Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com Danny Smith Salfati Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:06:06 +0000 https://dannysmithsalfati.com en Home https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Home Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:26:32 +0000 Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Home DANNY SMITH SALFATIALL <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f087dc08240bf842332e0a89e62b6445e8fb6aef55a7e60bd9fb1f811d6f9ef/IMG_0765.jpeg" data-mid="215986822" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f087dc08240bf842332e0a89e62b6445e8fb6aef55a7e60bd9fb1f811d6f9ef/IMG_0765.jpeg" /> Making Medieval New York This field-trip-heavy summer seminar focuses on the reception and influence of medieval European architecture in New York City through the buildings and monuments that revive, replicate, and preserve it. We examine the architectural as well as the social, historical, and political environment of nineteenth and twentieth century New York City, in which medieval architecture came to symbolize not only religion but class, erudition, exoticism, heritage, civic pride, and even hygiene. On site visits include St. John the Divine, Trinity Church Wall Street, The Met Cloisters, Warren Place Mews, Central Synagogue, and the Woolworth Building. Download the syllabus here... Columbia UniversityDepartment of Art History and ArcheologySummer 2024 <img width="2622" height="2983" width_o="2622" height_o="2983" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/302f6cf4726564ea4bbcec4eab06facfee0c396c97d545538637775399c8909f/IMG_3918.jpeg" data-mid="185545451" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/302f6cf4726564ea4bbcec4eab06facfee0c396c97d545538637775399c8909f/IMG_3918.jpeg" /> Patient DeniesPatient Denies translates the coded language of a lengthy diagnostic process into the International Code of Signals. See more... 2023Exhibited in:Holding Over Ortega y Gasset ProjectsMay 30, 2023Organized by Renana Neuman <img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da5b04fd4c5e4bfc236bd42c67b6091b3473f9600ec1dfdb6d412e7bb7bfaffe/12---Still-Life.jpg" data-mid="226732632" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da5b04fd4c5e4bfc236bd42c67b6091b3473f9600ec1dfdb6d412e7bb7bfaffe/12---Still-Life.jpg" /> Art Humanities Formally known as “Masterpieces of Western Art,” this course is a part of Columbia’s Core Curriculum, a set of interdiciplinary and interconnecting courses for all Columbia undergraduates. Courses are individually designed by faculty based on a collaboratively produced framework. My own version of Art Humanities stresses attention, close-looking and visual analysis in particular. Students spend extended time with artworks in person and examine and present on exhibitions around the city. Download a sample syllabus here... Columbia UniversityDepartment of Art History and ArcheologyFall 2023 - Present <img width="3592" height="2694" width_o="3592" height_o="2694" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c5ed99a299d923203865d6b4ec7a6b8f98e393d1d99e3b34d015f466bbb1c79/DSCN3293.jpeg" data-mid="156641022" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c5ed99a299d923203865d6b4ec7a6b8f98e393d1d99e3b34d015f466bbb1c79/DSCN3293.jpeg" /> Walking Tour A wall sculpture playing field recordings made across the city of Rome through a web of the disposable, mono headphones used to whisper into the ears of tourists. See more... 2022 &nbsp; <img width="599" height="749" width_o="599" height_o="749" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8d0c8f2f602089b5ae0d79ddce70f229c5db47eb510910d7c07ef8258ec18ab/279919987_686534755949337_4705811005878170245_n.jpg" data-mid="149000158" border="0" data-scale="73" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/599/i/b8d0c8f2f602089b5ae0d79ddce70f229c5db47eb510910d7c07ef8258ec18ab/279919987_686534755949337_4705811005878170245_n.jpg" /> Personal Odyssey An installation of Cornell University’s&nbsp; 19th-century plaster cast of a bust of Homer on a customized plinth. At the push of a button on the plinth, Homer, as bard and guide, generates directions from classically named locations across New York state (i.e. Troy, Attica, Rome) back to Ithaca New York. Viewers receive these directions as a printed receipt. With Rebecca Levitan. Read more... 2022 Exhibited in: The Sculpture Shoppe Cornell University 5-30 May, 2022 Curated by David Nasca and Verity Platt <img width="645" height="607" width_o="645" height_o="607" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3fbf2ed13d83a2131812c11bd61633e941ab89ee556e4587ab21f98c1559a73/Sala.jpg" data-mid="127193850" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/645/i/c3fbf2ed13d83a2131812c11bd61633e941ab89ee556e4587ab21f98c1559a73/Sala.jpg" /> “Watching the Well-Governed City: painting and surveillance in Trecento Siena”This essay considers Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Trecento fresco cycle of Good and Bad Government for the Sala dei Nove in Siena as a kind of painterly panopticon, a visual allegory of the omnipresent surveillance of communal life in Siena. Drawing on Peter of Limoges’s Tractatus moralis de oculo, this essay contextualizes the frescoes as a political device within medieval conceptions of vision.View esssay as a PDF... postmedievalVol. 