B. Scott Crawford Lecture Series - The Selfie: From Stone Age to Digital Age

Name: B. Scott Crawford Lecture Series - The Selfie: From Stone Age to Digital Age
Start: 2025-02-20T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-20T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 204 Draper Rd SW, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Virginia 24060

Schedule

Thu Feb 20 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

204 Draper Rd SW, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Virginia 24060 | Blacksburg, VA

We are thrilled to welcome B. Scott Crawford to our museum for a new lecture series! His expertise on art and history makes for compelling theories and conjures up new questions about the world in which we live.
Presentation #1
The Selfie: From Stone Age to Digital Age
The Digital Revolution has launched an unprecedented communications revolution. Individuals have an ability to now promote themselves at a global level at any time and in a matter of seconds. The selfie has emerged as the latest means for individuals to project images of themselves for public viewing, but now, through digital technologies, in a democratic manner. No longer is portraiture reserved for the wealthy; access to a ubiquitous mobile phone and a free social media account can allow an individual to share self-images with audiences possibly larger many traditional portraits ever reached! This presentation will explore the art behind the preservation of images of individuals, spanning cave art to Instagram. Through this journey over time, we may very well find that the selfie is not as much about megalomania as it is about simply magnifying a timeless component of human nature. However, with the introduction of artificial intelligence, we will end with a reflection of how AI may, through training, be embracing this nature as well!