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Research Faculty Current Endeavors
14. Contemporary Aesthetic Practices and Cultural Debates Each member of the HTC faculty, in one way or another, addresses issues that are of concern our contemporary world. Caroline Jones publishes frequently in Art Forum, with recent critical essays on Rosemarie Trockel, Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, and others. In 2002, Jones organized a conference held at Boston University and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on “Medium and its Messages," and has contributed to various museum catalogues on contemporary artists such as Eliasson and Matthew Ritchie. Stanford Anderson has continued to publish on contemporary topics, as in "Quasi-autonomy in Architecture: The search for an ‘in-between’" in Perspecta (2002). Nasser Rabbat has been a prolific contributor to Arabic newspapers and journals such as Wughat Nazar, Akhbar al-Adab, Jaridat al-Funun, al-Hayat and al-Mustaqbal. He deals with issues of cultural politics, architectural history, art and architectural criticism, and occasionally reviews books, art exhibitions, and films. Arindam Dutta has worked on the globalization of intellectual property laws and the implications for an architectural practice; he has also at work a book, due out in 2009, on the radical art group Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) in India. Mark Jarzombek has published in Il Projetto ("Dresden's New Synagogue and the Problematics of Bauen," Spring 2001). And finally, in an attempt to reintroduce the question of pedagogy into debates about contemporary practices, Dutta and Jarzombek organized a conference on contemporary architectural pedagogy (held November 2003). Anthony Vidler, Gwendolyn Wright, Mark Wigley, Beatriz Colomina and others gave presentations.
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