Event overview
Dr. Craig Smith is an American media artist whose art and research focuses on the process, aesthetics, and ethics of human?to?human interactivity in contemporary art, especially photography, sound, and socially engaged performances. His practice includes the production of photography, performance art, sonic art, video, writing and sound recordings. Recent publications include the books, Training Manual for Relational Art (2009) and On the Subject of the Photographic (2007). He has exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), PS1MOMA Contemporary Art Institute (New York), Tate Modern (London) and The George Eastman House (Rochester). Dr Smith’s forthcoming book, Relational Art: A Guided Tour, will be published by I.B. Tauris in 2014.
Objects & Relations: Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2013
Within the theoretical humanities there has recently been a resurgence of interest in objects and objectivity – often pitched against those ontologies that are more relational. Of course, it might be said that an interest in objects has always been a concern of art history and practice (not least contemporary practice) – and that ideas of a ‘relational aesthetics’ have, for some time now, been a dominant trend in art theory. The Autumn term Visual Cultures Public Programme uses these latest developments in philosophy and art as a point of departure for a series of talks from thinkers and artists that might be said to connect with, parallel, pre-date or critique what has come to be known as the ‘speculative turn’.
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18 Oct 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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