12, Issue 1December 2021.Part of the article cluster Sensory Presence and Senses of Absence in the EuropeanMiddle Ages edited by Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey <img width="700" height="542" width_o="700" height_o="542" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d24bee4d25dac90e30da6f30d8e33b0c3913cb5d52932d0c05db7c651db1a32f/19876371-viapo-1200w.jpg" data-mid="116389999" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/d24bee4d25dac90e30da6f30d8e33b0c3913cb5d52932d0c05db7c651db1a32f/19876371-viapo-1200w.jpg" /> Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood, 1851-1900 Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood 1851-1900, the Cantor Arts Center's first born-digital exhibition, documents the political role of early photography across the Mediterranean. Works included photographs by Pascal Sébah, the Gaetano Pedo Studio, Giorgio Sommer, Francis Frith, and William Henry Fox Talbot. Read more... Cantor Arts Center 29 March 2021 - 31 March 2022 <img width="2170" height="1264" width_o="2170" height_o="1264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcbfe4ffe1871ef4e8a9391b21861cfed91ef367ecf866013b5a5ba8906023bc/17th-C-Sketch.jpg" data-mid="215949594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcbfe4ffe1871ef4e8a9391b21861cfed91ef367ecf866013b5a5ba8906023bc/17th-C-Sketch.jpg" /> Painted into a Corner: Seeing Jews in Medieval Rome A brief reflection on the visual legacy of the Christian doctrine on doctrinal supercession (the Old Testament superceded by the New) in the art of medieval Rome. View essay as a PDF... AJS PerspectivesFall 2021 &nbsp; <img width="700" height="525" width_o="700" height_o="525" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8326bebea1968e12a6ad434143d33d4bf13585dd830d753d33212213f2db1dfd/IMG_0865.jpg" data-mid="116390000" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/8326bebea1968e12a6ad434143d33d4bf13585dd830d753d33212213f2db1dfd/IMG_0865.jpg" /> Miracole de Roma Miracole de Roma is an ongoing project about the sonic and historical landscape of Rome. The work consists of binaural field recordings made at every site listed in the Miracole de Roma, a thirteenth-century pilgrims' guide to the city and the first guidebook to Rome written in vulgate Italian. Read more... 2021 Installed in the Aqua Traina American Academy in Rome <img width="2346" height="3415" width_o="2346" height_o="3415" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab490d166069853e869db3f003465cb81a2a1162b61f45663916fc2c5dcc6734/IMG_3744.jpeg" data-mid="156089468" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab490d166069853e869db3f003465cb81a2a1162b61f45663916fc2c5dcc6734/IMG_3744.jpeg" /> Carni Misti Cyanotype images of Italian deli meats. Forms that are both natural and unnatural, recognizable and totally abstract. With Sara Harrison. See more... 2021 <img width="950" height="1417" width_o="950" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/909d553bbcb2b1e4221fc30785cfbe4b791ea6c47156fb14d1c936f1d3ad4ff7/cover-2.jpg" data-mid="116390008" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/950/i/909d553bbcb2b1e4221fc30785cfbe4b791ea6c47156fb14d1c936f1d3ad4ff7/cover-2.jpg" /> “The Painted Logos: Abstraction as Exegesis in the Ashburnham Pentateuch” An essay on abstraction as a medieval art form. This chapter rereads four daubs of pink paint added in the ninth century to the first folio of the Ashburnham Pentateuch. Instead of seeing this overpainting as iconoclastic I argue it served as a kind of nuanced and theologically significant form of abstract art. View essay as a PDF... Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament Edited by Elina Gertsman, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, 141-166. <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50c18ea1de5d723df4fdf95bde2f874ac2dcc5012aef144320d97d99d800688a/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-17-at-06.26.02.jpeg" data-mid="116394079" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50c18ea1de5d723df4fdf95bde2f874ac2dcc5012aef144320d97d99d800688a/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-17-at-06.26.02.jpeg" /> Architecture, Urbanism, and Empire: England, France, Spain, and Italy A term-long off-campus studies program directed by Professor Baird Jarman for which I was assistant director