history of science – OBJECT AMERICA

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Observing “America” through everyday objects.
Pascal Glissmann, Selena Kimball
Observational Practices Lab, Parsons

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The Model 500 telephone, quintessential American object
Ellen Lupton
Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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What has this phone seen?
Cindy Katz Professor of Geography in Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies

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Lived abstraction, making senses
Michael J. Barany
Historian of Modern Science and Mathematics

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What gave meaning to your life?
Fernando Kawai, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

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f plus own = phone
Katie Merz
Visual Artist

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How did the telephone impact face to face interactions?
Lisa M. George
Associate Professor of Economics at Hunter College

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Fantasies calling
Sumita Chakravarty
Associate Professor of Media Studies, The New School

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What can we hear when we stop talking?
Roarke Menzies
New York City-based Artist and Composer

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Hacking and testing the sound of the Model 500
Mara Mills
Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU

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Communicating from the inside
LB Thompson
American Poet and Creative Writing Instructor at The New School

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I pushed my shoulders back — then I answered the phone
Anuja Bagul
Senior Material Scientist, New Technologies

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Is this black phone really black?
Marco Tedesco
Research Professor at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

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A Pavlovian response to the ring
Benjamin Rubin
Director at Center for Data Arts, The New School

—4— Lived abstraction, making senses

history of science, mathematics Posted by Pascal

Michael J. Barany — Historian of modern science and mathematics, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College