Camera Obscura: Anachronistic Device with Contemporary Relevance
Camera Obscura: Anachronistic Device with Contemporary Relevance

Essay

Camera Obscura: Anachronistic Device with Contemporary Relevance

This paper addresses how and why the camera obscura resonates with contemporary artists and audiences by focusing on 945 Madison Avenue (2014), the camera obscura installation by Zoe Leonard at the Whitney Biennial 2014.

Forensic Architecture and The Ethical Responsibility of the Viewer
Forensic Architecture and The Ethical Responsibility of the Viewer

Essay

Forensic Architecture and The Ethical Responsibility of the Viewer

What is the viewer’s ethical responsibility upon encountering, inside an art gallery, Forensic Architecture’s critical investigation of a racially motivated murder? By situating Forensic Architecture’s work inside the history of photographic... More

Lost, But not Forgotten: Memory/Forgetting and the Black Diaspora
Lost, But not Forgotten: Memory/Forgetting and the Black Diaspora

Other

Lost, But not Forgotten: Memory/Forgetting and the Black Diaspora

Presentation to Class, April 2023. Thinking through the relationship between Dionne Brand's text, A Map to the Door of No Return (2001) and Christina Sharpe's Notes to Self Video Series (2014 ongoing). Both text and art are considered through... More

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Shannon Molenaar

Visual and Critical Studies

“At OCADU, I developed my writing skills while thinking deeply about what art is doing today, and how this 'doing' connects to and reflects back our world. ”