Invisible Cities

Apr 19, 2017 - May 20, 2017

Invisible Cities is an exhibition divided into three parts—organized into three "cities." The show borrows its title from the eponymous 1972 novel by Italo Calvino. Calvino's novel is less a story, an imaginative travelogue, than an investigation into the human condition. Like Calvino's text, the exhibition Invisible Cities touches on disparate themes and differing infrastructures, mediated systems, the parafictional, and the digital baroque, to describe the multiplicities of contemporary subjectivity. The show takes viewers on a journey through a trio of complementary media–the photographic, the filmic, and the digital—as it examines the complicated relationship between representation and mediation.


Invisible Cities is an exhibition divided into three parts—organized into three "cities." The show borrows its title from the eponymous 1972 novel by Italo Calvino. Calvino's novel is less a story, an imaginative travelogue, than an investigation into the human condition. Like Calvino's text, the exhibition Invisible Cities touches on disparate themes and differing infrastructures, mediated systems, the parafictional, and the digital baroque, to describe the multiplicities of contemporary subjectivity. The show takes viewers on a journey through a trio of complementary media–the photographic, the filmic, and the digital—as it examines the complicated relationship between representation and mediation.


Contact details

Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University, 615 West 129th Street Harlem - New York, NY, USA 10027
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