Professor Yves Abrioux, University of Paris 8
4:00 - 5:30 Thursday, April 16, 2015
5th Floor Seminar Room
Robert C. Williams Museum of Paper Making
The exhibition, A Gathering of Continents, devoted to Joan Blaeu’s Atlas major at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Paper Making provokes a comparison of historical cartography with the interrogation of space found in recent work by Bruno Latour and William Kentridge. Drawing on cases studies that move from historical cartography to digital media, this presentation challenges cultural practice that still too often separates science and technology from what is commonly regarded as aesthetics. Yves Abrioux is professor of English literature at the University of Paris 8. He has published extensively, in English and in French, on a range of topics and artistic practices (poetry and fiction, visual art, landscape and gardens). His research foregrounds theoretical issues in connection with philosophy and science. He is particularly interested in displacements between media, both traditional and modern, and is currently working on the history and - more specifically - the future of the museum. In 2014, He co-curated Mapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper at the Robert C. Williams Musuem of Paper Making. Above Illustration: Joan Blaeu, ‘Praefecturae Paranambuca pars borealis’ Atlas major, Vol XI map 18 (The cartouche is a version of a drawing by Frans Post (1612-1680), one of the first artists to paint landscapes of America.
This seminar is supported by
The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and
The Robert C. Williams Museum of PaperMaking
The Robert C. Williams Museum of PaperMaking
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