4:30 PM in AUP 170.
Lecture Summary: Within recent years the widespread collection and interconnectivity of data from cities, domestic spaces and bodies has significantly affected design culture and discourse. To address the growing concerns among individuals and institutions need for increased privacy, anonymity and security within the information age, an evolving body of social and technical knowledge has emerged.
Exploring the conceptual possibilities of invisibility in an era when data moves faster than the speed of human perception, the lecture offers designers an opportunity to reconsider architectures intrinsic spatio-political agency through the camouflage tactics of concealment, diversion and deception.
Bio: Antonio Furgiuele is adjunct assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning and former 2014-15 SARUP Research Fellow & Distinguished Invited Critic. His research investigates the histories and theories of information - communication technologies in architecture and urbanism since World War II. He has taught studios and seminars at Pratt Institute, City College of New York, Parsons the New School of Design, and Columbia University. He is director of the O/S Group, a collaborative design practice based in Brooklyn. In 2011 co-founded September/May [Sept/May] an experimental space for the advancement of film, performance and architecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Antonio holds a B. Arch from Syracuse University and master's degree in History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture from MIT. He has been an invited critic at various institutions including, Columbia University, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technical University of Munich, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Toronto.
For more information about this speaker’s visit, contact Department of Architecture Chair Karl Wallick (wallick@uwm.edu)
