Date: Jan. 22-24

Time: Detailed schedules & locations listed below

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We invite you to Join Us for the Winter Session!

This year, we turn our attention to the act of “gleaning.” Inspired by Agnès Varda’s meditation on collecting the leftovers of the harvest, we ask what it means to gather fragments in our contemporary moment: gleaning the erased histories of the Los Angeles urban sprawl, scavenging the digital artifacts of lost theme parks, and examining how algorithms glean data from ou

CalArts Aesthetics and Politics Winter Session 2025: Gleaning the Digital and the Urban

1/22/2025 

The Urban Anti-Tour 
Location: Santa Monica Pier & Beyond Baroque 

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 
The Anti-Tour of Santa Monica Pier w/ Norman Klein (CalArts) 

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM 
Walking the Urban Landscape w/ Harry Gamboa Jr. (CalArts / Asco) 

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM 
Screening & Discussion: Marc Buehl (Royal Academy, Antwerp), Rudy Drayton Jr. (Los Angeles)

1/23/2025 

The Digital Turn 
Location: 18th Street Arts Center 

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Presentation: mute annonce les polis with Jeff Guess (ENSAPC) 

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM 
Theorist in Residence Seminar with Davide Panagia (Closed Session) 

7:30 PM 
Public Talk: Datapolitik and the Problem of Representation, Davide Panagia (UCLA)

1/24/2025 

The Biopolitical Turn 
Location: 18th Street Arts Center & Venice 

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM 
Theorist in Residence Seminar with Davide Panagia (Closed Session) 

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 
Field Trip: Venice Boardwalk 7:30 PM Public Talk: A “Beautiful Regularity” Davide Panagia (UCLA)