Date
October 25, 2018

Location

Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room


Time
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Event Organizer

Event Sponsor

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society


Event Co-Sponsor(s)

Practiced in medieval Islamic and European cultures, talismans were like apps that appealed to the planets and other powers to intercede into precise earthly problems. In this lecture, Dr. Laura Marks will argue that in our seemingly disenchanted times, it is still possible to re-fold the universe, grasping the points of disparate histories and places and drawing them together. We see this at work in movies, digital media works, and objects. Dr. Marks will focus on the affective results using such media to connect from the body to the cosmos.

Laura U. Marks works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus. Her most recent books are Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (MIT, 2015) and Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT, 2010). Marks programs experimental media art for venues around the world. With Dr. Azadeh Emadi (University of Glasgow) she is a founding member of the Substantial Motion Research network. Dr. Marks is Grant Strate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

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