What is the place of materiality in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms?
Professor Giuliana Bruno will discuss these elements in her talk based on her latest research and book, Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media (University of Chicago Press, 2014). Bruno examines how material relations appear on the surface of different media—on film and video screens, in gallery installations, or on the skins of buildings and people. The lecture will focus on the screen, showing how technologies of light produce new forms of materiality. The screen surface is a site where different forms of mediation, memory, and transformation can take place. On the surface, new object relations and material connections are revealed, across art, architecture, fashion, design, film, and new media.