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The
Cleveland Institute of Art Symposium "Aesthetics and Consumer Culture" Nov. 4-6, 2004 |
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| Thursday, November 4, 2004 |
6:30 PM |
Symposium Sneak Preview Lane Cooper, The Cleveland Institute of Art "White Lightning" and the Subversion of George Wallace’s Southern White Ideal |
| 7:00 PM |
Cinematheque to show movie "White Lightning" (USA, 1973, Joseph Sargent) in conjunction with the Symposium. |
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| Friday, November 5, 2004 |
9:00 - 10:00 | Symposium Opening Introduction Rita Goodman, The Cleveland Institute of Art |
| Session 1 "You’re Keeping That?": Commercialism Disrupted |
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| 10:00 - 10:40 | Siobhan La Piana, The Cleveland Institute of Art Excess and Insufficiency |
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| 10:40 – 11:20 | Martin Patrick, Illinois State University School of Art Marketing Matthieu: On Matthieu Laurette’s Creative Disruptions of the Commercial World |
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| 11:20 – 12:00 | Ross Elfline, U.C.L.A. Critical Design and Consumer Culture: From Dada to Searstyle |
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| 12:30 – 2:30 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 2 Mickey, Martha, and Benetton: Branding Identity |
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| 2:30 – 3:10 | Holly Crawford, University of Essex Disneyfication of the Aesthetic Object |
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| 3:10 – 3:50 | Michael Golec, Iowa State University Do-It-Yourself Aesthetics: Martha Stewart and the Marketing of Emersonian Perfectionism |
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| 3:50 – 4:30 | Rita Goodman, The Cleveland Institute of Art Buying Politics, Selling Sweaters |
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| 7:00 – 8:00 PM | Featured Speaker George Ritzer, University of Maryland "Art, McDonaldization and the Globalization of Society". Sociology Professor George Ritzer is the author of numerous books, including The McDonaldization of Society (1993, 1996, 2000, 2004; translated into a dozen languages); Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption (1999); McDonaldization: The Reader (2002); and The Globalization of Nothing (2004). He also edited The Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists (2000), as well as The Handbook of Social Theory (2001), and is co-founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. |
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| 8:45 PM | Cinematheque to show film on topic of Symposium (title to be announced) |
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| Saturday, November 6, 2004 |
Session 3 Nothing is Sacred: Dislocating Local Culture |
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| 10:30 – 11:20 | Irene Sunwoo, Architectural Association, London Object and Icon: The Farnsworth House as Architectural Collectible |
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| 11:20 – 12:00 | Adrianne Santina, University of North Texas Plains Tipis, Kitsch, and the Fashioning of American Identity |
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| 12:00 – 12:30 | Katia Almeida-Tracy, Case Western Reserve University Shipibo Designs: Hybridism and Commodification in the Peruvian Amazon |
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| 12:30 – 2:30 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 4 Resisting Globalization/Resisting Art History |
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| 2:30 – 3:10 | Kristen Baumlier, The Cleveland Institute of Art "Combustible Media: Art to Spark Social Change" |
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| 3:10 – 4:00 | Charles Bergengren, The Cleveland Institute of Art The Commodification of Everything Else |
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| 4:00 – 6:00 | Reception with participants and closing keynote speaker Mel Chin. To be held in Ohio Bell Auditorium, Gund Building |
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| 6:00 – 7:00 | Closing Keynote Speaker Mel Chin, Internationally-renowned artist "The Spectrum of Survival". Mel Chin is an internationally prominent artist whose works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina; and the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. He was included in the first season of the celebrated PBS series "Art: 21, Art in the Twenty-First Century." An influential artist, Chin is known for his politically engaged and socially aware site-specific works, including his multi-sited Revival Field, KNOWMAD, and Render (2004). |
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SYMPOSIUM EVENTS ARE FREE AND
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, EXCEPT FOR CINEMATHEQUE FILMS.
ALL EVENTS ARE HELD IN AITKEN
AUDITORIUM, GUND BUILDING (EXCEPT CLOSING RECEPTION,
AS NOTED).
BREAKFAST ITEMS PROVIDED FRI.
AND SAT. MORNINGS, BEFORE TALKS.
Download Press Release [1] (20K PDF)
Sponsored by the Liberal Arts
department. For more information please contact Dr.
Rita Goodman (rgoodman [at] gate [dot] cia [dot] edu)
or Ms. Lane Cooper (lane_cooper [at] hotmail [dot] com).
Links:
[1] http://cia.edu/pdf/liberal-arts-symposium.pdf
[2] http://cia.edu/about/news/aesthetic-object-media.asp
[3] http://realneo.us/content/introduction-book-cia-symposium-aesthetics-and-consumer-culture
[4] http://realneo.us/content/arts-symposium-cia-aesthetics-and-consumer-culture
[5] http://realneo.us/blog/norm-roulet/11/05/04-7-8-pm-art-mcdonaldization-and-the-globalization-of-society