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Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

Knight Foundation A+RC Seminars

Knight Foundation Art + Research Center Seminars

The Knight Foundation Art + Research Center (A+RC) is the museum’s research department and graduate-level initiative dedicated to fostering a more robust and critical dialogue in the South Florida region and beyond.

2020 Fall Semester

Recodings and Renewals, A+RC’s 2020 Fall Semester of virtual seminars and lectures, examines the material reconfigurations that characterize a digitized world.

2020 Summer Intensive

A+RC’s Fourth Summer Intensive addresses ways in which urgent climate issues and anthropogenic effects apply pressure to contemporary cultural production.

2019 Fall Semester

The Black Hemisphere, A+RC’s 2019 Fall Semester series of seminars, will look at self-understandings of Blackness in the Americas, as well as critically explore different processes of anti-Blackness and cultural marginalization.

2019 Summer Intensive

A+RC’s Third Annual Summer Intensive addresses ways in which urgent climate issues and anthropogenic effects apply pressure to contemporary cultural production.

2019 Spring Semester

A+RC's 2019 Spring Semester visiting faculty includes Miami-based artist and filmmaker Dara Friedman, artist Blake Rayne, artist Rehana Zaman, and author and theorist T.J. Demos.

2018 Fall Semester

A+RC 2018 Fall Semester visiting faculty include cultural theorist Michelle Wright, electronic music artist Hieroglyphic Being, and Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani.

2018 Summer Intensive

A+RC’s Second Summer Intensive addresses ways in which urgent climate issues and anthropogenic effects apply pressure to contemporary cultural production.

2018 Spring Semester

The 2018 Spring Semester of the program, Relay Subjectivities considers how emergent abstractions find concrete form in our everyday lives.

2017 Fall Semester

The Art + Research Center’s 2017 Fall Semester will consider how abstractions actually find concrete form in the world.

2017 Summer Intensive

ICA Miami convened its First Annual Summer Intensive.

2017 Spring Semester

A+RC's 2017 Spring Semester continuing the theme of New Social Abstractions, leading professors, theorists, and artists addressed how the production of contemporary art might contend with a world defined by ever-changing abstraction.

Pilot Semester

ICA Miami’s A+RC Pilot Semester will address how contemporary art production might contend with a world defined by ever-changing abstraction.

Archives

With this season of ICA Seminars, ICA Miami invites scholars and artists to analyze and explore currents in the expanding fields of performance and participatory art.