I will be co-chairing a session with Alice Twemlow, School of Visual Arts at the College Art Association in New York City in February 2011. Our panel, “What’s Art Got to Do With It? Design Writing in the Twenty-First Century,” will include the
presentations “Useless: Art History and a Taste for the Useful”—Cameron
Tonkinwise and Shana Agids, Parsons The New School for Design;
“Expanding Design Criticism”—Carma Gorman, Southern Illinois University
Carbondale; “Design Journalism, Anonymity, and the Critical
Audience”—Gerry Beegan, Rutgers University; “The Emerging Aesthetic of
Ugly: Fabbing, Modding, Hacking, and the Power of DIY Interventions, an
Assessment”—Kevin Henry, Columbia College Chicago; “Implosure”-- Kenneth Fitzgerald, Old Dominion University.
