Just to let you guys know, there will be a Graduate Symposium on Friday, 2/20 from 10:30am - 5:30pm. If you think you might want to go to grad school, this would be a great opportunity to expose yourself to some of the work that some graduate students are currently working on...KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University Gail Wight, conceptual artist and Associate Professor at Stanford University
“The Limits of Knowledge” is a conference that will address the ways in which skepticism, doubt, and uncertainty delineate the boundaries of what is knowable, and what is true in the history of art, architecture, and visual culture. The visual representation of ideas and of objects is inextricably bound to concepts of truth and objectivity. If, however, these concepts are historically variable, dependent on engrained social practices and moral cultures, so too is the definition of an image with claims to truth or objectivity. What are the possibilities of knowledge in the visual field? What are its limitations? How can skepticism inform, complicate, question, or reject claims to the representation of truth through visual artifacts? To what end?
I'm sure most of you won't be able to stay all day, so if you want to drop by for a schpiel or two, check out the CONFERENCE SCHEDULE.
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