Please join the Department of Art History for a book talk with Dr. Philip Glahn and Dr. Cary Levine on Tuesday, October 15 in THH 309K at 5:00pm. This talk, titled “Planetary Subjects: Technology and Embodiment in the Work of Mobile Image," focuses on the work of the visionary art techno-activist group Mobile Image and how it modeled new individual and social subject formations. Glahn and Levine’s recently published book, The Future Is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image (MIT Press, 2024), traces the group’s experimentation with technological mediations and embodiments through devices such as satellite transmission, television, video, electronic writing tablets, and databases. Building upon core components of the book, this talk focuses on how Mobile Image modeled an early form of planetary thinking that at once de- and re-centered the human user as a newly co-dependent and empowered “dividual” self. 

Contact Professor of Art History Suzanne Hudson with questions about the event at sphudson@usc.edu.