Speaker. BOOM! Growth, Form and Sustainable Bodies Conference
This conference is organized to coincide with the Richard Hamilton retrospective at the Tate Modern in February 2014, which will include the reconstruction of Growth and Form (ICA, 1951). Growth and Form negotiated a problematic that in the two decades after the end of WWII preoccupied different strands of artistic and architectural research across Europe. Namely, the effects of booming expansion - economic, demographic, urban, technological, material, visual - on the embodied subject within the context of a spreading capitalist pan-humanism championed abroad by the US. Some of the key historical coordinates that this conferences sets out to engage with in relation to cultural production include: Edward Steichen's The Family of Man (1955), the baby boom, the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1954, the first tests of the H-bomb, postwar developments in cybernetics and artificial intelligence.
History of Art, University College London, UK, April 4 - 5, 2014
April 4 - 5, 2014