Great Hall Auditorium

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  • Marvin Heiferman, “Why We Look”

    Great Hall Auditorium

    As part of the ArtNOW Visiting Artist Series, Marvin Heiferman will speak about grief, photography and image sharing. After the March 2020 COVID-related death of his husband – the noted cultural critic and curator Maurice Berger - and when grief struck and as words failed him, Heiferman suspected photography wouldn’t.  Since then, daily postings of images and their accompanying captions on his Instagram account have functioned as intimate, frontline reports on the experience and processing of grief.  Widely viewed and written about, his online project has engaged thousands in a communal dialog and is now the subject of an upcoming documentary film short.

    ArtNOW events are free and open to the public.

  • Ink & Electricity: “When Grammar Wasn’t Enough: Machine Storytelling in the 1960s and 1970s”

    Great Hall Auditorium

    Professor Dennis Yi Tenen will deliver the 2026 Ink & Electricity lecture, “When Grammar Wasn’t Enough: Machine Storytelling in the 1960s and 1970s.” Tenen brings a literary perspective to the discussion of machine intelligence, tracing the path from early grammar-based story generators to their eventual convergence with frame-based approaches. This convergence marked the historical origins […]

  • Ink & Electricity Lecture: When Grammar Wasn’t Enough: Machine Storytelling in the 1960s and 1970s

    Great Hall Auditorium

    Dr. Dennis Yi Tenen, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, brings a literary perspective to the discussion of machine intelligence. He will take us from the emergence of early grammar-based story generators to their eventual convergence with frame-based approaches. This convergence marked the historical origins of automated machine storytelling that anyone would […]