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I am honored to be a student of the first class of IDSVA. It is a groundbreaking program
that will change the way we look at the American artist
in relation to the international art world.
~ Heather Dunn
IDSVA Faculty include internationally recognized scholars from Europe, the UK, South Africa, South America, Canada, and the USA.
CORE FACULTY are appointed to teach residency orientations, independent studies, and semester-long seminars on an on-going basis. Core Faculty are senior faculty and serve on academic committees and as student advisors.
George Smith is President of IDSVA and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture. Most recently he has contributed to the collection of essays entitled Artists with PhDs, ed., James Elkins (New Academia 2009).
Seth Kim-Cohen is Director of the School and Assistant Professor of Art and Theory. Professor Kim-Cohen holds a PhD from the London Consortium, University of London (UK). He has taught art history and theory at Yale University and at Pratt Institute. His work has been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Tate Modern, and Whitechapel Gallery in London; PS 122, Issue Project Room, and Chez Bushwick in New York; and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany. Professor Kim-Cohen’s research addresses
issues of post-representational art, including social-based practice, sonic art, conceptual practice and the interactions of art and philosophy. He has published two books, In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Continuum, 2009), and One Reason To Live:Conversations About Music (Errant Bodies, 2006). His essays and articles have appeared in Artforum, Art Review, the Chicago Reader, Columbia Magazine, Pitchfork, and Pop Stock. Professor Kim-Cohen has released eight albums of experimental music, curated exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe, and created and hosted two radio programs on London’s Resonance FM. Currently, Professor Kim-Cohen directs Independent Study research and teaches “Form, Being, and Ideology,” “Toward an Ethico-Aesthetics,” and two dissertation preparation seminars.
Denise Carvalho is Assistant Professor of Art and Cultural Studies. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from UC Davis, an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Hunter, and a BFA from SVA. She has published widely in art magazines and journals such as Sculpture, Flash Art, Art Papers NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Cover, Review, NY Arts, and After Image, as well as in many Brazilian and European publications. She has curated exhibitions and exhibited her own work throughout the United States and internationally. Her show, "Holy Holes: Absolute Stalls," was recently exhibited at the Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Laura Graveline is the Library Director for IDSVA. She earned her MLIS from the University of Rhode Island, and a BA from the University of Massachusetts in Art History, with a minor in Studio Art. Her reviews are published in Art Libraries Journal, and Art Documentation, and her most recent articles are "Books as Art - 20 Years of Handmade Books from Cuba's Ediciones Vigía," Art Documentation, 2006, and the forthcoming "Uncommon Partners: Facilitating Creative Collaborations in the Arts Across Campus," College & Undergraduate Libraries, 2009. Laura is also the Visual Arts Librarian for Dartmouth College.
VISITING FACULTY are internationally recognized scholars appointed to conduct residency orientations, teach special seminars, give lecture series, or hold symposia on special topics. Visiting Faculty hold limited appointments for the duration of their assignment and generally do not serve on academic committees.
Ètienne Balibar Author of major texts including We, the People of Europe? and Politics and the Other Scene, Ètienne Balibar is France’s leading Marxist philosopher. Along with American philosopher, John Rajchman, he will lecture in Paris on the question of the contemporary (June 2010).
John Rajchman is Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, and author of The Deleuze Connections (MIT 2000). Professor Rajchman presented a 2010 Harlem Symposium lecture on art history and the contemporary and will continue his remarks in June, during the Paris 2010 residency.
Stephen Greenblatt Probably best known for his contribution to the development of New Historicism, Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. A world leading Renaissance scholar, he will lecture at Spannocchia Castle in June 2010 on the transition from medieval to Renaissance cultural consciousness. Thereafter, second-year students will depart for Milan, to study and crititique da Vinci's The Last Supper within the context of Professor Greenblatt's remarks at
Spannocchia.
Lynette Hunter is Professor of Performance and Performance History at UC Davis and Director of Graduate Studies in Performance Studies at UC Davis. In 2007 & 2008 she conducted the First Year Intensive Orientation in Key Terms in Philosophy and Theory, at Spannocchia, Italy. Professor Hunter is a leading expert in the emerging study of PhD programs for visual artists and recently edited (with Shannon Rose Riley) a collection of essays on the subject, Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research:
Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies (Palgrave 2009).
Charles Altieri, recently Director of the Campus Arts Collaborative, UC Berkeley, is Professor of Literature, UC Berkeley. He lectured on the subject of modernism at the Museum of Modern Art during the 2008 Winter Intensive and led the Second Year Seminar on Philosophy in Relation to Art Practice at the 2008 Summer Intensive. Professor Altieri has served on the IDSVA Advisory Board as chief curricular advisor since 2006. He was instrumental in the original design of the IDSVA courses, curriculum, and general program.
