Laura Marks "Taking a Line for a Walk:

 

Capilano College | Lecture: Dr. Laura U. Marks | FEB 16

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Capilano College and Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation Lecture Series

presents

 

Dr. Laura U. Marks

 

"Taking a Line for a Walk" in Islamic Art

 

Thursday February 16 at 7 pm  in Cedar 148



When lines give way to points, does the nature of the infinite change?



One of the common qualities of both classical Islamic art and

contemporary computer-based art is that the work of art plays out in

time.  Join Laura Marks as she illustrates what she calls a

"performativity" in terms of the relationship between point and

line, tracing the latter as a living, directional, potentially infinite

movement from Islamic calligraphy to vector graphics.

 

Dr. Marks is Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies

School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.  Her

interests include non-Western approaches to media technologies;

representation of the senses; and Arab and African cinema.  She is the

author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and

the Senses (Duke University Press) and Touch: Sensuous Theory and

Multisensory Media (University of Minnesota Press).

 

Funding for this free lecture has been graciously provided by

Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation, Capilano College and The Capilano

Review

 

Dr. Andrew Klobucar

English Coordinator

English Department

Capilano College

Ext: 2426

E-mail: aklobuca@capcollege.bc.ca