[arthistorymajors] Ugly and Ordinary? A Symposium on Learning From Las Vegas

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Thu Apr 8 09:48:36 PDT 2010


*Ugly and Ordinary? A Symposium on /Learning From Las Vegas/
**
**Featuring Edward Dimendberg, Jeffrey Inaba, and Cécile Whiting*

Sunday, Aprill 11th ? 3pm - 5pm
MOCA at the Pacific Design Center, Blue Conference Room
8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Free & Open to the Public

On the occasion of the exhibition /Las Vegas Studio: Images from the 
Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown/, MOCA and the UCI 
Humanities Collective present a symposium investigating the history and 
legacy of the landmark 1972 publication /Learning from Las Vegas/ with 
regard to architecture, artistic practice, and urbanism. /Learning from 
Las Vegas/ galvanized the postmodern movement in architecture and 
restored to critics and architects a sense of appreciation for the 
maligned commercial architecture of the Las Vegas Strip. The vision of 
its authors---architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven 
Izenour---shaped populist affirmations of postmodernism, and inspired 
critics and architects to embrace vernacular architecture and culture. 
Moderated by Cole Akers and Catherine Liu, Director of the UCI 
Humanities Collective. _

*About the panelists*_

*Edward Dimendberg *is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, 
German, and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His 
book /Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity/ (Harvard University Press, 
2004) is a key contribution to scholarship on cinema and the city in the 
1940s and 1950s. Dimendberg is Founding Multimedia Editor of the Journal 
of the Society of Architectural Historians and the recipient of grants 
from the American Academy in Berlin, the Getty, the Graham Foundation, 
and the Fulbright Commission. In 2011, The University of Chicago Press 
will publish his book /Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture After 
Images/. His current project, entitled "Los Angeles Documentary Film and 
Media Since 1970," takes as its central problem the shifting strategies 
through which place and community have been conceptualized and depicted 
in moving images of an American city once thought to lack public space.

*Jeffrey Inaba* is an architect, urban designer, and the founder of 
INABA. Previously principal of AMO in New York, he is the Director of 
C-Lab, an architecture, policy, and communications think-tank at 
Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and 
Preservation, and the Features Editor of /Volume Magazine/. From 
1997-2003, Rem Koolhaus and he published /The Harvard Design School 
Guide to Shopping/ and /Great Leap Forward /(Taschen Verlag 2002). His 
work has been presented at the the 2010 Whitney Biennial, the New Museum 
for Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Rotterdam 
Architecture Biennale, and has been published in /Artforum/, /Domus/, 
and /Frame/.

*Cécile Whiting* is Chair of the Department of Art History and a member 
of the faculty in the Graduate Program in Visual Studies at the 
University of California, Irvine. She specializes in the history of 
American art with a focus on the mid twentieth century about which she 
has published three books: /Antifascism in American Art/ (Yale, 1989), 
/A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture/ (Cambridge, 
1997), and /Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s /(University of 
California, 2006).  /Pop L.A./ was just awarded the 2009 Charles C. 
Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian Institution for Distinguished 
Scholarship in American Art.

Organized by Cole Akers for MOCA and the UCI Humanities Collective.
For additional details: coleakers at gmail.com <mailto:coleakers at gmail.com> 
or http://tinyurl.com/lvs-moca

-- 
Madeline Faye Mullens
Graduate Coordinator
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies
& Assistant Administrator,
Department of Art History
2000 Humanities Gateway
University of California, Irvine

Phone (949) 824-1124
Fax (949) 824-2464
mmullens at uci.edu


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