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DESCRIPTION:We’re happy to invite you to the fourth and final (!) event in 
 this year’s AHCS Student Speaker Series\, featuring two presenters: Nicola
 s Holt\, AH PhD\, and Yuting Liu\, AH MA. The event poster is attached.\n
 \nPlease join us next week on Thursday\, April 8 at 4PM EST (on Zoom) for 
 two great presentations and\, afterwards\, a Q&A period––we look forward t
 o your participation!\n\nYou can join the meeting at the following link:\n
 \nhttps://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86701910574?pwd=dXM4NTBjbXBoMEV3ZkwwWGVPVno4QT0
 9\n\n—\n\nNicolas Holt\, “Sculpture in the Electromagnetic Field”\n	In the 
 late 1960s\, Chilean-American media artist Juan Downey constructed a serie
 s of electronic sculptures designed to detect\, produce\, and transform el
 ectromagnetic energy into different\, typically more perceivable forms for
  their human spectators. These sculptures—outfitted with different sensors
 \, transmitters\, and receivers—could turn inaudible radar waves or cosmic
  background radiation into light\, sound\, and even mechanical vibration. 
 The current scholarly consensus is that these works and their participativ
 e conditions are emblematic of then contemporary\, cybernetic theories of 
 information\, communication\, and feedback. What’s less often remarked abo
 ut these works\, and what this presentation will foreground\, are the ener
 getic specifics of the electromagnetic fields they generate and by which t
 hey are sustained. Through this shift in emphasis\, this presentation will
  show how the electronic sculptures can be understood not as embodying cyb
 ernetic thought\, but rather making evident where even the most advanced t
 echnical media of the information age only ever offer a partial glimpse of
  the vast energetic environment that surrounds and activates them. In so d
 oing\, this presentation approaches an aesthetics of energy\, and offers a
 n alternative to the totalizing logic of the cybernetic paradigm that has 
 thus far dominated the history of 1960s media art.\n\n \n\nYuting Liu\, 'F
 luid Boundaries: Time\, Space\, Images in the 'Guanyin Jingbian' of Mogao 
 Cave 45'\n\nThe relationship between texts and images is a critical issue 
 in understanding Jingbian (sutra painting 經變)\, a kind of visual represent
 ation of Buddhist scriptures\, and attracted many scholars to provide thei
 r understanding of this art format. This relationship in the Guanyin Jingb
 ian (Avalokiteśvara Sutra Painting觀音經變) of Mogao cave 45 in Dunhuang is pa
 rticularly prominent. By zooming on this painting\, this study will discus
 s the relationship of the texts and images\, and ask questions like if the
  creation of the painting strictly follows the texts or not and how the me
 dieval Chinese understood the painting. While the painting was painted bas
 ed on the Guanyin Jing (Avalokiteśvara Sūtra 觀音經)\, a fluid relationship o
 f time\, space\, and images\, which are absent in the sutra\, are formed i
 n the painting. This study aims to understand these ambiguities of this pa
 inting by situating it with the related texts\, and the visual culture of 
 Medieval China. It contends the Guanyin Jingbian is not an illustration of
  the Guanyin Jing but has its own visual logic. It demonstrates the painti
 ng reflects the imagined world created within the visual culture of mediev
 al China\, which was featured by the beliefs of efficacious icons.\n
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SUMMARY:AHCS Student Speaker Series #4 – Nicolas Holt & Yuting Liu
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/ahcs-student-speaker-series-4
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