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PUBLIC TALK: Getting Air: Technology and the Levitating Body in Sports Media

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Today's date is Friday, March 29, 2024
Getting Air: Technology and the Levitating Body in Sports Media : Public talk with artist Isla Hansen Other events...
Getting Air: Technology and the Levitating Body in Sports Media outlines a history of technological developments related to capturing the athletic human body in motion. The role of filmmakers, artists, and inventors through the 20th century in this continued culture of photographing, tracking, and capturing the levitating body, reveals these images as texts in which cultural fears and desires can be read Theorists such as Marshall McLuhan, Judith Butler, and others serve to analyze and critique the ideology that drives technological progress in relation to the human body and compels the ongoing re-iteration and mass distribution of these bodies and images.

Isla Hansen is an artist working across New York and the Rust Belt to reinterpret and complicate the relationship between the human body and technological progress. Her solo and collaborative installations, systems, and performances have been exhibited at the Columbus Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland, Industry City Gallery, the Parrish Art Museum, the Hammer Musem, Miller Gallery, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Isla has been the recipient of the Daedalus Foundation MFA fellowship and a Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier Grant from the Studio for Creative Inquiry. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and her BA from Columbia University. Currently, Isla teaches in both the department of Art and at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at the Ohio State University.

http://islathemovie.com/indexhibitv070e/
Speaker(s) Isla Hansen
Location SymbioticA, Room 228 (former) School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology
Contact Chris Cobilis <[email protected]> : 64885583
URL http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/seminars
Start Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:00
End Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:00
Submitted by Chris Cobilis <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:21
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