Event Cancelled - Material ConneXion Shows the Newest and Coolest Materials

Regrettably the speaker from Material Connexion has been called away due to family obligations and will not be able to come to present to us so we are having to cancel this event. 

Date & Time

March 18, 2014 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location

Art, Architecture & Engineering Library, 2nd Floor Duderstadt Center, North Campus

Event Type

Lecture

Learn about the newest and coolest materials on the planet and new trends in materials research and design applications. What are you making? Need a little inspiration and impetus? The library's not just about books and journals!

Material ConneXion, a global materials consultancy with the world's largest library of innovative materials and processes, provides the core of the library's new and growing Materials Collection. A Material ConneXion materials specialists will talk, followed by a reception with light refreshments. Allow time to explore the materials!

The Golden Rule (Fair Use, Re-Use, and New Use)

The Golden Rule (Fair Use, Re-Use, and New Use) [REGISTER]

February 26th. 4:30-6:00 pm.

Hatcher Graduate Library Lab, Room 100

When should you be able to use someone else’s work without permission? Does the answer change when it’s your art being used? The copyright concept of “Fair Use” is the law’s attempt to deal with this question, with mixed results of actual “fairness.” This session will first outline the law and contemporary examples and then discuss campus-based issues.

ArtsLab and the UM Copyright Office will be hosting a series of round-table discussions on topics ranging from intellectual property to business organization to art as an advocacy tool. These events will bring together interested students, staff, and faculty in 60 to 90 minute long sessions designed to introduce a topic and discuss the impact it has on creative arts, careers, and campus life. Even though we will be discussing legal and business topics, these sessions are not legal advice.

What is LectureTools and is it right for me and my class?

Have you heard the name "LectureTools" or seen it in the CTools list of tools and wondered what it is? The Faculty Exploratory and LSA Instructional Support Services are hosting two types of events to help you answer that question. First, we have a demonstration and discussion about what the tool is, the impact it can have on your class, and how it is currently being used here at the University. Second, if you decide you would like to try this tool, we'll have some hands-on workshops that will help you get ready for winter semester. To register for either, please visit http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/tag/lecturetools/

Descriptions of the sessions are below. As always, if you have questions about these or other tools, or would like to be removed from this email group, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools
Tuesday, 10/22, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
If you have a large lecture section, it is sometimes difficult to know which concepts are confusing to students and if they are actively engaged with the material during class. Using LectureTools can be an effective way to directly involve students and solicit their feedback while you are teaching. Activated via your CTools site, this tool allows you to ask multiple choice or free response questions, and lets students flag slides they find confusing, submit questions, and take notes that are synchronized with the lecture slides.

In this demonstration, you will hear from University faculty members who are currently using LectureTools, and how it has impacted their teaching. This demonstration is a broad overview of the tool, focusing on why and how you could use it in your classes; later on in the semester there will be “hands-on” workshops that will get you ready to use LectureTools during the Winter Term.

Getting Started with LectureTools
Wednesday, 10/30, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm OR Thursday, 11/14, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Now that you’ve attended the "Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools" demonstration and understand how LectureTools can enhance your students’ classroom experience, it’s time to get your lectures ready for Winter term. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll start as “students” in a class, so you can experience what LectureTools could be like for your students. After that, we’ll move to the instructor’s side, starting with a tour of the interface. You’ll then learn how to import PowerPoint presentations and insert interactive slides. We’ll discuss the instructor dashboard, how to read and answer student questions, and strategies for successful presentations. Finally, we’ll work in the assessment feature of LectureTools and discuss how to produce reports generated from student responses.

We strongly encourage you to attend the “Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools” demonstration session to see if LectureTools is right for you and your course.

Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists' Books from Women's Studio Workshop

Location: Street Gallery, 1st floor Art & Architecture Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Exhibition dates: September 2-October 21, 2013

Artist Talk: Wednesday, September 25 at 5:00 pm (following the reception), Duderstadt Center, Room 1180

Reception: Wednesday, September 25, from 4:00-5:00 pm, Street Gallery

Sponsor: University of Michigan Library

On Wednesday, September, 25th at 4:00 p.m. The University of Michigan Library will host a reception for the exhibition Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists' Books from Women's Studio Workshop featuring an artist talk by UM alumnae, Toby Millman, who will discuss her experiences completing a residency at the Women’s Studio Workshop to make her book, Facts on the Ground. For further information about Toby Millman see http://www.tobymillman.com/. Refreshments and free, full-color catalogs of the exhibition will be given away at the reception on a first come, first serve basis.