and architectural history instructor in 2018 and a visiting lecturer in 2020. Students visited sites across western Europe and had regular readings and writing assignments on architectural history, historic preservation and heritage management. Additionally students made and maintained personal sketchbooks of architectural drawings and plans. Read more about the program... Carleton College Off-Campus Studies Winter 2018, Winter 2020 <img width="760" height="475" width_o="760" height_o="475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52afd62d3096ec9503f343e803c6826aad29fd52fbb4733b60fe453cf2474045/103_SMITH_ViewerAscending_v2.jpg" data-mid="116390007" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/760/i/52afd62d3096ec9503f343e803c6826aad29fd52fbb4733b60fe453cf2474045/103_SMITH_ViewerAscending_v2.jpg" /> “Viewer Ascending a Staircase” An essay on the value of long and plodding museum staircases. Commissioned for the fifth anniversary catalogue of the Anderson Collection, Stanford University. View essay as a PDF... Left of Center: The Anderson Collection Edited by Jason Linetzky, Stanford: Anderson Collection, 2019, 12-16 <img width="1446" height="1866" width_o="1446" height_o="1866" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2edfe3019c6989f7885e83fb6196336038d16d5bffbba25c254710c9bdbdf034/DP820349.jpg" data-mid="116390006" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2edfe3019c6989f7885e83fb6196336038d16d5bffbba25c254710c9bdbdf034/DP820349.jpg" /> Writing About Art A writing course for Art History and Studio Art majors in SFSU's School of Art designed to create a hybrid lecture class, writing workshop, and seminar. Lectures focus on the importance of close looking and visual analysis, empathy and openness as prerequisites for art criticism, the contemporary role of the art critic, and research and scholarship as an artistic practice. Download the syllabus here... San Francisco State UniversitySchool of ArtFall 2018, Fall 2019 <img width="3728" height="3009" width_o="3728" height_o="3009" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccba2b2ad77bd89138534ae6463c5bb5cdf0fef112e1cb87182be8296c5546a7/DP139280.jpg" data-mid="116390004" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccba2b2ad77bd89138534ae6463c5bb5cdf0fef112e1cb87182be8296c5546a7/DP139280.jpg" /> Guerre aux Demolisseurs! The first English translation of Victor Hugo’s 1834 essay “Guerre aux Demolisuers!” Published with an introduction. Read the translation here... West 86th: A Journal of&nbsp;Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 25:2 (Fall/Winter 2018): 224-48. <img width="1196" height="1192" width_o="1196" height_o="1192" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/421ad55c087befd0b6f08931bfec1b7da2ac3e275119fbade2bb2c32c4247f87/Marang-Video.png" data-mid="116390002" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/421ad55c087befd0b6f08931bfec1b7da2ac3e275119fbade2bb2c32c4247f87/Marang-Video.png" /> Medieval Myth of Notre Dame An essay about restoration and renewal at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris in the wake of the April 2019 fire. Read the essay here... Los Angeles Review of Books October 2018 Published in German as“Der mittelalterliche Mythos von Notre-Dame” in Notre-Dame de Paris: Bilder einer Kathedral, edited by Lothar Schirmer, 9-19. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 2020. <img width="750" height="500" width_o="750" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02ec05813b6b38e3c7b2d669eec485945dc4f796cbdd3db102512e77422bce80/53_DSC_0369_1.jpg" data-mid="116390003" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/02ec05813b6b38e3c7b2d669eec485945dc4f796cbdd3db102512e77422bce80/53_DSC_0369_1.jpg" /> Chapel A 5-channel video and audio installation exploring time and space and light at the Calera Chapel, Toyahvale, Texas. With Lora Webb. Read More... Coulter Gallery Stanford University 11 July - 20 August 2017 Teaching https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Teaching Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:35:49 +0000 Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Teaching DANNY SMITH SALFATI TEACHING <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f087dc08240bf842332e0a89e62b6445e8fb6aef55a7e60bd9fb1f811d6f9ef/IMG_0765.jpeg" data-mid="215986698" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f087dc08240bf842332e0a89e62b6445e8fb6aef55a7e60bd9fb1f811d6f9ef/IMG_0765.jpeg" /> Making Medieval New York This field-trip-heavy summer seminar focuses on the reception and influence of medieval European architecture in New York City through the buildings and monuments that revive, replicate, and preserve it. We examine the architectural as well as the social, historical, and political environment of nineteenth and twentieth century New York City, in which