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Additionally, Armageddon is an important piece of art. Bay’s neo-baroque aesthetic prioritizes the primacy of visual language over plodding dialogue. For example, instead of commenting on current debates in the field of cosmology, Bay sends a small asteroid flying into Grand Central Station. Brilliant...
...written word, quoting an Egyptian myth to remind his listeners that literacy-—while increasing the potential for wisdom to be stored and passed on through generations—also produces forgetfulness. Because it is possible to read but not understand a text, Heaney claims, the mere visual perception of words can actually disregard much of the wisdom they contain...
This lesson is particularly pertinent given the fact that this show is—embarrassingly enough for the Visual and Environmental Studies department—noticeably stronger than the exhibition of faculty work that immediately preceded it. Perhaps this show could teach students and teachers alike a few things about meaning...
Jonathan C. Bardin ‘06-’07 is a Visual and Environmental Science concentrator in Currier House...
Giuliana Bruno, professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard, calls Tsai an “architect of time…a meticulous and rigorous filmmaker who takes his time...