A conference featuring approximately 200 presenters hosted by Wayne State University in collaboration with the Program Committee of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. The conference host was renee hoogland, Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Wayne State University and Editor of the journal Criticism.
ASAP/5: Arts of the City
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McGregor Memorial Conference Center, & Westin Book Cadillac Hotel
A conference featuring approximately 200 presenters hosted by Wayne State University in collaboration with the Program Committee of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. The conference host was renee hoogland, Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Wayne State University and Editor of the journal Criticism.
KEYNOTES for the conference included JACE CLAYTON, AKA, DJ RUPTURE, Writer and Musician, and NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Special events included a poetry reading organized by Barrett Watten, an opening reception and ASAP/5 art exhibition at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery “Car Art/Crash” co-curated by Iris Eichenberg (Artist in Residence/Head of Metals, Cranbrook Academy of Art) & Heather McGill (Artist in Residence/Head of Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art); and a special ASAP/5 performance featuring Detroit techno-artist Omar S at MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.