Events for December

Stewart Brand, Hacking Civilization

Thursday, December 3, 5:10pm
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street

Penny Stamps Lecture Series: Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand is president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created the Whole Earth Catalog, and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL. His books include The Clock of the Long Now; How Buildings Learn; and The Media Lab. His most recent book is Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (October 2009).

With support from Arts on Earth.

For more information about this speaker and others, visit the Penny Stamps Distinguished Visitor Series site.

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World Premiere: E/N/D Plus Three • Big Enigmas Meet the Movements of NOW

Monday, December 7, 8:00pm
Keene Auditorium, East Quad
701 East University

E/N/D: Anders Åstrand, Vibraphone, Stockholm; Mikael Berglund, Bass, Stockholm; Michael Gould, Drumset/Percussion, Ann Arbor
Plus Three:
Ken Mikolowski, Poet, Detroit; Nadja Raszewski, Dancer/Choreographer, Berlin; Andrew Bishop, Saxophone, Ann Arbor

Mr. Mikolowki’s poems have inspired E/N/D to create new works, improvisations and interludes in a diversity of styles, with dance accompaniment — art and bodies.

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“Smart Surfaces” Project Presentations

Friday, December 11, 1:00–5:00pm
Taubman College Gallery, Room 2106
Art & Architecture Building
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.

Come see the collaborative and innovative projects from the students in the course “Smart Surfaces.” This course, which grew out of a collaboration sponsored by Arts on Earth, is taught by Karl Daubmann, Associate Professor of Architecture, John Marshall, Assistant Professor, School of Art & Design, and Max Shtein, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering. This course is a collaborative, project-based learning experience in which artists, designers, architects and engineers come together to build physical systems and structural surfaces that have the capability to adapt to information and environmental conditions.

Learn more about the course.

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Arts & Bodies Exhibition

December 18, 2009 – January 15, 2010
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am–4pm
Work • Detroit Gallery
3663 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
313.593.0940

Work • Detroit is a unique space for the sharing of creative process and an integral component of the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. Work • Detroit presents the work of student, faculty, alumni, as well as local, national, and internationally prominent thinkers and makers. The underlying mission of Work • Detroit is to explore and define lines of creative connection between the University of Michigan, Detroit, and beyond.

People often speak of their experience of the arts as “transcendent” –transcending normal human limits of performance and perception, speaking directly to the transcendent “soul.” Yet art is inescapably made by corporeal beings, whose very corporeality determines the media, methods, instruments, forms, colors, tones, and materials through which we create. Furthermore, the very experience of transcendence is a corporeal one, determined by the state of the sensory and cognitive apparatus of the perceiver of creative work. Finally, the production of art can take a heavy toll on artists’ bodies, through the absorption of lead, the stresses of poverty and creative work, and the punishment of muscles, joints, vocal cords, eyes, and other body parts. The purpose of Arts & Bodies is to explore the dynamic, tortured, joyful, complex relationship between our arts and our bodies across epochs and cultures.

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