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Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003
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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"The Deep Opacity of Making"
Featuring Tom Zummer

HH, University of Pennsylvania | Friday, April 05, 2002; 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Free at Door (Reservation not required)

Organized by Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté
Conference on Marjorie Welish Series



Project Website (with 29 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11005/

Thomas Zummer is a scholar, writer, curator and artist. His other publications include Crash: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace (with Robert Reynolds); Rouen: Touring Machines/Intermittant Futures (with Judith Barry and Brad Miskell); What the Hell is That? (a semi-fictional digital e-book); and "Projection and Dis/embodiment: Genealogies of the Virtual" in Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, Chrissie Iles (catalogue essay for the exhibition of the same name at The Whitney Museum of American Art). He is currently completing a study on the history of reference-systems entitled Interessionary Technologies: Archive/Database/Interface. Mr. Zummer has curated exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Thread Waxing Space, New York; and the Katonah Museum of Art, New York. Mr. Zummer's drawings and sculptural works have been exhibited world wide. He currently teaches in the Critical Studies Department at New York University.