Video Display: Early Summer Nerves
Currently being presented on the East Duke Corridor Gallery video screen is Early Summer Nerves, a video by William Noland, associate professor of the practice of visual arts.
William Noland writes:
In an age of voluntary self-disclosure, the private sphere has become increasingly visible to the public eye. Where does surveillance end and voyeurism begin? In this documentary film set in early twenty-first century Tokyo, a loosely articulated, non-narrative form brings together the bits and pieces of life in the public arena. The characters that inhabit the film are encountered in public space, seen in daydreaming reverie, quirky musing, ritualized fun, existential worry, or eating.
In Japan, tradition has long since collided with a voracious appetite for the new in technology and fashion. The deeply embedded tendency towards a veil of ambiguity and concealment in the presentation of self endures. But despite the apparent desire, still, to conceal an interior life while projecting order, control and balance, Tokyo's residents today often seem edgy, discontented or distracted. The voyeuristic frame of the film probes the fissures of this cultural disruption, looking to make the act of private thought visible and seeking moments when the publicly presented self becomes private again.
Student Exhibition in Smith Warehouse
The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 20th Anniversary, black-and-white collage.
Students of the Visual Practice class (Artsvis 54) are exhibiting their projects in the Smith Warehouse (Bay 12). The show will run October 12- October 26.
Public Lecture on Jerusalem
"Jerusalem: Remaking the Jewish Quarter"
Avner Amiri
Conservation Architect, Israel Antiquities Authority, and Lecturer, The WIZO Academy of Design and Education, Haifa
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
5:00 PM
108 East Duke Building
East Campus, Duke University
Co-sponsored by Art, Art History & Visual Studies; Jewish Studies; Franklin Humanities Center; Center for Late Ancient Studies; and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Provost's Lecture Series
The Future of the Past, The Future of the Present:
The Historical Record in the Digital Age
We reside in the age of the archive. Our ability to capture text, video, audio, and electronic communications is unprecedented. This new power has raised questions about security, privacy, relevance, access, selection, cost, and long-term preservation. The speakers of the Provost's series will explore questions concerning performance, memory, genealogy, power, and the definition, boundaries, and viability of the archive itself in an age of rapid electronic change.
"The Digital as Anti-Archive?"
Diana Taylor
University Professor, Performance Studies and Spanish
Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of
Performance and Politics
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Monday, October 26
5:00 PM
Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center
Duke University
The repertoire and the archive are two of several coterminous systems of creating, storing, and transmitting knowledge. Digital technologies constitute another system of transmission that is rapidly altering our frames of knowledge. Rather than assume that expansive digital capabilities usher in the "era of archive" in which everyone can be his or her own archivist, perhaps we need to consider that the shift to the digital might actually prove profoundly anti-archival. What then might be the politics of this new digital era?
Visual Studies Rendez-vous
Tuesdays at 4:15 PM
Second floor, Bay 11, Smith Warehouse (enter through Bay 12)
The goals of the weekly Visual Studies "Rendez-vous" group are (1) meet face-to-face with others who are deeply interested in visual studies, (2) discover what we are thinking about, and share ideas/methods/resources, (3) learn about the primary projects people are working on, and (4) get to know each other.
The featured speakers will give a short review of their projects to give us a sense of what they are thinking about. We will discuss both "of the theory" and "of the practice" topics. The rest of the time will be open for general shared discussions. This is a group meeting, to that effect, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates are invited to participate.
Fall 2009 Schedule of Speakers:
Sept 29 - Kate Hayles, professor, Literature
Oct 6 - Mark Olson, visiting asst. professor, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Oct 13 - Bill Fick, visiting assistant professor of the practice, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Oct 20 - Tim Lenoir, Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society
Oct 27 - Casey Alt, visiting asst. professor of the practice, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Nov 3 - Sheila Dillon, assoc. professor, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Nov 10 - Michal Koszycki, Rebecca Wood, Alexandra Dodson, students, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Nov 17 - Raquel Salvatella, visiting asst. professor of the practice, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Nov 24 - Thanksgiving Week (no Rendez-vous)
Dec 1 - Clare Woods, assoc. professor, Classical Studies, & Victoria Szabo, director, ISIS
Dec 8 - Tim Senior, visiting instructor, ISIS
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