Adelheid Mers

talks + presentations

   
Stone Summer Theory Institute 2009, Focus on Practice Session, organized by Frances Whitehead, Presentation: Art as Research, SAIC, Fall 2009
 
Community University Research Partnership conference: “Whose Show is it, anyway? Community - engaged performance and exhibition arts in the small city”, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada workshop leader: "Conversation Mapping and Collaborative Live Diagramming”, Spring 2009
 
CAA conference; with Nick Lowe, “Ethics of Responsibility – from individual burden to organizational opportunity”, Panel: New Thoughts on Teaching Museum Ethics, chair, Janet Marstine, PhD, Seton Hall University, Spring 2009
 
Hochschule Zwickau, Department of Applied Art, Schneeberg, Germany; Mapping the desired evolution of the department as it adds a master’s program; faculty workshop; Summer 2008
 
Visiting Artist, University of Central Florida: live mapping a virtual seminar with Katherine Hayles and Terry Harpold; mapping workshop with Craig Saper; Orlando, February 29, 2008
   
Artist Talk, Bauhaus University Weimar, New Media Division, Weimar, Germany, Winter 08
 
Community University Research Partnership conference: “Mapping Culture and the Quality of Life in Small Cities”, in conjunction with the “The Last Best West” conference, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada panelist: “Mapping Culture and Social Change”, Fall 2007
 
  Phone conversation with Lynne about Second Life as part of the audio catalog for Lynne Heller's Exhibition: This show is Rented, December 2007, Toronto
 
Artist Talk, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin, Germany, Summer 07
 
  Artists Connect: Adelheid Mers connects with Carl Blechen. Art Institute of Chicago, May 5, 2007 (podcast of talk)
 
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL juror, MFA exhibition, Spring 2007
 
  CAA conference, New York; panel: FATE open session, paper: "Foundations as Triage", Feb. 14-17, 2007 (mp3)
   
  “Shift • Connect • Evolve”, FATE conference session chair: “Assess, Situate, Disperse – Addressing Diversity of Artistic Approaches in Foundations”; Milwaukee, WI, Spring 2007
   
Artist talk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, Fall 2005
 
 

Art as Research: The Art of the Artist Statement, Symposium Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada presentation: “Cognitive and representational preference and the Early Adopters Exhibition”, Fall 2005

Talk available on DVD in: “Art as Research”, diagram and lecture (on DVD), “Open Letter”, Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Artists' Statements & the Nature of Artistic Inquiry, Thirteenth Series, No. 4: Fall 2007

 
The Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, Chicago, IL panelist, “The Art of the Artist Statement”, Spring 2005
 
Artist Talk, mapping workshop; University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Spring 2005
 
Artist Talk, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin, Germany, Winter 2005
 
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL panelist; What happens when artists take over an institution?, Summer 2005
 

“Imaging Politics”, Presidential Debates series, panel discussion, Drake University, DesMoines, IA, Fall 2004

 
Kunstschule Rudolstadt, Germany; lecture and workshop: “Vilém Flusser: The World as Surface”, Winter 2003
 
Artist Talk, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, Spring 2003
 
Artist Talk, Medienhochschule Köln, Germany, Winter 2002
 
Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany presentation: “Integration of Theory and Practice in Higher Art Education”, Winter 2002
 
APA Convention, Chicago discussant, session on giftedness and creativity, chair, Patricia D. Stokes, Barnard/Columbia University, NY, Fall 2002
 
Ethics and the Arts Conference; panelist on: “Feminists Face the Arts”, led by Peg Brand and Eleanor Heartney; Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Fall 2001
 
Artist talk and juror, annual student show, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Spring 01
 
CAA Conference, Chicago; speaker in the session “If one is good, why not two?, chair, Laurie Palmer paper: “Applied Aesthetics” , Spring 2001
 
Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference; paper: “Smart Thinking, Ugly Work - Formulating a Relativist Aesthetic from Personal Experience”; in conjunction with a workshop conducted by Elisabeth Condon; Barnard College, NY, Fall 2000
 
Art, Media and Not-Sense series Paper: “A catholic Look at the Role of the Artist in the Age of Digital Technology ” Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, Fall 1999
 
Conference on the Arts and Humanities in Public Life, inaugural conference of the Cultural Policy Center at The University of Chicago; formulated and presented artist and arts organizations fall-out group results; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Fall 1999
 
Artist Talk, Glasgow School of Art, Environmental Arts Program, Glasgow, Scotland, Fall 98
 
Artist Talk, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, Fall 98
 
Artist Talk; UC Davis, Davis, CA, Spring 98
 
Artist Talk, UIC, Chicago, IL “Voices”, lecture series, Gallery 400, Spring 97