Mairead Byrne – RISD Academic Affairs

Byrne, Liese, and Schiff Present at SAR Conference on Writing

Written on May 17, 2016. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts, Writing Center.

Mairéad Byrne (Professor, Literary Arts+Studies), Jennifer Liese (Director, Writing Center), and Karen Schiff (Lecturer, Graduate Studies) each presented at the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) annual conference on 28th and 29th April in The Hague. SAR...

Grants awarded: Global Engagement for Curricular Development Fund

Written on March 24, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Global Partners + Programs.

The Associate Dean of Faculty and the RISD Global office are delighted to announce the recipients of the pilot Global Engagement for Curricular Development fund: -Mairead Byrne (Professor, Literary Arts & Studies) will visit Seoul, South Korea...

Uncreative Practices: A Cross-Divisional RISD Symposium

Written on March 10, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design, Fine Arts, Foundation Studies, Graduate Studies, Liberal Arts, Updates from the Museum of Art.

RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium March 11, 2015, 2-4.30pm Conversations have been building across RISD around Kenneth Goldsmith’s ideas of uncreativity (Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, Columbia University Press 2011), and the...

Faculty Biennial includes Faculty Forum programs

Written on February 19, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design, Graduate Studies, Liberal Arts.

Faculty Forum This year, the Museum offers an expanded opportunity for RISD faculty to share their works of art and design in theFaculty Biennial exhibition or present their research and expertise as teaching artists in a Faculty Forum. In this new...

Turner Fund grants awarded

Written on December 9, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates.

Congratulations to recipients of the Robert Turner Theatrical and Performance Design Project grants for academic year 2015-16: Nick DePace (Senior Ciritic, Interior Architecture) and Bob Moody (Critic, Illustration) Behind the scene(s): The artifice,...

Writing+ Final Event, 12/3

Written on November 25, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Tuesday December 2 CIT 103 6.30pm-9pm For the final class of Writing+, the audience is our honored guest. During the semester, we have invited RISD faculty Sandy Gourlay, Mimi Cabell, and visitors John Cayley, Kenneth Goldsmith, Nick Montfort, and...

Nick Montfort: Read, Write, Execute

Written on November 11, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Tuesday November 11 NICK MONTFORT: READ, WRITE, EXECUTE—YOU, YOUR GROUP, YOUR WORLD Nick Montfort develops literary generators and other computational art and poetry, and has participated in dozens of writing collaborations. He is the principal of...

Amaranth Borsuk: The Hand and the Page in the Digital Age

Written on November 11, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Tuesday November 18 AMARANTH BORSUK: THE HAND AND THE PAGE IN THE DIGITAL AGE Amaranth Borsuk is a poet, scholar, and book artist interested in textual materiality across media–from digital interactive works to hand-made objects. Her books include As...

Kenneth Goldsmith: Uncreativity as Creative Practice

Written on October 14, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Graduate Studies.

Tuesday October 21 KENNETH GOLDSMITH UNCREATIVITY AS CREATIVE PRACTICE: A PRIMER Kenneth Goldsmith (RISD BFA Sculpture 1984) is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and poetics which redefine and vastly expand the field. He is the founding...

RISD 2050 Fund recipients selected

Written on May 27, 2014. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design, Fine Arts, Foundation Studies, Liberal Arts.

Congratulations to the recipients of the second cycle of awards from the RISD 2050 Fund! Mairéad Byrne (Professor, Literary Arts & Studies) for Writing +, a new graduate course for Fall 2014 focusing on the making of imaginary and imaginative models...

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