[Sci-tech-public] Hanna Shell TOMORROW: "How Not To Be Seen"

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Dear friends ,

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Please join us tomorrow for CMS colloquium for a talk about camouflage, of
"how not to be seen"--in film, on film, as film.

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Thursday
5pm, Building 4 Room 231

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Hanna Rose Shell, a historian and media artist, is as Assistant Professor in
the Program on Science, Technology and Society at MIT. In the first part of
tomorrow's talk, Shell introduces "how not to be seen" in terms of the
aspiration for, and actualization of concealment in both filmic and natural
ecologies through mixed-media practices that simultaneously incorporate and
subvert the photographic media of reconnaissance. In the second part, Shell
screens and discusses her film-in-progress, called Blind, about the
phenomenology of camouflage. Blind as in blindness, and blind as in that
actively constructed structure intended for the concealment of a hunter from
her game. Shell's bookHide and Seek: Camouflage and the Media of
Reconnaissance will be published by Zone Books.


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about their work and its relation to our studies. These sessions are free,
open to the public, and serve as an excellent introduction to the
Comparative Media Studies program.
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thinking across media forms, theoretical domains, cultural contexts, and
historical periods. Both our graduate and undergraduate programs encourage
the bridging of theory and practice, as much through course work as through
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