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February 25, 2021 at 5:30 PM via Zoom

Madeline Schwartzman is a NYC writer, filmmaker and architect whose work explores human narratives and the human sensorium through social art, book writing, curating and experimental video making. Her book See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (Black Dog 2011) is a collection of futuristic proposals for the body and the senses. See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded (Black Dog, 2018) focuses on the human head—presenting an array of conceptual and constructed ideas for how we might physically extend the head, mind, and brain into space. 

Schwartzman’s experimental art practice, Face Nature, brings humans in close proximity to plants, with installations on the human body that form uncanny hybrids and present a vehicle for mutual subjectivity. Her anthropocentric practice aims to create a crack in human awareness, and serve as an antidote to passivity and inaction surrounding the future of nature. Schwartzman exhibits work and gives Face Nature workshops around the world, including at Space P11 in Chicago; the Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam;; San Francisco College of Art; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan; Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven; The American School Madrid; and the IAAC, Barcelona. She is a long-term faculty member at Barnard College and at Parsons: the New School for Design.  
 

The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture series has brought over 80 distinguished guests to the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia since 2002. Visiting Artists and Scholars spend three days on campus interacting with students and faculty, the culmination of which is a public lecture on the subject of the artist’s or scholar’s work.