Moriarty Science Seminar: Nonhuman artists? Multidisciplinary and Multispecies Accounts of the Origin of Art
April 10, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hybrid: Online and At the Museum
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R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: “Nonhuman Artists? Multidisciplinary and Multispecies Accounts of the Origin of Art“
Speakers: Dr. Deirdre Smith, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
This event will take place Monday, April 10 at Noon online via Zoom.
Abstract: Do animals other than humans make what some humans call “art”? What might other animals’ behaviors reveal about art’s “origins”? These are questions that scholars in the sciences and humanities have been actively approaching for at least a century, and that resonate with longer, global histories of philosophy and religion. This presentation will introduce and invite discussion of the tendencies, ironies and implications of this scholarship, focusing on two primary case studies: nonhuman primate painting and drawing studies; and writing on bowerbirds that claims bowermaking as an artform.
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