Keynote Prof. Christopher Heuer

Arts Administration @ Boston University in collaboration with the International Association for Visual Culture, OCR and the Museum of Contemporary Cuts is proud to announce that Professor Christopher Heuer will be delivering a keynote for THE SOCIAL – the forthcoming biennial conference of Visual Culture at Boston University.

Christopher P. Heuer is an art historian and writer, and currently directs the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, with a faculty appointment in the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art. He is the author of The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries (New York and Oxford 2009, pbk. 2013), and a co-author of Vision and Communism (New York, 2011). His writing has appeared in Artforum, The Burlington Magazine, Res, Art History, Oxford Art Journal, October, Print Quarterly, Kunstschrift, and elsewhere. Before coming to the Clark, Heuer was a Fulbright Scholar, a Samuel H. Kress Fellow at the Kunsthistorisch Instituut of the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, and a Getty Fellow, and then on faculty in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Columbia University (2005-2007) then Princeton University (2007-2014). In 2009 Heuer was named Gerda Henkel Stiftung Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and in 2014-5 appointed Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington DC. Recent publications deal with (among other topics) Hercules Segers, Robert Smithon’s paleontology, and the aesthetics of icebergs. A new book about the Renaissance arctic, Into the White, is under contract with Zone Books/MIT Press, and a second book about Albrecht Dürer and kinetics, under contract with Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press, is in preparation. Heuer remains a founding member of Our Literal Speed, an art- and media collective based in Selma, Alabama.