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Visual Culture Program

Thursday, November 11, 2021
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Black Transfigurations: Engineering, African Cosmologies & Visual Media
Mikael Owunna, Studio Director,

Artist and engineer Mikael Owunna shares his artistic journey from engineering school to award-winning creative using the intersection of visual media, engineering, and optics to capture transfigured visions of Black and queer realities grounded in African cosmologies.

To RSVP for this event, please click here. (Please note, this event is open to the Caltech community only.)

This event is co-sponsored by the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture and the Caltech Center for Inclusion & Diversity (CCID).

About the Visual Culture Program
The Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture is funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and based in Caltech's Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences. In collaboration with The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, the program features undergraduate course offerings, guest lecturers, and other programming to foster conversations between humanists and scientists.

For more information, please contact Cecilia Lu by phone at 626-395-1724 or by email at cecilial@caltech.edu.