2022 Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture: Oscar Santillán

Gather live in Ostrove Auditorium for a virtual-talk and Q&A with Oscar Santillán, who will deliver the 2022 Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture. The artist will speak about his practice and introduce the research and work that he will be doing at Colby College during the 2022–23 academic year.

The livestreamed talk and will be followed by an in-person reception. Those who are unable to attend in person are invited to view the talk via Zoom.

Santillán is a 2022–23 Lunder Institute Senior Fellow, in partnership with Colby’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence. The Ecuadorean artist, who resides in the Netherlands, works across the fields of artificial intelligence, performance, sculpture, anthropology, Indigenous studies, geography, biology, and critical theory.

This will be the first event with the artist, who will be on campus for several extended visits this spring and will work with students, faculty, staff, and our local and regional community. In addition to the Lunder Institute fellowship, Santillán is one of five artists selected by the Holt/Smithson Foundation for The Island Project: Point of Departure, a project that invites each artist to develop proposals responding to an island in Maine that was purchased sight-unseen by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in 1971.

The Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture is cosponsored by the Colby Museum and its Lunder Institute for American Art, the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and the Buck Lab for Climate and Environment.