In conjunction with Scott Benzel’s current solo exhibition, Mindless Pleasures, the artist will discuss some of the theoretical and historical contexts informing his work, including but not limited to: the origins of chaos theory, the 19th century cultural obsession with roulette, and more recent concepts of time and cosmology. This talk is based on a graduate seminar of the same title, which Scott Benzel taught at California Institute of the Arts in Spring 2019. Benzel is a member of the faculty of the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA. Benzel has also lectured and participated in panels at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Claremont Mckenna College, Claremont, CA; the University of California, Riverside, CA; and Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia. Join us on Thursday, August 27 at 6pm on Zoom: https://calarts.zoom.us/j/99629835787 The exhibition Mindless Pleasures is on view through September 26.