SPRING 2020University of Miami AMS350HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SOUTH FLORIDAMapping Miami’s Contemporary Culture WEDNESDAYS, 3:35pm-6:05pmMerrick 214FLecturer: Cathy ByrdEMAIL: cxb1184@miami.eduOffice hours by appointment Once Upon a…
Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami in 2019. Locust Projects gives over the entire space to his site-specific installation—a world inspired by comic books, toys, horror films and animations.
Come with us on a road trip from Texas to New Mexico and back. We take to the highway to find out how remote wide open spaces of the American Southwest inform and inspire art and design, curating and filmmaking.
On a starry night in September 2015, we meet British sound artist Oliver Beer in Istanbul, for the acoustic experience of his composition Call to Sound, inside a 400-year old Turkish bath. In 2019, Beer brings a hybrid sound project to The Met Breuer, in New York. His Orchestral Vessel features an installation that summons sound from objects in the Museum collection and a program of live performances.
What does “creative resilience” mean for curators in the year 2019? One evening in April 2019, we decide to find out. Setting up a temporary recording studio in a poolside cabana, at a Miami Beach hotel, we sit down with a dozen curators and cultural producers to document their stories. In this marathon recording session, you’ll hear curatorial strategies for engaging new communities, increasing the visibility of underrepresented artists, and addressing some of today’s most pressing social, political and environmental challenges
Today’s conversation is the first in our new Playlist series. We’re inviting artists, curators, architects, writers, filmmakers, cultural producers and other listeners to introduce episodes from their playlists. Here, curator Sasha Dees introduces Surinamese-Dutch artist Remy Jungerman.
Globally engaged curators talk about themes we’ll explore during the 2019 IKT Congress in Miami. Ground zero for sea level rise, Miami is the ideal context for our conversation on how art and visual culture are changing public perception of today’s climate crisis.
From Port of Spain, Trinidad, we live stream a special radio program about the significance of digital media as a contemporary cultural space in the…
What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights and…
Why search for the Arctic winter in South Florida? Dancer choreographer Jenny Larsson enlivens our understanding of how the Far North’s deep cold is essential to the…
