Realism, Photography, and the Construction of Science
The third seminar this autumn is led by artist and researcher Kerstin Hamilton. Her current post-doc project Super Sight Revisited: Images of Science and the Construction of Science takes as its point of departure the photographs made by Berenice Abbott at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1950s. The seminar will explore (1) a text on Abbott’s perspectives on realism, and (2) work-in-progress images from Hamilton’s recent visit to the New York Public Library Archive and MIT. The research is funded by the Hasselblad Foundation and HDK-Valand.
In the late 1950s, photographer Berenice Abbott documented scientific phenomena like motion, magnetism, and light, viewing photography as a tool in the service of democracy to promote historical knowledge. Super Sight Revisited: Images of Science and the Construction of Science takes visual and conceptual cues from Abbott's progressive work between the late 1930s and early 1960s.
Working with researchers from the Department of Space, Earth, and Environment at Chalmers University of Technology, the research project integrates historical images from archives, new visualizations based on research data, and documentary images of and from the Onsala Space Observatory.
The seminar will be conducted in English.
Additional information
Prior to the seminar there is additional information to take part of. Contact andjeas.ejiksson@akademinvaland.gu.se
On the seminar series
The series serves as a time and space for the sharing of ongoing research, for conversations regarding specific aspects of it, and/or questions that the research has come across. The wish is that the series shall provide an inclusive, as well as dedicated, room for discussion and exchange within the HDK-Valand research environment, and in relation to its research clusters, regarding issues emanating from the research conducted.
The seminars are open to senior and doctoral researchers, students, lecturers, and staff, at HDK-Valand. Material before each seminar will be uploaded here two weeks before taking place.
The seminar series is made with financial support from the research clusters.
Prior to the seminar there is additional information to take part of, approximately two weeks before the seminar.
