Charissa N. Terranova - CV

Public Talks and Conference Papers

“Software: Jack Burnham and the Medium as System,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 100th Annual Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, March 1-4, 2012

“On the Existential Road: New Ontologies for Conceptual Art and the Embodied
Experience of Technology,” College Art Association, 100th Annual Conference, Los
Angeles, California, February 22-25, 2012

“From Aesthetics to Aesthesis, from Object to Relations: Art, Technology, Mobility, and
Perception,” International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility,
T2M, Berlin, Germany, October 6-8, 2011

“White Walls: Fashion, Function, and Modernism’s Alabaster Walls,” Modern Art Museum
of Fort Worth, Docent Seminar, September 12, 2011

“The Plenitude of History: Case Study Conceptualism,” Texas Association School of Arts
Conference 2011, Fluid Dynamics: Navigating the Fine Arts, Fort Worth, Texas,
September 23-24, 2011

Panelist, “Write. Right. Wrought.” Hybrid Arts Summit, Sponsored by the Austin Museum
of Art, Fusebox, and the Texas Biennial, Austin, Texas, April 30, 2011

“The Institution and Conceptual Art or Institutionalized Conceptual Art,” Eastfield College,
Mesquite, Texas, April 14, 2011

Gallery Talk, Christian Wulffen: Bridges and Constructions, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas,
Texas, January 27, 2011

"The Skin Fetish in Richard Prince’s Work,” International Conference on the Image, University of California, Los Angeles December 2-3, 2010

“The Nows of the Automotive Prosthetic,” Blocked Arteries: Circulation and Congestion History, Institute for Historical Research, University of London, November 25-26, 2010

"Destination Art: Art as Tourism and the Cultural Identity of Provincial Cities," Infra-ville, LIAT (Laboratoire infrastructure, architecture, territoire) de l’Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais, September 30, 2010 declined because of scheduling conflict

“The Nows of the Automotive Prosthetic,” T2M Association: International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility,” Annual Meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, November 5-8, 2009

“The Utopian Drives of Conceptual Architecture: Avant-Garde Architecture in the 1960s and Architectural Theory,” Invited talk at Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas September 13, 2009

Invited Speaker, Public Support of the Arts, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, June 1, 2009, declined due to illness

“Hummer, Hummer Likenesses, and the View to the Road in Iraq: An Iconography of Domesticated Militarism,” 6th Global Conference War, Virtual War & Human Security: The Challenges to Communities,” Budapest, Hungary, May 1-3, 2009

Workshop on Early Automobility History, Rijkswaterstaat, Utrecht, The Netherlands, February 3-8, 2009

Dallas Art Fair, Invitation to speak as part of panel of experts, February 6-8, 2009 declined because of scheduling conflict

“The Modernism of the Ranch House: The Significance of the Housing Stock of Richardson, Texas,” Presentation to the Heights Park Neighborhood Group, Richardson, Texas, January 15, 2009

“Hummer: The Iconography of Domesticated Militarism,” Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency, November 14, 2008

“Mobile Perception and the Double Aperture: Conceptualism, the Car and Urban Sprawl,” Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency, August 28, 2008

“Mobile Perception and the Double Aperture: Conceptualism, the Car and Urban Sprawl,” Comini Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University, April 24, 2008

“From Tower to Megastructure: The Technocratic Aesthetics of French Suburban Housing,” A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis, International Conference, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, Reston, VA, April 6-8, 2008, trip cancelled because of airline bankruptcy

“Mobile Perception and the Double Aperture: Conceptualism, the Car and Urban
Sprawl” The Dallas Philosopher’s Forum, Dallas, Texas, March 25, 2008 

“Back to the Future Heights Park Atomic Playground,” Presentation to the Heights Park Playground Task Force, Richardson, Texas March 6, 2008

“Dallas-Fort Worth through the Double Aperture: Cars, Prosthetics, and Highway Urbanism,” Art History Open Session, Architecture and Urbanism: Dallas, a Case in Point, 96th Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, Dallas, Texas, February 20-23, 2008

“Collecting and Collectivity: Contemporary Art and the Interstices of Acquisition and Community,” Session Co-Chair with Noah Simblist of 96th Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, Dallas, Texas, February 20-23, 2008 

“Mobile Perception, the Double Aperture and Conceptual Art 1965-1974,” Fifth Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility, T2M Association, Helmond, The Netherlands, 25-28 October, 2007

Discussion of Art Criticism, for Dr. Marianne Woods, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Dallas Museum of Art, October 3, 2007

“Revisiting White Walls: Fashion, Flamboyance, and The Rachofsky House,” Public Talk at The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, June 9, 2007

“Fabric, Fashion and the Fold in Architecture,” Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, Texas, April 26, 2007

Panelist on “How Important Are We? Dallas/Fort Worth the Next New York?” Sponsored by the Dallas Art Dealers Association, Latino Cultural Center, April 21, 2007

“The Female Bodies Politic in Contemporary Architecture and Art,” 42nd Annual Women’s Symposium, SMU, Dallas, Texas, March 1, 2007

“Object: Objectivity Objecthood Objectification,” Guest Lecturer in ARTS 1301 Exploration of the Arts, University of Texas at Dallas, January 19, 2007

“Technocratic Aesthetics: Pragmatic Planning and Modern Housing in Postwar France, 1945-1975,” International Planning History Conference, New Delhi, India, December 11-14, 2006

“Brazilian Cities: Mega-Urbanism and More,” Dallas Architecture Forum, Dallas, Texas, November 14, 2006

