Blogs

In Spring and Summer of 2014, Dr. Drew Armstrong worked with a group of graduate and undergraduate students in History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh to organize an exhibition that explored relationships between images and knowledge. As part of the Debating Visual Knowledge weekend, Dr. Armstrong gave a tour.

Dr. Patrick Jagoda, Professor of English, University of Chicago

"Network Aesthetics (or: How to See Anything When Everything is Interconnected)"

Dr. Simone Osthoff, Professor of Art and Critical Studies, Pennsylvania State University and Playing the Archive

“Visualizing Cell Behavior in 3D: a tour of biology research praxis” 

Tim Fessenden

“Instant Interferences”

Jeffrey Curran and Jocelyn Monahan

Tim Fessenden holds a Masters in Translational Science and is a doctoral candidate in Cancer Biology, both at the University of Chicago. His research in the lab of Margaret Gardel uses live microscopy to capture 3D movements and shape changes of cells within model tissues. Together with the lab's findings on the physical basis of cell migration, this project will characterize cell behaviors underlying cancer invasion and metastasis.

Chloe Hansen is a Ph.D. student in the Communication and Rhetoric Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research is focused in rhetorical theory, visual rhetoric, public memory studies, and death and dying.

“Visual Agnotology: Visual Production and Maintenance of Ignorance”

Caroline Pirri is a 2nd year PhD student in the English Department at Rutgers University. Her interests include late-Tudor and early-Stuart court performance, early modern popular media and the phenomenology of vision. Her current project examines the popularity of emblems and impresas in the early decades of Stuart rule and explores the ways in which the revision and dramatization of continental emblem books assisted in the creation of a national mythology.