Radical Art History: Nick Lee, ‘Uncertain Progress’

When:
November 20, 2018 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
2018-11-20T17:30:00+00:00
2018-11-20T18:30:00+00:00
Where:
Oxford Brookes University
Headington Rd
Oxford
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
CARU | Contemporary Arts ReSearch Unit

The multi-talented Nick Lee is a Lecturer in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, a researcher at the House of Lords, and co-founder of the radical south-London project space, the Peckham Pelican.

Nick, an academic with a reputation as a revolutionary nonconformist, will be joining us for the final FAR (Fine Art Research) guest lecture of 2018.

This discussion at Oxford Brookes will present a series of painted images ordered to demonstrate the development of perspectiva artificialis (artificial perspective).

The following question will be posed: what exactly is developing in these images and what subsequent forms of image-making does artificial perspective make possible?
(Progress here, as elsewhere, is uncertain; a way of seeing is produced which structures in turn how we see the world.) The extent to which computer-generated images replicate and further systematise this way of seeing will be considered…

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