László Moholy-Nagy’s Feminist Entanglements

Oliver A. I. Botar, Professor of Art History, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Wednesday, March 20th, 16:00-17:30 (online event)

Recipient in 2022 of the prestigious Moholy-Nagy Award, Oliver A. I. Botar is Professor of Art History and Associate Director 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 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) as well as numerous articles, book chapters and exhibition catalogues. He is co-editor of Biocentrism and Modernism (with Isabel Wünsche, 2011), 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 taught courses at the School of Art on “Canadian Art Since World War II,” “Prairie Modernism,” “Manitoba Modernism,” “Bauhaus-Canada” and “Art in Treaty One Territory.” He has curated a number of exhibitions on Canadian art, including, most recently, “Bauhaus (Canada) 101” at the School of Art Gallery (2020).