Summer Speaker Series: Oliver Botar

Presenter: Oliver Botar

Welcome to the Muse 2024 Summer Speaker Series taking place on Sunday afternoons at 2:00 pm.  This session will be taking place at the Douglas Family Art Centre.

Oliver Botar presents Lake of the Woods: The Algoma of the Winnipeg Artists During the 1920’s.

Recipient in 2022 of the prestigious Moholy-Nagy Award, Oliver A. I. Botar is Professor of Art History and Associate Director responsible for graduate programs and research at the School of Art, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. His Ph.D. (Toronto) was on Biomorphic Modernism and Biocentrism. The nexus of Biocentrism-Modernism, the Bauhaus, the Hungarian avant-garde, László Moholy-Nagy and the origins of new media art have been research focuses. He has lectured, published, and curated exhibitions in Canada, the US, Europe and Japan. He is author of Technical Detours: The Early Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered (2006), Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts (2014; reprint: 2023) as well as numerous articles, book chapters and exhibition catalogues. He is co-editor of Biocentrism and Modernism (with Isabel Wünsche, 2011), Cannibalizing the Cannon: Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe (with Irina Denischenko, et al., 2024), and telehor (with Klemens Gruber, 2013). Botar also works on Canadian art, publishing on Winnipeg Modernism, Lyonel LeMoine FitzGerald and Arthur Lismer, as well as the 2009 volume A Bauhausler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the ‘50s, and is currently working on a book on settler art in Winnipeg from 1913 to 1950. He has curated a number of exhibitions on Canadian art, including “Bauhaus (Canada) 101” at the School of Art Gallery (2020) and is working on a book on Winnipeg as an art centre for the Art Canada Institute in their city series.

Admission is by donation.

For more information contact the Douglas Family Art Centre at (807) 467-2201 or by email at [email protected].