Prof Giuliana Bruno (Harvard) - 'Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media'

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• Prof Giuliana Bruno (Harvard)
• Friday 28 April 2023, 17:30-19:00
• McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College.

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The Cambridge Modern French Research Seminar warmly invites you to its next meeting, where Prof Giuliana Bruno will present her new book considering the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment.

What is an atmosphere? What do atmospheres project? How do they create an environment? Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media explores the histories of projection and atmosphere in visual culture and their continued importance to contemporary artists, filmmakers, and architects who are reinventing the projective imagination with atmospheric thinking and the use of elemental media. Bruno traverses psychoanalysis, environmental philosophy, architecture, the history of science, visual art, and moving image culture to see how projective mechanisms and their environments have developed over time. In so doing, she gives new life to the alchemic possibilities of transformative projective atmospheres. Showing how their “environmentality” produces sites of exchange and relationality, this book binds art to the ecology of atmosphere.

“Moving with mercurial fleetness and animation across alchemy, geometry, mathematics, psychoanalysis, architecture, and ecological thought, Bruno reveals how projection is bound, not to the sharply defined planes and angles of perspective thinking, but to the dispersive permeations of environments and milieux.” —Steven Connor, University of Cambridge

This event is co-hosted by the French Section, Cambridge Film and Screen, and the Italian Section. Prof Bruno’s talk will be followed by a drinks reception at the McCrum.

(Please note that the McCrum Lecture Theatre is accessed via the cobbled yard next to the Eagle pub on Bene’t Street (i.e. not via the main entrance to Corpus Christi College). The auditorium is accessible by wheelchair.)

For all questions, please contact one of the MFRS co-convenors: Prof Emma Wilson (efw1000@cam.ac.uk), Maddison Sumner (mls69@cam.ac.uk), and Tobias Barnett (tldb2@cam.ac.uk).

This talk is part of the Cambridge Modern French Research Seminar series.

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