Invisibility Studies Seminar Series 2015

Four seminars on changing meanings of the visible and invisible in art, architecture, technology and culture in March and April 2015.

The Invisibility Studies Seminar Series 2015 seminar series takes as its starting point the book "Invisibility Studies: Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture" (Peter Lang), which was published in January 2015.

We have invited contributors to the book, as well as distinguished Danish and international scholars and artists, to read a section of the book as a way of launching further discussion.

The common themes of the seminars, as of the book, are current changes in the relationships between what we consider 'visible' and 'invisible' in different areas of contemporary culture, including architecture, visual art, literature, philosophy, and technology.

Over the course of four biweekly seminars in Spring 2015, we hope to stimulate discussion and provoke new thinking.

The format of the four seminars will vary slightly, but they will all start at 16:00 and will be followed by a light snack with a glass of wine, and the opportunity for more informal discussion.

Invisibility Studies Seminar I: Transparency, Refraction and Opacity

11th of March 16-19

Presentations

Alberto Perez-Gomez, Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, McGill University (Canada)
The Function of Invisibility in Architectural Meaning

Lilian Munk Rösing, Associate Professor, Department of Arts And Cultural Studies (University of Copenhagen)
When the Screen is a Tongue

Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, artist (Copenhagen)
On Snowflakes and Other Assemblages

Round table discussion

  • Lorens Holm, Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research (University of Dundee)
  • Charles Lock, Professor of English Literature (University of Copenhagen)
  • Mechtild Widrich, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History (School of the Art Institute Chicago)

All welcome.

We would like to encourage scholars, students, practitioners and anyone interested in current changes to the cultural fabric to participate.

To register for the seminars, please email invisibilitystudies15@gmail.com. We will accept registrations up until 48 hours before each seminar.