medieval architecture came to symbolize not only religion but class, erudition, exoticism, heritage, civic pride, and even hygiene. On site visits include St. John the Divine, Trinity Church Wall Street, The Met Cloisters, Warren Place Mews, Central Synagogue, and the Woolworth Building. Download the syllabus here... Columbia University Department of Art History and Archeology Summer 2024 <img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da5b04fd4c5e4bfc236bd42c67b6091b3473f9600ec1dfdb6d412e7bb7bfaffe/12---Still-Life.jpg" data-mid="226732445" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da5b04fd4c5e4bfc236bd42c67b6091b3473f9600ec1dfdb6d412e7bb7bfaffe/12---Still-Life.jpg" /> Art Humanities Formally known as “Masterpieces of Western Art,” this course is a part of Columbia’s Core Curriculum, a set of interdiciplinary and interconnecting courses for all Columbia undergraduates. Courses are individually designed by faculty based on a collaboratively produced framework. My own version of Art Humanities stresses attention, close-looking and visual analysis in particular. Students spend extended time with artworks in person and examine and present on exhibitions around the city. Download a sample syllabus here... Columbia University Department of Art History and ArcheologyFall 2023 - Present <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50c18ea1de5d723df4fdf95bde2f874ac2dcc5012aef144320d97d99d800688a/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-17-at-06.26.02.jpeg" data-mid="116394289" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50c18ea1de5d723df4fdf95bde2f874ac2dcc5012aef144320d97d99d800688a/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-17-at-06.26.02.jpeg" /> Architecture, Urbanism, and Empire: England, France, Spain, and Italy A term-long off-campus studies program directed by Professor Baird Jarman for which I was assistant director and architectural history instructor in 2018 and a visiting lecturer in 2020. Students visited sites across western Europe and had regular readings and writing assignments on architectural history, historic preservation and heritage management. Additionally students made and maintained personal sketchbooks of architectural drawings and plans. Read more about the program... Carleton College Off-Campus Studies Winter 2018, Winter 2020 <img width="1446" height="1866" width_o="1446" height_o="1866" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2edfe3019c6989f7885e83fb6196336038d16d5bffbba25c254710c9bdbdf034/DP820349.jpg" data-mid="116390752" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2edfe3019c6989f7885e83fb6196336038d16d5bffbba25c254710c9bdbdf034/DP820349.jpg" /> Writing About Art A writing course for Art History and Studio Art majors in SFSU's School of Art designed to create a hybrid lecture class, writing workshop, and seminar. Lectures focus on the importance of close looking and visual analysis, empathy and openness as prerequisites for art criticism, the contemporary role of the art critic, and research and scholarship as an artistic practice. Download the syllabus here... San Francisco State UniversitySchool of ArtFall 2018, Fall 2019 Writing https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Writing-1 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:09:57 +0000 Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Writing-1 DANNY SMITH SALFATI WRITING <img width="645" height="607" width_o="645" height_o="607" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3fbf2ed13d83a2131812c11bd61633e941ab89ee556e4587ab21f98c1559a73/Sala.jpg" data-mid="127193395" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/645/i/c3fbf2ed13d83a2131812c11bd61633e941ab89ee556e4587ab21f98c1559a73/Sala.jpg" /> “Watching the Well-Governed City: painting and surveillance&nbsp;in Trecento Siena” This essay considers Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Trecento fresco cycle of Good and Bad Government for the Sala dei Nove in Siena as a kind of painterly panopticon, a visual allegory of the omnipresent surveillance of communal life in Siena. Drawing on Peter of Limoges’s&nbsp;Tractatus moralis de oculo, this essay contextualizes the frescoes as a political device within medieval conceptions of vision. View essay as a PDF... postmedieval Vol. 12, Issue 1 December 2021. Part of the article cluster Sensory Presence and Senses of Absence in the European Middle Ages&nbsp;edited by Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey <img width="1200" height="1462" width_o="1200" height_o="1462" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4701fa5a1bdaf139960a6ad5046a2ffa9494c6dbd3324135cb1a9efec0215e75/ER-booklet_pages_COVER.jpg" data-mid="215986023" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4701fa5a1bdaf139960a6ad5046a2ffa9494c6dbd3324135cb1a9efec0215e75/ER-booklet_pages_COVER.jpg" /> Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood, 1851-1900 An exhibition catalogue accompanying the exhibition Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood 1851-1900, the Cantor Arts Center. The essay included traces the history of exoticising photography in around the Mediterranean in the 19th Century, with short focus essays examining the work of Pascal Sébah, the Fratelli Alinari, images of ancient and medieval ruins.