardening the Human Park: Earth in the Anthropocene
May 5, 5pm | Arts, Science + Culture 2014–15 Graduate Collaboration Grant final presentations
May 21, 2–4pm | Arts, Science + Culture Compositions: Syntax & Songbirds, a composition for electronics and oboe; poetry reading by Hannah Brooks-Motl; presentation on the documentary film Fiction Addiction
June 4, 6pm | Lecture by Laura Kurgan: Seeing Through Data
October 27, 7pm | A Conversation with Thomas Hirschhorn and Yasmil Raymond on Gramsci Monument, A Living Sculpture
November 12, 5pm | Lecture: Giuliana Bruno – Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media

2014

January 17, 6pm | Screening and Panel discussion: How to Survive a Plague, directed by David France.
February 14, 7pm | Talk and Screening: Eddo Stern's Games on Stage
Jan 27–Feb 17, 2014, Mondays 7pm | Film Series: Death by Cinema, programmed by artist and DOVA faculty member, Karthik Pandian. Films included: Amour (2012); Death by Hanging (1968); Sirius Remembered (1959), The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (1971); Taste of Cherry (1997).
March 25–June 20 | Imaging/Imagining the Human Body in Anatomical Representation, A multi-venue exhibition at UChicago
April 3, 6:30pm | Screening and discussion: Your Inner Fish
April 10, 5pm | Panel Discussion: The Art and Science of Urbanism
April 26, 9am | Fabricating Color: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Color and Method

2013

May 5, 6pm | Film Screening and Discussion: Pandora's Promise
April 21, 1pm | Science on the Screen: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

2012