Presented as part of the Joan Carlisle- Irving Lecture Series
Event is free and open to the public
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Focusing on Juan Downeys 1969 sculpture With Energy Beyond These Walls\, Feli city Scott’s lecture will revisit the Chilean-born artist’s electronic and cybernetic works of the late 1960s and early 1970s\, reading their structur ally ambivalent semantic and operational logics\, and their modes of switch ing\, as harboring a political vocation\, one becoming more evident\, and m ore urgent in the wake of the military coup of September 11\, 1973. Departi ng from readings celebrating these works as paradigms of interactivity or a s inviting participation\, Scott argues that they are better read as allego ries of a far-reaching media-technical and political apparatus then being f orged in the United States\, as modeling environmental systems as they oper ated as techniques of power\, both upon the bodies and psyches of subjects as well as in a wider geopolitical domain.
Felicity D. Scott is Professor of Architecture at C olumbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preserv ation\, where she directs the PhD program in Architecture (History and Theo ry)\, and co-directs the program in Critical\, Curatorial and Conceptual Pr actices in Architecture (CCCP). Her books include: Architecture or Tech no-Utopia: Politics After Modernism (MIT Press\, 2007)\, Ant Farm< /em> (ACTAR\, 2008)\, Disorientation: Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs (Sternberg Press\, 2016)\, and Outlaw Territories: Environm ents of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency (Zone Books\, 20 16).
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