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Art & Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Anna Blume, Art Historian
Organized by the School of Art, Media, and Technology and the Fine Arts Program at Parsons, this lecture series reflects the increasingly transdisciplinary nature of scientific, academic, artistic, and cultural practices. Exploring subjects such as geophysics, systems theory, economics, and the physics of time, the lectures are presented in thematic pairs. Members of The New School's acclaimed faculty alternate with outside scholars, experts, and artists. All lectures are open to the public.
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In the fourth century AD, the Maya began recording dates using a notational system. To represent these dates, they used glyphs and symbols including a dot to stand for the numeral one, a bar to stand for the numeral five, and a shell motif to stand for zero. The first known Mayan zero, carved on a stone stela at Uaxactun, Mexico, dates to AD 357. Why Maya scribes recorded these dates and how they visualized and used the zero have been the focus of Anna Blume's archaeological and ethnohistorical research for the past eight years.
This event is paired with a lecture by artist Josiah McElheny presented on November 16, 2010.
Anna Blume has taught at a number of art colleges in New York, including The Cooper Union, Parsons The New School for School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts. She is currently an associate professor of the history of art at the State University of New York (FIT). Her research ranges from sixth-century sandstone carved temples in western India to ninth-century Maya numerical notations carved into limestone stelae. Blume received her PhD in the History of Art from Yale University in 1997. Supported by the Ford Foundation, the State University of New York, and the American Philosophical Society, her research on Mayan concepts of zero is forthcoming in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.
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MFA Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons
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* Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street). December 7, 2010 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
