Room 102p – Frederic Lasserre Building – 6333 Memorial Road, UBC   ahva.ubc.ca
Event is free and open to the public, Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series
UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
Digital technology derives its name from the Latin digitalis, meaning finger or fingers
breadth. A series of associations and transmutations incrementally led this term from its
original use, which posited the physical body as a reference point and measure of
things, to its common meaning today: discrete, discontinuous, abstract representations
or manifestations of electronic data. This talk explores the social, ethical, and
epistemological consequences of distancing the digital from its embodied roots.
Kris Paulsen is Associate Professor of History of Art and Film Studies at The Ohio State
University, where she teaches classes on new media, contemporary art, and curatorial
studies. Her first book, Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface was
published by The MIT Press on the Leonardo Book Series in 2017. From 2012-2016 she
was the Co-Director of The Center for Ongoing Research and Projects (COR&P), an
experimental art space in Columbus, Ohio.