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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Master of Architecture
Master of Architecture with emphasis in Interior Architecture
Michael Golec
Courses Taught (Two Academic Years Prior to Visit):
SP 09 ARTHI 6118 Theory and Technology in
Contemporary Art and Design
F 09 ARTHI 6118 Theory and Technology in
Contemporary Art and Design
SP 10 ARTHI 5120 Survey of Modern/Postmodern
Design and Architecture
F 10 ARTHI 6118 Semper and Beyond: A
Historiography of Architecture and Technology
Educational Credentials:
PhD Art History, Theory, and Criticism 2003
MA History of Design, University of Illinois, Chicago
1997
BFA, Graphic Design, University of Illinois, Chicago
1991
Teaching Experience:
Visiting Associate Professor and Anschutz
Distinguished Fellow Princeton University 2010-2011
Iowa State University 2003-2008 (full time)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2008- Present
(full time)
Selected Publications and Recent Research:
Publications:
“Modern Mind and Typographic Modernity in
Gyorgy Kepes’ Language of Vision,” in Modern
Mind, eds. Mary Jane Jacobs and Jacquelynn Baas
(Forthcoming 2011).
“‘From the Far Corners:’ Telephones, Globalization,
and the Production of Locality in the 1920s” in
Global Design History, eds. Glenn Adamson, Giorgio
Riello, and Sarah Teasley (Forthcoming 2010).
“Discontinuity, Constancy, and Wonder in Powers
of Ten” in The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and
Pedagogy in the Life Sciences, eds. Nancy Anderson
and Michael R. Dietrich (Forthcoming 2010).
Review Essay: “Purloined Letters and Prehistories
of Graphic Design,” American Quarterly 62, no.
(2010). “‘Motionmindedness:’ The Transposition
of Movement from Factory to Home in Chaplin’s
Modern Times,” Home Cultures 7, no. 3 (2010).
“Logo/Local Intensities: Lacan, the Discourse of the
Other, and the Solicitation to ‘Enjoy,’” Design and
Culture 2, no. 2 (2010).
“’The Thinking Man’s Filter:’ J.L. Austin’s Ordinary
Architecture Program Report | 198
Language Philosophy as Cultural Criticism, Cultural
Critique 72 (Spring 2009).
“Science’s ‘New Garb:’ Aesthetic and Cultural
Implications of Redesign in a Cold War Context,”
Design Issues 25, no. 2 (Spring 2009). Architecture
Moves, Cooper Union, New York, NY.
Paper: “Minimum and Maximum Mobility: Tony
Smith’s Typographic Modernity” 2009. Design on
Film, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,
New York, NY.
Paper: “Fixing Powers of Ten” 2009. Benjamin’s
Objects, Design Studies Forum, College Art
Association, Los Angeles, CA.
Paper: “The Presence of the Human Thing in Walter
Benjamin’s ‘On the Mimetic Faculty’” 2009. Toward
a History of Design in a Global Economy,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Paper: “’From the Far Corners:’ Telephones,
Globalization, and the Production of Locality in the
1920s” 2009. “Riding the Rift: Tony Smith’s
New Jersey Turnpike and the End of Art,” Princeton
University, School of Architecture. 2009.
Coeditor and contributor, Relearning from Las
Vegas (University of Minnesota Press 2009).
Brillo Box Archive: Aesthetics, Design, and Art
(Dartmouth College Press 2008).
Professional Memberships:
Review Editor, Design Issues 2003-2009
Editorial Board Member Design and Culture
Advisory Board Member Visible Language
College Art Association
Design Studies Forum