Anthropogeomorphology: The built landscapes of America, the ways in which people alter landscapes, individually and collectively, and what those landscapes say about "us".

Thursday, October 25th, 2007
7:00pm-8:30pm
Sage - Bowers
205 Prospect Street, 2nd Floor

Matthew Coolidge has been the director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) since its inception in 1994. CLUI is a research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues that takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to their investigation, drawing on the natural sciences, sociology, art, architecture, and history. The work of the Center has been presented in museums and exhibit spaces across the United States, as well as in the institutions own network of exhibit facilities. Matthew Coolidge was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004, a Media Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2005, and the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian in 2006. He is the author and editor of several books, including Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation; The Nevada Test Site: A Guide to the Nation's Nuclear Proving Ground; and Route 58: A Cross-Section of Southern California. He teaches in the graduate curatorial practice program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. For more information on the Center for Land Use Interpretation please visit: www.clui.org

Anthropogeomorphology is sponsored by the School of Art: Sculpture, The Department of the History of Art: Photography, and the Land-Use Coalition at Yale.