orensanz summer museum ACTIVITIES

July 24th - 3pmCONVERSATION AT THE ISLAND II

Noam Elcott

Matter/Light, approaches to light
as a creative substance

Based on a concept developed by Angel Orensanz in his most recent work we will invite different experts to have a conversation focused on light as a creative substance. The expert for this second conversation will be

Noam Elcott

Assistant Professor at Columbia University. Twentieth-century art, photography and film. Ph.D. Princeton, 2009. He demonstrates that avant-garde camera-less photography was not “camera”-less at all, but instead aligned the “camera” or chamber of the photographic darkroom with the dark spaces of the cinema, theater, and multimedia exhibitions as they consolidated or were re-envisioned in the post-World War I period. Elcott’s research focuses on abstract photography and film, while traversing twentieth-century art and media more broadly. He has contributed essays on James Welling, Christian Marclay, and a genealogy of avant-garde filmstrips to Grey Room, Aperture, and other publications. In recent years, Elcott has been the recipient of a German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship (DAAD), a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship at Princeton University. At Columbia, Noam Elcott teaches a range of courses on twentieth-century art and photography, focusing on the historical avant-garde and emergent media, as well as Art Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Art. Man Ray, untitled rayograph with filmstrips from Retour à la raison (1923), MoMA.

Noam Elcott