Sites of Transition: Symposium

Sponsored by the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory

in partnership with Future Arts Research @ ASU,

the ASU Art Museum, and the ASU School of Art

April 5, 2008

9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

ASU Art Museum

Arizona State University Tempe Campus

AGENDA

9:00               Continental breakfast

9:15               Ralph Stern + Nicole Huber

                     Sites of Transition

9:45               Lucy Lippard

                     Green Zones

10:15             Matthew Coolidge

                     Anthropogeomorphology: Fringespaces

                        in the Southwest

10:45             Mark Klett

                     Phoenix, Time, and Photographs of

                        Changing Landscapes

11:15             Discussion, with Q +A

12:15 – 2:00   Refreshments + Photographs

                        The Gallery of Design

In conjunction with the Sites of Transition exhibition running in the Gallery of Design (March 15 – April 6), this symposium will offer an opportunity for lively discussion about the market-driven transformations of rich and fragile desert ecosystems.

Speakers include the creators of Sites of Transition, Ralph Stern (University of Nevada Las Vegas) and Nicole Huber (University of Washington); prominent art writer Lucy Lippard; Matthew Coolidge, the director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles; and Mark Klett, photographer and professor of art at Arizona State University.

Admission is free.

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