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Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture - 'EBayAday: a curated, month-long art exhibition featuring site-specific work'

Date: 2/20/2007; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: WORK gallery, 303 S. State St, Ann Arbor

Host Department: Institute for the Humanities

Rebekah Modrak, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
Aaron Ahuvia, School of Management, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Zack Denfeld, MFA candidate, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
Collaboration in the Humanities

Detailed Information
This presentation will demonstrate and report on an experimental project that established on EBay a curated, month-long art exhibition featuring site-specific work. (http://www.ebayaday.com/) Works in this exhibition consisted of auction listings that exploited, redefined or underscored eBay's potential in the exchange of ideas, objects and commerce. The collaborative project was supported by funding from the Institute for the Humanities and the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Rebekah Modrak, Associate Professor, School of Art & Design; Aaron Ahuvia, Associate Professor of Marketing - Management Studies, UM-Dearborn School of Management; Zack Denfeld, MFA candidate, School of Art & Design, UM.

Free and open to the public.

Contact Information
Doretha Coval
734 936 3518
humin@umich.edu