Join us for a special conversation with Anne Balsamo, distinguished alumna of the University of Illinois and a leading scholar at the intersection of art, design, technology, and culture. Over the past three decades, Dr. Balsamo has served in prominent leadership roles including Dean at The New School, Dean at University of Texas at Dallas, while pioneering innovative frameworks for feminist technology studies and cultural heritage curation.
For several years, between academic appointments at Georgia Tech as Director of the graduate program in Interaction Design and Technology, and as a Full Professor at the University of Southern California (Annenberg School of Communication and Interactive Media division of the School of Cinematic Arts), she was a member of a prominent research-design group at Xerox PARC that created experimental reading devices and new media genres.
A co-founder of FemTechNet, an international network of scholars, artists, and educators exploring feminist technological innovation, Balsamo returns to Illinois to reflect on her unusual cross-disciplinary journey and experiences in the art and design of technologies that take culture seriously as the foundation for innovation.
This program will feature a talk followed by an audience discussion with University of Illinois scholars across art, design, technology, information & interactive computing, exploring questions of creative practice and digital culture.
Reception to follow in the Link Gallery.
Presented by the School of Art & Design with support from the College of Fine and Applied Arts and Krannert Art Museum.
The Art & Design Visitors Series endeavors to be accessible to all. If you have questions or would like to request an accessibility accommodation, please email art@illinois.edu.
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
