https://lectureseries.cargo.site Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:17:29 +0000 https://lectureseries.cargo.site en https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Index Wed, 30 Mar 2022 05:54:49 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Index https://lectureseries.cargo.site/About Wed, 30 Mar 2022 05:54:49 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/About PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY24255 Pacific Coast HighwayMalibu, CA 90263310.506.4000 Pepperdine University Seaver College's Art Department is proud to host the Art and Art History Lecture series featuring a range of guest lecturers. https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Conrad-Ruiz Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:17:29 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Conrad-Ruiz An artist talk with Conrad Ruiz, a part of Pepperdine University’s Art &amp; Art History Lecture Series. CONRAD RUIZConrad Ruíz was born in 1983. The artist received an MFA from the California College of the Arts in the Bay Area of California. Solo exhibitions of Ruíz’s work have taken place at: Galerie Droste in Paris, France (2022); Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2021); Ochi Projects in Los Angeles, California (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, California (2015); Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, California (2009, 2012); and Yautepec Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico (2011). Group exhibitions that have shown Ruíz’s work have taken place at: M+B in Los Angeles, California (curated by BOZOMAG in 2022); The Pit in Los Angeles, California (2021); No Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2019); Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles, California (2018); the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California (2018); and the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, California (2018). Ruíz lives and works in Los Angeles, California. PEPPERDINE LECTURE SERIES POSTERS <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f31fffedb97e1d910cffcdf618c493d78afd757c72c37b973f6ca445b08f727d/PRINT-Conrad-Ruiz-Indiv-Poster-11x17-v2.jpg" data-mid="237102348" border="0" data-scale="42" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f31fffedb97e1d910cffcdf618c493d78afd757c72c37b973f6ca445b08f727d/PRINT-Conrad-Ruiz-Indiv-Poster-11x17-v2.jpg" /> https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Sohl-Lee Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:14:22 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Sohl-Lee An artist talk with Sohl Lee, a part of Pepperdine University’s Art &amp; Art History Lecture Series. SOHL LEEDr. Sohl Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Stony Brook University in New York. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art in East Asia, visual culture, postcolonial theories, histories of the avant-garde, and pedagogical curating. She edited Being Political Popular: South Korean Art at the Intersection of Popular Culture and Democracy, 1980-2010 (2012) and her publications have appeared in multiple academic and art journals. Her first solo-authored book, Reimagining Democracy: The Minjung Art Movement and the Birth of Contemporary Korean Art, is forthcoming with the Duke University Press. Her current project explores the global circulation of North Korean art and visual culture as it intersects with the history of socialist international friendship, Third World solidarity, and decolonisation projects across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In the winter of 2014-2015, she worked as the line producer for CHE Onejoon’s Mansudae Master Class in Gabon and Ethiopia. PEPPERDINE LECTURE SERIES POSTERS <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e70fbbd2570ba7577bb7cdeef100445368f553797733e5f20e2674995418f4c/PRINT-Sohl-Lee-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" data-mid="237102035" border="0" data-scale="42" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e70fbbd2570ba7577bb7cdeef100445368f553797733e5f20e2674995418f4c/PRINT-Sohl-Lee-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" /> https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Eli-Joteva Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:10:43 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Eli-Joteva An artist talk with Eli Joteva, a part of Pepperdine University’s Art &amp; Art History Lecture Series. ELI JOTEVAEli Joteva (b.1990) is a Bulgarian-American intermedia artist, researcher and educator. With a practice rooted in photography and digital media, her work traces the translations between material and virtual planes in an effort to re-imagine the experiences of both human and other-than-human bodies. Influenced by contemporary research in the fields of quantum mechanics, neurophysics and machine vision, she investigates organic and computational memory systems in relation to imaging technologies of the past and future. Joteva has exhibited internationally across Europe, the US, and Australasia, including at Ars Electronica, Linz; Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede; Noor Riyadh, Riyadh; and the Queensland Center for Photography, Newstead. She has been a resident artist at STEAM Imaging III with Ars Electronica &amp; Fraunhofer MEVIS, Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, and Photo+Sphere, and a member of UCLA Art Sci Center | Lab. Her work has been included in the DA Fest, xCoax, CultureHub LA, Currents New Media, SciArt Initiative, ComeAlive, Fischer Museum, and GOGBOT. Joteva holds a BA from USC Roski, an MFA from UCLA, and completed The New Normal postgraduate research program at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design. Most