ATC@UCB:
Video as Messenger
Anne M. Wagner, Art History, UC Berkeley
The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Mon, 17 Mar, 7:30-9:30pm: UC Berkeley,
Location: 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.
Prof. Wagner's talk will revisit Marshall Mcluhan's understanding of
media: in particular, his mythical notion of social change as sensory
change. She will consider Mcluhan's anchoring of history to
transformations of the media on which western civilization has been
progressively dependent. What is particularly interesting in this
context is McLuhan's idea that media exact a bodily toll: their
transformation both wound and provoke numbness as the relations of the
human sensorium undergo what McLuhan (euphemistically) terms
"extension." With these ideas in mind, the talk will offer a
reconsideration of early video as it understands the abuses that the
body and the senses suffer via contemporary mediations, where both the
artist's experiences and those of the viewer are clearly in play.
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Anne M. Wagner is an art historian whose interests are focused on
issues of gender and address in 19th and twentieth century art. Since
1988, she has been a professor in the Department of History of Art at
the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a member of the
Editorial Board of Representations. Recent essays include studies of
Andy Warhol's Race Riot, Rosemarie Trockel's drawings, and the
rhetorical anxieties characteristic of video and performance, c. 1970.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire, appeared in
1986, and Three Artists (Three Women) was published in 1996. Her
third book, Brave New Womb: Modernist Maternity and British Sculpture
is nearing publication.
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Prof. Wagner will be introduced by Kaja Silverman.
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The ATC Colloquium continues our partnership with the Berkeley Art
Museum and the Walker Art Center to present online video of ATC talks,
available both in QuickTime (highlights) or MP3 audio. For links and
the full 2002-2003 series schedule, please see:
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/
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atc@ucb: Anne Wagner, Mon 17 Mar 7:30pm
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Type: discussion