Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University (Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies).
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Professor Bruno is internationally known for her research on the intersections of the visual arts, architecture, film, and media. Her latest book, Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media (University of Chicago Press, 2022), considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment, binding art to the ecology of ambiance. Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media (University of Chicago Press, 2014) has been widely reviewed and praised for revisiting the concept of materiality in contemporary art. Her seminal work Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Verso, 2002) won the 2003 Kraszna- Krausz Book Award in Culture and History – a prize awarded to “the world’s best book on the moving image” – and has provided new directions for visual studies. Atlas was also honored as Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association and named a Book of the Year in 2003 by the Guardian. Her book Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts (MIT Press, 2007) has been translated in Europe and Asia. For Streetwalking on a Ruined Map (Princeton University Press, 1993), a journey through modernity and cultural memory, she won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual award for best book in Film Studies. Off Screen (Routledge, 1988) was devoted to women and film, and Immagini allo schermo (Rosenberg & Sellier, 1991) was named one of the 50 Best Books of the First 100 Years of Film History.
Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Medial
Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, this talk is based on the recently published book where the author considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic lantern shows. Our fascination with projection is alive on the walls of museums and galleries and woven into our daily lives. This presentation explores the histories of projection and atmosphere in visual culture and their continued importance to contemporary artists who are reinventing the projective imagination with atmospheric thinking and the use of elemental media.
To explain our fascination with projection and atmosphere, this work takes a transdisciplinary approach, one that traverses psychoanalysis, environmental philosophy, architecture, the history of science, visual art, and moving image culture to see how projective mechanisms and their environments have developed over time. The talk will discuss how atmosphere is formed and mediated, how it can change, and what projection can do to modify a site. In so doing, it gives new life to the alchemic possibilities of transformative projective atmospheres. Showing how their “environmentality” produces sites of exchange and relationality, this work binds art to the ecology of atmosphere.