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I am exceedingly grateful to this list for keeping me current in the
emerging new culture. I love to lurk and occasionally pop up. Bravo to all.
For the last fifteen years I have been leading a somewhat double life
--neither side a secret but one more public than the other.
*Life 1.*I am a visual artist.
My art is not much practiced on the web.I began as a painter, and have
been based in Connecticut where my husband and I have had a variety of
affiliations. As my public life became demanding I moved into a variety
of media which could accommodate better to the kind of schedule I was
living -- digital photography, three dimensional work in paper, video
periodically.I have exhibited all professionally and have done a variety
of private commissions but because of Life 2, I have not been very
public about this work. It does keep getting born and it even gets a
public viewing from time to time. I can't send a website just now -- it
needs revision and updating.
*Life 2*. Though I have no law degree, I am a member of the legal
academy.I teach visual persuasion to law students, mostly in their third
year just before graduation at Quinnipiac University School of Law. They
make visual things along the way because literacy doesn't arise from
listening only, so part of the training for the students engaged with
visual persuasion includes making visual things.[There is a need for
this as the law is awash with pictures and lawyers need to know what
they are and how they work differently from words. Needless to say, I
spend a lot of time looking at visual ephemera, not masterpieces,that
are used as evidence, for legal demonstratives, for argument, and in the
"pulp" press.] These days, almost all the legal pictures are digitally
produced and/or displayed, so I dived into what I must call, broadly,
technology studies. That's why I am a Senior Research Scholar in Law at
Yale Law School, Fellow of the Information Society Project of Yale Law
School; a member of the Technology and Ethics Working Group of the
Bioethics Center of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale,
and a member of the Science, Technology, and Utopian Visions Working
Group of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. As you can
see, I am a boundary crosser; I came into the world with this kind of
mind so it was inevitable that I would find a cross-disciplinary perch.
In Life 2 I am currently engaged in academic writing about disgusting
and gruesome pictures in the law and, in honor of Life 1, I am making
reliefs of mixed paper media marked with paint, ink, collage turning the
geometric into the organic, resulting, I hope, in beauty, not horror.
Syllabus 1/26/12
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Faculty homepage: http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/CSpiesel.htm
Book: http://www.lawondisplay.fromthesquare.org
Publications available on-line:
"More Than a Thousand Words in Response to Rebecca Tushnet"
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/125/january12/forum_798.php
http://ssrn.com/author=519293
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