Fellowships

Fellowships

 

 

2022-2023 Heller Center Fellows


 

 

Mark miller

Thursday, October 20 * 6pm

Dr. Mark Miller
Assistant Professor
Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CHAIN) Hokkaido University

What do social media and gaslighting have in common?

What the neuroscience of predictive processing teaches us about communication that makes us thrive vs despair.  Social media is implicated today in an array of mental health concerns today. In this talk, Dr. Mark Miller will discuss the cognitive mechanisms behind why we find it so hard to stop engaging with these platforms when things obviously begin to deteriorate for us, as well as show how some social media platforms represent highly effective ways of warping our model of the world- which in turn leads to the mental health challenges we see today. This same cognitive framework will also be applied to elucidate some of the devastating effects of “gaslighting” and other forms of misinformation.

Dr. Miller will be in residency starting October 16-23

*Co-sponsored with the Department of Communication 

 

 


 

Jon Rubin

Thursday, May 4 * 5-7pm

Jon Rubin
Professor of Art 
Carnegie Mellon University School of Art

Art in Context: A conversation with Jon Rubin

Jon Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist who creates interventions into public life that re-imagine individual, group and institutional behavior. He has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Mercosul Biennial, Brazil; the Shanghai Biennial; the Carnegie International, The Lyon Biennale; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran; as well as in backyards, in living rooms, and on street corners. 

During his fellowship at the Heller Center, Jon will launch a new site-specific project in The Yard, a project space and site for public art run by Jessica Langley and Ben Kinsley (Assistant Professor of Visual Art, UCCS) in their front yard in the Divine Redeemer neighborhood of Colorado Springs.

Jon and Ben will lead a discussion about contemporary site-specific art practices and their own projects, collaborations, and initiatives on Thursday, May 4  from 5-7pm at the Heller Center for Arts & Humanities.

All are welcome to attend the public opening and reception for Jon's exhibition on Saturday, May 6 from 4-8pm at The Yard (1010 N. Logan Ave. Colorado Springs, CO 80909).  http://whatsintheyard.com/

Jon Rubin will be in residency starting April 30 - May 7

*Co-sponsored with the Visual and Preforming Arts

 

 

 

 


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Past Fellowships

Pedro Lange-Churiόn
Photographic Portraiture as Civic Contract
Pedro Lange-Churiόn
Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
University of San Francisco
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Humanities
Spring 2022
Leland Harper
Do Racists go to Heaven?
Leland Harper
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy
Siena Height University
Co-Sponsored with Dept. Philosophy
Fall 2021
Public Lecture: Intersections of Poetry & Art
Public Lecture: Intersections of Poetry & Art
Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Professor of English
South Dakota State University / South Dakota Poet Laureate
Co-Sponsored with Dept. of English
Spring 2021

 

 
Artist In Residence
Artist In Residence
Dohee Lee
Dance Artist
Dept. of Visual & Performing Arts (Dance)
Fall 2020

 

 
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
George Lewis
Professor
Colombia
Co- Sponsor with Dept. of Visual & Performing Arts (Music)
Fall 2019

 

 
Representational Belonging: Healing Historical Trauma Through Narrative
Representational Belonging: Healing Historical Trauma Through Narrative
Ramona Beltran
Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work
University of Denver
Co- Sponsored with the Kraemer Family Library
Fall 2019

 

 
Peter Coviello
Peter Coviello
Peter Coviello
Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of English
Spring 2019

 

 
Rogue Objects
Rogue Objects
Janani Balasubramanian
Performance Artist
The Public (New York City)
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Visual & Performing Arts (Theatre)
Fall 2018

 

 
Reading and Writing the Land
Reading and Writing the Land
Joni Palmer
Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Geography & Environmental Studies
Spring 2018