Research
Critical Theory Reading Group
Critical Theory Reading Group
The group is comprised of graduate students, both MFA and Ph.D. in Visual Arts, as well as outside departments and welcomes interests from a variety of sources within and related to the visual arts. Each meeting is student-led and hosted in the DCP space. Previous discussion topics have been as diverse as Adorno's writings on motif, the concept of "use-value", death and Surrealism through Bataille's "Visions of Excess," historicity in Lucy R. Lippard's "Six Year" and readings by Visual Arts faculty including Norman Bryson and Mariana Botey. Topics are student-generated and meetings are hosted at the DCP space approximately every third week during the academic year.
The group is comprised of graduate students, both MFA and Ph.D. in Visual Arts, as well as outside departments and welcomes interests from a variety of sources within and related to the visual arts. Each meeting is student-led and hosted in the DCP space. Previous discussion topics have been as diverse as Adorno's writings on motif, the concept of "use-value", death and Surrealism through Bataille's "Visions of Excess," historicity in Lucy R. Lippard's "Six Year" and readings by Visual Arts faculty including Norman Bryson and Mariana Botey. Topics are student-generated and meetings are hosted at the DCP space approximately every third week during the academic year.
The Visual Culture of Work
The Visual Culture of Work
The visual representation of work has had a complicated relationship to the emergence of capitalist society. To what extent did such approaches enable or make plain a range of political and aesthetic agendas? What were the considerations at stake in capturing the “facts” of industrial production? This project considers cross-disciplinary ideas and influences—ranging from art history, film and media studies, the history of science, literature, feminist theory, and political history—in the economy of work within modern and contemporary visual culture. In Winter Quarter 2016, this research project was launched as part of the Special Topics in Art Practice/Theory graduate seminar, entitled “Creative Life.”
The visual representation of work has had a complicated relationship to the emergence of capitalist society. To what extent did such approaches enable or make plain a range of political and aesthetic agendas? What were the considerations at stake in capturing the “facts” of industrial production? This project considers cross-disciplinary ideas and influences—ranging from art history, film and media studies, the history of science, literature, feminist theory, and political history—in the economy of work within modern and contemporary visual culture. In Winter Quarter 2016, this research project was launched as part of the Special Topics in Art Practice/Theory graduate seminar, entitled “Creative Life.”
The visual representation of work has had a complicated relationship to the emergence of capitalist society. To what extent did such approaches enable or make plain a range of political and aesthetic agendas? What were the considerations at stake in capturing the “facts” of industrial production? This project considers cross-disciplinary ideas and influences—ranging from art history, film and media studies, the history of science, literature, feminist theory, and political history—in the economy of work within modern and contemporary visual culture. In Winter Quarter 2016, this research project was launched as part of the Special Topics in Art Practice/Theory graduate seminar, entitled “Creative Life.”
The visual representation of work has had a complicated relationship to the emergence of capitalist society. To what extent did such approaches enable or make plain a range of political and aesthetic agendas? What were the considerations at stake in capturing the “facts” of industrial production? This project considers cross-disciplinary ideas and influences—ranging from art history, film and media studies, the history of science, literature, feminist theory, and political history—in the economy of work within modern and contemporary visual culture. In Winter Quarter 2016, this research project was launched as part of the Special Topics in Art Practice/Theory graduate seminar, entitled “Creative Life.”