Anna Sigrídur Arnar, School of Art, recently served as a guest professor at a summer institute sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The institute was titled “The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures” and it was held in the Publication Center at the Salt Lake City Community College with twenty-eight seminar participants and five guest faculty. Arnar presented […]
Anna Sigrídur Arnar, School of Art, was the keynote speaker at the Tri-College Libraries Staff Workshop hosted by Concordia College on April 19, 2018. The title of Arnar’s lecture was “The Library as a Social Space in Contemporary Global Art” and was based on research carried out during her sabbatical year (2016-17).
Anna Sigrídur Arnar, School of Art, recently organized a scholarly panel at the College Art Association in Los Angeles titled “A Critical Conversation on Affect Theory, Neuroscience, and Art-Science Collaborations.” The panel brought together innovative scholars and artists including Eduardo Kac and James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) as well as Warren Neidich (Weissensee Kunst Hochschule Berlin), […]
Anna Sigrídur Arnar, School of Art, has been invited to be a visiting professor for a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers in 2018. The multi-disciplinary seminar is titled “The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures” and will be hosted by SLCC Publication Center, a multi-function space designed to enhance learning about the publication […]
Anna Sigrídur Arnar, School of Art, delivered a paper at a conference sponsored by the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS) held in Lausanne, Switzerland in July 2017. Arnar’s paper was based on research she conducted over the course of her sabbatical year for a book prospectus submitted to a University Press. Titled “Grids, Matrices and Digits in […]