Saharan oil infrastructure, ca. 1954. Credit: Philippe de Broca.

When: 6 PM

January 25, 2024

Where: Schermerhorn 934, Columbia University

The first CSSD sponsored event to start the 2024 year, the Extractive Media working group will host Caltech Professor of Visual Culture Brian R. Jacobson on January 25th. Professor Jacobson will provide attendees with a conversation on his current work on energy, the environment, art, and film, titled “Extraction Time.”

Brian R. Jacobson is Professor of Visual Culture at the California Institute of Technology and director of the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture. He is the author of Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space (Columbia University Press, 2015) and The Cinema of Extractions (Columbia UP, forthcoming in 2024) and editor of In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments (University of California Press, 2020), winner of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies award for Best Edited Collection and the Limina Prize for Best International Cinema Studies Book. He is currently finishing a new book, The Art of Oil in France: A Global History, 1944-1975.