PLATFORM a CSU ConSortiUm Event
Forensic Architecture: A conversation with founder Eyal Weizman
Date: November 12, 2020Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Live Via Zoom
Forensic Architecture, Sea Watch vs Libyan Coast Guard (with Forensic Oceanography), 2018. Image credit: Forensic Oceanography and Forensic Architecture.
About the CSU ConSortiUm
The newly formed ConSortiUm, a collaborative project of art museums and galleries from the California State University (CSU) system, is pleased to announce a virtual event series that actively engages students, faculty, staff, and communities through visual arts-based dialogue. The inaugural program, PLATFORM, will launched in September 2020 and include six live virtual conversations with contemporary artists, collectives, and curators whose work is critical to current re-imaginings of the art world and the world at large.
All events will be presented live via Zoom with access for all CSU campuses. These events are free and also open to the public.
Event Info
Event Registration is now Closed.
Close-captioned Event Recording Available Upon Request.
About the Speaker
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is the founding director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he founded the Centre for Research Architecture in 2005.
The author of over 15 books, he has conducted research and taught at many universities worldwide. He was a Global Scholar at Princeton University and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is a member of several managing and advisory boards, including the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court and the board of trustees of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. He is also a founding member of the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine.
Eyal studied architecture at the Architectural Association, graduating in 1998. He received his PhD in 2006 from the London Consortium at Birkbeck, University of London.
Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London. They undertake advanced spatial and media investigations into cases of human rights violations, with and on behalf of communities affected by political violence, human rights organizations, international prosecutors, environmental justice groups, and media organizations.
They investigate state and corporate violence, human rights violations and environmental destruction all over the world. Their work often involves open-source investigation, the construction of digital and physical models, 3D animations, virtual reality environments and cartographic platforms.
Within these environments they locate and analyze photographs, videos, audio files and testimonies to reconstruct and analyze violent events. They also use thier digital models as tools for interviewing survivors of violence, finding new ways to access and explore memories of trauma.
About the Artwork
Sea Watch vs Libyan Coast Guard (with Forensic Oceanography)
Forensic Architecture, still from Triple Chaser, 2019. Image credit: Forensic Architecture, Praxis Films.
Triple Chaser
Press Contact: Kelly Lindner
Galleries & Collections Curator
University Galleries, Sacramento State
kelly.lindner@csus.edu
CPP Campus Contact: Michele Cairella Fillmore
Galleries & Collections Curator
University Art Galleries & Collections, Cal Poly Pomona
michelec@cpp.edu
