A&A Graduate Symposium Event #2 Means and Meaning of Materiality in the Zoom Age

This event takes place in the frame work of the Princeton Art & Archaeology Graduate Symposium “Has Anything Changed? New Strategies and Adaptive Methodologies in Art History Since COVID-19”

Joseph Litts (PhD Student, Department of Art & Archaeology) will lead a workshop, which revolves around the following questions: what are the politics and possibilities within artistic media, techniques, and practices? Can materials have a politics? In this event, attention will pivot from thinking solely about the object in its physical form – long entrenched as the status quo – towards looking at high-quality photographs, digital reproductions, catalogue notes, and other forms of object engagement that became more commonplace since the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants will examine what new doors are opened by these increased channels of looking at an object, and how new ways of looking, thinking about, and engaging with these objects and transmuted materialities can reshape our approach to art history. For this event, scholars at all stages are invited to nominate an art object for close, digital looking in a group workshop format to facilitate discussion.

Please note that registration is required.