DUDLEY HOUSE SENIOR COMMON ROOM DINNER
*Please join us for a talk and lively conversation on film experiments at
the Bauhaus in conjunction with the centennial celebrations across campus.*
*"Material Imagination: Bauhaus and the Moving Image"*
A conversation with Laura Frahm, Associate Professor of Visual and
Environmental Studies
Monday, March 4, 2019
5.30pm - Informal reception, Graduate Student Lounge
6pm - Dinner, Talk and Discussion, Dudley House Common Room
*In conjunction with the Bauhaus Centennial, this talk explores how members
of the Bauhaus—one of the most progressive art, architecture, and design
schools in the early 20th century—actively experimented with film in the
1920s and early 1930s; it traces how Bauhäusler developed film scripts,
created playful film montages, and experimented with filmstrips across the
different Bauhaus workshops. Complementing the five Bauhaus film programs
at the Harvard Art Museums and the Harvard Film Archive (Feb 28–Apr 22),
this talk with place special emphasis on material experiments with
celluloid and cellophane for material exercises, equilibrium studies,
furniture coatings, photomontages, weaving works, and exhibition design.*
*Laura Frahm is Associate Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and
teaches within the graduate program “Film and Visual Studies” since fall
2012. Within GSAS, she is particularly involved in the “Harvard Horizons”
program, for which she co-developed the Mentoring Program with Pamela
Pollok in spring 2013 and continued to serve as a Faculty Mentor for
Harvard Horizons scholars in the past six years. Her research focuses on
the intersections between media, architecture, and design, and she has
published several books and articles on urban cinema, urban design, film
and architecture, media experimentation, and the history of visual music.
Her current book project, entitled “Film by Design: Bauhaus and the Moving
Image,” provides a history of film experimentation at the Bauhaus between
1919 and 1933 and will be published with MIT Press.*
Open to Dudley House members
Pick up a free ticket from Dudley House main office, 3rd floor
Longwood students may reserve by calling 5-2255
organized by Dudley Intellectual & Cultural Fellows
dudley.intellectual(a)gmail.com
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Intellectual / Cultural Fellows
Dudley House
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