Abstract
Plenary Panel Discussion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Memory and Monumentality
Moderated by Elizabeth Bacon Eager, Art History, SMU
lauren woods is a conceptual artist based in Dallas, Texas, whose hybrid media projects engage history as a lens by which to view the socio-politics of the present. Some of her work, which has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, explores how traditional monument-making can be translated into new contemporary models of commemoration with new media. One of her better-known works is Drinking Fountain #1, a new media monument to the American civil rights movement, located underneath the remnants of a recently rediscovered Jim Crow “White Only” sign in the Dallas County Records Building in Dallas, Texas, the installation is part sculpture, part intervention, and part of a larger public artwork. She has been the recipient of grants and awards from numerous institutions including the Creative Capital Foundation, The Tribeca Film Institute, College Art Association, Alliance of Artists Communities and The San Francisco Foundation.