Events
Film & Digital Media
Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAndrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today's world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for this world.” “Dark Deleuze in the Dark" […]
Screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman
Communications 150, Studio CQ&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film Introduction by Professor Alan Christy, Department of History Directed by John Junkerman, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, the brand-new “Okinawa: The Afterburn” is a sweeping, in-depth look at the wartime and postwar history of Okinawa and the massive American military presence on the island. Consisting […]
Public Screening of One Summer
Communications 150, Studio CYou're cordially invited to a free public screening of One Summer (2014, 93min.), with Director Yang Yishu (Nanjing University, China) in person. ABOUT THE FILM: One Summer is Director Yang Yishu’s first fiction feature. In tracing a woman’s efforts to find her husband and to understand why the police took him away without explanation, the […]
Imagining Social Identities Through Computing
Media Theater, M110D. Fox Harrell, Associate Professor of Digital Media, MIT Hosted By Noah Wardrip-Fruin D. Fox Harrell's research explores the use of the computer as an expressive and cultural medium. As described in his recent book Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression (MIT Press), through both building and analyzing systems, he investigates how […]
Pattern Recognition, c. 1947
Porter College, Room D245Please join us for this week's VMCC event, Pamela M. Lee will be delivering her talk, entitled "Pattern Recognition, c. 1947." This is the final event of the colloquia's 2014-2015 season. Refreshments will be provided before the talk. Pamela M. Lee is professor of Art History at Stanford University. Lee received her B.A from Yale […]
Transcultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of "African Art"
Porter College, Room D245Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2000) is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture of Global Africa at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press, 2008: winner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for […]