Thomas Y. Levin: April 29

Thomas Y. Levin
Wednesday, April 29, 3:15-5:15
Parsons, 66 Fifth Ave. Kellen Auditorium

Thomas Y. Levin is a Professor in the Department of German at Princeton University. He specializes in media and cultural theory, the Frankfurt School, art history, acoustics and technics. Levin was chosen by the Dutch Ministry of Culture to be "artist-in-residence" at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. He has curated "CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother," a major international exhibition which was on view at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. In November 2005, he organized a one-day conference at the Louvre Museum in Paris entitled "Photographie, Prison, Pouvoir: Politiques de l'Image Carcérale" which re-examined the history of the "carceral image" in the wake of Abu Ghraib. Levin is currently writing a book about the film-theoretical cinema of Guy Debord and the Situationist International.

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