IAS News

IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung presented their current research project "Imagination Stations: Heads in the Cloud" at the 32nd annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)—Out of Mind—in Toronto, Canada, November 15-18, 2018. The project involves ...

IAS Artists-in-Residence Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali’s latest collaborative  installation was prominently featured on King 5 TV and The News Tribune. On November 11, 2018 Ali and Sugano unveiled their new public artwork titled “Hello. How Are You?” on their own front yard located in Tacoma, Washington. Comprised of bright white letters measuring 4 feet in height, the large-scale outdoor installation spells out the common American greeting “Hello. How are you?” For their special launch event ...

IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert presented a meditation on "When thought insults itself" at the Tuning Speculation 6 conference—Auscultations | Occultations, Listening to the Occult—in Bloomington, IN, November 2-4, 2018. The paper argues ...

On November 8, IAS alum Kristopher Dane presented his doctoral research “Does building geometry affect active shooter outcomes?” at the SecureWorld Expo in Seattle. His research discusses how current building standards for protective design focus on a “fortress” approach that does not effectively protect against contemporary attack vectors such as active shooters.  Furthermore, these standards provide little guidance to private building owners whose facilities are increasingly targeted by “active shooters.” His findings show that overall building geometry has an effect on ...

IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an op-ed in Truthout on the First Step Act, a bipartisan reform measure now supported by the Trump administration. In reviewing the proposed law, Berger highlights the bipartisan failure to attend to the policies that would meaningfully reduce the number of people in prison. Berger also delivered two recent talks on similar topics ...