Event
Critical Information Graduate Student Conference
MFA Art Writing
132 West 21st Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10011An interdisciplinary graduate student conference examining the contemporary dialogue between art, media and society. The conference provides a critical forum for current scholarship exploring the juncture of media, theory, criticism and the visual arts, and showcases an international roster of graduate student participants from a wide cross-section of disciplines who will present papers and projects on the following six panels: “Fragmentation and Trauma,” “The Art and Poetics of Technical Production,” “Border / Media / Bodies,” “Mediating Space,” “Interdisciplinarity” and “The Disappearing Identity.” Boris Groys, distinguished professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University and senior research fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts, delivers the keynote address, “Art on the Internet.” Presented by MFA Art Criticism and Writing.