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THIRD EXPOSURE~THE DARK ROOM: RACE & VISUAL 3RD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM on Saturday, April 11 at Wellesley College. Free and Open to the Public. See below for the full schedule.

The Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Studies Seminar is an extended conversation concerning the intersection of critical race theory and visual culture studies. With over 40 members from 24 North American colleges and universities, we are a group of regional and institutional variety, made up of several different disciplines and departments and different professional ranks. We meet once a month during the academic year to consider the import of recent published works heavily invested in the interstices of visualities rendered through the lens of race and empire. Third Exposure is just that, our third foray into a collective intellectual engagement of this kind. #3rdExp

Email: raceandvisualcultureseminar@gmail.com | Twitter: @raceandvisual

Program Schedule

8:30      Registration    Collins Cinema

9:00     

SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig.  You’re welcome!

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Several years ago—after working on media art, myths, songs about invisible networks and imaginary places—we started a series of sound art projects about America. In making these public sound artworks about our country we ask ourselves questions about funk, austerity, debt and responsibility, aesthetics, and inheritance. We also attempt to reckon with data, that which orders so much of our lives with its presence or absence.

We are interested in how data might be understood differently once sonified or made musical. We want to explore what kinds of codes are embedded in the architecture of American culture.

Big House/Disclosure

The first sound art project in this vein that we completed in 2007 was entitled Big House / Disclosure. Northwestern University commissioned

Special Issue: Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean

Edited by Christer Petley and Stephan Lenik

Stephan Lenik and Christer Petley, ‘Introduction: The Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean’

Section I – Planters, workers and the development of plantation space

1. Douglas V. Armstrong and Matthew C. Reilly, ‘The Archaeology of Settler Farms and Early Plantation Life in Seventeenth-Century Barbados’

2. Stephanie Bergman and Frederick H. Smith, ‘Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries: The Material Culture of Improvement during the Age of Abolition in Barbados’

3. Christer Petley, ‘Plantations and Homes: The Material Culture of the Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Elite’

Section II – Material inequalities and practices inside enslaved communities

4. Justin Roberts, ‘The “Better Sort” and the “Poorer Sort”: Wealth Inequalities, Family Formation and the Economy of Energy on British Caribbean Sugar Plantations, 1750-1800’

5. James A. Delle and Kristen R. Fellows, ‘Death and Burial…