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Visual & Critical Studies Symposium
Saturday, April 5, 11 am–3 pm

Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Info: 415.551.9251 or Visual & Critical Studies Events listings

Looking at the world, whether through the lens of a tourist, consumer, student, artist, biennale visitor, hipster, activist, ufologist, architect, or environmentalist, involves the formation of ways of seeing and the communication of visual images.

This year's symposium presents a wide range of exciting critical investigations into the visual culture that colors our conceptions and perceptions of everyday life, shapes our relations with others, and determines how we navigate our visual itineraries in the global arena.

Our exceptional cohort of thesis students has delved into such topics as the visual poetics of loss, the ideological implications of space-age mapping technologies, the affinities among craft and social practice, the visibility and invisibility of temporary labor sites, food fairs and the conversion of labor into entertainment, the rhetoric of corporeal violence in contemporary Japanese art, and the cultural stakes of intellectual copyrighting.

We welcome the public to join us in witnessing the results of this two-year-long inquiry into how visual imagery structures our experiences and informs our thinking.

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