&nbsp; Read the catalogue online... Learn more about the exhibition... Cantor Arts Center 2021 <img width="2170" height="1264" width_o="2170" height_o="1264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcbfe4ffe1871ef4e8a9391b21861cfed91ef367ecf866013b5a5ba8906023bc/17th-C-Sketch.jpg" data-mid="215985921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcbfe4ffe1871ef4e8a9391b21861cfed91ef367ecf866013b5a5ba8906023bc/17th-C-Sketch.jpg" /> Painted into a Corner: Seeing Jews in Medieval Rome A brief reflection on the visual legacy of the Christian doctrine on doctrinal supercession (the Old Testament superceded by the New) in the art of medieval Rome. View essay as a PDF... AJS PerspectivesFall 2021 <img width="950" height="1417" width_o="950" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/909d553bbcb2b1e4221fc30785cfbe4b791ea6c47156fb14d1c936f1d3ad4ff7/cover-2.jpg" data-mid="116389807" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/950/i/909d553bbcb2b1e4221fc30785cfbe4b791ea6c47156fb14d1c936f1d3ad4ff7/cover-2.jpg" /> “The Painted Logos: Abstraction as Exegesis in the Ashburnham Pentateuch” An essay on abstraction as a medieval art form. This chapter rereads four daubs of pink paint added in the ninth century to the first folio of the Ashburnham Pentateuch. Instead of seeing this overpainting as iconoclastic I argue it served as a kind of nuanced and theologically significant form of abstract art. View essay as a PDF... Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament Edited by Elina Gertsman, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, 141-166. <img width="760" height="475" width_o="760" height_o="475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52afd62d3096ec9503f343e803c6826aad29fd52fbb4733b60fe453cf2474045/103_SMITH_ViewerAscending_v2.jpg" data-mid="116354838" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/760/i/52afd62d3096ec9503f343e803c6826aad29fd52fbb4733b60fe453cf2474045/103_SMITH_ViewerAscending_v2.jpg" /> “Viewer Ascending a Staircase” An essay on the value of long and plodding museum staircases. Commissioned for the fifth anniversary catalogue of the Anderson Collection, Stanford University. View essay as a PDF... Left of Center: The Anderson Collection Edited by Jason Linetzky, Stanford: Anderson Collection, 2019, 12-16 <img width="3728" height="3009" width_o="3728" height_o="3009" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccba2b2ad77bd89138534ae6463c5bb5cdf0fef112e1cb87182be8296c5546a7/DP139280.jpg" data-mid="116283996" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccba2b2ad77bd89138534ae6463c5bb5cdf0fef112e1cb87182be8296c5546a7/DP139280.jpg" /> Guerre aux Demolisseurs! The first English translation of Victor Hugo’s 1834 essay “Guerre aux Demolisuers!” Published with an introduction. Read the translation here... West 86th: A Journal of&nbsp;Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 25:2 (Fall/Winter 2018): 224-48. <img width="1196" height="1192" width_o="1196" height_o="1192" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/421ad55c087befd0b6f08931bfec1b7da2ac3e275119fbade2bb2c32c4247f87/Marang-Video.png" data-mid="116228165" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/421ad55c087befd0b6f08931bfec1b7da2ac3e275119fbade2bb2c32c4247f87/Marang-Video.png" /> Medieval Myth of Notre Dame An essay about restoration and renewal at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris in the wake of the April 2019 fire. Read the essay here... Los Angeles Review of Books October 2018 Published in German as“Der mittelalterliche Mythos von Notre-Dame” in Notre-Dame de Paris: Bilder einer Kathedral, edited by Lothar Schirmer, 9-19. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 2020. Miracole https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Miracole Mon, 09 Aug 2021 22:18:06 +0000 Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Miracole DANNY SMITH SALFATIMiracole de Roma Miracole de Roma is an ongoing project about the sonic and historical landscape of Rome. The work consists of binaural field recordings made at every site listed in the Miracole de Roma, a thirteenth-century pilgrims' guide to the city and the first guidebook to Rome written in vulgate Italian. Some of the sites today survive as they are described - the Colosseum, the Lateran Basilica - others have been demolished and replaced with streets, bars, or monuments to