Thursday, April 3 | Sven Augustijnen in person! Confronting the authorized version of an atrocity committed during the early days of post-colonial African rule, Sven Augustijnen’s Spectres (2011) focuses a critical eye on the official account of the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first elected Prime Minister. The film begins a half-century later as the filmmaker sets off in […]
Category: 2014
March 27 – Christiane Paul: Genealogies of the New Aesthetic
Thursday, March 27, 6 p.m. | Christiane Paul in person! Curator and scholar Christiane Paul presents a multimedia talk on the“Genealogies of the New Aesthetic.” Identified as such by the British artist and programmer James Bridle, the New Aesthetic began as a Tumblr devoted to new modes of technologically enabled imaging and exploded into a meme dissected by critics from Wired, […]
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CATE Spring 2014 Season
We are thrilled to announce the Spring 2014 Season of Conversations at the Edge (CATE). This season will be opening with a multimedia talk on the “Genealogies of the New Aesthetic” by Christiane Paul on March 27th Also lined up this season is Sven Augustijnen‘s Spectres (4/3) a film essay that presents a controversial view […]