WBSC is excited to host a series of Saturday afternoon lectures in conjunction with the exhibit Claiming Space - The Material and Immaterial of Site and Language at the Regis Center for Art from January 22nd to February 18th. The lectures, which start this Saturday, begin at 2PM.
This Saturday, February 6 @ 2PM
Travis Freeman - Infinite Space in James Cameron’s Avatar and My Mind
With the movie as his launchpad, Freeman will move through the relationship between virtual space and spiritual space.
Morgan Adamson - Multiplication and Negation, Study #3 (@ 3PM)
For her Saturday afternoon lecture, Morgan Adamson will map the impossible boundary between life and money in the era of finance capital.
Saturday, February 13 @ 2PM:
Harlan Morehouse - The Future Beneath
We are accustomed, it seems, to privileging the earth’s surface over its depth. An understandable bias, perhaps - after all, it is upon the surface that we trace the trajectories of our lives. Yet, cannot the same be said of the deep? That is, cannot life and its associated risks, fears, hopes, goals, etc. be traced in the subterranean as well? In this lecture I wish to trouble the boundary between ‘the above’ and ‘the below’ and explore the relationships among the surface, the subterranean, and time by looking at three cases studies: The WIPP nuclear waste site in New Mexico; the Corbis high-security underground film preservation facility in Pennsylvania; and, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.
More about the lecturers here.
