Hanna Rose Shell
Thursday, September 27th 2012  4:00pm
Berkeley, CA

http://bcnm.berkeley.edu

This talk proposes a history and theory of the drive to hide in plain sight. Camouflage developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of biological evolution; its origins date to the turn of the last century. Today, camouflage is commonly thought of as a specific textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns, or alternatively its twenty-first century pixelated “digital” update. But it is in fact much more — a set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and permutations of subjectivity. Hanna Rose Shell is an Associate Professor in Science, Technology, and Society, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Location:
Stephens Hall, Room 470
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA