Swagato Chakravorty

Swagato Chakravorty is a PhD student in the History of Art and Film and Media Studies (combined) at Yale University. He works at the interstices of screen practices, screen architectures, and embodied spectatorial experience. Related interests include aesthetics and the philosophy of art, histories of film theory, visuality in the long 19th century, and contemporary media theory. For 2015–2016, he will be a Mellon Fellow in the Department of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 2June 12, 2017

Experimental Media & the City: Part II

By Swagato Chakravorty

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Experimental Media and the City.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

I remarked in my introduction to …

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 2June 1, 2017

Experimental Media and The City: A Roundtable Introduction

By Swagato Chakravorty

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Experimental Media and the City.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

I am grateful to Erica Stein …

no. 2, Polished Panels, Revise and Extend, vol. 1March 7, 2016

Spaces of Spectatorship: Architectures of the Projected Image

By Swagato Chakravorty

This panel contributes to the growing scholarly conversation around cinema and architecture, focusing on the architectural configurations of the moving and projected image. Moving-image installations and media architecture have recently given renewed currency to established notions of dispositif, apparatus, …