Artist and professor Sergio de la Torre discusses his work documenting the manifold ways citizens reinvent themselves in the cities they inhabit, examining the site-specific strategies that they employ in moving “in and out of modernity.”

Dan Cameron reflects on his experience serving as Chief Curator at Orange County Museum of Art, and in founding and directing Prospect New Orleans—an international biennial developed to bring art world attention to post-Katrina New Orleans.

In Form | Idea, photographer and SFAI teacher J. John Priola discusses how his work intersects documentary and conceptual art, considering the essential relationship between forms and ideas.

In this lecture, Cornelia Butler, Chief Curator of Drawings at MoMA in New York, discusses her work on the first North American survey of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. 

In this lecture, artist Liz Cohen discusses her immersive, multi-media work that looks at how people on the fringe are the engines for invention.

Art historian Simon O'Sullivan discusses his recently published monograph, On the Production of Subjectivity: Five Diagrams of the Finite-Infinite Relation, in this upcoming lecture.

Visual artist and SFAI faculty John Roloff discusses his conceptual work with site, process, and natural systems in the upcoming lecture Sentient Terrains: Selected Works.

Scholar, artist, writer, and curator Thomas Zummer shares his thoughts on philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of technology in this upcoming lecture.

In this lecture, Mark Pauline, an SFAI alum and founder of Survival Research Laboratories, talks about how he helped pioneer large-scale machine performance.

Cuban-born artist Wilfredo Prieto discusses his powerful art with minimal gestures in the upcoming lecture More with Less.