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SUMMARY: Delinda Collier – The Africa in Media Studies and Art History
DESCRIPTION: A lecture by Delinda Collier as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irvi
 ng Lecture Series   
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><a href="https://ahva.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-c
 ontent/uploads/sites/37/2023/03/Delinda-Collier-JCI-lecture-poster-final.jp
 g"><img class="alignnone wp-image-33110" src="https://ahva.cms.arts.ubc.ca/
 wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2023/03/Delinda-Collier-JCI-lecture-poster-fina
 l-1024x637.jpg" alt="" width="670" height="417" /></a></p><p><span data-con
 trast="auto">A lecture by Delinda Collier as part of the </span><span data-
 contrast="none">Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series </span><span data-contr
 ast="auto"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">5:30 p.m.\, Thursday\,
  March 16\, 2023 </span><br /><span data-contrast="none">Room 104\, Frederi
 c Lasserre Building </span><br /><span data-contrast="none">6333 Memorial R
 oad\, University of British Columbia</span><br /><span data-contrast="none"
 >ahva.ubc.ca   </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false\,"134233118"
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 pan data-contrast="none">This event is free and open to the public.</span><
 /p><p>Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Centre for access to the eve
 nt recording: <a href="mailto:ahva.vrc@ubc.ca">ahva.vrc@ubc.ca</a>.</p><p><
 span data-contrast="auto">In this lecture\, Delinda Collier summarizes the 
 history of media studies’ and art history’s reliance on “Africa” as shortha
 nd for unmediated\, non-technological\, or pre-philosophical art. From Carl
  Einstein’s </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Negerplastik</span></i><sp
 an data-contrast="auto">’s non-contextual photographs of African sculpture 
 to Marshall McLuhan’s many invocations of Africans’ inability to perceive f
 ilm or television\, Africa was foundational to theories of medium in both f
 ields. This talk will discuss this history in relation to the burgeoning di
 gital and media art scene on the African continent\, and will ultimately pr
 opose a broader understanding of mediation tied to an “Atlantic” history of
  art. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559739":160\,"335559
 740":259}"> </span></p><p><b><span data-contrast="auto">Delinda Collier</sp
 an></b><span data-contrast="auto"> is Professor of Art History and Interim 
 Dean of Graduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She
  has authored two books\, </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Repainting t
 he Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art</span></i><span 
 data-contrast="auto"> (2016) and </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Media
  Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa</span></i><span data-contrast="au
 to"> (2020). Her writing appears as book chapters and as articles in </span
 ><i><span data-contrast="auto">Critical Interventions: Journal of African A
 rt History and Culture</span></i><span data-contrast="auto">\; </span><i><s
 pan data-contrast="auto">Third Text</span></i><span data-contrast="auto">\;
  </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Africa Is a Country</span></i><span d
 ata-contrast="auto">\; </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">African Arts\; 
 </span></i><span data-contrast="auto">and </span><i><span data-contrast="au
 to">VCS: Visual Cultural Studies</span></i><span data-contrast="auto">.</sp
 an><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559739":160\,"335559740":259}"
 > </span></p><p><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559739":160\,"335
 559740":259}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">Image: Landing page
  map for Pan African Space Station\, a project of Chimurenga since 2008.</s
 pan><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559739":160\,"335559740":259}
 "> </span></p>
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