Presented as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irv ing Lecture Series
Event is free and open to the public
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Focusing on Ju an Downeys 1969 sculpture With Energy Beyond These Walls\, Felicit y Scott’s lecture will revisit the Chilean-born artist’s electronic and cyb ernetic works of the late 1960s and early 1970s\, reading their structurall y ambivalent semantic and operational logics\, and their modes of switching \, as harboring a political vocation\, one becoming more evident\, and more urgent in the wake of the military coup of September 11\, 1973. Departing from readings celebrating these works as paradigms of interactivity or as i nviting participation\, Scott argues that they are better read as allegorie s of a far-reaching media-technical and political apparatus then being forg ed in the United States\, as modeling environmental systems as they operate d 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 Colu mbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservati on\, where she directs the PhD program in Architecture (History and Theory) \, and co-directs the program in Critical\, Curatorial and Conceptual Pract ices in Architecture (CCCP). Her books include: Architecture or Techno- Utopia: Politics After Modernism (MIT Press\, 2007)\, Ant Farm (ACTAR\, 2008)\, Disorientation: Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Si gns (Sternberg Press\, 2016)\, and Outlaw Territories: Environment s of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency (Zone Books\, 2016) .
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