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Friday, July 06, 2007
Books & Culture report on CIVA conference
It was fitting that CIVA should make “Transforming Spaces: Virtu(e) and the Virtual” the theme of its 2007 conference, held last [month] at Messiah College in western Pennsylvania. Earl Tai spoke about distributive justice in the context of the “built and designed space.” Ena Heller gave a short history of MOBIA (the Museum of Biblical Art in America), a history attentive both to MOBIA’s location in Manhattan and to the cultural space it seeks to occupy. Ken Myers, in two lectures that bookended the conference, emphasized the contrast between an incarnational faith and a gnostic desire to escape from the body and its limitations—a temptation, Myers suggested, that keeps cropping up in new forms. Allan Wexler, who describes himself as an architect in an artist’s body, rang the changes on familiar spaces—the spaces of tables and chairs, ceilings and walls—with a mad deft witty virtuosity that made the world strange.
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