The Hand, Voice & Vision exhibition, on now until October 21st, presents artists’ books by thirty-six artists published over thirty years by Women’s Studio Workshop. Curated by Kathleen Walkup, the exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective featuring some of the most influential contemporary book artists in America. The forty works in Hand, Voice & Vision celebrate three facets that characterize the artist’s book program at Women’s Studio Workshop: the hand-made mark of the book-maker, the unique voices and viewpoints of a broad and diverse range of artists, and the visionary nature of artwork that forges new directions in the medium of book arts. For further information about the exhibition see: http://handvoicevision.com/

In 2012, the University of Michigan Library became a repository for the ongoing collection of artists’ books created at the Women’s Studio Workshop. This repository is located in the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Special Collections. Works can be viewed online in the AAEL Special Collections Artists’ Books Database at http://sitemaker.umich.edu/artistsbooks or in person by appointment. Please contact Annette Haines, Art & Design Librarian at ahaines@umich.edu.

The Data Infrastructures of Thinking and Making

Jamie Allen, artist and Head of Research at CIID (the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design), discusses the relationship between technology, data, truth and representation. His projects deal with the material of media and its infrastructure (http://heavyside.net).

Abstract:
Technologies which manipulate data compose a new media, a new technical image, that is no longer a photograph of some presumed real, but an infinitely inferential and interpretable rendering of supposedly "raw knowledge" from a highly distributed network of spinning platters of silicon. As spheres of representation expand to include the psychic and biological interiorities of our lives, we increasingly see ourselves reflected in this data, not even as others see us, but as machines of collection and interpretation do. Claims of beauty and truth telling that the data body bring forth are not new: these are always the claims made by the apostles of any new media. There is not more truth in data than there is elsewhere, only newly warped reflections. As we examine the data from the mount on our new digital tablets, we are best to ask how this data reflects, rather that what new truth it holds.

MLibrary Emergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.

 

Event Details

Date & Time:

August 9, 2013 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location:Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library

"Making Makers," a program featuring Mark Frauenfelder, this Friday, April 5

Translating Slavery, Translating Freedom panel Nov.28, 4:00-6:00pm

Translating Slavery, Translating Freedom
4:00-6:00pm, Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library
University of Michigan

Presenters will discuss issues related to translation in the contexts of slavery and emancipation.
      
The panel will feature:
Françoise Massardier-Kenney: Translating Slavery
Martha Jones: Emancipation's Many Legalities
Jean M. Hébrard: Translating Freedom in the Atlantic World
Christi Merrill will moderate.

This panel during the Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester coincides with the Proclaiming Emancipation exhibit in the Gallery of Hatcher Graduate Library, and will include light refreshments.    

This event is co-sponsored by the U-M Library, the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, the History Department, the Institute for the Humanities, the International Institute, and the Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester.

Françoise Massardier-Kenney is Professor of French and Director of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University where she teaches in the graduate program in translation. She is the editor of the American Translators Association Scholarly Series, and her publications include Translating Slavery (with Doris Kadish), the monograph Gender in the Fiction of George Sand (2001), a translation of Sand’s Valvèdre (2007) and of Antoine Berman’s Toward a Translation Criticism, and numerous articles on Sand, nineteenth-century women’s writers, slavery and translation. She is the co-editor with Carol Maier of Literature in Translation.

Martha S. Jones is associate professor of history, associate chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and a member of the Law School's Affiliated LSA Faculty, where she is codirector of the Michigan Law Program in Race, Law & History. Her scholarly interests include the history of race, citizenship, slavery, and the rights of women in the United States and the Atlantic world.  Professor Jones is curator of Proclaiming Emancipation on view at the Hatcher Library, with Clayton Lewis.

Jean M. Hébrard teaches history of colonial and post-colonial societies in the Atlantic World in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris where he is the co-director of the Centre de Recherches sur le Brésil Contemporain. He is also the co-director of the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project at the University of Michigan where he has been a visiting professor each fall since 2008. He recently published a book with Rebecca Scott on the circulation of a Creole family in the Atlantic world before and after the Haitian Revolution (Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation), and edited a book on the history of slavery in Brazil (Brésil: Quatre siècles d’esclavage). 

Christi Merrill is associate professor of South Asian literature and postcolonial theory in the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature, and co-director of the Fall 2012 LSA Theme Semester on Translation. She writes about the theory and practice of translation, including Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession (Fordham University Press, 2009). Her 2010 translation of Chouboli, a two-volume collection of the humorous, oral-based stories of contemporary Rajasthani writer Vijaydan Detha won the 2012 A.K. Ramanujan Prize for translation. She is currently working on issues surrounding human rights literature in translation.

Cuban Book Artist talk Dec 5th, 4-6pm at the Library Gallery

Rolando Estévez, from Matanzas, Cuba has created over 500 handmade artist books, magazines, plaquettes, and catalogs for the independent publishing house, Ediciones Vigía. His books are collected privately and in cultural institutions in Europe and the US, such as the British National Library, the Atlantic Art Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the U.S. Library of Congress, as well as numerous universities in the U.S., Canada and other countries in the Americas. The University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, holds a major collection of these extraordinary books.

Please join us for a retrospective presentation by Estévez as he speaks about his work designing these spectacular books over the last twenty-seven years and the role of being an artist in Cuba today. His presentation will be followed by a reception.

December 5, 2012

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Hatcher Library Gallery