later histories. In June of 2021 Miracole de Roma was installed in a stretch of the Aqua Traiana, a first-century Roman aqueduct under the American Academy in Rome. This installation was supported by the American Academy in Rome and the Europe Center, Stanford University. Sample Tracks: dssProjects · Miracole de Roma Exquisite Reality https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Exquisite-Reality Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:56:56 +0000 Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Exquisite-Reality DANNY SMITH SALFATI Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood 1851-1900 <img width="700" height="542" width_o="700" height_o="542" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d24bee4d25dac90e30da6f30d8e33b0c3913cb5d52932d0c05db7c651db1a32f/19876371-viapo-1200w.jpg" data-mid="116222348" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt=" Giorgio Sommer, Via P&ograve; (Torino), c. 1875. Albumen print, Gift of Judith Hochberg and Michael Mattis, 1987.63.71." data-caption=" Giorgio Sommer, Via Pò (Torino), c. 1875. Albumen print, Gift of Judith Hochberg and Michael Mattis, 1987.63.71." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/d24bee4d25dac90e30da6f30d8e33b0c3913cb5d52932d0c05db7c651db1a32f/19876371-viapo-1200w.jpg" /> Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood 1851-1900 is the Cantor Arts Center's first born-digital exhibition. Organized with the support of Sue and John Diekman, the Geballe Fund for Academic Initiatives, the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Fund, Exquisite Reality documents the political role of early photography across the Mediterranean. Works included photographs by Pascal Sébah, the Gaetano Pedo Studio, Giorgio Sommer, Francis Frith, and William Henry Fox Talbot. The exhibition was accompanied by a full catalogue, available online here. <img width="1436" height="1109" width_o="1436" height_o="1109" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c1f9caeb7fabba51f44e58b5658a702eb524f999196822774382c1329955b8d/1980.102.1.13.A_CDP-pub.jpg" data-mid="116222349" border="0" alt="Artist Unknown, Mole Adriana e Ponte S. Angelo from Views of France, Algeria &amp; Italy, c. 1875-1890. Albumen print, Art Gallery and Museum General Gift, 1980.102.1.13.a." data-caption="Artist Unknown, Mole Adriana e Ponte S. Angelo from Views of France, Algeria &amp; Italy, c. 1875-1890. Albumen print, Art Gallery and Museum General Gift, 1980.102.1.13.a." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c1f9caeb7fabba51f44e58b5658a702eb524f999196822774382c1329955b8d/1980.102.1.13.A_CDP-pub.jpg" /> <img width="424" height="500" width_o="424" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/180799f71834decb45464615983db82b298d12174496827af91b6df8bc837ab4/1982.337.9_CDP-web.jpg" data-mid="116222351" border="0" alt=" Francis Frith, Ruins of a Christian Church, Island of Saye, Ethiopia, c. 1856-1860. Albumen print, Gift of William Rubel, 1982.337.9 " data-caption=" Francis Frith, Ruins of a Christian Church, Island of Saye, Ethiopia, c. 1856-1860. Albumen print, Gift of William Rubel, 1982.337.9 " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/424/i/180799f71834decb45464615983db82b298d12174496827af91b6df8bc837ab4/1982.337.9_CDP-web.jpg" /> <img width="1471" height="1124" width_o="1471" height_o="1124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5510619be453c32cac8969ec40c80df82d4707dba9e1b522e43cea22aa633ef/1980.102.1.17.B_CDP-pub.jpg" data-mid="116222350" border="0" alt="Foro Romano, Veduta Generale from Views of France, Algeria &amp; Italy. Albumen print, Art Gallery and Museum General Gift, 1980.102.1.17.b." data-caption="Foro Romano, Veduta Generale from Views of France, Algeria &amp; Italy. Albumen print, Art Gallery and Museum General Gift, 1980.102.1.17.b." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5510619be453c32cac8969ec40c80df82d4707dba9e1b522e43cea22aa633ef/1980.102.1.17.B_CDP-pub.jpg" /> The Painted Logos https://dannysmithsalfati.com/The-Painted-Logos Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:27:55 +0000 Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com/The-Painted-Logos DANNY SMITH SALFATIThe Painted Logos: Abstraction as Exegesis in the Ashburnham Pentateuch <img width="2841" height="1445" width_o="2841" height_o="1445" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/244f0b308e5a002140dd102ceaeed9757492bc37bae7321fb5bd25df9bf96257/Smith-5.1-Ashburnham-Pentateuch-f1v-copy.jpeg" data-mid="116392748" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/244f0b308e5a002140dd102ceaeed9757492bc37bae7321fb5bd25df9bf96257/Smith-5.1-Ashburnham-Pentateuch-f1v-copy.jpeg" /> Four patches of pink paint obscure images of God in the creation miniature of the seventh-century Ashburnham Pentateuch (Paris, Bibl. nat. nouv. acq. lat. 2334). These