Charissa N. Terranova is Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Dallas Residency. She is currently writing a book-length manuscript on the automobile and perception. Under the working title The Automotive Prosthetic, the book focuses on the aesthetic experience of seeing the world in motion through the car window and the global political economy of the car in the postwar period. The working draft includes six chapters on the following topics: conceptual photo-text works and mobile perception; Hummers and urban warfare, at home and abroad; cyborgs and the representation of prosthetic enhancement; automobile and road exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the post WW II period; the eroticism of the automobile; and automotive culture in film.

As Director of Centraltrak, Dr. Terranova brings artists from Texas and around the world to live in Dallas, curates exhibitions, and programs symposia. The following three symposia and one public dialogue will be held at Centraltrak in Dallas, Texas in the next eighteen months:

SYMPOSIA

* Woman Body Image: Lives of the Cyborg Manifesto, March 7, 2009, Dr. Orit Halpern, The New School, NYC, Irina Aristarkhova, Pennsylvania State, and Juliet MacCannell, University of California, Irvine

* Digital Sense: Sound Image and Object at the Interstices of New Technology, October 2009

* Kinetics of Urban Sprawl: Cybernetics and the City in the 21st century, February 2010, Dr. Peter Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Mitchell Schwarzer, California College of the Arts, Dr. Antoine Picon, Harvard University, and Dr. Peter Galison, Harvard University

PUBLIC DIALOGUE

* Janus Face, Antipode, or Homologue: Feminism and Conceptualism, 1965-75, May 2009