Materiality, Visual Culture, and Media (at VES)

What is the place of materiality in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts, architecture and media? This seminar investigates a “material turn” in philosophy, art, media, visual and spatial culture. Topics include: actor-network theory, thing theory, the life of objects, the archive, the haptic and the affect, vibrant materialism, elemental philosophy, light and projection, and the immateriality of atmosphere.

This course has occasional weekly film screenings on Tuesdays from 7pm to 9pm in Carpenter Center B04.

Jointly offered as VES 279/GSD HIS 4451

Interested students must attend the first meeting of the class during shopping week.

This course has occasional weekly film screenings on Tuesdays from 7pm to 9pm in Carpenter Center B04.

Enrollment limited to 15, instructor consent required.