In this talk Marc Glöde will discuss the role of the filmic medium in Siah Armajani’s artistic practice and how the artist’s experimentation with computer-based graphics in the early 1970s not only expanded his practice in relation to public space and architecture to new territory, but also paved the way for a new aesthetic field. Using Armajani’s experimental films on line structures as a point of departure, Dr Glöde will also cover films by preeminent artists/filmmakers presented in the film programme that accompanies the exhibition, as well as those beyond, who produced important films relating to Armajani’s other tropes of interest: bridges, houses, and gardens.
Marc Glöde(Germany/Singapore) is a curator, critic, and film scholar, and currently Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Media and Design, NTU. His work focuses on the relation of images, technology, space, and the body, as well as that between fields of art, architecture, and film. Glöde received his PhD at the Free University in Berlin where he also taught. Additionally he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, Academy of Fine Arts Berlin, and the ETH Zürich. He was senior curator of Art Basel’s film programme (2008–14) and curator/senior advisor of the abc Berlin (2010–12).