Luminous Images, Hidden in the Senses: Cultivating Cosmic Perception
Luminous Images, Hidden in the Senses: Cultivating Cosmic Perception
College of Arts School of Culture & Creative Arts: Material/Immaterial
Date: Wednesday 06 November 2019
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Dr Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University)
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In the wake of the 'bodily turn', one tendency in contemporary thought attributes all agency to the body, while dispensing with notions of mind and spirit altogether. Another tendency diminishes bodies to just some of the particles banging around the universe.
By contrast, in this talk Laura U. Marks aims to draw together body, spirit, and cosmos in a way that may sound old-fashioned but is actually beautiful, practical and fun. Through embodied thinking, ecology, medieval theories of natural magic, and the process philosophies of Mulla Sadra Shirâzî—who wrote, “What are perceived by the five senses are luminous hidden images existing in another world”—and others, she will sketch how human sensory experiences can be a portal to the cosmos.
Presented by the University of Glasgow’s School of Culture & Creative Arts as part of its 2019-20 Material/Immaterial series, and in partnership with the Substantial Motion Research Network.
Speaker Biography
Laura U. Marks works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus. She programs experimental media art for venues around the world. Dr. Marks’ most recent books are Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (MIT, 2015) and Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT, 2010). With Dr. Azadeh Emadi of the University of Glasgow she is a founding member of the Substantial Motion Research Network. Dr. Marks is Grant Strate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.