FW: Visual Culture in the Era of GLobal War

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Date:Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:58:07 -0400
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VISUAL CULTURE IN THE ERA OF GLOBAL WAR

New York University/Cooper Union VISUAL CULTURE SEMINAR
Thursday, October 21 at 6.30 PM

The Department of Art and Art Professions
New York University, The Steinhardt School of Education
34 Stuyvesant Street, Einstein Auditorium
Free & Open to the Public

The panel will consider the impact of the emergence of what has been
described as an era of permanent war on visual culture in practice and in
theory. This event inaugurates the NYU/Cooper Union visual culture
seminar under the co-chairs Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU) and Maren Stange
(Cooper Union).

Zainab Bahrani (Columbia), a specialist in Mesopotamian art, will report
back from her recent visits to Baghdad on the current state of the Iraq
Museum, the archaeological sites in the country and the effects of the
occupation on contemporary artists in Iraq.

Artist Gregory Sholette (REPOhistory), College Art Association board
member, will describe the effects of the war on terror and the USA
PATRIOT Act on artistic freedom of expression, particularly the case of
Steven Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble.

Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU) will look at how the era of permanent
war changes the approach of the new field of visual culture to the
hypervisuality of the present and its array of 24/7 visual media. The
panel is chaired by Maren Stange, well-known photo historian.

A reception will follow. Information: 212.998.5799

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