Cabinet Magazine: Interdisciplinary Visual Image Culture

The range of events hosted by Cabinet Magazine, at 300 Nevins Street, in Brooklyn seem to embody many of the concepts and ideas that our class hammered out in terms of an interdisciplinary lens on image culture. On Friday, April 23, from 6-8 pm they're hosting an exhibition highlighting aesthetics and medicine (exactly what Professor Jochum led us to encounter, at CU's neuroscience lab):

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/eventspacemain.php

http://investigativecollaborations.wordpress.com/about/

Here's an excerpt: "Inspired by the interdisciplinary, progressive nature of Cabinet, Wilson and Stroebe have brought together ten projects created by collaborative pairs of artists and health professionals. Created specifically for this exhibition, each collaborative piece is an investigation into materiality, drawing on the unique combination of each pair’s professional and creative practices. The result is a collection of work that transcends boundaries in order to engage the public in a discussion about how art and health affects us all. This conversation, about the process of collaboration and the blurring of boundaries between health and aesthetics are as integral to the show as the projects presented in the exhibition space."

Another somewhat humorous series that Cabinet hosts is titled "Bunk Bed Conversation," where two speakers situate themselves on a top and bottom bunks, and dive into quite often playful but deadly serious intellectual dialogue. Last month, I attended "The Poetics of Sleep" Bunk Bed Conversation between Professor Dolven of Princeton and Professor Wayne Koestenbaum of CUNY Graduate Center. The dialogue, undertaken in pajamas, included powerpoint presentations with poems ranging from Emily Dickinson to Spencer, and art was also filtered in (such as Goya's "The Sleep of Reason.").