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S13 TÉLÉ->VISION

We’re very excited to announce the next session of the Tele-Visions seminar series! Join us on February 5 as we welcome Lila Lee-Morrison (Lund University) for a talk titled “Looking Up and Looking Away: Art and Imaging Technology of the Cosmos,” followed by a discussion with Annick Bureaud.

📅 Date: February 5, 2025, 6 pm to 8 pm (CET), Online

📍 Location: Institut national d’histoire de l’art – salle Walter Benjamin.

📍 OnlineZoom link

Looking Up and Looking Away: Art and Imaging Technology of the Cosmos,

Lila Lee-Morrison’s talk attends to the visuality and aesthetics of astronomical imaging and its relationship to cultural forms of meaning. It explores this through an artwork by Rohini Devasher titled, “One Hundred Thousand Suns” (2023). A central focus of the work details the material and cultural history of a solar observatory located in Kodaikanal, in Tamil Nadu in the south of India, first consecrated during British colonial rule in 1904. It discusses this artwork through a focused interest in the epistemological value of a view from below, as a situated perspective of an observing subject which stands counter to a philosophical premise (and promise) of “the Archimedes Point” as the site of objectivity. Instead, the talk explores how, from below, the cosmos becomes a site of (re)imagining forms of subjectivity that produce pluralist and non–universalizing perspectives, presenting an alternative to the scientific objectivity that frames techno-scientific visual output.

Lila Lee-Morrison is a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University on the ERC funded project titled, “Show and Tell: Scientific representation, algorithmically generated visualizations, and evidence across epistemic cultures.” She is a recent recipient of the Andy Warhol Art Writers Grant (2023) and is working on a book project titled, “Machinic Landscapes: Technology, Art and Environment in an Age of Planetarity,” which looks at the work of contemporary artists whose practices address the figuring of diverse subjectivities as enmeshed in both technical and environmental processes. She has published with MIT Press, Artforum, Liverpool University Press, and Brill Publishing.

Annick Bureaud is an independent art critic, curator, and event organiser in the field of art and technosciences. She wrote numerous articles and contributes to the French contemporary art magazine artpress. She notably co-curated the exhibition “(Un)Inhabitable? Art of Extreme Environments” at the MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie (2009), and the Bourges Bandits-Mages Festival “Mending the Fabric of the World” (2018). More recently, she initiated “The Traveling Plant” project (2020), launched the “Space Shelter Earth” project with artist Marcus Neustetter (2023), and, together with Lily Hibberd and Claudia Schnugg, the “Venus Conversations 2024-2034” project (2024). Annick is also the director of Leonardo/Olats.

Credits: Lily Hibberd, “Venus Sappho Patera,” 2022, oil on board, 55cm diameter. Image courtesy of the artist.