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Lisa Cartwright is a scholar, author, professor and critic best known for helping to found the field of
visual culture Visual culture is the aspect of culture expressed in visual images. Many academic fields study this subject, including cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, media studies, Deaf Studies, and anthropology. The field of vi ...
studies and for coauthoring ''Practices of Looking'', a widely translated visual studies textbook with
Marita Sturken Marita Sturken (born 1957) is an American scholar, author, professor, and critic. Life and work Marita Sturken is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University's Steinhardt School of Cul ...
that is regarded as one of the first comprehensive books in the field after
John Berger John Peter Berger (; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel '' G.'' won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism '' Ways of Seeing'', written as an accompaniment to the ...
's ''
Ways of Seeing ''Ways of Seeing'' is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. It was broadcast on BBC Two in January 1972 and adapted into a book of the same name. The series was intended as a ...
''. In ''Practices of Looking'', Cartwright and Sturken examine the complexity of the relationship between viewers and objects in a variety of visual media ranging from film and photography to advertising, painting, and printmaking. They pay especially close attention to the historical, social, and psychological conditions that help to constitute 'seeing' at any given moment. Cartwright is also known for her work in feminist visual
science and technology studies Science and technology studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. History Like most interdisciplinary fie ...
and
disability studies Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability," where impairment was an impairment of an individual ...
. In her 1995 book ''Screening the Body'', for example, she shows how technological and scientific developments in medical imaging converge with the popular and social imagination to "make the body visible in new ways". Here, among other things, she addresses how documentary imagery is produced and used for moralizing or spectacular ends, moves that undercut its supposedly scientific neutrality, and how 'seeing' through medical optical instruments continues a displacement of direct sensory engagement that has been ramping up since the Renaissance. Elsewhere, her essay on the
Visible Human Project The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. It is used as a tool for the progression of medical findings, in which ...
in ''The Visible Woman'' is cited as one that laid much of the groundwork for a critical examination of this large undertaking to create a complete set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body. Cartwright is a professor in the departments of Visual Arts, Communication and Science Studies at the
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. She was a founding member of the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, where she taught from 1990 to 2002.


Education

Cartwright attended
New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...
(BFA, Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts, 1982), and
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
(Ph.D, American Studies, 1991). She took part in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 1982.


Publications


Books


''Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture.''
Co-Authored with
Marita Sturken Marita Sturken (born 1957) is an American scholar, author, professor, and critic. Life and work Marita Sturken is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University's Steinhardt School of Cul ...
. Oxford University Press, 2008.
''Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child.''
Duke University Press, 2008.
''Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture''.
University of Minnesota Press, 1995. *''The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science''. Coedited with Paula Treichler and Constance Penley. New York University Press, 1998.


Journal articles and book chapters

*"Visual Science Studies: Always Already Materialist". In ''Visualisation in the Age of Computerization'', ed. Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel and Timothy Webmoor. Routledge, 2014. *"How to Have Social Media in an Invisible Pandemic: Hepatitis C in the Time of H1N1". In ''Media Studies Futures'', vol. 6, ed. Anghy Valdivia and Kelly A. Gates. Wiley Blackwell, 2013, pp. 215–240. *"The Hands of the Animator: Rotoscopic Projection, Condensation, and Repetition Automatism in the Fleischer Apparatus". ''Body and Society'' 18(1), 47-78 (2012). *"Mandy (1952): On Voice and Listening in the (Deaf) Maternal Melodrama". In ''Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television'', ed. Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler. University of Rochester Press, 2008. *"Imagination, Multimodality and Embodied Interaction: A Discussion of Sound and Movement in Two Cases of Laboratory and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging." Co-authored with Morana Alac, in ''Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences'', ed. Bernd Huppauf and Peter Weingart. Routledge, 2007.
"Shame, Empathy and Looking Practices: Masked Woman in a Wheelchair in a Disability Studies Classroom"
Co-authored with David Benin, ''Journal of Visual Culture'' 5:2, 155-171 (2006). *"Spectatorship and Pity: Representations of the Global Social Orphan in the 1990s." In ''Cultures of Transnational Adoption'', ed. Toby Volkman. Duke University Press, 2005. *"On the Subject of Neural Prosthesis." Co-authored with Brian Goldfarb, in ''The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future'', ed. Joanne Morra and Marquard Smith. MIT Press, 2005.
"'Emergencies of Survival': Moral Spectatorship and the 'New Vision of the Child' in Postwar Child Psychoanalysis".
''Journal of Visual Culture'' 3:1 (2004). *"A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project". In Paula Treichler, Lisa Cartwright, and Constance Penley, eds., ''The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science''. New York University Press, 1998.


References

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