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April 22–24, 2004 Location: Nevada Museum of Art 160 West Liberty Street Reno, Nevada |
Conference Presenters and Topics (continued): Arantxa Rodríguez – “Reinventing the City: Miracles and Mirages in Urban Revitalization in Bilbao” Arantxa Rodríguez is Associate Professor at the College of Economic and Business Sciences of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao (Spain) where she teaches urban and regional economics and planning. Her research deals with productive and spatial restructuring and local and regional development planning. During the last few years, her research has focused on urban regeneration policies and, particularly the consequences of large-scale redevelopment projects for social and spatial fragmentation in European cities. She has published many articles on Bilbao’s urban renewal. She has co-authored Reorganización del trabajo y empleo de las mujeres (1998), Globalization and Integrated Area Development in European Cities (2000), and The Globalized City. Economic Restructuring and Social Polarisation in European Cities (2003). Allan Sekula – “Frank Gehry: Master and Commander” Allan Sekula is a photographer, writer and critic. His published books are Photography Against the Grain, Fish Story, Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes, and Dismal Science, with The Traffic in Photographs forthcoming from MIT Press. Sekula has been described as a pioneer in what is usually called “social realism.” His photographs most often focus on people engaged in political or economic struggles or iconic structures as part of his exploration of global economic systems. As a theorist, Sekula had pleaded in the late 1970s for a re-invention of documentary techniques. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the University Art Museum at Berkeley, Witte de With in Rotterdam, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Tramway in Glasgow, Le Channel and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Calais, Camerawork in London, Munich Kunstverein in Munich, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, P.S. 1 in New York, and the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. Javier Viar Olloqui – “Guggenheim Bilbao: Partner in the Arts—A View from the Fine Arts Museum of Bilbao” Javier Viar is the Director of Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts. He was one of the members of the Committee of Experts which served as consultants to determine the artistic policies of the Bilbao Guggenheim. Besides his long involvement as a Board member for Bilbao’s museum and as a councilor for the Basque Government, Viar is known for his literary and essayistic publications (ten books), as well as his extensive work as an art critic in the main Spanish newspapers and art journals (over a hundred articles). He has curated several art exhibits, is a frequent lecturer, and a regular participant in conferences and debates on art. John Welchman – “Sculpture/Architecture” John Welchman is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of California, San Diego. He works at the intersection of the history, theory and practice of Visual Arts. He is the author of Modernism Relocated: Towards a Cultural Studies of Visual Modernity (1995); Invisible Colours: A Visual History of Titles (1997) and Art after Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s (2001). He is co-author of The Dada and Surrealist Word Image (1987) and of Mike Kelley in the Phaidon Contemporary Artists series (1999), as well as editor of Rethinking Borders (1996). He has published in Artforum, Screen, Art + Text, Third Text, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and other journals and art catalogues. With Mike Kelley, he has co-authored Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism (2002) and Minor Histories: Statements, Conversations, Proposals (2004). Mark Wigley – “Skin Power” Mark Wigley is Professor of Architecture at Columbia University. He belongs to the International Committee of Architectural Critics (C.I.C.A). He has won the Triennial Award for Architectural Criticism (1990) and the Graham Foundataion Grant (1997). His books include: The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida´s Haunt (1993) and White Walls, Designer Dresses. The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (1995). He is editor with Catherine de Zegher of The Activist Drawing. Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant’s New Babylon to Beyond (2001). Joseba Zulaika – “Desiring Bilbao: The Krensification of the Museum and Its Discontents” Joseba Zulaika received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University. He is currently the Director of the Center for Basque Studies at UNR. He is the author of a dozen ethnographic books on Basque culture, art, and politics. On Bilbao’s Guggenheim, he has published several articles as well as Crónica de una seducción (1997) and Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa: Museums, Architecture, and City Renewal (2003). |
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