Event time:
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - 4:00pm
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ), 107
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
The pervasive presence of reproduced and electronically projected images in the daily landscape in Japan of the 1970s (neon signs, photographs, newspapers and magazines, posters on the streets, graphic design and character work in advertising, television, cinema) created a field of intensity against which the fine arts struggled to compete and retain their interventionist force. Curator Kamiyama Ryōko wrote, “the copy above all represented a contradiction or a paradox, that through a human act, it could be possible to represent a world that extended beyond the human capacity to imagine.” Xerographic art in Japan offers a novel way to trace the boundaries between the material and the conceptual, tactility and visuality, accident and information. How did artists mobilize the early Xerox machine to confront the pervasive corporate and technological infrastructures that shaped their world? How do these experiments speak to our situation today as they mobilize embodied practices, destabilize gender forms, and upturn expectations around time and sensory perception?