Vision Is a Battlefield: Histories of Race and Media
Tue, Mar 26, 2024
6:30 PM–8:00 PM
This hybrid event will take place in the Martin E. Segal Theatre and online. Please register below to attend in-person or virtually.
Watch the video recording of this event below:
How is our basic perception of the world influenced by concepts of racial identity? Join us for an illuminating discussion with the authors of four recent books exploring the intertwined histories of photography, media, and race. The panel of experts on art and visual culture features Brooke Belisle, associate professor of art at Stony Brook University, speaking on computational imagery and AI; Emilie Boone, assistant professor of art history at New York University, on Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee; Monica Huerta, assistant professor of English and American studies at Princeton University, on the aesthetics of racial capitalism; and Nicholas Mirzoeff, professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, on the visual politics of whiteness. Claire Bishop, professor of art history at the CUNY Graduate Center, moderates.
This event is hosted by GC Presents, and co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History and the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.
