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 3: Virtual Rooms: Theater/Period Room/Cockpit
• “A Machine of Visibility: Paul Nelson’s Surgical Theater at the Cité Hospitalière de Lille,” Nicholas Robbins, Ph.D. candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University.
• “Visiting Mrs. M.—’s Cabinet: Period Room as Pedagogy,” Sarah Anne Carter, Curator and Director of Research, The Chipstone Foundation.
• “Bedroom Aviators—Flight Simulation and the Domestic Realm,” Chad Randl, Visiting Lecturer in Architecture, Cornell University.
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, 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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