{"id":1044227,"date":"2011-03-06T16:50:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/tomorrow-night-at-observatory-the-oculus-imaginationis-of-ted-serios-with-mikita-brottman\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:11:31","slug":"tomorrow-night-at-observatory-the-oculus-imaginationis-of-ted-serios-with-mikita-brottman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/tomorrow-night-at-observatory-the-oculus-imaginationis-of-ted-serios-with-mikita-brottman-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow Night at Observatory: &quot;The &#8216;Oculus Imaginationis&#8217; of Ted Serios&quot; with Mikita Brottman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2012 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a7d0d_ted.jpg\" alt=\"ted\" width=\"365\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/strong><strong><span><br>Tomorrow night at Observatory! Hope to see you there!<\/span><\/strong><br><span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p><blockquote><p><strong>An illustrated lecture with Mikita Brottman<\/strong><br><strong>Date: Friday, March 4<br>Time: 8:00 PM<br>Admission: $5<br>Presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\/\">Morbid Anatomy<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>Ted Serios was an elevator operator from Chicago who appeared to possess a genuinely uncanny ability. By holding a Polaroid camera and focusing on the lens very intently, he seemed able to produce dream-like pictures of his thoughts on the Polaroid film that subsequently emerged; he referred to these images as &ldquo;thoughtographs&rdquo;,This lecture will consider how the Ted Serios phenomenon goes beyond the notion of &ldquo;real versus fake&rdquo;, providing different kinds of insights into the relationship between photography, subjectivity, representation and the unconscious.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikitabrottman.com\/\">Mikita Brottman<\/a> is a British scholar, psychoanalyst, author and cultural critic known for her psychological readings of the dark and pathological elements of contemporary culture. She is a professor of humanities at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. You can find out more about her and her work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikitabrottman.com\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikitabrottman.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mikitabrottman.com<\/a>.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikitabrottman.com\/\"><\/a>You can find out more about this event on the Observatory website by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/2011\/01\/16\/oculus\/\">here<\/a> and can can access the event on Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=127964543936264&amp;index=1\">here<\/a>. You can get directions to Observatory--which is next door to the Morbid Anatomy Library (more on that <a href=\"http:\/\/morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\/p\/morbid-anatomy-library.html\">here<\/a>)--by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/directions\/\">here<\/a>. You can find out more about Observatory <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/\">here<\/a>, join our mailing list by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/mailing-list\/\">here<\/a>, and join us on Facebook by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=93893488209&amp;ref=ts\">here<\/a>.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a7d0d_6582997874621015158-7085971014682800436?l=morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night at Observatory! Hope to see you there!An illustrated lecture with Mikita BrottmanDate: Friday, March 4Time: 8:00 PMAdmission: $5Presented by Morbid AnatomyTed Serios was an elevator operator from Chicago who appeared to possess a genuinely uncanny ability. 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