Visions: The art, science and politics of seeing
Co-presented by the Power Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of the Visual Research Program
15 – 17 August at the Museum Contemporary Art
How do our visions shape the world, and how does the visual world shape us?
Over the course of three days, this public forum will bring together a group of international and local experts to share their thoughts on the art, science and politics of vision. How do scientists and engineers understand vision today? What is its history? And what utopian or dystopian visual futures lie ahead?
With twenty local and international speakers, including:
Huey Copeland is BFC Presidential Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Copeland’s work interrogates African/Diasporic, American and European artistic praxis from the late eighteenth century to the present with an emphasis on articulations of blackness in the Western visual field.
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines.
Rebecca Ray is a Meriam woman descended from the Torres Strait Islands and is an experienced First Nations curator, writer and cultural heritage researcher. She has curatorial experience grassroots communities, remote art centres, universities and galleries at regional and national levels.
Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of artificial intelligence. She is a Professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR New York, and the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
More information about the forum can be found here
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