*All events will take place in the Nave Presentation Space inside the Main building unless otherwise noted.

9:50-10:00am

WELCOME, LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, AND RE-OPENING REFLECTION

• Helen Maria Nugent, Professor and Dean of Design at CCA
• Elizabeth Mangini, Professor and History of Art & Visual Culture Program Chair

10:00am - 11:30am

PANEL IV: MATERIAL INTERVENTIONS INTO THE LANDSCAPE

Moderated by William Littmann

• Elizabeth Fair, “Recarving a Cultural Landscape: Inscriptions at the Angel Island Immigration Station”
• Eloise Seda, "On Shifting Sands: Land and Image in Mariana Ramos Ortiz’s Playgrounds and Caña Gorda"
• Silvia Bottinelli, “The Materiality of Landscape: Critiquing Lawns through Edible Gardens in Contemporary American Art”
• Genevieve Hyacinthe, “Unearthing Elizabeth’s Rebel Hillside Fecundity: Thoughts on Crucian Sister–Land Bonds in the Work of La Vaughn Belle”

11:45am-12:45pm

ROUNDTABLE II: Architecture & Design Round Table

• Rachel Berger, Associate Professor, Graphic Design 
• Neeraj Bhatia, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Irene C. Cheng, Associate Professor and Chair, Graduate Architecture 
• Donald Fortescue,Professor, Furniture
• Lauryn A. Menard, Adjunct Professor, Graduate Design

12:45 pm - 1:30pm LUNCH BREAK

1:30pm - 2:45pm

PANEL V: DATA & COMMUNICATION

Moderated by Christoph Steger

• Charlotte G. Chin Greene, “Martin's End: Image-Makers in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" 
  
• Kitty Whittell, “‘Modelling Big Data’: A Portrait of a User”
• Natalie Pellolio, “The Open Letter: Félix González-Torres and the Materiality of Communication”

3:15pm-4:45pm

PANEL VI: TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE & MEMORY

Moderated by TT Takemoto

• Tess McCoy, “Unbroken Connections: Customary Materials in Contemporary Alaska Native Art”
• Danielle Ridolfi, “Layers of Power: 19th Century Scrapbooks as Complex Sites of Material Resistance in the Industrialized Age”
• Thomas Michael Pierce- Reyes, “Protests from Latino Arts: San Francisco's Mission District”
• Nilgun Bayraktar, “Spectral Sounds & Alien Landscapes in Bogota: Listening to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021)” 

4:45pm- 5:30pm

BREAK AND CREATIVE CITIZENS IN ACTION EXHIBITION RECEPTION  (The Nave)

• Celebrating work created by CCA students in response to the symposium theme. This exhibition is funded by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series at CCA, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.

5:30pm- 7:00pm 

CONNECTED CLOSING PERFORMANCE 

• Rogue Gestures (Excerpts) by Nava Dance Theatre

The performance is funded by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series at CCA, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.

ENTRY DETAILS - REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND

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Funding for this program was provided by Terra Foundation for American Art.