painterly interventions, wrought upon the figures of both God the Father and God the Son, have been interpreted as iconoclastic adoptionist additions. By contextualizing this act of would-be iconoclasm within the larger framework of Carolingian adoptionist and anti-adoptionist theology, this essay focuses on the figure of God the Son in particular, arguing that reduction of Christ to a daub of pink paint transforms him from a visible figure to an abstract, painted Logos. Borrowing both from the language of Alcuin of York (d. 804) and twentieth-century abstractexpressionist painter Barnett Newman, I propose that these patches equate God the Son with the painterly matter of creation, pointing not to an act of iconoclasm but to a careful anti-adoptionist message expressed in abstract painting. Read and download the entire essay here. Chapel https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Chapel Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:20:28 +0000 Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Chapel DANNY SMITH SALFATI Chapel <img width="750" height="500" width_o="750" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02ec05813b6b38e3c7b2d669eec485945dc4f796cbdd3db102512e77422bce80/53_DSC_0369_1.jpg" data-mid="116285127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/02ec05813b6b38e3c7b2d669eec485945dc4f796cbdd3db102512e77422bce80/53_DSC_0369_1.jpg" /> Conceived as an alternative means of exploring architectural space, Chapel was a video and sound installation depicting the Calera Chapel in Toyahvale, Texas over the course of a single day. The installation consisted of five screens displaying looped films of the chapel’s adobe façade - offset so that each played the image of the church two hours apart - and a soundtrack of ambient audio recorded at the chapel. Coulter Gallery Stanford University 11 July - 20 August 2017 5-channel video installation, 2-channel audio installation, muslin, pine plywood. Produced with Lora Webb. Chapel was generously supported by the Pauline Brown Fund for Advanced Research in American Art, Stanford University; the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, Stanford University; and the Calera Foundation <img width="333" height="500" width_o="333" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d976a84d22c48da9e29084764c1c2538067a098dd033030242760f6066e9773f/53_DSC_0416.jpg" data-mid="116287406" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/333/i/d976a84d22c48da9e29084764c1c2538067a098dd033030242760f6066e9773f/53_DSC_0416.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="499" width_o="750" height_o="499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a0c854adf82807e4c2b3ca994590459969590218f54e54dd2926611cd7365f7/53_Chapel1_1.jpg" data-mid="116287394" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/1a0c854adf82807e4c2b3ca994590459969590218f54e54dd2926611cd7365f7/53_Chapel1_1.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="499" width_o="750" height_o="499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea82868654860b944a41331b0698b0dbc7286f5f2e980bd19b5d822ef438d599/53_Chapel4_1.jpg" data-mid="116287396" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/ea82868654860b944a41331b0698b0dbc7286f5f2e980bd19b5d822ef438d599/53_Chapel4_1.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="499" width_o="750" height_o="499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec5cd7e064f9bdebb62b8d47d4751d3a5b596e461721320a3abed86b5efd9ba4/53_Chapel5_1.jpg" data-mid="116287397" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/ec5cd7e064f9bdebb62b8d47d4751d3a5b596e461721320a3abed86b5efd9ba4/53_Chapel5_1.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="499" width_o="750" height_o="499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ee3ece113dc1fcdf5be33f3039b0a19674feaf83eed6b3c0f6e3fa578742c15/53_Chapel7_1.jpg" data-mid="116287399" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/1ee3ece113dc1fcdf5be33f3039b0a19674feaf83eed6b3c0f6e3fa578742c15/53_Chapel7_1.jpg" /> <img width="333" height="500" width_o="333" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b3e04073c98ba3ce1aa6e6ed955c80db482da10b3b8f33919e78bf24c4591ef/53_Chapel3_1.jpg" data-mid="116287395" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/333/i/9b3e04073c98ba3ce1aa6e6ed955c80db482da10b3b8f33919e78bf24c4591ef/53_Chapel3_1.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="499" width_o="750" height_o="499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7e0f1573f8e1b37fdab7352ddf5ded3480625cc5a790b57a7b695da0df09b63/53_Chapel8_1.jpg" data-mid="116287400" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/d7e0f1573f8e1b37fdab7352ddf5ded3480625cc5a790b57a7b695da0df09b63/53_Chapel8_1.