recently she was a Visualization Research Artist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University. Currently she teaches at Pepperdine University, Laguna College of Art &amp; Design and the SciArc EDGE Program for Architectural Technologies. PEPPERDINE LECTURE SERIES POSTERS <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/143777c9cc1a990dcc14dbf20ba9ba540f963ade5163f09183219891a5dd0a71/PRINT-Eli-Joteva-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" data-mid="237101983" border="0" data-scale="42" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/143777c9cc1a990dcc14dbf20ba9ba540f963ade5163f09183219891a5dd0a71/PRINT-Eli-Joteva-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" /> https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Shanna-Waddell Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:08:19 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Shanna-Waddell An artist talk with Shanna Waddell, a part of Pepperdine University’s Art &amp; Art History Lecture Series. SHANNA WADDELLThe paintings of Shanna Waddell (b. 1981, Long Beach, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles) chronicle the day-to-day enterprises of an imagined artist collective: flower-farming, plein-air moonset painting, gathering supplies, utilizing the community wagons, and generally existing in a state of tranquility. This utopian commune is both an exercise in imagination and also a contemplation in dialogue with models of art history and art-making. She absorbs and adapts the primarily masculine modes of painting with pure freedom and interjects her spirit into ideas for future models of living. PEPPERDINE LECTURE SERIES POSTERS <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a266aca79f704a8ecbb86ce141bb790a7ee0205c612bb991fd587583dd929db/PRINT-Shanna-Waddell-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" data-mid="237101976" border="0" data-scale="42" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a266aca79f704a8ecbb86ce141bb790a7ee0205c612bb991fd587583dd929db/PRINT-Shanna-Waddell-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" /> https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Ladan-Akbarnia Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:03:11 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Ladan-Akbarnia An artist talk with Ladan Akbarnia, a part of Pepperdine University’s Art &amp; Art History Lecture Series. LADAN AKBARNIADr. Ladan Akbarnia is Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at The San Diego Museum of Art (2019–present). A specialist in Islamic visual culture, her research, exhibitions, and publications address cross-cultural transmissions in Iran, Central Asia, and South Asia; Sufism; Persianate drawings; contemporary art; and methodologies of museum display. Her current exhibition, Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World, on view at SDMA until 5 January 2025 and traveling to the McMullen Museum of Art from 1 February–1 June 2025, was funded generously by the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, with support from several other organizations and individual donors. Since joining SDMA in 2019, she has organized several exhibitions and displays, including India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art (Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, 2024 and CentroCentro, Madrid, 2023); A Dogon Figure from Mali: Bridge to the Spirit World (2021), co-curated with Dr. Denise Rogers; Lisa Ross: Elegy to a Uyghur Homeland (2022); and ongoing rotating displays of works from the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection (Pearls from the Ocean of Contentment, 2021–present). Previously, she was Assistant Keeper &amp; Curator of Islamic Collections and lead curator for the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World at The British Museum (2010–19); Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum (2007–10), where she organized a reinstallation of the Islamic collection and Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam (2009–10); and Executive Director of the Iran Heritage Foundation in London (2009–10). She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.This illustrated talk will explore the story and vision behind The San Diego Museum of Art’s major temporary exhibition, Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World, on view through January 5, 2025. Wonders of Creation explores&nbsp;intersections of art and science in Islamic intellectual and visual culture from the 8th century to the present, using the lens of “wonder” as defined by an influential 13th-century Islamic cosmography describing the universe. Written in Arabic and Persian by Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini, The Wonders of Creation and the Rarities of Existence (from which the exhibition takes its title) catalogues the marvels of the universe in a single, richly illustrated book. The exhibition features over 200 works through the framework of Qazwini’s text, including manuscripts, luster dishes, magic bowls, scientific instruments, architectural elements, and contemporary art. Following the cosmography’s narrative through the celestial and terrestrial realms, topics such as astronomy, astrology, natural history, alchemy, medicine, and geometry are explored through objects from Spain, North Africa, the Arab lands, and Iran to Central, South, and Southeast Asia and the modern diaspora. After an overview of the exhibition with details of selected works representing the narrative and conceptual structure, this talk will consider the framework of the exhibition as a methodology for representing Islamic art and material culture on a wider scale. PEPPERDINE LECTURE SERIES POSTERS <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c209a2fe32b4eefb30f458574709ef6158ee1539580cfad55749d65bed6cb2b/PRINT-Ladan-Akbarnia-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" data-mid="237101971" border="0" data-scale="42" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c209a2fe32b4eefb30f458574709ef6158ee1539580cfad55749d65bed6cb2b/PRINT-Ladan-Akbarnia-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" /> https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Animal-Charm Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:00:00 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Animal-Charm An artist talk with Animal Charm, a part of Pepperdine University’s Art &amp; Art History Lecture Series. ANIMAL CHARMAnimal Charm, a collaboration between Richard Bott (b. 1972 Louisville, Kentucky) and Jim Fetterley (b. 1971 Rockford, Illinois)—began using found VHS tapes to make video collages in 1995. With the advent of YouTube a decade away, the artists culled bins of dead and devalued media, including industrial and promotional videos, bargain vinyl LPs, and consumer-grade electronics. They then combined disparate footage, using early nonlinear video-editing software, to create unsettling and humorous works. The duo compose unexpected juxtapositions in an attempt to subvert the original intentions of the found videos and to expose their absurdity while eliciting new meanings from the detritus of culture PEPPERDINE LECTURE SERIES POSTERS <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f10440fdd38421d9879c914dd91922de2eaa86367e0b273b332ebdcc309a92a0/Animal-Charm-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" data-mid="237101916" border="0" data-scale="41" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f10440fdd38421d9879c914dd91922de2eaa86367e0b273b332ebdcc309a92a0/Animal-Charm-Indiv-Poster-11x17.jpg" /> https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Philip-Glahn-Cary-Levine Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:57:32 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Philip-Glahn-Cary-Levine An artist talk with Philip Glahn &amp; Cary Levine, a part of Pepperdine University’s Art &amp; Art History Lecture Series. PHILIP GLAHN &amp; CARY LEVINEThis talk focuses on the work of the visionary art techno-activist group Mobile Image and how it modeled new individual and social subject formations. Among the most prescient and understudied artists in postwar history, Mobile Image creatively redeployed futuristic communication devices, unleashing their latent potentials for radically new forms of exchange among diverse peoples and publics. The group’s appropriation of emergent telecommunications technologies in the 1970s and 80s served to analyze and perform the self in ways that continue to challenge late-modern notions of subject and subjectivity.Glahn and Levine’s recently published book, “The Future Is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image” (MIT Press, 2024), traces the group’s experimentation with technological mediations and embodiments through devices such as satellite transmission, television, video, electronic writing tablets, and databases. Building upon core components of the book, this talk focuses on how Mobile Image modeled an early form of planetary thinking that at once de- and re-centered the human user as a newly co-dependent and empowered “dividual” self.Glahn and Levine argue not only for the historical importance of Mobile Image, but for a process that is at once critical and transformative, that reconfigures fundamental notions of the public sphere, democracy, communication, and political participation, along with efforts to change contemporary relations of power, representation, and identity. Mobile Image’s approach to the aesthetic politics of technology—how certain devices (digital or otherwise) impact what can be imagined, how they reinforce structures of authority even as they enable new dreams, perceptions, and expressions—has profound implications for today’s world of ubiquitous digital re/production, networking, and social media. PEPPERDINE LECTURE SERIES POSTERS <img width="3375" height="5175" width_o="3375" height_o="5175" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/335793ae3234add70b833271129becda6d84a7f8aadac2ecccca5cf7f972c0e2/PRINT-Philip-Glahn---Cary-Levine-Poster-11x17.jpg" data-mid="237101905" border="0" data-scale="41" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/335793ae3234add70b833271129becda6d84a7f8aadac2ecccca5cf7f972c0e2/PRINT-Philip-Glahn---Cary-Levine-Poster-11x17.jpg" /> https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Maysha-Mohamedi Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:54:29 +0000 Pepperdine Art & Art History Lectures https://lectureseries.cargo.site/Maysha-Mohamedi An artist talk with Maysha Mohamedi, a part of Pepperdine University’s Art &amp; Art History Lecture Series. MAYSHA MOHAMEDIMaysha Mohamedi is an Iranian-American painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her studio is located in the Fashion District in Downtown LA but she uses materials from all over: from beach tar that she collects with her sons on the beaches of Santa Barbara to tubes of Middle Eastern paint imported from her mother country of Iran. She has exhibited widely in New York and Los Angeles, including exhibitions at The Hole, The Pit and Steve Turner Contemporary. She is also a founding member of the Los Angeles art collective, Binder of Women. Maysha is the recipient of several award and residences, ranging from a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Tokyo, to an AICAD New York Studio Residency. Her work has been profiled in the LA Times, The Huffington Post, SF Arts Quarterly and The Conversation Art Podcast. 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