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All welcome, no instruction.

November 16–December 7, 2012 
SMFA Mission Hill building
160 St. Alphonsus Street
Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120

Wisecrack, irony, and tact are a few words that characterize the work in "WIT," the final show of 2012 season at SMFA's Mission Hill Gallery on view November 16–December 7, 2012. Juried by Randi Hopkins, independent curator and former associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), the works make tangible the often elusive realm of humor and include everything from political, tongue-in-cheek satire to subtle, comical incongruities. Join the artists and keep your wits about you—or lose them—at the closing reception Wednesday, December 5, 5–7 pm.

Exhibiting artists: Caroline Board , Allison Cekala, Chelsea Coon, Jenna Deluca, Gage Delprete, Ario Elami, Claire Elliott, Laura Fischman, Suje Garcia, Kimberlie Garg, Kate Gilbert, Laura Harrison, Sun Yong Hwang, Paul Ishi, Tiara Jenkins, Cody Justus, Muge Karamanci, Charlotte Lewis, Maia Lynch, Katrina Majkut, Monica Lynn Manoski, Courtney McClellan and Julia Eve Preston, Tim McCool, Cathy McLaurin, B Milder, John Neylan, David Richmond, Connie Sawyer, Molly Segal. Andrew Slezak, Gianna Stewart, Garima Tripathi, Rebecca Williams, Toshiki Yoshiro and Esther Zabronsky.

Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)
Fung House, 48 Professors Row, Medford, MA 02155

This colloquium will be a multidisciplinary exploration of the function, definition, role of the 'archive' as a dispositif or apparatus through which individual and collective history, memory, and identity are mediated in the 20th and 21st centuries. If one of the defining characteristics of the traditional archive is its existence as a physical repository of knowledge, many other models and methods have reinvented the system through which verbal, visual, and aural materials are conceptualized, categorized and catalogued. This active questioning of what constitutes the archive—and how the archive constitutes 'the commons'—has been accompanied by a recognition of its role as an 'authority' that governs relations of power. This event asks whether we can define what a 'critical archive' might be by examining practices from different disciplines, cultural contexts, and time periods.

Speakers
Jeffrey Schnapp, What is an Archive?
Richard J. Golsan, Beyond History, Beyond Memory? The Novel as Archive in the New Century
Eric Rosenberg, Trauma's Archive: Photography, Amnesia and the Failure to Document
Tina Wasserman, Unhinged Time in the Digital Archive
Gediminas Urbonas, Memory Hack: Taking Archives into One's Own Hands

The proceedings will be introduced and moderated by Noit Banai, Lecturer, Modern and Contemporary Art, Visual and Critical Studies Department, Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Generously sponsored by the CHAT and the Department of Visual and Critical Studies, Tufts/SMFA.