Forelesning
Open Forum: Ina Blom / Straight-line sensibilities and the question of following
The proliferation of straight lines in 20th Century art and architecture is typically associated with rational and universalist procedures and perspectives, and with the rise of industrial culture. In this lecture, I will look at straight lines in modern and contemporary art from a very different perspective. I will present a hidden genealogy of straight lines that all seem to evoke the complexities of sensory realities and capacities and that suggest entirely new ways of «following lines". This type of straight lines are all, in their various ways, related to the close interconnection between bodies and new media infrastructures - one of the major themes in 20th and 21st Century art. My hope is that you will never look at straight lines the same way again.
Ina Blom is a professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo and Visiting Professor in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago. Her field of writing and research is 20th and 21st Century art, with a special emphasis on the relationship between art, media, technology and politics. Recent books include The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology (New York, 2016), On the Style Site. Art, Sociality and Media Culture (New York, 2007/2009) and Houses to Die In and Other Essays on Art. (London, 2022). She is also an art critic, contributing to Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Parkett and Afterall.
