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...issue for many people.” The idea of harming one’s body for the sake of performance art is not unheard of in the art community, according to Carrie Lambert-Beatty, assistant professor of History of Art and Architecture and of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) at Harvard. “What makes [Shvarts’ project] so provocative is the idea that she was impregnated,” she said. “What is also interesting about any art project is the ripple of reaction that comes from it. To me, the project included...
...world of virtual reality. It’s also negotiating disability and non-disability. And the piece itself is dealing in theater and cinema.”“It’s incredibly original and adventurous in every respect,” Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) professor Alfred Guzetti, Miller’s thesis advisor, says. “It’s trying out so many things at the same time—the actors, the development of the script with the actors, the improvisations that went behind it, the staging, the combination of music with...
...purpose of a documentary—and, some would hold, of art in general—is to make plain the unclear. “Secrecy,” the new documentary from History of Science professor Peter L. Galison ’77 and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) professor Robb Moss, inverts this idea. It explores the U.S. government’s systems of classification and official concealment used to keep sensitive information from the public.The filmmakers trace the precedent of the State Secrets Privilege back to a 1953 Supreme Court decision in which the widow of Robert...
...posts are often accompanied by grainy, practically inscrutable cell phone photographs, and most contain information that is provably false, and often wholly ridiculous—for example, a recent post claimed VES and Physics concentrator Lewis Z. Liu ’08 would be trading one of his paintings with British billionaire Richard Branson for a ride on Virgin Galactic’s first spaceflight...
...experience and the desire to pursue a liberal arts education, many Harvard artists find themselves forced to supplement their academic work by seeking out off-campus arts opportunities.WHERE CREDIT IS DUEProfessor J.D. Connor ’92, the director of undergraduate studies of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department (VES) and a former member of The Crimson’s editorial board, is the first to admit the paradox of an unflinching course credit policy and the need to find an internship. “We’re not at a place where we can allow limited credit amounts...