Week six of Dr. Jones’s fall 2020 Anime to Zen: Contemporary Japanese Visual and Material Culture turned to photography. Students captured and discussed images relating to the work of Ishiuchi Miyako, Moriyama Daido, and Yanagi Miwa. Themes addressed include, in reference to Ishiuchi’s work, isolation and abandonment; in reference to Moriyama’s practice, capturing a mundane, local moment in its blurry, grainy, and out of focus “truth”; and in reference to Yanagi’s photographs, expectations of women and imagining oneself in the future. Emma Koehn's Statement Moriyama Daido takes photos that have a heavy sense of a presence in the moment. This is achieved by taking a photo without stopping as
To view theses courses and register please go to My Banner Web and login! ARTH 120 Islamic Art and Architecture Dr. Jennifer Lyons A survey of the art and architecture produced in Muslim lands from Central Asia to Spain between the seventh and nineteenth centuries. The course emphasizes the role of arts in the formation and expression of cultural identity, exploring painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, ivory, metalwork, and illuminated manuscripts. Topics of discussion include the uses of figural and non-figural imagery, calligraphy and ornament, religious and secular art, public and private art, the art
Filmmaker, DJ, and artist Ephraim Asili will virtually join the Alfred University community for a discussion of his series of short films entitled The Diaspora Suite on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Ephraim Asili was just named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine. Currently an Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College, Asili has produced a five-part series that is both a personal and global study of the African diaspora. Created over the course of seven years, every film in the series has a unique rhythm built around a specific amalgam of footage shot in American and international locations — each an important site within the African dias
