Detail View: Campus Perspectives
This series provides a platform for Rensselaer professors and researchers to share in-depth perspectives on their fields of inquiry. Inviting an exchange of ideas on campus and providing a window into a singular vision, these events are geared toward experts and non-experts alike.
All Detail View talks are FREE
Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011, 12 PM | Theater
Après le Deluge, 1913-1947—
The beginning of the series surveys key moments and tensions within the historical avant-garde, with examples from dance, abstract film and animation, experimental music, and critical theory.
Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011, 12 PM | Theater
The Panacea that Failed, 1948–1974—
The second part of the series balances the celebratory heyday of art and technology against a rising tide of disillusionment and media-archeological irony.
Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011, 12 PM | Theater
Virtuality to Virtuosity, 1974-2011—
The final installment of the series moves beyond what some have termed the crisis of new media art today—its relegation to “cool obscurity” by the institutional art world, and its simultaneous co-option by the information industries—by sketching out an anti-anti-utopian view of the potential of experimental artworks as “extraordinary freedom machines.”