The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) is hosting a viewing party for the UMBC community to watch, listen and interact with an engaging panel who will analyze "How Science is Pictured in the Media and Public Culture" through ten key photos carefully culled from thousands of media images across sixteen categories of science.
If photography was invented so that the sciences could communicate with each other, now it’s as much about making that investigation relevant to consumers, investors and alternately curious, fearful or enthralled citizens. This discussion is interested in science as a social agenda and a media phenomenon. It’s about the popularization of science, the attitude and approach on the part of science toward its own activities and what the general public sees of it.
The distinguished panel for this salon includes: Rebecca Adelman, UMBC Professor of Media & Communication Studies; Ben de la Cruz, Multimedia Editor, Science Desk, NPR; Marvin Heiferman Curator, Project Director “Seeing Science”; Corey Keller, Curator, SFMOMA; Kurt Mutchler, Senior Editor, Science, Photography Department, National Geographic; and Max Mutchler, Space Telescope Science Institute, Hubble Heritage Project manager. The HangOut will be moderated by University of Maine professor and visual scholar, Nate Stormer.
The Reading the Pictures Salon series brings together experts on visual culture to converse about and analyze a group of ten news and media photographs in an online discussion format. This Salon is being jointly produced with Reading the Pictures and UMBC as a component of SEEING SCIENCE, the year-long project exploring the role photography plays in shaping, representing, and furthering the sciences.
Please register to also participate in the online discussion via your own device.
This is a free event open to all. Refreshments provided.
(Photo: On July 1st, after months of running limited “beta testing,” The Void is opening its first public attraction: a Ghostbusters-themed experience in New York City’s Times Square, located inside the Madame Tussauds wax museum. For $50, visitors can strap on a VR headset and a backpack computer fashioned into a Ghostbusters proton pack, pick up a matching gun-shaped plastic prop, and act out a cinematic fantasy in real life. Photo by James Bareham for The Verge.)
