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Visual Culture Program
Scaling Observations
Devin Griffiths,
University of Southern California,
Anna Henchman,
Boston University,
Omar Nasim,
University of Regensburg,
Anne Sullivan,
University of California, Riverside,
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Visual Culture Seminar
Digital Reconstruction and the Identification of Gothic Design Plans
Meredith Cohen,
Associate Professor,
Department of Art History,
UCLA,
Kristine Tanton,
Associate Professor of Medieval Art,
Department of Art History and Film Studies,
Université of Montréal (UdeM),
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► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar
The Fuzz: Frederick Wiseman's Law and Order and the Shadow of Police Radio
Jason Hill,
Associate Professor of Art History,
University of Delaware,
- Public Event
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Visual Culture Event: Screening of Begin Again Again
BEGIN AGAIN AGAIN, Film Screening
Leslie Thornton,
- Public Event
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Visual Culture Seminar
Water and Equitable Sustainability in the California Central Valley
Angela Islas,
Water Project Manager,
CivicWell,
- Public Event
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Visual Culture Seminar
Avian AI
Maya Livio,
Lecturer in Visual Culture and Spring 2023 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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Visual Culture Seminar
Sun Potentials: Creative Research with Solar Power
Alex Nathanson,
Founder of Solar Power for Artists/ RPI & NYU,
Huntrezz Janos,
Artist (LA),
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Visual Culture Seminar
A24's Academic Style; or, Coming of Age in an Era of Student Debt
Jordan Brower,
Assistant Professor of English,
University of Kentucky,
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Visual Culture Seminar
Geocinema: Earth Sensing as Filmmaking
Asia Bazdyrieva,
Art Historian and Artist,
- Public Event
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Visual Culture Seminar
A Celebration of Self Help Graphics at Fifty
Yolanda Gonzalez,
Artist,
Betty Avila,
Executive Director,
Self Help Graphics and Art,
Dr. Claudia Zapata,
UCLA Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicano/a Studies,
UCLA,
Dr. J.V. Decemvirale,
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow,
Caltech,
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Visual Culture Seminar
Visual Storytelling Before Comics: Theorizing the Sequential Image
Rachel Teukolsky,
Professor of English,
Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science,
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Visual Culture Event: Campus Walking Tour
See event detail for location
THIS EVENT IS AT CAPACITY
Wendy Cheng,
Associate Professor of American Studies,
Scripps College,
Becky Nicolaides,
Research Affiliate,
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
Yvette Saavedra,
Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
University of Oregon,
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Visual Culture Seminar
How and what do we know of a work of art?: The Strange Case of Giovanni Morelli and ‘Scientific Connoisseurship'
John Brewer,
Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of History and Literature, Emeritus,
Caltech,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Amerasia
Elizabeth Horodowich,
Department Head,
Department of History,
New Mexico State University,
Alexander Nagel,
Professor of Art History,
New York University,
- Public Event
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Visual Culture Seminar
ARTIST TALK WITH ERIN JOHNSON
Erin Johnson,
Filmmaker, visual artist, and Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art,
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Visual Culture Seminar
Almost Inhuman
Caitlin Berrigan,
Winter 2023 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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12:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Artistic Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Jessica Helfand,
Artist, Designer, and Writer (Winter 2020 Artist in Residence),
Joanne Jang,
Product Lead,
DALL·E,
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Visual Culture Seminar
Online Event
ARTIST TALK WITH KEARRA GOPEE
Kearra Gopee,
Anti-disciplinary Visual Artist,
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
My Electric Genealogy
Sarah Kanouse,
Artist and Associate Professor at Northeastern University,
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Visual Culture Seminar
DARK ARCHIVE
Elin Slavick,
Lecturer in Visual Culture (Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence),
7:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Managing the Limits of Visualization
James Elkins,
E.C. Chadbourne Chair of Art History, Theory, and Criticism,
School of the Art Institute, Chicago,
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Visual Culture Seminar
Online Event
Art in Data: From Self-Tracking to Mass Migration
Stephen Cartwright,
Artist,
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Black Transfigurations: Engineering, African Cosmologies & Visual Media
Mikael Owunna,
Studio Director,
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
Hanna Rose Shell,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech (returning 2022); Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts, University of Colorado-Boulder,
12:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Online Event
Decolonizing Deep History
Pratik Chakrabarti,
Chair in History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester; Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM),
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Lia Halloran,
Artist-in-Residence (Spring 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Kip Thorne,
Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus,
Caltech,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
This seminar has been canceled.
Felicity Meakins,
Associate Professor of Linguistics,
The University of Queensland, Australia,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Bill Odenkirk,
American Comedy Writer,
- Public Event
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Rob Giampietro,
Director of Design,
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
- Public Event
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▶︎ CANCELED: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
This seminar has been canceled.
Alan Stern,
Planetary Scientist,
Southwest Research Institute,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This seminar has been canceled.
elin o'Hara slavick,
Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Leslie Thornton,
Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Extinction: a (pre-)history
Jeremy Schneider,
Graduate Student,
Department of History,
Princeton University,
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Visual Culture Program
The Reconstruction of Colour Worlds
Sven Dupré,
Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology,
Utrecht University,
7:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
The Volcano, the Buried Cities, and the Sublime: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions
John Brewer,
Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of History and Literature, Emeritus,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Workshop
Are your figures and cover submissions the best they can be?
