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IJS Lecture: Remediated Ink: The Debt of Asian Ink Aesthetics to Non-Ink Media

March 5, 2015
All Day
Traditions Room, Ohio Union

Host: Department of History of Art

Bert Winther-Tamaki is the Chair of the Art History Department at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor of Visual Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. His work focuses on the role of the visual arts in the construction of modern national identities, especially in early and mid-twentieth-century Japan. He is particularly intrigued by artists whose positions partly outside Japan complicated the artistic identities they developed in various media.

Abstract: Many materials and media other than ink have been used to represent and indeed extend, strengthen, or refocus the aesthetics of Japanese and/or Asian ink, often without spilling a drop of actual ink. Media such as photography, oil-on-canvas, video, and digital imaging, but also tomato juice, soy sauce, gun- powder, tv commercials, and computer games have contributed substantial new dimensions to qualities of ink associated with Asian tradition. The modern vibrant and multifarious visual epistemology of Japanese and Asian ink painting owes much to acts of remediation in non-ink media, perhaps more than works made with actual ink.

For more information, visit the Department of History of Art website.

The event is free and open to the public. 

The event is cosponsored by the OSU Asian American Studies, Office of Diversity  and Inclusion, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of History of Art, Institute for Japanese Studies and the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant, with special thanks to the OSU Multicultural Center & Grad Pan-Asian Caucus.