Stephanie Shih
Cross-modal Conversations:
Semiotic Context in Art & Language
Public Lecture
Friday, February 7
3-4PM, followed by reception
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Artist Workshops with Stephanie Shih
Open to Stanford students, faculty and staff
Space is limited; please RSVP for location details
Bouba Kiki Scavenger Hunt
Saturday, February 8, 1-3PM
Explore cross-modality connections between language and the world around us. We’ll start by learning about features in spoken languages–how sounds are produced and perceived–and explore their symbolic relationships with objects and categories in the world. Then we’ll walk around campus to “scavenge” for sound symbolic patterns, which will be used for a collective bouba/kiki collage.
Your Still Lifes
Sunday, February 9, 1-3PM
Learn about how still lifes are powerful mediums for telling personal narratives and create your own mini still life composition together in small groups. Bring a personal item of significance to incorporate into your still life photo, which you will make with the artist in a still life photobooth.
About the Artist
Stephanie Shih (史欣雲) is a visual still life artist working in photo and multimedia installation and an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. As a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American, Shih explores themes of contemporary and historical cultural dynamics of the diaspora through her still life creations, drawing on her background in semiotics and cognitive science research to recode the symbologies of the still life canon. Shih has completed residences at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (2024), Museums at Washington and Lee University (2023), and Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (2022). Her recent solo exhibitions include Los Angeles Center of Photography, USC Pacific Asia Museum, and Museums at Washington and Lee University. Shih's photography has been featured in outlets including Lenscratch, Gastronomica, Audubon Magazine, Buzzfeed News, and Los Angeles Times.
This event is hosted by Stanford Arts Institute (SAI) with support from Stanford Humanities Center and the Office of the Vice President for the Arts.
If you need a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact us at artsinstitute@stanford.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.
Contact:
Stanford Arts Institute
artsinstitute@stanford.edu
