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The Nimbus Institute/Exploring Ideas in the Arts and Sciences

“Building, Destroying or Ignoring: Examining Creative Relationships to a Past—Palimpsest as Metaphor.”

Saturday, March 24, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Gallery 6, UCLA-Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024

In tandem with the Ensemble’s March 29 concert, the Nimbus Institute presents three renowned scholars exploring intriguing aspects of the past present relationship.  These stimulating lectures will will examine how substrata from a past interacting with present surface features informs our understanding and aesthetic responses.

Widely known for her seminal work in electronic contextuality, UCLA Distinguished Professor N. Katherine Hayles will discuss "The Palimpsest in Electronic Literature: Creative Ambiguities." (see here for related information)

Architectural Historian and head of special collections at the Getty Research Institute, Wim De Wit brings his focus to design implications of the palimpsest metaphor.

Composer and head of CSUN’s music technology studio Dan Hosken will explore his creative use of Iannis Xenakis’ Palimpsest as the basic building material for his new composition, featured in the Ensemble’s March 29 concert. In “Erasing Xenakis: Creating a Palimpsest of Palimpsest” Dr. Hosken will bring us inside his richly layered compositional process.