The Kitchen (Venue Partner)
512 W 19th St
212.255.5793
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Tuesday Nov 24, 2009 (7pm)
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This panel discussion will center on the history and current practices of pictorial representation in the sciences and will address how such changes how influenced (and been influenced by) artistic practices. What does it mean to make an "objective" image of a natural object? How have ideals of fidelity to nature changed over the last four hundred years? What have been, or could be, the implications for the visual arts? The evening will feature historian of science Peter Galison (co-author of the breakthrough book Objectivity which offers a major reinterpretation of the relationship between the sciences and arts in the nineteenth century) in conversation with artist Terry Winters and others about the place of objectivity and subjectivity - historically and analytically - in the making of images. The discussion will be built around "readings" of a set of paradigmatic paintings, diagrams, and drawings spanning the arts and the sciences. The discussion will be moderated by D. Graham Burnett, an editor at Cabinet.