Felice Frankel,
Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
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Visual Culture Program
More Than Pretty Pictures
Felice Frankel,
Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
- Public Event
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Visual Culture Program
Borrowed Light: Art and Astronomy at the Villa Medici
Eileen Reeves,
Professor of Comparative Literature,
Princeton University,
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Visual Culture Program
Super Recognizers to the Rescue
Sharrona Hyla Pearl,
Historian and Theorist of the Face and Body,
- Public Event
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Islamic Maps: From the Earth to the Moon and the Cosmos
Karen Pinto,
Associate Research Professor,
College of Innovation and Design,
Boise State University,
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Face
Jessica Helfand,
Artist-in-Residence (Winter 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Ralph Adolphs,
Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center,
Caltech,
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● POSTPONED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been postponed to Thursday, April 9, 2020.
Leslie Thornton,
Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
2:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Off Campus
Drawing the Invisible 100-Mile U.S. Border
Ed Gomez,
Curator of the MexiCali Biennial; Artist; Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Cal State San Bernardino,
Ian Philabaum,
Program Director, Innovation Law Lab,
Arcela Nunez-Alvarez,
Research Director, National Latino Research Center (NLRC), Cal State San Marcos,
Hillary Mushkin,
Artist and Research Professor of Art and Design,
Caltech,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
An Ordinary Arab Ship, and Its Stories of Early Globalism
Geraldine Heng,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Perceval Professor in Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture,
Department of English,
University of Texas at Austin,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Jupiter
Candice Hansen-Koharcheck,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
- Public Event
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Visual Culture Program
Immortality Projects: Science and Art of Being Ephemeral
Natalie Andrew,
Professional Biologist and Visual Artist,
Brian Knep,
Media Artist,
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Visual Culture Program
Persuasive Images in Early Modern Scientific Books
Sachiko Kusukawa,
Professor of History of Science,
University of Cambridge,
7:00pm
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Visual Culture Program - "Peggy and Fred in Hell"
Film Screening Followed by a Q&A with the Filmmaker
Leslie Thornton,
Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech; Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
A Crash History of Drones
Katherine Chandler,
Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics,
School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University,
- Public Event
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Visual Culture Program - "Encoded Textiles"
Encoded Textiles: Engineering and Craftwork
Abdoulaye Konaté,
Artist; Founding General Director of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimédia Balla Fasseké Kouyaté in Bamako, Mali,
Daniela Rosner,
Assistant Professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering and Co-Director of the TAT Lab,
University of Washington,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Maps, Monsters, and Natural History in the Age of Exploration
Surekha Davies,
Cultural Historian and InterAmericas Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library,
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Natural Features: Artists, Architects, and Scientists Imagine Space
Lize Mogel,
Artist and Counter-Cartographer,
Jeff Stuart,
Mission Design & Navigation Systems Engineer,
JPL,
Dilip da Cunha,
Architect and Planner; Co-Director, Risk and Resilience Master in Design Studies, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Adjunct Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University,
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Do Art and Science Share a Common Foundation?
Landon Ross,
Los Angeles-based Artist,
Scott Chimileski,
Microbiologist, Photographer, and Author,
Harvard Medical School,
12:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World
Scott Chimileski,
Microbiologist, Photographer, and Author,
Harvard Medical School,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Towards a Global History of Biodiversity
Daniel Lewis,
Lecturer in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology, The Huntington Library,
4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Making the World Go 'Round: How Urbano Monte Created his Map of 1587
Chet Van Duzer,
Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
The Space Barons and the New Space Age
Christian Davenport,
Author, Staff Writer,
The Washington Post,
7:00pm
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Art + Tech Seminar
Critical Making
Matt Ratto,
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; Director, Critical Making Lab; Director, Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
"By far the most important event in my life": Charles Darwin's recollections of his voyage on HMS Beagle
Janet Browne,
Aramont Professor of the History of Science,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring the solar system: Who has done it, how, and why?
Peter Westwick,
Lecturer in History, Caltech; Research Professor of History, USC; Director, Aerospace History Project, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
7:00pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Map and Territory
Maayan Amir,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Ruti Sela,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Robert Simmon,
Senior Data Visualization Engineer,
Planet ,
Nicolas Wey-Gomez,
Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Games and Art
Nonny de la Peña,
Founder & CEO,
Emblematic ,
Johnnemann Nordhagen,
Founder of Dim Bulb Games; Co-founder of Fullbright ,
Brian Schrank,
Professor of Game Development, Theory and Design,
Depaul University ,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
What are the ‘Global Middle Ages,' and Why Do They Matter?
Geraldine Heng,
Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies,
University of Texas, Austin,
6:00pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Computational Literature
Xtine Burrough,
Artist, Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication,
UT Dallas,
Nick Montfort,
Poet, Professor of Digital Media,
MIT,
Brian Kim Stefans,
Poet, Associate Professor of Literature,
UCLA,
Eran Hadas ,
Poet, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist,
Caltech,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
The Iberian Voyages of Discovery and the Origin of Modern Science: A Geological Perspective
Walter Alvarez,
Professor of the Graduate School,
Earth and Planetary Science Department,
University of California, Berkeley,
6:00pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Machines and Vision
Daniel Landau,
Artist; Senior Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel; PhD Researcher,
Alto University Media Lab, Helsinki,
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
Janet Vertesi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology,
Princeton University,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology
Ronald G. Blom,
Principal Scientist (Retired),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
6:00pm
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Art + Tech Panel: The Prosthetic Imaginary
Sara Hendren,
Artist, Design Researcher, and Assistant Professor of Design,
Olin College of Engineering,
Ken Pickar,
Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
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