Andrew Lucia

Andrew Lucia’s “Marilyn, [no title] by Warhol, 1967” is included in “Portraits,” on display in John Hartell Gallery.

Last chance: Hip-hop

“Now Scream!” – the first major exhibition of Cornell University Library’s Hip Hop Collection –closes Tuesday, Feb. 4, in Kroch Library’s Samuel L. Hirshland Gallery.

On display: Rare and classic vinyl records, event flyers, photographs, film footage, live performance and interview recordings, and original artwork and sketches by ‘70s Golden Age graffiti writers. The collection arrived at Cornell in 2007 and now includes more than 50,000 items.

The exhibition opened last April amid a communitywide celebration of hip-hop culture, with guests including Afrika Bambaataa, photographer Joe Conzo, DJs, graffiti artists and “Born in the Bronx” author and curator Johan Kugelberg.

Killer in captivity

Cornell Cinema presents the 2013 documentary “Blackfish” Feb. 6 at 7 p.m., the tale of Tilikum, a killer whale responsible for the deaths of three people including his own trainer.

Through interviews with orca trainers (including former SeaWorld trainer Samantha Berg ’89, who will speak via Skype following the screening) and investigations into incidents in Tilikum’s past, director Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s film delves into the consequences of keeping animals in captivity for the sake of human entertainment.

Also, the IthaKid Film Fest begins Saturday, Feb. 1, at 2 p.m. with the 1996 European documentary “Microcosmos.” Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for kids age 12 and under.

Using specially designed equipment, the film casts a magical light on the miniature world of insects. The 35mm print is being provided courtesy of the Institut Français in Paris and the New York City office of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Transformed ‘Portraits’

Artist Andrew Lucia, a visiting lecturer in the Department of Architecture, uses a custom algorithm to break down and transform images of familiar faces until they are nearly unrecognizable in “Portraits,” a new exhibition hosted by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

On display through Feb. 21 in John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome, the exhibition features Lucia’s “after” treatment of iconic self-portraits by artists Andy Warhol and Albrecht Dürer, as well as dissipated images of Warhol’s portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson and others.

The exhibition also includes sound by graduate student composer Taylan Cihan, video of images in the process of transformation, and a 280-by-80-inch digital print on backlit canvas with two series of the artist’s reordered Warhol images. A closing reception will be held Feb. 21 at 5:15 p.m.

Photographer, mentor

Artist Shannon Ebner, this semester’s Teiger Mentor in the Arts at Cornell, will give a free public lecture, “Shannon Ebner and the Photographic Sentence,” Monday, Feb. 3, at 5:15 p.m. in Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall.

Ebner’s work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial; the Sixth Berlin Biennial and the 54th Venice Biennale; in solo exhibits at the Hammer Museum and MoMA PS1; and as part of “Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She is an associate professor of fine arts practice at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Fine Arts and has directed USC’s undergraduate photography program since 2007.



The new Teiger Mentor in the Arts Program will bring a series of internationally acclaimed artists to Cornell over the next three years to visit studio and seminar classes and conduct individual critiques with MFA students.

Cynthia Hogue reading

Poet and translator Cynthia Hogue will read from her work, including her forthcoming collection “Revenance,” Feb. 6 at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Free and open to the public; presented by the Department of English Program in Creative Writing as part of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series.

Hogue is the Distinguished Visiting Writer in the Department of English this semester, and the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.

She has published 12 books including “Or Consequence” and “When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina,” with photographer Rebecca Ross. Her co-translation of “Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem)” by Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy won the Academy of American Poets’ 2013 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.

Information: creativewriting@cornell.edu or 607-255-7847.

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Artist Stephanie Rothenberg discusses the impact of new technologies in a lecture Feb. 6.

Shock of the new

Artist Stephanie Rothenberg will discuss her work, exploring how new technologies are remapping the body and the global landscape, Feb. 6 at 5 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Room 124. Her lecture, “Making the Invisible Visible,” will be followed by a reception; both are free and open to the public.

Rothenberg is an associate professor in the Department of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo. Mapping the impact of new technologies on cultural identity, the workplace and our natural environments, Rothenberg’s interactive media projects engage performance, installation and digital media to expose the power dynamics within technological utopias. She has exhibited internationally, including at the Sundance Film Festival and MASS MoCA.

The talk is part of the Cornell Council for the Arts’ 2014 Biennial, “Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology” and the Department of Performing and Media Arts’ speaker series, New Directions in Media.

Night on Earth

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art hosts its winter opening reception Feb. 6 from 5-7 p.m. with tours, activities and refreshments. Free and open to the public.

The new exhibition “beyond earth art: contemporary artists and the environment,” through June 8, features installations and displays throughout the museum and on the museum façade and grounds, and work by more than 40 artists including “Food-Water-Life/Lucy+Jorge Orta,” materials from the 1969 “Earth Art” exhibition at Cornell and environmental art from the ’70s and ’80s.

Special events in conjunction with the exhibition this spring include a reception for artist Maya Lin following her public lecture April 10, and the Atkinson Symposium in American Studies, April 11.

Global and meaningful

Assessing international experiences and student learning outcomes, and promoting them at Cornell, will be discussed at an upcoming symposium, “What Constitutes a Meaningful International Experience?” Monday, Feb. 10, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. in G10 Biotechnology.

Panel sessions will also address current types of international experiences and institutional strategies and challenges related to global learning. Information: http://einaudi.cornell.edu/node/14273. To register, go to http://einaudi.cornell.edu/meaningful_international_experience_registration.

Guest speakers include Darla K. Deardorff of Duke University, executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators; Michael Vande Berg of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication and former vice president for academic affairs at the Council on International Educational Exchange; and Jane Edwards, dean of International and Professional Experience at Yale University.

The symposium is organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, with Cornell Abroad, the Center for Engaged Learning + Research and the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives.