Hannah Higgins

Contact Information:

Department of Art History (m/c 201)

College of Architecture and the Arts

University of Illinois at Chicago

208C Henry Hall

935 West Harrison Street

Chicago, IL 60607-7039

Telephone: (847) 433-5411

e-mail: Higgins@uic.edu

Education:

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Ph.D., 1994.

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, M.A., Art History,

1990.

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, B.A., Art History, 1988.

Academic Positions:

Associate Professor, Tenured, Department of Art History, The University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL, Fall, 2002 to present.

Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, The University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL. Fall 1994 - Spring 2002.

Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College. Chicago, IL, Fall Semester, 1993.

Course Offerings:

History Lecture: History of European and American Art

1750-1913; History of European and American Art 1913 to the

Present; Art since 1960; World Survey of Art; Introduction to Art History.

Undergraduate Seminar: Methodologies of Art History; Contemporary Art

Graduate Seminar: War Porn: Visualization and Modern Warfare, Eternal Networks (With Joseph Tabbi - English), Form?, Vision/Perception/Knowledge; Between Sound and Vision; Pop Art: An International Perspective; Art History Since 1960; Fluxus and Happenings; Postmodernism; Between Duchamps; Public Art (with Judith Kirshner and Doug Garofalo); Theories of Experience (with Deborah Fausch), Fluxus Artists.

Other: Art at the Venice Biennale (With Lorelei Stewart – Gallery 400), travel course to the Venice Biennale, July 1-10, 2005.

Publications:

Books (sole author):

Fluxus Experience, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, Fall, 2002, Summer, 2003 and Spring 2005. Reviews: The Drama Review, Fall, 2004. Modernism and Modernity, Nancy Perloff, Winter 2005. Umbrella Magazine, vol. 26, no. 1, May, 2003, 32-33. Performance Art Journal, Bonnie Marranca, Winter 2004. Rum: Tidskrift om Architektur, Intretning og Design (Denmark), January 1, 2003. Leonardo, Aug. 2003. ARTbibliographies Modern, 2003. Ballast Quarterly Review, vol. 18, no. 4, Summer, 2003. Critics’ picks with text: Rum (February and March, 2003); Art in America (February and March, 2003), Art Newspaper (March 1, 2003), Balast Quarterly, Vol. 18, Number 4 (Summer 2003).

In Progress:

Life of the Grid, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, expected date 2008.

Mainframe Experimentalism, (co-edited with Douglas Kahn) Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, expected date, 2008.

smArt: Cross-modal Education in the Arts from Black Mountain to Cal Arts.

Articles:

“Catch as Kitsch Can: Greenberg’s Essay and the Degradation of Form,” in Pat Morton, ed., Taste in Architecture, London: Routledge, forthcoming.

"Transflux," in Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance, James Harding, ed., Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006.

“Eleven Snapshots of Dick Higgins: A Biographical Essay,” in Dick Higgins, College Park, MD: University of Maryland Press, 2003.

“The Ritual Readymade and Other Lessons of the Fluxmass,” Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University 1958-1972, ed. Geoffrey Hendricks, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press and Mason Gross Art Galleries, 2003, 220-230.

"Fluxing Across the Sensory," Convergence, Yvonne Spielmann, guest ed., vol. viii, no. 4, Winter, 2002, 59-77.

“Curiouser and Curiouser: Looking through the Museum of Corn-temporary Art,” Culture is Everywhere, Victor Margolin, ed., Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2002, pp. 110-115.

"Fluxus and the Sensible Thought," in The Fluxus Constellation (museum catalogue), Genoa, Italy: Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, 2002, pp. 54-70.

"Duchamp Through Shop Windows," Electronic Book Review (UIC), Sept. 15, 2001. This is an online journal just listed by the MLA and run by UIC's Joe Tabbi (English), ten pages.

Appendix to "Dick Higgins: Intermedia," in Leonardo, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2001, pp. pp. 54-55.

“Flux Generations,” Interview, Art Journal, v. 59, no. 2, 2000, pp. 6-17.

"Compleat Hirsch Farm" in Hirsch Farm Project, Mitchell Kane, ed., Hirsch Farm Project: Northbrook, IL, 1999, pp. 5:21-27.

"Fluxus Fortuna" in, A Fluxus Reader, Ken Friedman, ed.,

London: Academy Press, 1998, pp. 31-62.

"Fist Grips by Alison Knowles" in Alison Knowles: Fist

Grips, Bremen, Germany: Lichthaus, 1996, pp. 306.

"A Fluxus Cantata," Politiken, Copenhagen, DK, February,

1995, pp. 26-7.

"Notes Toward Indigo Island: A Conversation between Alison

Knowles and Hannah Higgins" in Alison Knowles: Indigo

Island, Catalogue, Stadt Gallerie Saarbr�cken, Germany,

1994, pp. 86-115.

"Critical Refluxions: or, Fluxcribnotes," in New Art

Examiner, Chicago, IL, March, 1994, PP. 17-24.

"Changing Names and Naming Change: Fluxus as a Proper Noun"

in Fluxus Virus, Ed. by Ken Friedman, Gallerie Schűppenhauer

and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 1992, pp. 68-90.

"Reflections on Alison's Studio," in Das A und O: Hidden

and Found in an Attic, Catalogue, Galerie Lehnstredter 62,

Bremen, BRD, 1986.

Reviews and Miscellaneous:

Published Comments,“ECO-TISTICAL ART: A DAY-LONG ART AND ECOLOGY INITIATIVE,” in Art Journal, Spring 2006.

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"Visual Display," (Book Review), Design Issues, vol. xiii, no. 1, Spring,

1997, pp. 83-86.

"Eric Andersen," "Albert Fine," "Joe Jones," in Films ou

Cinema. La Collection d'un Muse, Paris: Centre Georges

Pompidou, 1996, unpaginated, two pages each.

"Totally Excellent: Fluxus 1992," in New Art Examiner,

Chicago, IL, May, 1993, pp. 32-36.

"Fluxus: Germany, Denmark, Sweden, U.S.A." in ArtPapers,

Atlanta, GA, Spring, 1993, pp. 16-17.

Mention for significant research contribution to Action

Theater: The Happenings of Ken Dewy, by Barbara Moore,

Franklin Furnace, Inc., New York, NY, 1987.

Editorial:

Editor, with Douglas Kahn, Mainframe Experimentalism: Artists and Computers 1060-1970, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, expected date Fall 2007.

Editor, "Intermedia” (Special Segment), Leonardo, v. 34, no. 1, 2001, 49-54.

Fluxus Vivus, Catalogue Editor and Author, "Fluxelephant:

An Introduction" and "What's a Little Arguing Among

Friends?," The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1993.

Curatorial and other:

Introduction, discussant, organizer, “Abu Ghraib: The Pornography of Warfare” (symposium), University of Illinois Chicago, February 10, 2007.

Co-Curator, "Between Sound and Vision," Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, February, 2001. Reviews: “Between Sound and Vision,” The Chicago Reader, Fred Camper, March 2, 2001. “A Sound Exhibition that’s Out of Sight,” The Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner, March 8, 2001.

Co-curator, "The Life and Art of Dick Higgins," Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, November, 2000. (Traveling, seven destinations, 2001-2004) Reviews: James Yood, Artforum International v. 39, no. 1, March 2001, 148-9. Chris Thompson, Art New England, v. 23, no. 4, June/July, 2002, p. 31.

Co-curator, "Friday Apple Blossums: A Celebration of the Life and Art of Dick Higgins," (an evening of performance), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 5, 1999.

Independent Curator, "Fluxus Virus: A Photographic Timeline,"

Kölner Kunstverein, Cologne, BRD., Summer, 1992.

Curatorial Intern, Harlekin Art. Wiesbaden, BRD, June-July 1989.

Curatorial/Archival Intern, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum,

New York, NY, Fall, 1987.

Curatorial/Archival Intern, Franklin Furnace, Inc. New

York, NY, Summer, 1987.

