"Teaching Pornography" - Constance Penley's Keynote Public Lecture August 18, 2006

"Teaching Pornography" Constance Penley's Keynote Public Lecture for SFAI's 2006 Summer Art Writing Conference

Lecture Hall, SFAI, 800 Chestnut St., SF
Free and open to the public

San Francisco Art Institute proudly announces that Constance Penley will present the Keynote Public Lecture for this year’s Summer Art Writing Conference. Her lecture is titled Teaching Pornography and will take place on Friday, August 18 at 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall at SFAI's 800 Chestnut Street campus. It will be free and open to the public. SFAI's Summer Art Writing Conference, now in its 21st year, is an intensive forum for examining the issues that influence contemporary art criticism. This year's conference keynote speaker, Constance Penley—once named by Rolling Stone one of the eight most dangerous minds in America—is currently Professor of Film Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Film, Television and New Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her major areas of research interest are film history and theory, feminist theory, media and cultural studies, contemporary art, and science and technology studies.

During the week that follows Penley's lecture, SFAI will host a series of presentations lead by renowned writers and critics including Bill Berkson, DeWitt Cheng, Okwui Enwezor, JoAnne Northrup, and V.Vale, as well as a free public performance of Oscar Wilde's legendary play, The Critic as Artist to take place in the Lecture Hall on Monday, August 21st at 7:30pm.

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