Visual Voices is a Professional Lecture Series offered by Mason Exhibitions. The purpose of the lectures are to broaden students’ exposure and vocabulary to professional work being created today. It also provides an opportunity for Art & Design students and members of the public to interact with speakers via a Q&A following their lecture, giving them the chance to exchange ideas and pose questions to the guest speakers.
If you miss the live presentations, recordings of the lectures will be available one week after the live event. Find recordings of the lectures on Mason Arts Amplified.
Visual Voices events are free to attend and open to the public. Registration is required!
For more information, please contact Jeffrey Kenney.
Thursday, September 24, 4:45 - 6:30pm
Ali Fard
Hybrid Event (Harris Theater and Zoom)
Ali Fard is a researcher, designer, and educator. Fard's work operates at the intersection of design and global urban processes. He is particularly interested in the spatial imprints of technology and the urban disposition of infrastructure, and how design research can help ground the operational complexity, spatial hybridity, and territorial scales of large technical systems. Fard has been involved in a range of award-winning projects that reinforce design's critical and multiscalar role within the territorial dynamics of contemporary urbanization. His writing, research, and design work have been published in journals, including MONU, MAS Context, Bracket, Telematics and Informatics, and Harvard Design Magazine, among others, and he has lectured and presented his work widely.
Fard is the co-editor of NG7: Geographies of Information (Harvard University Press, 2015), and is currently working on a book manuscript that further elaborates on the relationship between technology platforms and global processes of urbanization. Fard received his Doctor of Design (DDes) in architecture and urbanism from Harvard University, and his Master of Architecture (M.Arch) from University of Toronto.
Ali Fard is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
ali-fard.com
This event will be held at the Harris Theater on the GMU Fairfax campus and online via Zoom. RSVP is required to receive the Zoom link via email the day-of!
Visual Voices lectures are now available to watch online! Mason Arts Amplified has a new look and platform to make watching and browsing arts content even easier. This online platform is a digital stage and learning space featuring curated arts experiences including livestreamed concerts, releases of previously recorded content, behind-the-scenes talks with artists, and more. It requires a free registration.
Past speakers have included:
Dr. Giovanni Aloi / Morgan Ashcom / Sadie Barnette / Sharif Bey / Rodrigo Carazas Portal / William Christenberry / Sonya Clark / Carolyn Drake / Andriy Dubchak / Kayla E. / James Elkins / Ann Fessler / Colette Fu / Maria Gaspar / Sam Gilliam / Steve Heller / Jon Henry / Leslie Hewitt / Kei Ito / Nora Krug / Steve Kurtz / Lucy Lippard / Taekyeom Lee / Ellen Lesperance / Ellen Lupton / MasPaz / J.J. McCracken / Dr. Cheryl D. Holmes MIller / Adriana Monsalve / Dorothy Moss / Silas Munro / Alyce Myatt / Laurel Nakadate / Jordan Nassar / Lori Nix / Mendi+Keith Obadike / Eddie Opara / Adriana Ospina / PARABOLA Architecture / Michael Rakowitz / Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz / E. Carmen Ramos / Wendy Red Star / Dario Robleto / Mia Eve Rollow / Chemi Rosado-Seijo / Phyllis Rosenzweig / Mario Rossero / Amanda Ross-Ho / Rozeal / Paul Rucker / Carrie Schneider / Simon Schwartz / Bahia Shehab / Kuiyi Shen / Renee Stout / Siebren Versteeg / Angela Washko / Robert Whitman / Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax / Bruce Willen / Deborah Willis / Krzysztof Wodiczko / Agustina Woodgate / The Yes Men