"The mystery of the eighteenth- century 3D optical machine" with Rod Bantjes
Channel: AV ESAD.CR
Date: 2019-03-18

"The mystery of the eighteenth-century 3D optical
machine" with Rod Bantjes

SINOPSE
For this seminar Rod Bantjes will discuss in detail his argument that the optical machine embodies a new constructivist theory of vision and an understanding of immersive reality effects that relies on eighteenth-century ideas of the world-making power of theatre.


BIO
Rod Bantjes is a Professor of Sociology at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia. His sociological work has addressed spatial themes as well as technologically mediated perception /representation in modern environmental discourse. His current project addresses eighteenth and nineteenth-century 3D technologies in the context of changing physical and social conceptions of space and perception. This recent work has been published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, Art History, the History of Photography, and the International Journal of Film and Media Arts.