School of Critical Studies

In the after-hours of Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3, a group of CalArts students gathered at El Cid in the Silver Lake neighborhood of L.A. for several hours of poetry and prose readings. Organized by Steph Smith (Critical Studies MFA 20) with the help of Jess Wolford (Critical Studies MFA 19), the...

Last week, the CalArts School of Critical Studies hosted Kevin Young as its 2019 Katie Jacobson Writer-in-Residence. As part of his residency, Young held morning workshops with MFA Creative Writing students on Feb. 7 and 8. During these two-hour sessions, students had the opportunity to discuss...

Beginning Saturday (Feb. 9), Shelter or Playground will be on view at The MAK Center, a contemporary, experimental and multidisciplinary space headquartered in architect Rudolph M. Schindler’s house and studio in West Hollywood., Calif. Curated by Maud Jacquin, Anna Milone and Sebastien Pluot,...

On Saturday Jan. 26, the CalArts MA Aesthetics and Politics program hosts the day-long AIAC conference at the West Hollywood Public Library. The conference serves as the conclusion to the AIAC research project, whose name stands for Algorithms, Infrastructures, Art, Curation, and is described by...

On Saturday, Jan. 26, Skylight Books in Los Angeles hosts author and CalArts alum Johanna Hedva (Art MFA 2013, Critical Studies MA 2014) to discuss Hedva's 2018 book, On Hell, with fellow CalArtian Asher Hartman (Art MFA 03). Hedva began the 106-page novel while a grad student at CalArts. It...

Aliens — regardless of your beliefs on their existence — are alive in the collective imagination of our culture. On Wednesday, Jan. 23, CalArts’ 2019 MA Aesthetics and Politics Theorist in Residence N. Katherine Hayles will present her lecture Human as Alien: From Frankenstein to Ex Machina and...

As we celebrate the start of the new year, 24700 takes a look back at the most popular blog posts of 2018. It's easy to see from the list of highlights from each school that CalArtians are affecting the world in many recognizable ways. School of Art CalArtians Among Artists Selected for Made...