Public Speaking:

Conference, Museum and Keynote

“Intermedia and Intelligence,” at “Multiples: Beuys and Fluxus,” Harvard University, April 14, 2007.

Introduction, discussant, organizer, Abu Ghraib: The Pornography of Warfare (symposium), University of Illinois Chicago, February 10, 2007.

“The Experimental Classroom,” on “Interclassrooms” panel at College Art Association, New York, NY, February 14, 2007.

“Intermedia and Intelligence,” New York University, Tisch School of Drama, February 13, 2007.

“Post Humanism and Contemporary Art: Historic Precedents,” at Humanism in the Age of Enhancement, Chicago-Kent College of Law Center on Nanotechnology and Society, January 24, 2007.

Public Discussion with John Ricco, “Performance Pedagogy,” The University Of Nevada at Las Vegas, April 8, 2006.

“Fluxus Information Systems,” The University Of Nevada at Las Vegas, April 7, 2006. (Lecture/Performance with living slides).

Co-organizer/panelist, “The House of Dust Project,” Co-organizer with Douglas Kahn, Panel, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 11, 2005.

Keynote: “Convertible Grids,” at “You Needed Me: An International Symposium of Performance Art,” Mount Allison University, NB, Canada, October 7-9, 2005.

Respondent/Commentator on Kinji Akagawa, “ECO-TISTICAL ART: A DAY-LONG ART AND ECOLOGY INITIATIVE,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Atlanta Georgia, February 17, 2005.
 
“The Work of Alison Knowles,” (Introduction to Commencement Speech), Maine College of Art, May 15, 2005. 
 
“Cross Modal Education in the Arts, 1950-1970,” Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, January 28-30, 2005.

"In the Belly of the Beast: The Artists' Daughter as Art Historian" College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, (panel) Working on Living Artists, February 20, 2004.

"Mr. Intermedia: The Life and Art of Dick Higgins," Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, October 29, 2001 and University of Minnesota Deluth, October 17, 2003.

"The Multiple Intelligences of Fluxus," (revised) The Art Institute of Chicago, May 11, 2003 and Centraal Fluxus Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland, October 23, 2003.

"Mr. Intermedia: The Art and Life of Fluxus Artist Dick Higgins," University of Minnesota Deluth, October, 14, 2003.

Lecture/organizer, “The House of Dust” Co-organized with Douglas Kahn, University Of California, Davis, April 9, 2002.

“The Multiple Intelligences of Fluxus,” Duke University, April 4, 2003; 4T Fluxus (Paris), November 19-21, 2002; and Nikolaikirke, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 22, 2002.

"Fluxing Across the Sensory," University of Chicago, Department of Art History, April 4, 2002.

"In and Around Intermedia," Keynote Lecture for the exhibition, "Mr. Intermedia: The Life and Art of Dick Higgins," University of Maine at Orono, January 25, 2002.

"Fluxing Across the Sensory," Odense Performance Festival, Odense, Denmark, September 11, 2001, Roskilde Museum of Modern Art, October 16, 2001, Malmø Academy of Art, Malmø, Sweden, October 17, 2001.

Chair/Respondent: "Are We Experienced?" College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, February, 2001.

"Fluxus Realism," Art Now Conference, SUNY New Paltz, October 2, 1999.

"Compleat Hirsch Farm," Hirsch Farm Project Conference: MCA Chicago and Hillsboro, Wisconsin, August 4, 1999.

"Marcel Duchamp: Unpacking the Boite," The Art Institute of Chicago,

April 7, 1998.

"Fluxus as Dynamic Culture," Visiting Scholar Series,

Universitäts Gesamthochschule, Kassel, Germany, May, 1996.

"Alison Knowles and Fluxus: A Presentation/Performance,"

Ujadewski Castle, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw,

Poland, March 8, 1995.

Respondent, "In the Spirit of Fluxus," The San

Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2 June

1994 and The Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, 25 February 1994.

