This symposium explores the spaces of artistic, artisanal, and intellectual production. From the artist’s studio to the alchemist’s lab, the stateroom to the secret chamber, the brick-and-mortar hall to the winding corridors of cyberspace, rooms and their contents have long influenced history and transformed their inhabitants. Held in conjunction with the special exhibition The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 (May 19–December 31, 2017), this symposium brings together artists, architects, and historians to consider the spaces where objects and ideas are generated.
Saturday, October 14, 2017, Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums
Part 2: Rooms for Making: Library/Laboratory/Model
• “‘A Scene in a Library’: Inventing and Destroying Enlightenment Photography at Soho House,” Matthew Hunter, Associate Professor, Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University.
• “Connected Interiors: Learning Architecture and Observation in Meiji Japan,” Matthew Mullane, Ph.D. candidate, School of Architecture, Princeton University.
• “Interior as Microcosm: The Production of Epistemologies, Ethics, and Identities at Biosphere 2, 1991–1994,” Meredith Sattler, Assistant Professor of Architecture, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
The symposium was presented as part of HUBweek 2017 (October 10–15). This project is supported in part by major grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.
To learn more, please visit the Harvard Art Museums' calendar at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/the-room-where-it-happens-on-the-agency-of-interior-spaces
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