The 2016 Senior Thesis exhibition, Fabricated, Normally, opens on April 29 with a reception at 5:00 pm. For more information on the exhibition, visit the Carpenter Center's website.
For information on senior thesis projects, visit the Student Work page on our website.
Thursday, April 28, 1pm Friday, April 29, 7 pm Saturday, April 30, 7 pm
Moving-image works produced by spring semester students in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, including senior thesis projects by Elizabeth Choi, Dario Guerrero, Lance Katigbak, Danielle Lessard, Max McGillivray, and Kendra Justine McLaughlin. Visit the Student Work page on our website to see...
April 7-10, 2016 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Presented by Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University imagehe.re
This conference will bring together papers, performances and artworks in order to elaborate the role of non-representation as a theory and/or practice in recent contemporary philosophy, media theory, art, and related fields. Not simply a blank, the phrase [image here]...
Andy London, a visiting lecturer in VES, will talk about his work. London is a writer, director, animator and co-founder of London Squared Productions. He has been creating graphic novels, films, art installations and animated content since 1992.
Liz Glynn, a visiting lecturer in VES, will talk about her work. Glynn creates sculptures, large-scale installations, and performances drawing upon different historical epochs, architecture, artifacts, and literature. Her work explores individual agency within complex superstructures in the face of an increasingly abstract economy. Her practice seeks to embody dynamic cycles of growth and decay by evidencing process, encouraging participation, and inciting future action.
Critic and filmmaker (Transformers: The Premake) Kevin B. Lee, one of the foremost practitioners of videographer criticism, joins us to talk about video essays. Lee has, in the past 8 years, produced more than 100 short video essays on cinema and television. He is the founding editor and chief video essayist for Fandor’s Keyframeas well as editor for IndieWire’s Press Play blog and his...
Please join us at 6pm onWednesday, February 17th, for a screening of The Look of Silence, the Oscar nominated documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer '97. Following the screening, the filmmaker will be on hand for a question and answer session and reception. The Look of Silence explores the aftermath of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, and is a follow-up to Oppenheimer’s 2012 documentary, The Act of Killing.
This event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is...