The Noisy Narrative of the Inanimate Object. A Lecture by Professor Jack Cunningham

How do we look at objects?
How do we read them, and how do we assign meaning to them in our own lives?
Can inanimate objects transmit or communicate knowledge?


Professor Jack Cunningham, Ph.D., lectures internationally on contemporary jewellery as well as on other kinds of objects.
A specialist in contemporary narrative jewellery, he led the jewellery department at the Glasgow School of Art for many years. In 2008, he became Head of the School of Jewellery in Birmingham—the largest jewellery school in Europe. He currently teaches at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.

This lecture by Professor Jack Cunningham, Ph.D., is presented at the invitation of Terhi Tolvanen, artist and teacher of enamel and contemporary jewellery at the POP jewellery studio.
This lecture is in English, and French. Translation by: Marie-Caroline Locquet and Cécile Maes

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