SPEAKER SERIES
© Franco Brambilla, “Gli ascoltatori” (2008)
Throughout the semester, we will hear writers and scholars speak about their national sf. A few speakers will come to campus; others will be recorded and viewed; and others will virtually visit our class via Skype for about a half an hour each.
On-Campus Speakers:
Sherryl Vint, “To Seek Out New Worlds: Science Fiction in A Global Perspective”
February 5, 2015 – 7pm – Main Lounge, Moulton Union
(see poster)
Lisa Yaszek, “Afrofuturism as Global Science Fiction”
April 1, 2015 – 7pm – Main Lounge, Moulton Union
Virtual Speakers:
Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado (Mexico)
Anatoly Belilovsky (Russia)
Paweł Frelik (Poland)
Rachel Haywood-Ferreira (on José B. Adolph’s “The Falsifier,” Peru, 1972)
Giulia Iannuzzi and Francesco Verso (Italy)
Minsoo Kang (Korea)
Ken Liu (USA-China)
James Patrick Kelly (USA)
Vandana Singh (India)
Cristian Tamas (Romania)
Lavie Tidhar (Israel)
Nick Wood (South Africa)
“PAST FUTURES: POSTWAR ART OF THE AMERICAS” EXHIBIT
VIEW ONLINE HERE
“SEFT-1 over Metlac bridge, January 25, 2011,” by Ivan Puig (Mexican, born 1977) and Andrés Padilla Domene (Mexican, born 1986). Courtesy of SEFT-1.
Curated by:
Sarah Montross
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
March 5, 2015 – June 7, 2015
Bernard and Barbra Osher Gallery
Halford Gallery
Focus Gallery
Center Gallery
Description:
The first exhibition to feature arts related to space travel, futurism, and science fiction from across the American hemisphere. PAST FUTURES will feature visionary artwork created amid the Space Race and in relation to Cold War-era scientific and technological initiatives. Locating coordinates of artistic production from North, Central, and South America, PAST FUTURES shows how artists imaginatively visualized themes of conquest and discovery and the crossing over into new territories, whether earthbound or celestial.
A selection of works:
“Maqueta D-Hábitat. La ciudad hidroespacial (Model D- Habitat. Hydrospatial City),” 1950, Plexiglas and metal by Gyula Kosice (Argentine, born in Hungary, 1924. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of the Artist, 2007. © Gyula Kosice
“Fra Mauro Region of the Moon, 1972,” by Nancy Graves. From the series “Lithographs Based on Geologic Maps of Lunar Orbiter and Apollo Landing Sites.” Lithograph. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gift of Anne MacDougall and Gil Einstein in honor of Marjorie B. Cohn.
“Astronauta y testigos, televisados (Astronaut and witnesses, televised),” 1971, oil on canvas by Raquel Forner (Argentine, 1902–1988). Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; Gift of Barbara Duncan, 1973
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