Image courtesy of Shelly Silver

Screening followed by a conversation between Writer, Director, and Editor Shelly Silver, Visual Arts, and Kadambari Baxi, Barnard College.

A Strange New Beauty is “a disturbing intrusion into the luxurious homes of Silicon Valley. Using an aggressive soundtrack and a full frame often fractured into small rectangles covered by text, Silver reveals a deafening violence behind the glittering beauty and deceptive calm of this suburban landscape. There is no human presence, but the homes seem to contain a memory of disturbing events, to bear the traces of a savagery just offscreen” —Charlotte Selb, Revue 24 Images

Complex Issues explores difference, visibility, and representation through recent work by faculty of Columbia University and Columbia University School of the Arts in particular. Conversations invite challenging questions of racial, ethnic, gender, economic, sexual, religious, and cultural complexity, and how they are articulated across discipline and genre today.

Co-presented by the Barnard + Columbia Colleges Architecture Department