Boris
Groys: "Religion as Medium"
When:
Thursday, January 24th at 4:00 pm. Please join us for a lecture on "New
Media and Religion" by Boris Groys. Followed by a reception.
Location:
Music Room, Hart House, St. George Campus, U of T (Free Admission)
Boris
Groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and an
expert on late-Soviet postmodern art and literature, as well as on the
Russian avant-garde. His writing engages the wildly disparate traditions
of French post-structuralism and modern Russian philosophy. In the 1970s,
Groys, who had studied philosophy and mathematics at Leningrad State
University, immersed himself in the unofficial cultural scene of Russia's
capital, coining the term "Moscow Conceptualism." From 1976
to 1981, he held a position as a Research Fellow in the Department of
Structural and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State University, and in
1981, Dr. Groys emigrated to West Germany, where he earned his Ph.D. in
Philosophy at the University of Münster. His philosophical writing
includes A Philosopher's Diary, On the New: A Study of Cultural
Economics, and The Invention of Russia, while his contributions
to art theory and criticism can be found in Vanishing Point Moscow
and The Art of Installation.
Boris
Groys, Professor of Aesthetics, ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe,
Germany, is visiting Toronto as part of the exhibition project Signals
in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War.
The
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery’s first “Theorist-in-Residence”
lecture is organized jointly with the Blackwood Gallery (UTM), the Department
of Germanic Languages and Literatures (U of T), Goethe-Institut, the
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, and Hart House.
