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TFAP@CAA 2025 Day of Panels | MAKING TROUBLE: WOMEN, ART & SCIENCE

February 15 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

TFAP@CAA Day of Panels 2025
MAKING TROUBLE: WOMEN, ART & SCIENCE

Saturday, February 15, 2025
9:00am – 4:30pm
Hilton Midtown, NYC (in-person)
Concourse G
Chair: Anonda Bell, Rutgers University
Free and open to the public.

College Art Association 113th Annual Conference | New York City, February 12–15, 2025

Art Historian Linda Nochlin stated that, “feminist art history is there to make trouble, to call into question, to ruffle feathers in the patriarchal dovecotes.” This event is dedicated to women who are troublemakers, and whose creative practice references science as a source of inspiration for writing, research, curating and art making.  Through their work they question underlying assumptions about the world, how standard scientific processes and methodology which aspire to objectivity may instead be steeped in bias and discrimination, leading to flawed and inaccurate, entirely subjective data outcomes.  Some have adopted science-based art making techniques, materials and concepts, to explore ideas about humanity.  Women, for many years, were not able to aspire to formal careers as scientists as they were excluded from places of higher education. The same could be said of the visual arts – women were not seen in museums but they were still making art.  In both cases, it was incorrectly assumed that women lacked certain physical and mental capacities, thus justifying their exclusion. This event will focus on both the physical sciences (including artificial intelligence, trans-species organ transplants, DNA, ecology and natural history) and the social sciences (including psychiatry, hysteria, and mysticism).

MAKING TROUBLE: WOMEN, ART & SCIENCE
Schedule

9:00am – 10:30am
Introductions and Keynote
Connie Tell, The Feminist Art Project, Welcome
Anonda Bell, Rutgers University, Science & Art Introduction
Anne Swartz, Savannah College of Art & Design, Unnatural Sciences
Suzanne Anker, School of Visual Arts, KEYNOTE ADDRESS

11:00am – 12:40pm
Panel #1: PEOPLE
Stephanie Dinkins, Stony Brook University
Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Independent Artist
Magdalena Dukiewicz, Independent Artist

1:30pm – 2:30pm
Panel #2: EXPERIENCE
Laura Splan, Independent Artist
Eva Lee, Independent Artist

2:45pm – 3:25pm
Panel #3: PLACE
Michele Oka Doner, Independent Artist
Natalie Waldburger, OCAD University

3:25pm – 4:30pm
CLOSING SPEAKER
Crochet Coral Reef: Crafting Against Patriarchy in Science and Art
Margaret Wertheim, The Institute for Figuring

Details

Date:
February 15
Time:
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Event Category:

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Event Contact Name/Email
tfap@nationalwca.org

Venue

Hilton Midtown, NYC
1335 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10019 United States
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Phone
(212) 586-7000
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