John Zissovici: A Cinematic Stroll Toward Black Marias — An Origin Story
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Abstract
This lecture will trace the recurring appearance of moving pictures and pictures moving through my workings from an early competition entry for a movie theatre toward the periphery of architecture and back.
My evolving preoccupation with various media over time is inadvertently also the history of the shift from movies to videos and to digital images as the dominant forms of cultural production. How these weave through my personal history since "coming to Amerika" will unavoidably color my last lecture at Cornell, described as "going out with a bang."
Bio
John Zissovici teaches architectural design and courses that deal with the impact of digital media on architectural thinking. His current research is on imagescape urbanism. His architectural work includes built projects, installations, competitions, and speculative work. He has been published in Japan, Austria, Germany, Ireland, and the U.S. His large-scale installations involving digital media, robotics, and videos have been exhibited at the Phoenix Museum of Art, the Burchfeld-Penney Art Center, Tsing Ha University in Beijing, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. Zissovici received his bachelor's and master's of architecture from Cornell.
