Hidden in Plain Sight

Research Seminar

Public event without registration
Datum: 24.06.2025
Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
Vortragende: Anna-Maria Meister
Ort: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
Kontakt: freiberg@biblhertz.it

How does one see what one is trained to overlook? In three case studies, this seminar will look at archivalia stripped of their data and translated into a charged genre of art history to reveal different forms of information; at an infrastructural building analyzed not through its construction, but its temporal cycles and the duration of its forms; at the intelligence of loss in the archive, embedded in disappearances of matter and the emergences of flora and fauna.

In all these cases, what is of interest is the “how” more than the “what.” In trying to find methods to render objects accessible we hope to discover moments of refraction and friction, of resistance and surprise; we want to blur their outlines away from the certainties that have hidden so much in plain sight.

Anna-Maria Meister directs the Lise Meitner Research Group “Coded Objects” at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI) - Max Planck Institut, and is full professor for architecture theory as well as co-director of the saai archive at KIT Karlsruhe. Meister’s work focuses on processes of design and the design of processes, the materiality of knowledge systems, history of ideas and methodological experimentation. She is a licensed architect with degrees from Princeton and Columbia University and works across medial divides, including exhibitions and installations. Her recent publications include the co-edited Radical Pedagogies (2022), Entangled Temporalities (2023), and Are You a Model? (2024); she is currently completing a monograph titled Nation of Norms: Designing German Worldviews One Object at a Time.

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Scientific Organization by Lara Demori and Ariella Minden