Laura Lake Smith is a PhD candidate in the area of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia , USA. Her dissertation, “Imaging the In-between: The Serial Art of Richard Tuttle,” focuses on the American artist Richard Tuttle and his unconventional series of art and for which she recently received a 2015-2016 Luce/ACLS Dissertatio...

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Bernhard Lang first studied piano at the Bruckner Konservatorium in Linz. He continued in Graz, learning classical and jazz piano, arrangement, while studying philosophy and German philology. Between 1977 and 1981, he worked with leading jazz bands, including Erich Zann Septett. He studied composition with Polish composer Andrzej Dobrowolski, who introduced him to the techniques of new music, and...

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Oleg Lebedev is a teaching assistant in philosophy at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His research interests have focused so far on cinematic realism (especially among French theoreticians and critics influenced by Bazin, such as Daney and Comolli), and on the conceptualisation of the link of politics and aesthetics proposed by Jacques Rancière. His current research pertains to t...

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Jimmie LeBlanc is a Canadian composer born in 1977 in the Province of Quebec. He studied composition and musical analysis at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and has completed a doctorate in music composition at the McGill University Schulich School of Music. Ensembles that have performed his music include Ensemble Contrechamps, Esprit Orchestra, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and Camerata Aber...

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