Respondent, "Fluxus Territories: Navigating a

Conceptual Country," The Mary and Leigh Block Gallery,

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 23 September 1993.

"Fluxus Performance," "In the Spirit of Fluxus," The Museum

of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 5 December 1993.

"Fluxwind: Fluxus and the Changing Currents of the

Avant-Garde," Gallery 400, University of Illinois at

Chicago, Chicago, IL, 15 November 1993.

"Introduction," Fluxus Vivus, The Arts Club of Chicago,

Chicago, IL, 2 November 1993.

"Demonstrations," Fluxus Publicus, The Walker

Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 12 February 1993.

"Demonstrations," Fluxus as History(session), College Art Association, Seattle, WA, 4 February

1993.

Colloquia and Workshops

Panelist,"The Dick Higgins Collection" at University of Maryland Baltimore County, October 16, 2003.

Panelist, "Jean Dubuffet's lecture: ‘Anti-Cultural Positions,’” Intuit Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, April 19, 2002.

Workshop, "Fluxus Performance," University of Maine, Orono, January 26, 2002.

Panelist, "Points of Contact: Failed Utopias," Smart Museum, University of Chicago, November 30, 2001.

Respondent, "Art in the Age of Cybernetic

Reproduction," (Graduate Student Conference), Duke University, March 29, 1997.

Advisory/Support and Administrative:

Manuscript reviews, Duke University Press, University of California Press, University of Minnesota Press (ongoing), 2004 to present.

Manuscript reviews, The Art Journal, 2004.

Co-Executor, Estate of Dick Higgins, 1998-Present.

Manuscript Reviews, University of California Press, 2002-present.

Reviewer, Helen Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Volume 11, 2001 of Chapters 33 and 34, Early and Late Twentieth Centuries.

Board Member, Randolph Street Gallery, 1992-1996.

Organizer, Fluxus and Happenings, 1995, Chicago, IL, with UIC and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. November, 1995.

Planning Consultant, Fluxus Festival Chicago, 1993, Chicago,

IL with the School of the Art Institute, the Museum of Contemporary Art,

The Arts Club of Chicago, Gallery 400 (UIC), the Art

Institute of Chicago and the Mary and Leigh Block Gallery (NU).

Coordinated scheduling. January-October, 1993.

Artists' Assistant, Fluxus. New York and Europe,

1979-1989.

Honors and Fellowships:

Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching(undergraduate), UIC, 2002.

Foreign Travel Award, The Graduate College, The University

of Illinois at Chicago, March, 1995.

College of AAUP, Travel Aid, The University of Illinois at

Chicago, March, 1995.

The Getty Center Collections and Resources Research Grant,

Santa Monica, CA, 1994.

The University of Chicago Committee for Travel Fellowships,

Denmark and Sweden, 1992-3.

Visiting Committee on the Visual Arts (The Smart Museum,

Chicago), The Getty Center, Santa Monica, CA, May, 1993.

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Staatsgalerie

Stuttgart, Stuttgart, BRD, Fall, 1992.

Full Scholarship, Unendowed Funds, The University of

Chicago, 1990-93.

Academic Service:

Associate Dean, Academic Affairs (50% appointment, 2005-2007) Charged with developing interdisciplinary courses and research, faculty development.

Department Committees

Search Committee (1994-5, 1996-7, 2000-2001, 2005-2006)

Curriculum (1995-7, 1998-2000)

Personnel (1995-97, 2000-2001, 2002-2003)

Graduate Program Committee (1999-2000, 2000, 2002-3)Director, 2004-5

Self Study Committee (Fall, 1999)

Executive Committee (2000-2001)

College Committees

Executive Committee (2004-5, 2005-2006)

Gallery 400 Exhibitions (1995-Present)

Visual Resources Committee (1996-7)

MCA Lila Wallace Initiative Contact (1997-2000)

College Educational Policy Committee (1998-Present) Chair (2001-2 – developed Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts course rubric, 2002-3)

University Committees

Campus Core II: Public Art Subcommittee (1997-Present)

Gateway Park Project (2001-2)