“Machismo, Castration, Homophobia: A Progressive Politics of Masculinity in the work of McCarthy, Barney, and Gober,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, October 25-28, 2006

“Collecting and Collectivity: The Enigmatic Dialectic of Dallas," La Reunion Artists Residency Program, Dallas, Texas, September 28, 2006

“Revisiting White Walls: Fashion, Flamboyance, and The Rachofsky House,” Public Talk at The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, June 8, 2006 

“Annlee: Pierre Huyghe’s Cipher of Urban Decentralization and Sprawl,” 59th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah, Georgia, April 26-29, 2006

“Collecting and Collectivity: The Enigmatic Dialectic of Dallas," Dallas Association of Social Historians, Southern Methodist University, February, 2006

Critic and Discussant in “Critical Issues Around Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg,” Dallas Museum of Art, November 3, 2005

“The Art of Urban Planning,” The Salon at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, October 20, 2005

“Myths of Miasma: French Film and Modern Housing on the Fringe,” Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Fort Worth, Texas, October 12-15, 2005

“Smell and the City: Myths of Miasma, French Film and Modern Housing on the Fringe,” International Conference Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy, University of Paris X-Nanterre, France, September 30-October 1, 2005

“What is Beauty?” The Salon at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, April 21, 2005

“Typology’s History and the History of Typology: the 1970s and Beyond,” Session Co-Organized with Brendan D. Moran for the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 6-10, 2005

“New Urbanism in Dallas: Pragmatics of Profit or the Morals of Authentic City Experience?” The Picturing of the American West, A Collaboration between the Meadows Department of Art History & the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Dallas, Texas, March 31, 2005 

Art Talk on Urbanisms of Risk: Economies of Technology, War and World in Art, Architecture and the City, an exhibition at the University of Texas at Dallas, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, January 26, 2005

“Rethinking the Vernacular: Cosmopolitan Views onto the Texan Glocal,” Supporting Art at the Grass Roots, Symposium at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, December, 11, 2004

“Time, Sound and the City: Bergsonian Urbanism in France, 1935-1965,” EAAE Conference The European City – Architectural Interventions and Urban Transformations, Delft/Antwerp, Delft, The Netherlands, October 27-30, 2004

"Irredentist Urbanism: Border Politics and Modernism along the French-German Border, 1945-1958," VIIIth International Docomomo Conference, New York City, September 26-28, 2004

“Ceçi n’est pas une architecture: The Urban Tectonic of le grand ensemble,” Urbanism and Urbanization, International Ph.D. Seminar in Urbanism, Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, February 19-21, 2004

“The Architecture of Boston: Constructing American Memory,” English Language Course, Instructor Catherine Gaudin-Deryng, École Municipale Supérieure d’Arts de Rueil-Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France, March 10, 2003

“Non-Conformist Modernism: les grands ensembles and the Forms of the French State,” Seminar in Architecture History and Theory, Professor Pieter Uyttenhove, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium. February 27, 2003

“Renaissance Today: Process in the Present and Reinscribing the Architect Anew,” Journal Début for OASE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 3, 2002

"French State Vernacular: Post-World War II Reconstruction, les grands ensembles, and National Renewal through Active Forgetting," Value of Practice and Knowledge in Building the Second Postwar City, European Association of Urban Historians, Sixth International Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5-7, 2002

“In the Blindspot of Patrimoine: Modern Housing and Constructions of French Citizenship,” The Metropolis and Nationalism European Association of Urban Historians, Sixth International Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5-7, 2002

“An Architecture of Animal Spirits: Contemporary Architecture and the Condition of the Avant-Garde Promise,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11-14, 2002

Critic and Discussant, “Firminy,” Photographs by Arni Haraldsson, Photographs of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation (1968), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, February 8, 2002 

“Architecture Engaged: Leftist Politics, the Avant-Garde and Claims of Criticality in Architecture,” What’s Left of Theory? Cultural Studies Association of Australia, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, December 8-10, 2001

"Architecture Unread: A Politics of the Urban Image and the End of Architectural Legibility in the French Suburb," International Sociological Association, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 15-17, 2001

“Performing the Frame: Daniel Buren, Degree Zero Painting and a Politics of Beauty,” The Performance of Place, Departments of French Studies and Art History, University of Bermingham, England, May 26-27, 2001

“Pop Art: A Short History, or, Towards a Contemporary (Globalized) Ontology,” Maximilien Vox, Lycée du Livre & des Arts Graphiques, Paris, France, March 19 and 21, 2001 

"W(h)ither Postmodernism? Heresy and the Amorals of Contemporary Architecture," PostModern Productions, 3rd International Postgraduate Conference, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, November 24-26, 2000 

"The Speech-Act of Revolution: Henri Lefebvre and the Collective Event of Language," 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Miami, Florida, June 14-18, 2000

"The Art of Iconoclasm: Concept, Riot and the Stuff of Architecture Pedagogy," Critical Studies in Architectural Culture Conference, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California Los Angeles, May 19, 2000

"Visionary Iconoclasm: Revolution and the Subversion of Visual Representation in Guy Debord's Cinematic Practices," Eleventh Annual Berkeley Symposium, Art History Department, University of California, Berkeley, March 18, 2000

"Dwelling as Urban Idea: Functionalist Housing and the Events of May 1968," Hypotheses, Princeton University, February 12-13, 1999 

"From Ur to Urban Sprawl: A Survey of Urban History," Career Discovery Architectural Design Program, Harvard University, July 15, 1998

"Henri Lefebvre's Urban Theory and the Decentralization of Paris," Graduate Student Colloquium, Art History Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, September 2, 1997


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