Terminal Art Works

The programs provide a generative context for advanced scholarly inquiry into the major ideas, institutions, and discourses of contemporary art and the sociocultural conditions of its production. Discussion-based seminars such as "Critical Hedonism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Riotus Indulgence"; "Fascinations; Medium Specificity and Experimental Cinema"; "Min(d)ing the Canon"; "Theories of the Text/ile"; "Critical Histories of Museums and Exhibitions"; and "Privileged Mobilities: Transnationality and Imagination" emphasize critical analysis and inventive modes of scholarly inquiry.