Word: visuality
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...Land” are grey and strange, with a slippery artificiality that has the effect of collapsing distance. That is to say, they look like Mather House, except they’re beautiful. Currently on exhibition in Mather’s Three Columns Gallery, these photographs are perplexing, visually arresting works. For the gallery’s curator and director, Amber J. Musser ’02, they also reflect a deepening understanding of Three Columns’ place in the house community. Artist J. Michael Sullivan made the digital photographs on a two-week tour of the Emerald Isle...
...could never have made the films I’ve been making if not for the background I had at Harvard,” Bujalski, a former Currier House resident says. He cites the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department’s emphasis on the basics—how to run the camera, how to run the sound, how to edit on a flatbed—as indispensable...
...alerted to trust no one; immediately or ultimately, five of the characters will reveal that they are not what they seem. The anticipation of trickery keeps a movie crowd on its toes. And because the story is so strong, Scorsese can elaborate on it without looking self-indulgent. One visual strategy: he plants X's everywhere, on the walls and in diagonal grouping of characters, to suggest the crisscrossing of Billy and Colin, and of the four lines of conflict (Billy and Colin and their respective father figures) that keep converging and colliding. Sometimes, in an obvious visual correlative...
...Lebanon, the photographic installation by Fouad Elkoury of the Israeli invasion in 1983 became painfully relevant and extraordinarily moving—especially when the artist himself could not be present at the opening because of the destruction of the Beirut airport. Those who took Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of History of Art and Architecture Carrie Lambert-Beatty’s History of Art and Architecture 10 may find the name Michael Blum more familiar—the Israeli-born artist was a guest lecturer in the class last spring. Blum’s installation in Athens...
...Brigham and Women’s Hospital to fund research on factors that cause airport security personnel to overlook dangerous items that appear on the scanner screen. This grant is a supplement to a $460,000 grant awarded earlier this month to the hospital’s Visual Attention Lab, headed by Jeremy M. Wolfe, a professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. The hospital has been working with DHS’s Transportation Security Lab since shortly after September 11th, according to Wolfe. Research has shown that since screeners so rarely find a dangerous item, they are likely...