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PLASMA presents TJ Demos - April 15th
PLASMA presents TJ Demos
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MONDAY April 15th, The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)presents a talk by art historian TJ Demos at 6:15 pm EST in the Center for the Arts, Room 112. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art.
As always, PLASMA lectures are free and open to the UB community and the public. For remote access to the series, use Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 with PASSWORD: 178187
T. J. Demos teaches art history and visual culture at UC Santa Cruz, and directs its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology and is the author of numerous books, including Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology (2016), Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (2017), and most recently, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come (2023). He co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020), and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019-21).
PLASMA is sponsored by the University at Buffalo's Department of Media Study and funding is provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The series is taught and organized by Dr. Elia Vargas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Study, with co-sponsorship from the UB Department of Art, Coalesce: Center for Biological Art, The Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art, and the UB Digital Humanities Research Workshop.
For more information regarding the series: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/media-study/news-events/plasma.html
The recordings of previous presentations can be found on MediaStudy@UB's PLASMAYouTube Channel
Upcoming PLASMA Lectures:
Monday April 15 TJ DEMOS
Monday April 22 ORPHAN DRIFT
Monday April 29 MARK SHEPARD
Monday May 6 CHRISTINE MARIE