Faculty Colloquium: What are Cultural Artifacts?

In this presentation, Dr. ​​​​​Luis Miguel Isava proposes a working definition of cultural artifacts, distinguishing them from both utensils and “things,” in order to analyze how they operate within and intervene in cultural contexts. This definition and characterization, which includes and expands the traditional notion of the art object, seeks to foreground the theorizing and critical impulse inherent in them.

Part of the Faculty Colloquium series. Open to the BCB community.

Read Isava's full paper here.

Luis Miguel Isava, PhD in Comparative Literature (Emory University) is Full Professor of Language and Literature at the Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela), is currently Guest Researcher at the Freie Universtität Berlin, and Visiting Professor at Bard College Berlin. He has published books on Poetry and Poetic Theory, as well as articles on Poetry, Literary Theory, Visual Arts and Film Studies. The paper proposed for discussion is the first chapter of his most recent book, On the Prolongations of the Human: Cultural Artifacts and Protocols of Experience (Valencia, Spain; Pre-Texts, 2022), in which he analyzes the way in which cultural artifacts intervene in culture.

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For more information, e-mail [email protected].

Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: P24 S8

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