Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKER: Kristel Smentek, MIT Department of Architecture To frame a picture is to distinguish it, to mark it as demanding a form of visual attention that is different from every day seeing. This paper probes...

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Erika Naginski, Harvard Graduate School of Design When, in the mid-18th century, the Arcos da Lapa (or Aqueduto da Carioca) was inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro, it heralded not only the arrival of...

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Maria Loh, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Maria H. Loh is Professor in Art History at CUNY Hunter College. She received her BA in History from McGill University (1993), a Certificat des...

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Harmon Siegel, Harvard Society of Fellows In the early 1870s, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley painted the Machine de Marly, a system of pumps, dams, and locks that regulated the Seine. These...

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Caroline Murphy, MIT Caroline Murphy is an Assistant Professor in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art section of the Department of Architecture at MIT. Her research and...

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Meredith Martin, Institute of Fine Arts; Hannah Williams, Queen Mary University of London This talk focuses on a 1786 property map of the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) dedicated to the...

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Holly Shaffer, Brown University What is the relationship between taste (culinary) and taste (aesthetic)? This talk meditates on the intersections of food and art, in terms of material processes of...

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Michelle Foa, Tulane Univeristy During Edgar Degas’s lifetime, certain friends, colleagues, and critics perceptively identified his propensity for technical and material experimentation—using an...

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, The Clark Art Institute This talk will explore the claim that, in Europe in the decades around 1900, new understandings of human consciousness and the relation of mind to...