Surface Copernicus: Collisions, Collusions, and the Projection of Memory

• In Event: Poster Session 11

Session Type: Poster Session

Abstract

Surface Copernicus (9 min film), an expanded cinema piece, involves the projection of four super 8 films simultaneously, though displayed separately as the four quadrants of a larger square. Each quadrant represents one of the primary figures of the Copernican Revolution in extension: Nicholas Copernicus; Johannes Kepler; Galileo Galilei; Isaac Newton. Their respective films are constellated from the qualities, movements and meanings associated with each figure, and his work – while a select textual sampling of their theories will be embedded in the films. The pulsating shapes and colors of the visual component, buoyant and tidal, remain anchored to a musical composition developed according to the principles (mathematical, geometrical, natural) of the early astronomers and their predecessors.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 2: Histories and Futurities (The Frames of Curriculum)

Papers

• 32. Surface Copernicus: Collisions, Collusions, and the Projection of Memory - Patrick James Scanlon, Teachers College, Columbia University