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Film & Digital Media and History of Art and Visual Culture Spring Colloquium - W.J.T. Mitchell

Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 7:00 am
Location: 
Digital Arts Research Center, Room 108

Date: Monday, April 18th 

Time: 6:00-8:00 PM 

Location: Digital Arts Research Center, room 108

W.J.T. Mitchell

"Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture"

 

Professor Mitchell is the editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry and the author of nine books, including Iconology (1987), Art and the Public Sphere (1993), Picture Theory (1994) and What Do Pictures Want (2005).  His work is primerily focused on the interplay of vision and language in art, literature and media.  The subjects of his articles range from general problems in the theory of representation, to specific issues in cultural politics and political culture. 

 

For more information about this event or the series generally, contact Derek Murray dcmurray@ucsc.edu or Irene Gustafson ireneg@ucsc.edu