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The Arts Administartion Program is delighted to announce\u00a0It\u2019s Time\u00a0<\/em>a conversation between Prof. Sean Cubitt<\/a> (Goldsmiths and Harvard) and Prof. Lanfranco Aceti<\/a> (MIT and BU) on issues of\u00a0<\/span>time<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and its relationship to the contemporary databased and mediated narratives. The lecture, supported by\u00a0\u00a0Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University,<\/span>\u00a0will take place in the\u00a0Plimpton Room, Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University on Monday, December 4, 2017, from 6:30pm to 8:00 pm.<\/p>\n Inspired by Italo Calvino\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Six Memos for the Next Millennium<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and Umberto Eco\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>S<\/em>ix\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Walks in the F<\/em>ictional\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Woods,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at the Mahindra Humanities Center, the conversation will be published by MIT Press as part of larger project that analyzes issues of time, space, movement, matter, light, and the unknown. The volume will be using a new publication platform,\u00a0<\/span>Contemporary Arts and Cultures (CAC),<\/a> realized by\u00a0<\/span>Travis Rich<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>at the MediaLab that LEA has been experimenting with.<\/p>\n \u201cThis motif can also be interpreted as an allegory of narrative time and the way in which it cannot be measured against real time. And the same significance can be seen in the reverse operation, in the expanding of time by the internal proliferations from one story to another, which is a feature of oriental storytelling.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n Prof. Cubitt will analyze motifs and structures that are emerging from the contemporary usage of databases as archives of times and time based narratives. These are engineered structures that simultaneously appear to liberate from and freeze in time images and their narratives.<\/p>\n What are, then, the old media structures that can be still recognized as metaphors and \u201crearview mirrors\u201d (Marshall McLuhan) in our twenty-first century data driven societies? And what is the role of time in the complexity of representation and narratives that characterize individual and social phenomena?<\/p>\n [1] Italo Calvino,\u00a0<\/span>Six Memos for the Next Millennium<\/em>, trans. Patrick Creagh (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), 37.<\/p>\n This event is graciously supported by the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Contemporary Arts and Cultures, Operational and Curatorial Research, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, and MIT Press.<\/p>\n With thanks to the Mahindra Humanities Center.<\/p>\n Event coordinator: Candice Bancheri.<\/p>\n