Talk

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media presents cross-disciplinary theorist, artist and SVA alumnus Manuel DeLanda (1979 Fine Arts) to discuss his work. This talk will be accompanied by a screening of DeLanda’s recent video and film work.

Manuel DeLanda (b.1952 in Mexico City) is a New York-based cross-disciplinary theorist and artist. He has taught at the School of Architecture at Princeton University (where he previously held a Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in 2000 – 2001), The Graduate Architecture and Urban Design program at Pratt Institute, the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, among others. He holds a PhD from the European Graduate School (2010). After graduating from the School of Visual Arts, he first worked in experimental film and digital media before turning to theory. He is the author of numerous books, including War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (Zone Books, 1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Zone Books, 1997), Deleuze: History and Science (Atropos Press, 2010), A New Philosophy of Society (continuum, 2006) and Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason (Bloomsbury, 2011).