Clay Tablets to Cameras: Objects That Transform

The College Commons: The Cultural Life of Objects

Thursday, November 19, 2009 : 3:00pm

University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
Room 240

Free


What do ancient tablets and camera phones have in common?

This event focuses on objects that record — objects that have, since the beginning of history, accomplished a plurality of purposes, one of which, paradoxically, is the recording of objects. What is the relationship between this duality and its consequences, from the invention of writing as way of ordering the universe to currently evolving forms of communicative technologies? How do the worlds of “writing about objects” and “objects that write” overlap?

 

Jennifer Cabibbo
(213) 740-5746

http://college.usc.edu/the-college-commons/