Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Laura Marks will be speaking about Islamic carpets as algorithmic artworks.
Islamic art anticipates artificial life by carrying out algorithmic processes. This art often seems alive at a molecular level, even to have an internal life force--especially in the case of some astonishingly singular carpets from the Caucasus and eastern Turkey. Marks suggests that carpets (and other algorithmic artworks) respond to forces of individuation and produce disruptive responses in the body.
Laura Marks is a writer and a curator of artists’ media, is the author of 'The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses' (2000) and 'Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media' (2002), and 'Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art' (2010). She is Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Followed by a reception and book signing in RHB 312. Copies available for cash purchase.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 9 Jun 2011 | 5:00pm - 9:00pm |
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