Seminar 16: The Unsharp Image
Forskergruppen Medieæstetik inviterer til gæsteforelæsning med James Contants, Lila Lee Morrison og Arild Fetveit.
- James Conants oplæg bærer titlen “Family Resemblance, Composite Photography, and Unity of Concept: Goethe, Galton, Wittgenstein”
- Lila Lee Morrisons og Arild Fetveits titler er henholdsvis, “Eigenface: Aesthetics of an Algorithm” og “Idris Khan and the Ghostly Sublimity of Big Data”
Bio
James Conant is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago. He works broadly in philosophy and has published articles in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, German Idealism, and History of Analytic Philosophy, among other areas, and on a wide range of philosophers, including Kant, Emerson, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Josiah Royce, William James, Frege, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Putnam, Cavell, Rorty, and McDowell, among others.
He is currently working on four book-length projects: a monograph on skepticism entitled Varieties of Skepticism, a co-authored collection of essays with Cora Diamond entitled Wittgenstein and the Inheritance of Philosophy, a book on film aesthetics entitled The Ontology of the Cinematographic Image, and a forthcoming collection of interpretative essays on a variety of philosophers entitled Resolute Readings.
Lila Lee-Morrison is a Ph.D. student in the Div. of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University. Her doctoral research focuses on contemporary applications of machine vision and its cultural implications. Her interests include exploring shifts in modes of perception that occur through the use of advanced visual reproduction technologies, often within the context of political and militaristic applications and the work of artists who further articulate these shifts outside of these contexts.
Her master’s thesis published in 2012, analyzed the contemporary use of drone warfare, borrowing from theory of Walter Benjamin’s text, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.’ Her publications include, ‘Drone Warfare: Visual Primacy as a Weapon,’ (Transvisuality: The Cultural Dimension of Visuality, Liverpool University Press, 2015), and ‘Mapped Bodies: Notes on the use of biometrics in geopolitical contexts,’ (Social Aesthetics: In Between Experiencing and Imagining, Brill Publishing, 2015).
She holds am M.A. in visual culture from Lund University and a Bachelor in political science from Hunter College, New York.
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