Wednesday, January 8, 2014


Repurposing the Wunderkammer Lectures and Screenings 


Lecture: SERGIO VEGA, "A Summer Garden: Reflections on Natural History and Colonialism” 
Tuesday, January 21, 6PM, School of Art + Art History, free.

RISK Cinema Screenings:
CAMILLE HENROT, “The Strife of Love in a Dream,” 2011, 11 min. 37 sec.
BEN RIVERS, “The Creation as We Saw It,” UK/Vanuatu, 2012, 14 min.
BEN RUSSELL AND BEN RIVERS, “A Spell to Ward off the Darkness,” France-Estonia, 2013, 95 min.
Tuesday, February 11, 7PM, Harn Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art,
*Organized and Funded by RISK Cinema.

Visiting Artist Lecture: EUGENE PARNELL, “Lost Naturalists, Bigfoot, and Suspect Specimens”
Thursday, February 27, 6PM, School of Art + Art History, free.

Visiting Artist Lecture: ANDREW YANG, "Even a Rock Can be a Joke: Ambiguities in Art, Nature, and Knowledge"
Thursday, March 13, 6PM, School of Art + Art History, free.

Visiting Artist Lecture: MARK DION, "Collecting Collections: Reinventing the Cabinet of Curiosity"
*Funded by Creative Campus Catalyst Fund for the grant project "Repurposing the Wunderkammer: Building a New Space for Science and Art," the Creative Campus Analogous Thinking Grant, and the Marston Fund.
Thursday, March 27, SA+AH, 6PM, School of Art + Art History, free.

Visiting Artist Lecture: KIM ABELES, “the interconnectedness of things”
Thursday, April 17, 6PM, School of Art + Art History, free.

“Repurposing the Wunderkammer: Building a New Space for Science and Art” is a project funded by the Creative Campus Catalyst Grant Fund. The project was proposed and organized by Assistant Professor Sean Miller, College of Fine Arts, School of Art and Art History and Assistant Professor Stuart McDaniel, Department of Biology. These events are co-funded or supported by the Florida Museum of Natural History, Samuel P. Harn Museum, Analogous Thinking Grant, and the School of Art and Art History Visiting Artists / Scholars Committee Marston Fund.

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