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Sharon Irish Vitae, last updated July 2016.
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Sharon Irish
slirish (at) Illinois (dot) edu
DEGREES
1985   PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Art History
1982   MA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Art History
1976Â Â Â BA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
      cum laude in Art, magna cum laude in General Studies
CURRENT TITLE
January 2012-present Project Coordinator, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
âStephen Willats and the Performance of Information Flows,â Computer Arts Society, London, U.K., May 9, 2016
âPredictive and Prescriptive Thinking: Considering Stephen Willats,â Anticipation Research Group, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., April 28, 2016
âCoded Landscapes: Stephen Willatsâ Place-Based Work in the UK,â Museo Tamayo, México, D.F., February 10, 2015
âFemTechNet,â Open Education: Condition Critical, Centre for Disruptive Media, Coventry University, November 20, 2014 (via Skype)
With Radhika Gajjala, âDialogues on Feminism and Technology,â Munroe Center for Social Inquiry; âTechnology Changes; Women, Pedagogy, and Technology at The Claremont Colleges, November 15, 2013, Pitzer College, Los Angeles, CA
With Radhika Gajjala and Alexandra Juhasz, FemTechNet Video Dialogue on âPlaceâ November 14, 2013, Pitzer College, Los Angeles, CA
Central Library Reinvented, May 8, 2013, St. Louis, MO, âCass Gilbertâs St. Louis Public Libraryâ
Network 45-plus: Post-War Architecture in Europe: Community Spaces: Conception, Appropriation, Identity, September 8, 2012, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, âTwo Doves to Tower Mosaic: Artists in Public at Warwick and Brindley Estate, Londonâ
Visual Studies Colloquium, November 3, 2011, Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, IL, âPositionality, Performance, Participation: The Art of Suzanne Lacyâ
Rewire: the 4th International Conference on Media Art Histories, September 28-30, 2011, Liverpool, UK, âThe Socio-spatial Practice of Artist Stephen Willatsâ
Tryk Tryk Tryk Gallery, June 18, 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark, âTraversing Art: Works by Suzanne Lacyâ (book talk)
Erasing Boundaries: Service-Learning in Landscape Architecture and Architecture, April 30, 2011, New York City [Poster] âSpaces of Connection: Designing a High-Tech Collaborative Space for Youth,â with Deven Gibbs, Martin Wolske and Debarah McFarland
Computers, Information and Society Special Interest Group, Society for the History of Technology, October 3, 2010, Tacoma, Washington, âMeta Filter: Coming to Agreement with Interactive Computer Technologyâ
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, Emily Carr University, September 29, 2010, Vancouver, BC, "Participation, Performance and Positionality in Suzanne Lacy's Art Practiceâ
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 7, 2010, Roundtable, âDiversity and Democracyâ conference, with Sam Smith, Ken Salo, and Ryan Griffis, âReflecting on Campus-Community Interactions: Arts, Activism and Public Memoryâ
Urbana Free Library, March 17, 2010, Urbana, IL, âConcepts in Public: The Art of Suzanne Lacyâ (book talk)
College Art Association Annual Meeting, February 2010, Chicago, IL, âAspects of the Civic: Chicagoâs Daley Center and Plazaâ
Community Informatics Initiative Research Series, January 27, 2010, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, âImperfect Communityâ
GRANTS
2015, Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant Program, Stephen Willats, 1970-2012
2015, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Stephen Willats, 1970-2012
2014, Colston Research Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bristol (UK), Department of Drama: Theatre, Film & Television, âIn the Margins? Local Knowledge and Self-Organisationâ
2011, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, IL, Research and Development Grant, âThe Socio-spatial Practice of Artist Stephen Willatsâ
2003-2005, University of Illinois Research Board, âThe Embodied Art of Suzanne Lacyâ
2000-2001, University of Illinois Research Board, âLayers in the Loop: âFull Circleâ by Suzanne Lacyâ
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between (University of Minnesota Press, 2010).
Cass Gilbert, Architect: Modern Traditionalist (New York: Monacelli Press, 1999). (invited)
Winner of David Gebhard Book Award of the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2000; Winner of Publication Award, Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America, 2000; Finalist, Minnesota Center for the Book Award in History, 2000; published as e-book by Random House, 2010
Edward N. Kaufman and Sharon L. Irish. Medievalism: An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Research in the Architecture and Art of Britain and North America. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
Edited Volume
With Angela Rivers, Ryan Griffis, Ken Salo, and Sam Smith. Revisiting Murals, Animating Neighborhoods (Urbana: University of Illinois Printing Services, July 2010).
Special Issue of Technology and Culture: Essays in Honor of Carl Condit 30(April 1989).
Book Chapters
âArt in Public at Warwick and Brindley Estate, London.â In Community Spaces: Conception â Appropriation â Identity. Edited by Maren Harnack, Tobias Michael Wolf, Sebastian Haumann, et al. (Berlin: ISR Impulse Online/Institut für Stadt- und Regionalplanung, 2015).
