EVENTS
Beatriz Colomina. Surveillance: Architecture in the Post-Sputnik Age
29/10/2008 – 31/10/2008
BEATRIZ COLOMINA
Surveillance: Architecture in the Post-Sputnik Age
October 29, 30, 31. 18.30-21.00 h.
This seminar will explore the critical transformation in the relationship between interior and exterior space in modern architecture as a key symptom of the rise of surveillance culture. This transformation is most evident in domestic space, which ceases to be simply bounded territory in opposition to the outside whether physical or social. An analysis of modern houses will be used as a frame to register contemporary displacements of the relationship between private and public space, the convolution of boundaries between inside and outside produced by the emerging reality of the technologies of communication and surveillance: telephone, radio, film, TV, computers, the internet, satellites, etc. The basic position to be explored is both that architecture has been completely transformed by the new spatialities of the media and that architecture itself has always operated as a form of media.
Sessions
Sesión 1. Arquitectura de Rayos X: la enfermedad como metáfora. More
Sesión 2. Vigilancia global: arquitectura en la era Post-Sputnik. More
Sesión 3. Visiones turbias: Arquitecturas de vigilancia. More
Biography
Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. She is the author of Domesticity at War (ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007), Doble exposición: Arquitectura a través del arte (Akal, 2006) and Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994) and the editor of Architectureproduction (Princeton Architectural Press, 1988), Sexuality and Space (PAP, 1992), and Cold War Hot Houses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy (PAP, 2004). She is the organizer of the exhibition “Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X” at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and the CCA in Montreal. The show will travel to several cities in the USA, Europe and Asia starting with Documenta 12 and the Architectural Association in London. She is currently working on her next research project "X-Ray Architecture: Illness as Metaphor."
Information and enrolment
Language of the Seminar: Spanish
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