Paul Armstrong is former Dean of the College, Brown University, where he is currently Professor of English. Books include The Phenomenology of Henry James (U of North Carolina Press, 1983), The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford (Cornell UP, 1987), Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (U of North Carolina Press, 1990), and Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form (Cornell UP, 2005). Professor Armstrong directs the IDSVA Dissertation Orientation Residency, hosted at Brown University.
Howard Caygill is Professor of Cultural History, Goldsmith's, University of London. Professor Caygill is an internationally recognized scholar with a special interest in visual culture. His books include Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience, A Kant Dictionary, and Levinas and the Political. Professor Caygill lectures annually at Spannocchia Castle on subjects ranging from Kant & Hegel to Levinas and contemporary photography. He serves on the IDSVA Advisory Board.
Sharon Hecker is an independent art historian and curator. Based in Milan, Professor Hecker is currently writing a book on the philosophy and psychology of materiality in art, which will include issues around the restoration of da Vinci's "The Last Supper." Her most recently curated exhibition was shown at the Sackler Museum, Harvard University. During the 2007 Summer Intensive, she lectured to IDSVA students at the Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Her topic was the 1990 Jenny Holzer Venice Biennale Exhibition at the American Pavilion, which she installed. Since summer 2008, she has lectured to second-year students in Milan on
the The Last Supper.
David Driskell was elected to the National Academy in 2000 and honored at the University of Maryland by the establishment of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora in 2001. He lectured on his co-authored book on the Harlem Renaissance at the January 2009 Harlem Symposium on "Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization" and also lectured at the 2009 Summer Intensive Residency at Spannocchia Castle. David Driskell received the IDSVA Prize in summer
2009.
Ewa Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Humanities Institute, SUNY Buffalo, and author of An Ethics of Dissensus. She lectured at the 2009 Harlem Symposium on "Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization" and serves on the IDSVA Advisory Board.
James Elkins is E. C. Chadborne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recognized as one of the world's preeminent art historians, Professor Elkins has conducted extensive research on the question of PhDs for visual artists and recently edited a collection of essays on the subject, entitled Artists with PhDs (New Academia 2009). He lectured at the summer 2007 Spannocchia Castle Residency in Tuscany and will lecture at the 2011 Harlem Symposium on "Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization."
SYMPOSIA & SPECIAL LECTURES are offered by internationally recognized scholars, curators, and artists on topics that are not necessarily tied to particular course curricula and serve to broaden the scope of academic discussion.
Liam Gillick represented Germany in the 2009 Venice Biennale. He exhibited “Three perspectives and a short scenario” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2009/10 and at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam in 2008. As part of the January 2010 Harlem Symposium on "Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization," he interviewed with Seth Kim-Cohen at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, New York.
Nancy Spector is Director of Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim Museum, where she hosted first-year students during the 2008 Winter Intensive. She lectured on the American Pavilion Exhibition at the 2007 Venice Biennale, of which she was curator. She also lectured on the Richard Prince exhibition, which was currently showing at the Guggenheim and of which she is curator. Her many books on the subject of contemporary art have received wide critical acclaim.
Fred Wilson, MacArthur Fellow, US representative to the Venice Biennale, 2003. He gave a talk at the 2008 Harlem Symposium on "Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization."
Bill Brown, Co-editor, Critical Inquiry and Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago. Books include A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (Chicago, 2003) and The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephan Crane, and the Economics of Play (Harvard 1996). Professor Brown gave a special lecture at the 2009 Harlem Symposium on "Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization."
James Carpenter, New York artist and architect whose projects include the glass exterior of the recently completed Tower Number Seven, World Trade Center. In January 2009 Jamie hosted IDSVA students at his New York studio, where he spoke on "Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization" in terms of architecture.
Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University, and author of the forthcoming Kin and Kind: Genres and Media as a World Wide Web. She presented at the January 2010 Harlem Symposium on "Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization."
Robert E. Steele is Executive Director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Steele presented at the January 2010 Harlem Symposium on "Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization."
DISSERTATION DIRECTORS are appointed according to fields of expertise and selected from the Core Faculty, Visiting Faculty, and from faculty worldwide. The chair of the Dissertation Committee oversees selection of dissertation directors and committee members.
The PhD for working art professionals
To arrange for an informational interview contact Amy Curtis at:
info@idsva.org
or 207-879-8757
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