This event is open to the public and registration is not required.

In partnership with the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Canada and Hart House, the Art Museum presents the Night of Ideas, a French-initiated global, all-night event happening simultaneously in more than 50 cities. Night of Ideas will bring together international artists, writers, philosophers, historians, neuroscientists and other restless minds to tackle such wide-ranging subjects as the neuroscience of sleep, the meaning of downtime, the health impact of sleeplessness, the cultural importance of dreaming and the architecture and politics of sleep.

The audience will be able to engage directly in conversation with these thinkers as part of an intensive series of lectures, workshops, performances, screenings and readings. View the full schedule.

Dr. Beatriz Colomina will be the evening's keynote speaker. The presentation is sponsored by the Daniels Faculty's Master of Visual Studies Proseminar Series.

Beatriz is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture and media. Ms. Colomina has taught in the School since 1988, and is the Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University, a graduate program that promotes the interdisciplinary study of forms of culture that came to prominence during the last century and looks at the interplay between culture and technology. In 2006-2007 she curated, with a group of Princeton Ph.D. students, the exhibition “Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X” at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal.  The exhibition continues to travel around the world, most recently in the Museum of Design of Barcelona and the Colegio de Arquitectos de Murcia. It will open at the NAI Maastricht in June, and then travel to Santiago de Chile and Montevideo. Over 100 reviews and articles on the exhibition have been published worldwide. An exhibition catalog is forthcoming from ACTAR in September.