Barbara Maria Stafford Ph.D. is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. Her research pursues the multiple means of spatial presentation from the early modern period up to today's digital media. She works at the intersection of the imaging arts, the visualizing sciences, and performance technologies, including the body and embodied experience. Her recent essays examine the revolutionary ways in which the brain sciences are changing our view of the total sensorium and inflecting our fundamental assumptions concerning perception, sensation, emotion, mental imagery, and subjectivity.

Stafford's views have found an application in criticism of early mass media and multiple viewpoints, what she describes as, "cross-referencing material bits of distant reality".

Selected publications

• Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images, (University of Chicago Press, May 2007).
• Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum
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  , Los Angeles, 2001-02 (co-curator).
• Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity, (contributor as member of the Committee on Information Technology and Creativity), eds. William J. Mitchell, Alan S. Inouye, and Marjory S. Blumenthal, (Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 2003).
• Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999).
• Good Looking. Essays on the Virtue of Images, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996).
• Artful Science. Enlightenment, Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994).
• Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine, (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1991).
• Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840, (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1984).

External links

• http://home.uchicago.edu/~bms6/