Tom McDonough speaks at “1968: Aesthetics and Anti-aesthetics” conference at NYU-Berlin

Associate Professor Tom McDonough contributed a paper on “Cinema at a Standstill or, why didn’t Guy Debord film during May ’68” at the “1968: Aesthetic and Anti-aesthetics” conference hosted by NYU-Berlin May 25-26.

His talk examined the profound visual discretion exercised by Guy Debord and the Situationist International more generally during the crisis of May and June 1968, asking why Debord refused to produce any filmic documentation of the events, even as many others on the Left willingly did so. A careful reading of the text-based posters produced by the group at that time, however, opens the possibility for seeing their activity as a form of imageless cinema.

Graduate Activities: Pei-Chun Viola Hsieh

image from Journal of TFAM (Taipei Fine Art Museum)

Pei-Chun Viola Hsieh’s article has recently been published in an online academic journal in Taiwan, “Journal of TFAM (Taipei Fine Art Museum)” https://www.tfam.museum/Journal/Main.aspx?&id=35&ddlLang=en-us

Attached is the link to the full journal, including: “Hsieh Pei-chun, A Nomad in Nowhereland: Hsieh Tehching, One Year Performance (Outdoor Piece) 1981-2.”

Andrew Walkling Revives Manual Collation at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Associate Professor Andrew Walkling recently reported on an ongoing project involving the collation of typographical variants in a late-seventeenth-century English book. His report, published in The Collation, the research blog of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, describes his work refurbishing and using the library’s Hinman Collator, a fascinating relic of mid-20th-century pre-digital technology. The project grew out of an issue first raised in his forthcoming book, English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706, to be published by Routledge in 2019.

You can read his post at https://collation.folger.edu/2018/05/hinman-redux/

Roundtable published on Scalar with Lauren Cesiro as Digital Content Manager

 

Screenshot from Itinera, modified by Nancy Um on Adobe Illustrator.

Lauren Cesiro served as the Digital Content Manager for “Itinera’s Displacements: A Roundtable,” published on Scalar and written by Christopher Drew Armstrong, Lily Brewer, Jennifer Donnelly, Alison Langmead, Vee McGyver, and Meredith North. This roundtable appeared in “Coordinates: Digital Mapping and Eighteenth-Century Visual, Material and Built Cultures,” a special issue of Journal18: a journal of eighteenth-century art and culture, co-edited by Carrie Anderson and Nancy Um.
Visit the project here: http://www.journal18.org/2741