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January 22, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CSU Dominguez Hills’ Visiting
Distinguished Scholar
To Give Public Lecture on Feb. 4
WHO: William L. Fox
WHAT: Public
lecture on his upcoming book, “Aereality: The
World from Above”
WHEN: Monday, Feb. 4, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE:
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union
William
L. Fox is a writer, independent scholar, and poet whose work is
a sustained inquiry into how human cognition transforms
land into landscape. His books rely upon fieldwork with artists
and scientists in extreme environments to provide the narratives
through which he conducts his investigations. He is the first visiting
distinguished scholar at California State University, Dominguez
Hills.
During Fox’s stint on
campus last semester, “Aereality:
The World From Above” was just one of the writing projects
he worked on. One section of the book will focus on the western
United States and examine California’s deserts and the urban
landscape of the Los Angeles region. On his web site, www.wlfox.net,
Fox explains how he came up with the idea.
“
While working in extreme environments, in particular the polar
regions, I have increasingly depended upon and written about aerial
images, but never examined them as a class of images in their own
right,” he says. “This series of linked essays seeks
to fill that gap, and this is my major research project through
early 2008. I'll be looking into and writing about aerial images
from as far back as 6,000 B.C. up to current remote sensing technologies.
Among the topics I'll cover are: How pre-technological people envision
the Earth from above; the history of aerial perspective in Renaissance
painting; the development of commercial and military aerial photography;
how that is used by archeologists; and how contemporary artists
conduct photography from aircraft.”
Fox has published poems,
articles, reviews, and essays in more than 70 magazines, has had
14 collections of poetry published in
three countries, and has written eight nonfiction books about the
relationships among art, cognition, and landscape. He has taught
rock climbing at the University of Nevada, as well as led treks
in the Himalaya.
Fox has worked as a team member
of NASA’s
Haughton-Mars Project, which tests methods of exploring Mars on
Devon Island in the Canadian
High Arctic. He was a visiting scholar in residence at the Getty
Research Institute in Los Angeles, has twice been a Lannan Foundation
writer-in-residence, and has been awarded fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Loker Student Union on the campus
of CSU Dominguez Hills is located off Victoria Street near Tamcliff
Street in the city of
Carson. Metered parking lots are within walking distance. Permits
are $3 and can be purchased at yellow kiosk machines on the perimeter
of each lot.
For more information, contact (310)
243-3845.
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About
CSU Dominguez Hills -- California
State University, Dominguez Hills is a highly diverse,
urban university located in the South Bay, primarily
serving the
Los Angeles metropolitan area. The university prides itself
on its outstanding faculty and friendly, student-centered
environment.
Known for excellence in teacher education, nursing, psychology,
business administration, and digital media arts, new degree
programs include computer science, criminal justice,
recreation and leisure
studies, social work, and communication disorders. On campus
is the Home Depot Center, a multi-purpose sports complex
that hosts
world-class soccer, tennis, track and field, lacrosse, and
cycling.
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