With Deven Gibbs and Debarah McFarland. âSpaces Of Connection: Implementing the Design of a High-Tech Learning Space for Youth.â In Community Matters: Service Learning and Engaged Design and Planning. Edited by Mallika Bose, Cheryl Doble, Paula Horrigan, and Sigmund Shepp. (New York: Routledge, 2014). (refereed)
ââGreat Gray Buildings’: The United States Army Supply Base in Brooklyn, New York.â Pp. 163-174. In Cass Gilbert, Life and Work: Architect of the Public Domain. Edited by Barbara S. Christen and Steven Flanders (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001). (invited)
âCass Gilbert in Practice, 1884-1934.â Pp. 1-34. In Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert. Edited by Margaret Heilbrun and Mary Beth Betts (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). (invited)
Articles in Journals and Encyclopedias
âCritical Spatial Practices in U.S. Cities since 1960.â Companion to American Urbanism. Edited by Joseph Heathcott (Routledge, 2016). (invited)
âNew Genre Public Art.â Reading Contemporary Performance: Theatricality across Genres. Edited by Gabrielle Cody and Meiling Cheng (Routledge, 2015). (invited)
âHierarchies in the Circuitry: Women, Information Technology and Scholarship (WITS) at Illinois.â Technologyâs Stories [online publication of the Society for the History of Technology] (November 2013). (invited)
With Penny Evans. âStructures of Participation: Performing Local Knowledge.â International Journal of Progressive Education 9:3(October 2013). (refereed)
With Martin Wolske, Deven Gibbs, Adam Kehoe and Vera Jones, âOutcome of Applying Evidence-based Design on Public Computing Centers.â Journal of Community Informatics. 9:1(2013). (refereed)
With Angela Rivers. âMapping Cultural Migrations between Champaign and Chicago.â Issue 12(2012) AREA Chicago.
âThe Performance of Information Flows in the Art of Stephen Willats.âInformation & Culture: A Journal of History 47:4(November/December 2012). (refereed)
With Noelle S. Williams, Ann P. Bishop, and Bertram C. Bruce, âCommunity Informatics for Whom?â Journal of Education in Library and Information Science 53:3(July 2012), 218-221. (refereed)
âWhither Tycoon Medievalism? [on Carnegie Library at Bucknell]â Journal of American Literary History 22:4(Winter 2010). (invited)
âHistory, People, and Informatics: A Conversation with Wendy Plotkin,â Digital Humanities Quarterly 4:2(Fall 2010). (refereed)
âAlong Paseo Boricua: The Art of Josué Pellot Gonzalez,â Journal of Arts and Communities 1:2(December 2009): 115-128. (refereed)
âPreservation, Polemics and Power,â Technology and Culture 49:1(January 2008): 202-214. (invited)
Critical Spatial Practices Group [Nicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Kevin Hamilton, Sharon Irish, Sarah Kanouse]. âWhat Makes Justice Spatial? What Makes Spaces Just? Three Interviews on the Concept of Spatial Justice.â Critical Planning 14(2007): 6-27. (refereed)
âShadows in the Garden: âThe Dark Madonnaâ Project by Suzanne Lacy.â Landscape Journal 26:1(Spring 2007): 98-115. (refereed)
âSkyscrapers.â Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Pp. 724-726. Volume 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.
âAwareness through Movement: Anish Kapoorâs âCloudgateâ in Chicago.â Senses and Society 1(March 2006): 97-99. (invited)
âTenant to Tenant: The Art of Talking with Strangers [on Stephen Willats].â Places 16.3 (2004): 61-67. (refereed)
âIntimacy and Monumentality in Chandigarh, North India: Le Corbusierâs Capitol Complex and Nek Chand Sainiâs Rock Garden.â Journal of Aesthetic Education 38(Summer 2004): 105-15. (invited)
âNew York City Skyline, about 1915.â Technology and Culture 43(January 2002). (invited)
Video Dialogues and White Papers
Producer and interviewer. âBodies, with Karen Flynn and Dorothy Roberts.â November 8, 2013, FemTechNet Collective
Producer and interviewer. âWomen, Information Technology and Scholarship at Illinois, with Jenny Barrett, Leigh Estabrook, Gail Hawisher, and Angharad Valdivia.â September 2013, FemTechNet Collective
FemTechNet White Paper Committee. âTransforming Higher Education with Distributed Open Collaborative Courses: Feminist Pedagogies and Networked Learning.â September 2013,
Guest Blog Posts
âArchiving a Network, Networking an Archive,â Lacy Justice/New Criticals, produced by Tamsyn Gilbert, February 16, 2016
âThe Monstrous Feminine: Lady Gaga in a Meat Dress,â University of Minnesota Press Blog, October 27, 2010
Doctoral Thesis
“Cass Gilbert’s Career in New York, 1899-1905,” Northwestern University, 1985
Advisors: David Van Zanten; Carl Condit