Senior Week concerts

The Cornell University Wind Ensemble and Cornell Chorus and Glee Club will perform Senior Week concerts May 28.

CU Winds, with conductor Cynthia Johnston Turner, perform at 2:30 p.m. on the Arts Quad. The one-hour concert will feature international and American music as well as Cornell songs. The concert is free; no tickets required. Rain location: Barton Hall. Information: http://www.cuwinds.com.

The Chorus and Glee Club will sing separately and together under the direction of Scott Tucker, 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. The concert program will end with a set of Cornell songs. Admission is $10; tickets are available at http://www.baileytickets.com, at Ticket Center Ithaca on The Commons (607-273-4497) and at the door.

Consuming icons

Icons -- figures and ideas regarded with reverence and worship -- and their role in contemporary American society are the subject of a student-curated exhibition, "iCON: Consuming the American Image," through June 12 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

With diverse works by such artists as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the exhibition explores how the status of an icon is suspended between an object of cultural consumption and a subject of social destabilization. Iconic representations and images construct our collective and individual identities through portrayals of national imagery, celebrity and advertising.

The exhibition is curated by undergraduate student members of the History of Art Majors' Society and is funded in part by the Cornell Council for the Arts and a gift from Betsey and Alan Harris '53.

Summer lectures

The summer lecture series for the 35th session of the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) begins June 21 and runs through July 26. All lectures are at 4 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, and are free and open to the public.

The series of 13 lectures includes events with SCT director and Johns Hopkins University professor Amanda Anderson, M.A. '88, Ph.D. '89, on "The Political Novel Revisited" June 22; Dominick LaCapra, the school's former director and Cornell's Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, on "J.M. Coetzee, The Historical, and The Literary: 'Elizabeth Costello' and 'Disgrace'" June 29; Brent Hayes Edwards of Columbia University, on "Archives and Counter-Archives" July 19; and Cornell professor of German studies Leslie Adelson on "The Future of Futurity: Time Travel, Parallel Worlds, and 21st-Century German Literature by Alexander Kluge and Yoko Tawada," July 25.

Cornell has hosted SCT for 14 years. During the six-week summer session, participants from around the world attend seminars, lectures, social events and a weekly colloquium based on in-progress work of SCT faculty. Information: http://sct.arts.cornell.edu/.

Landscape in motion

Photographer Marc Miller uses layers of color and pattern to look at landscape in a new way in "Landscape Is a Verb: Photography by Marc Miller," on display through June 30 at the Mann Gallery on Mann Library's second floor.

Miller's work breaks away from conventional landscape photography and dazzles the eye. He records motion across a lens aperture one pixel in width over a period of time. The landscape is abstracted visually into stratified fields, and multiple layers of motion enable the viewer to see depth within an image of vibrant color and energy. Using synchroballistic photography, Miller explores the relationship between representation and motion through digital images, creating narratives exploring navigation, time and our relationship with the environment.

Miller, a landscape architect with advanced degrees in architecture, landscape architecture and art history, has practiced as an architect and designer on a range of projects internationally.

Simulation for engineers

A university-industry workshop to promote the effective use of simulation technology in engineering curricula will be held July 22-23 at Cornell. The workshop -- an initiative of the Swanson Engineering Simulation Program in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering-- will highlight computer simulation as a powerful tool in improving engineers' problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

The event brings together educators, industry practitioners, software vendors, researchers, professional societies and funding agencies in a conversation on sustaining collaborations and integrating advanced simulation into engineering studies, in areas ranging from computational fluid dynamics to numerical analysis.

Registration is $50, or $100 after June 1. Information, registration: http://www.mae.cornell.edu/swanson/workshop2011/.

BFA exhibitions

The 2011 B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, featuring work by graduating fine arts students in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, continues through May 29. The group exhibition, with work by 20 undergraduate artists, is on display in John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome and the Experimental Gallery and Olive Tjaden Gallery in Tjaden Hall.