Sara Blair, University of Michigan
Zahid Chaudhary, Princeton University
Kimberly Juanita Brown, Mt. Holyoke College
Joan Kee, University of Michigan
Vera Grant, University of Michigan
Sarah Bay-Cheng, Bowdoin College
Hayley O’Malley, University of Michigan
Jasmine An, University of Michigan
Sally Clegg, University of Michigan
Ani Bezirdzhyan, University of michigan
Kyle Frisina, University of Michigan
Michelle May-Curry, University of Michigan
The Visual Culture Workshop (VCW) convenes the third annual Critical Visualities Conference in order to ask the timely questions: “What are the political dimensions of the affective charge between art and its audience? Between the critic and the art she engages? How does it feel to look ‘critically’ now?”
THURSDAY, MARCH 28 (3222 Angell)
9:30-11:30am | Panel 1: Absence, Abstraction, and Photography
Sara Blair (U-M), “Seeing Without Empathy”
Zahid Chaudhary (Princeton), “Aesthetics of Expropriation: Abstraction in Fazal Sheikh’s ‘Desert Bloom’ Series”
Kimberly Juanita Brown (Mt. Holyoke), “You and Eye in the Afterlife of Images”
1:00-3:00pm | Panel 2: Everyone’s a Critic! (What’s a Critic?)
Joan Kee (U-M), “Smile, Bitch!”
Vera Grant (U-M), “The Critic’s Tear: Disorder and Ordinary Flatness”
Sarah Bay-Cheng (Bowdoin), “Everybody’s Historiography: Playing the Digital in Museums”
3:15-4:45pm | Graduate Student Works-in-Progress
Hayley O’Malley, “The Black Arts Movement and Film as Propaganda”
Jasmine An, “Follow the Chicken: The Possibilities of Parody and Passion to Reimagine Racial Representation”
Sally Clegg, “Art of Auto-Affection: Intimate Aesthetics of Self-Touch and Supplement”
Ani Bezirdzhyan, “Dual Citizenship: Subverting the Documentary Gaze and Bifurcating the Spectacle”
Kyle Frisina, “White Cube, Black Box: Rankine’s Citizen as Theatrical Gallery”
Michelle May-Curry, “‘That Image Business:’ Loving v. Virginia and the Iconography of Interracialism”
