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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Illustrating the Renaissance Book: From Illumination to Woodcut
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a selection of manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th to the 17th centuries that were illustrated with illuminations and woodcuts. Throughout the European Renaissance (1300-1700)\, many book illustrations were exclusively ornamental\, while others focused on enhancing the meaning of the text. However\, as the pages on display attest\, all these illustrations share a common ground: they reveal the aesthetic and intellectual fashions first proposed by Italian artists of the 1400s\, who were strongly committed to the recovery of the past of classical antiquity.\n\nThe word “Illumination\,” from the Latin illuminare\, “to enlighten or to illuminate\,” refers to the embellishment of a manuscript or early printed book with luminous colors\, notably gold and silver. This illumination was prominent in the frontispiece\, or first page of text\, which included the decoration of its borders and initial letter\, and even miniatures\, that is\, scenes with an independent narrative. With the introduction of movable-type printing in 1454\, these illuminations would be gradually replaced by woodcuts\, which were printed from a woodblock that had been cut by knife along the grain of the wood.\n\nAvailable during Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room hours (https://myumi.ch/2m7d4).\n\nJoin us on September 13 for a talk by Pablo Alvarez\, curator of the exhibit.
UID:109814-21823025@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109814
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Library,Free,Exhibition,Books
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor
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DTSTAMP:20230805T113442
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231208T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231208T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!!
DESCRIPTION:Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance\, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology\, robotics\, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women\, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves. \nTrained as an engineer and an artist\, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex\, layered\, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving\, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood\, technology\, female bodies\, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to\, and alternative to\, patriarchal\, capitalist\, production-based\, and seemingly rational\, useful\, logical systems. \n“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F\, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.\nThis  project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.
UID:109535-21822263@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109535
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:feminism,Art,focus on women,institute for research on women and gender,Arts Initiative,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Engineering,Exhibition
LOCATION:Lane Hall
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DTSTAMP:20231207T081536
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231208T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department Seminar Seminar Series: Subha Maity\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Statistics\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The problem of algorithmic bias\, where machine learning algorithms reflect biases that are prevalent in their training datasets\, is widely recognized as a major concern. In this talk\, I will discuss two of my projects related to algorithmic biases that are caused by underrepresentation of minority groups. In the first project\, we demonstrate that when learning representations from standard contrastive learning methods\, the representations of minority groups merge with the representations of certain similar majority groups. We refer to this phenomenon as representation harm and demonstrate that it leads to allocation harms in downstream classification tasks. In the second project\, we investigate whether enforcing group fairness is aligned with improving model performance. In light of the long-held belief that enforcing fairness comes at the cost of reduced model performance\, we present an alternative perspective on the problem. In cases where the machine bias is due to the underrepresentation of minority groups\, we show that enforcing fairness is often in line with improving model performance on a balanced test dataset. Furthermore\, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for such an alignment.
UID:115647-21835198@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/115647
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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