Binghamton Art History

05/29/2026

Graduate Student Activities: Kyle Sossamon in Genealogies of Modernity

Doctoral student Kyle Sossamon has published an article titled “An Ethics of Gesture in It Was Just an Accident” for Genealogies of Modernity. The full article is available here: Louis Lumière, La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon, 1895 Gilles de la Tourette, Études cliniques et physiologiques sur la marche: la marche dans les maladies du système nerveux, étudiée par la méthode des empreintes, 1886 Official poster for It Was Just an Accident

Doctoral student Kyle Sossamon has published an article titled “An Ethics of Gesture in It Was Just an Accident” for Genealogies of Modernity. The full article is available here: Louis Lumière,&nbs…

05/19/2026

Faculty Activities: Katherine Reinhart at the Royal Society of London

Prof. Katherine Reinhart presented a research talk at the conference Scientific Portraits and Portraits of Science, which took place March 20, 2026 at the Royal Society of London. Prof. Reinhart's talk, "Portraits and their Meanings in the early Académie Royale des Sciences," examined several unique group portraits of academy members in various media, addressing their contexts and iconography as well as their significance to both the history of portraiture and scientific visual culture more broadly.

Prof. Katherine Reinhart presented a research talk at the conference Scientific Portraits and Portraits of Science, which took place March 20, 2026 at the Royal Society of London. Prof. Reinhart& #8…

04/09/2026

Graduate Student Activities: Eunha Chang at the University of Cambridge

Doctoral student Eunha Chang will present her paper "Wall Text, Ekphrasis, and Internal Images" at the Association for Art History (AAH) 2026 Annual Conference taking place April 8–10, 2026 at the University of Cambridge. Her paper will be presented as part of the session "Images and Pictures," convened by Whitney Davis (University of California, Berkeley) and Matthew MacKisack (Independent Scholar). ...

Doctoral student Eunha Chang will present her paper “Wall Text, Ekphrasis, and Internal Images” at the Association for Art History (AAH) 2026 Annual Conference taking place April 8–10, …

02/27/2026

Faculty Activities: Julia Walker at IASH

Prof. Julia Walker will be giving a talk on her current research at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities next week. The talk will take place on Wednesday, March 4 in LN-1106 (the IASH conference room) from 11:45-1:15. All are welcome!

Prof. Julia Walker will be giving a talk on her current research at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities next week. The talk will take place on Wednesday, March 4 in LN-1106 (the IASH…

02/13/2026

Doctoral student Eunha Chang's essay "To Inscribe in the Ruins: Mimicry and Malware in the Work of TJ Shin and Shu Lea Cheang" has been published in "Mindscapes #4: Ruins," a special issue of the journal Contemporary Lynx.
More details here: https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/mindscapes-ruins
Image credits: UKI, a Sci-fi Viral Alt-Reality Cinema, Shu Lea Cheang, 2023. Film still.

Produced by Shu Lea Cheang and Jürgen Brüning. Courtesy of LAS Art Foundation.

01/23/2026

VizCult kicks of the spring semester with Tanya Tiffany on Wednesday, February 4!

Join us as she presents her paper "Diego Velázquez’s Saint Ildefonso and the Visual Culture of Sacred Spain." All are welcome.

12/03/2025

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Professor Tom McDonough’s 2022 conversation with Liam Gillick about the artist’s Fogo Island weather station, A Variability Quantifier, has been published by Sternberg Press in a book o…

11/25/2025

VizCult Presents Andrea Gyenge: Eating the Close-Up: On Jean Epstein’s Buccal Imaginary

Join us for the concluding lecture in this semester’s VizCult series, hosted by the Art History Department. On Wednesday, December 3, at 5:00 PM in the IASH Conference Room, Library North 1106, Andrea Gyenge (Cinema, Binghamton University) will present “Eating the Close-Up: On Jean Epstein’s Buccal Imaginary.”

See you there!

06/24/2025

🎓✈️ Pei-chun Viola Hsieh (second from left), Visiting Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Art History at National Taiwan Normal University, recently brought one of her classes to Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷 for a visit to the Nam June Paik Art Center 🖼️—and even met up with one of our recent graduates, Bookyung Son (far left)! 👋✨

🌍 Moments like these highlight the global connections and ongoing impact of our alumni community—continuing to inspire across borders and beyond! 💫

06/20/2025

👉 Watch the full interview on our blog or at Artforum.com
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06/18/2025

📣 Faculty Activities: Tom McDonough at the University of Toronto

Join Professor Tom McDonough LIVE tonight at 6 PM EDT for an in-depth exploration of the meanings and themes in Ydessa Hendeles's Venice Biennale installation Grand Hotel. He'll examine the work’s connection to Hendeles’s broader oeuvre and its compelling resonances with contemporary culture.

🎤 Presented by the Art Museum at the University of Toronto
📍 Watch live on YouTube: youtube.com/live/Spyipk07RXk
👉Learn more: https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/program/strange-rememoration-the-cryptic-logic-of-ydessa-hendeless-grand-hotel/