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="500" width_o="750" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77eb96df39086caf62b0091a550719381ea7f327ab168cdd956a838ab4d0b979/53_DSC_0346.jpg" data-mid="116287401" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/77eb96df39086caf62b0091a550719381ea7f327ab168cdd956a838ab4d0b979/53_DSC_0346.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="500" width_o="750" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b31e857024896487337981d2a68bf81cb3da040b711cb898508a9e38585e21ed/53_DSC_0359.jpg" data-mid="116287405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/b31e857024896487337981d2a68bf81cb3da040b711cb898508a9e38585e21ed/53_DSC_0359.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="500" width_o="750" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddac5c78d686aac03f25b04cda5d4256ee5b91590eaed85df03b422ff80dc91e/53_DSC_0350.jpg" data-mid="116287404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/ddac5c78d686aac03f25b04cda5d4256ee5b91590eaed85df03b422ff80dc91e/53_DSC_0350.jpg" /> Patient Denies https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Patient-Denies Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:06:06 +0000 Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Patient-Denies DANNY SMITH SALFATI Patient Denies <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9666d05cc1ca58a45dd6cda6dd856b94e1247a4f3f7163f0cb5786b0c4497b3a/IMG_3918.jpeg" data-mid="185149743" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9666d05cc1ca58a45dd6cda6dd856b94e1247a4f3f7163f0cb5786b0c4497b3a/IMG_3918.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b4dac6536462e65ce8623d47eb1fd727e5386d772e6dda566200012a843db2d/IMG_3925.jpg" data-mid="185528781" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b4dac6536462e65ce8623d47eb1fd727e5386d772e6dda566200012a843db2d/IMG_3925.jpg" /> Patient Denies translates the coded language of a lengthy diagnostic process into the International Code of Signals. Every symptom “denied” by the patient in conversations with doctors, nurses, and technicians is reproduced in a graphic form originally designed “to provide ways and means of communication in situations related essentially to safety....especially when language difficulties arise.” (International Code of Signals for Visual, Sound, and Radio Communications, United States Edition, 1969 (Revised 2003), p.iii) Linoleum prints on hospital curtain, Plexiglas light diffuser, pine, cable. 9’ x 4’ x 5’ Exhibited in: Holding OverOrtega y Gasset Projects 30 May 2023 Organized by Renana Neuman <img width="5088" height="3392" width_o="5088" height_o="3392" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a2110681998efccdb3c8d6cac0085b153471aea9ec6fe42aafce677f6690e64/05302023-MingFaiChan-2.JPG" data-mid="182974644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a2110681998efccdb3c8d6cac0085b153471aea9ec6fe42aafce677f6690e64/05302023-MingFaiChan-2.JPG" /> Installation View of Holding Over courtesy Ming Fai Chan Walking Tour https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Walking-Tour Sat, 22 Oct 2022 05:18:36 +0000 Danny Smith Salfati https://dannysmithsalfati.com/Walking-Tour DANNY SMITH SALFATI Walking Tour <img width="3592" height="2694" width_o="3592" height_o="2694" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c5ed99a299d923203865d6b4ec7a6b8f98e393d1d99e3b34d015f466bbb1c79/DSCN3293.jpeg" data-mid="156640277" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c5ed99a299d923203865d6b4ec7a6b8f98e393d1d99e3b34d015f466bbb1c79/DSCN3293.jpeg" /> A wall-mounted sculpture broadcasting eleven recordings made across the city of Rome. The sounds - celebrating at wedding on the Capitoline Hill, boys cheering and shouting and singing after a football game, a road mender tapping cobblestones in the shadow of the Arch of Constantine - are both cacophonous and distinct. The sources of sound are unclear, the routes those sounds take from the visible Mp3 boards to the tiny, tinny speakers in imperceptible. The piece inverts the structure of a walking tour, collapsing the expanse of the city into bounded, gridded box and using the the headphones designed for tourguides to whisper into the ears of their tourists to convey the noises of the city.Eleven-channel audio sculpture. Pine, MDF, Plexiglas, Mp3 Boards, Disposable Headphones. 24” x 36 “ x 10” <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a180e48f965639cd71499701ffa0f8e088ee8aa57e577c3a870a02e097e0ed03/IMG_2859.jpeg" data-mid="156640281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a180e48f965639cd71499701ffa0f8e088ee8aa57e577c3a870a02e097e0ed03/IMG_2859.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/968fadba92f209693777a2fdf518d7d24ce891176be23a844dc553e79802a74a/IMG_2854.jpeg" data-mid="156640280" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/968fadba92f209693777a2fdf518d7d24ce891176be23a844dc553e79802a74a/IMG_2854.jpeg" />