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Food For Thought: Brett Kaplan and Ben Grosser

Event Type
Lecture
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Food for Thought: A series of public events featuring research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows.
Location
Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Date
Oct 24, 2024   11:00 am - 1:00 pm  
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Food For Thought: Brett Kaplan and Ben Grosser

Thursday, October 24th, 2024
Brett Ashley Kaplan
Ben Grosser
11:00am-1:00pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
919 W. Illinois St
Urbana

Event Description

Food for ThoughtA series of public events featuring research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows.

We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in when you can to learn about the exciting projects undertaken by our faculty.

11:00am-11:45am: Brett Kaplan, CAS Associate 2023-24, Comparative & World Literature

Epiphany’s Lament

Epiphany’s Lament is a novel about looted art, failure, loss, intersecting displacements, and love. Poppy (a piano refinisher), and Max (an FBI Art Crime special agent) search for a looted Velázquez which may or may not have been hidden in a Vietnamese Refugee Center by a mysterious Belgian charmer with quite an elaborate past.

Noon-12:45pm: Ben Grosser, CAS Associate 2022-23, Art + Design

Finite Social Media, Degrowth Aesthetics, and Reimagined Digital Futures

What if social platforms didn’t need—or want—our endless attention? How are cinematic narratives reflecting and reinforcing the techno-optimist’s devotion to growth and scale? Does TikTok’s feed algorithm really cater to our interests, or does it just feel that way? This talk will present recent and in-progress art projects that deploy an aesthetics of degrowth, an intentional practice of investigating, manipulating, and recomposing the digital landscape in ways that recapture a feeling of the finite in the face of our digital infinite.

Brett Ashley Kaplan

CAS Associate 2023-24
Comparative & World Literature

Ben Grosser

CAS Associate 2022-23
Art + Design

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