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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, April 12, 2024 11:00 am to 12:00 
 pm \n Room 1072 \n Sidney Smith Hall \n 100 St George Street, Toronto, O
 N M5S 3G3 \n\nSpeakers \nAdam Lauder, PhD, History of Art, University o
 f Toronto \n\nDescription: \nUrban space is a privileged subject of first-
 generation conceptual art produced in Canada during the 1960s and 1970s. A
 lthough at first glance this investigation of the built environment might 
 appear to signal a shift away from the nationalist landscape tradition ass
 ociated with the earlier Group of Seven, curator Scott Watson has drawn a
 ttention to how early photo-conceptual practices approached the vacant spa
 ces of suburban Vancouver as a “new ‘wilderness’” (2011 [1991], p. 265),
  one that harkened back to the depopulated representations of landscape fo
 und in the work of earlier colonial painters. This talk will revisit the e
 mergence of the Vancouver School with an eye to its protagonists’ historic
 ally freighted relationship to public space in the built environment. The 
 result will be a reassessment of conceptual practitioners’ subterranean af
 filiations with modernist precedents, as well as a recovery of more diver
 se case histories of conceptual practice across Canada and the inclusive g
 eographies they document. This presentation will ask: Which spaces have be
 en commemorated by the art-historiographical record? Which have not, and 
 why?Lauder’s scholarship on conceptual practices includes two recent books
 , Variable Conditions: Paracomputational Arts in Canada, 1965-1995 (MQUP
 , 2023), and Out of School: Information Art and the Toronto School of Co
 mmunication (MQUP, 2022). Additionally, Lauder has published peer-review
 ed articles on architectural topics including the landscape architecture a
 nd preservationist designs of Montreal architect Percy Nobbs (Future Anter
 ior, 2010), the industrial architecture of Albert Kahn (with Lee Rodney\
 ; Future Anterior, 2015), the built environment of Detroit (with Lee Rod
 ney; MQUP, 2018), and Indigenous public art and public space in Toronto
  (Scapegoat, 2021).Adam Lauder graduated with a PhD from the Department o
 f History of Art at the University of Toronto in 2016. Lauder was co-curat
 or with Mark P. Hayward of Computational Arts in Canada 1967-1974 (2020) a
 t Western University’s McIntosh Gallery, and has contributed articles to 
 scholarly journals including Afterimage, American Indian Quarterly, Cana
 dian Journal of Communication, PUBLIC, and The Journal of Canadian Art H
 istory, as well as features and shorter texts to magazines including Bord
 er Crossings, C, Canadian Art, e-flux, esse, and Flash Art. In 2017-2
 019, Lauder was SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at York University, and is cur
 rently an adjunct professor at OCAD University. \n\nSponsors \nDepartment 
 of Art History \n100 St George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3 \n\nCategorie
 s \n Special Event \n\nAudiences \n Postdoctoral FellowsCurrent Graduate S
 tudentsCurrent Undergraduate StudentsFaculty
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LOCATION:100 St George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
SUMMARY:Conceptualism in Canada and the Politics of Urban Space w/Adam Laud
 er
URL;TYPE=URI:https://arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/conceptualism-canada-and
 -politics-urban-space-wadam-lauder
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