Evening Curator Talk | Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto

Event Details

Join Maggie Dethloff, Assistant Curator of Photography and New Media, on this special highlights tour of Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto, the first large-scale solo museum exhibition of Manila-born, Los Angeles-based artist Miljohn Ruperto (b. 1971).  RSVP HERE

Working across photography, video, animation, generative artificial intelligence, and other mediums, Ruperto explores the ways humans have understood their place in the world. From digitally-created fantastical botanical specimens printed as gelatin silver photographs to immersive apocalyptic landscapes experienced in VR, Ruperto’s artworks highlight the elusiveness of knowledge and unsettle what we think we know about nature.

Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto is organized by the Cantor Arts Center and curated by Maggie Dethloff, Assistant Curator of Photography and New Media.This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the museum’s Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI)

All public programs at the Cantor Arts Center are always free! Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended.

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Parking

Paid visitor parking is available along Lomita Drive as well as on the first floor of the Roth Way Garage Structure, located at the corner of Campus Drive West and Roth Way at 345 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305. From the Palo Alto Caltrain station, the Cantor Arts Center is about a 20-minute walk or there the free Marguerite shuttle will bring you to campus via the Y or X lines.

Disability parking is located along Lomita Drive near the main entrance of the Cantor Arts Center. Additional disability parking is located on Museum Way and in Parking Structure 1 (Roth Way & Campus Drive).

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Accessibility Information or Requests

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is committed to ensuring our programs are accessible to everyone. To request access information and/or accommodations for this event, please complete this form at least one week prior to the event: museum.stanford.edu/access.

For questions, please contact disability.access@stanford.eduor fukunaga@stanford.edu.

 

Image: Miljohn Ruperto, What God Hath Wrought (Kairos), from the series The Great Disappointment, in progress. Three animations with VR (color, sound). Courtesy of the artist and Micki Meng Gallery, San Francisco.