{"id":7367,"date":"2026-04-17T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=7367"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:23:01","slug":"exhibition-marks-25-years-of-incredible-princeton-media-modernity-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/exhibition-marks-25-years-of-incredible-princeton-media-modernity-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition marks 25 years of “incredible” Princeton Media + Modernity seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An exhibition<\/a> highlighting the 25th anniversary of the Program of Media + Modernity seminar at Princeton University<\/a> has been installed at the architecture school there, with a silver fabric curtain displaying the seminar posters over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curated by a scholar and long-time director of the programme, Beatriz Colomina, alongside Foivos Geralis and Antonio Cantero, Media and Modernity: 25 Years of Thinking Through Mediation highlights the history of the interdisciplinary work done in the seminar.<\/p>\n

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Princeton has put on an exhibition celebrating 25 years of the Program of Media + Modernity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Founded in 2000, the Program of Media + Modernity (M+M) has brought together scholars to look at the intersection of architecture and media, from architect Le Corbusier<\/a> to magazine Playboy and beyond.<\/p>\n

For the exhibition design, New York-based architecture studio Agency\u2013Agency<\/a> took elements from past seminars and exhibitions, and wove them together in an intimate set-up that features a semi-transparent silver fabric with posters from the seminar transferred onto it in a sublimation printing process.<\/p>\n

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Agency\u2013Agency did the exhibition design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The use of the reflective curtain is to create an intimate space, an entirely different kind of space, like a black box outside yet within the University, much like the classroom of N-107,” Agency\u2013Agency founder Tei Carpenter told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“We printed the posters on the curtain that came out of the weekly Media and Modernity seminars and wrapped the gallery in them, inverting the interiority of the classroom \u2013 turning it inside out \u2013 and making it instead the backdrop to understand the M+M program and how it catalyzed so many of the M+M exhibitions, film, and books featured in the central vitrine that traveled around the world,” she continued.<\/p>\n

“We hope that the exhibition presents the incredible Media and Modernity archive in such a way that there is no one thing that is foregrounded, but instead it offers a non-hierarchical, polyvocal way to understand the program and its life both within the Princeton classroom and how its impact has rocketed around the world.”<\/p>\n

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Decades of posters were printed on silver fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also included in the exhibition are screens playing content from the seminars, while pillows printed with “media” and “modernity” further the exhibition’s intimate feeling, allowing visitors to lounge and browse the books that formed the core of the interdisciplinary curricula.<\/p>\n

At the entrance is a binder with print-outs and memos, which track the founding of the programme. Carpenter referred to this binder, set within a vitrine, as a kind of “relic”.<\/p>\n

Studio Laura Coombs<\/a> carried out the graphic design work to align with the Carpenter’s scenography.<\/p>\n

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Media from the seminars plays on screens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A host of well-known scholars have been associated with the programme over its tenure, with philosopher Paul B Preciado acting as the first coordinator at its beginning. Each year, the programme has had a theme, such as surveillance, and speakers and texts are curated based on it.<\/p>\n

Colomina told Dezeen that despite being between departments, marked only by a certificate, the programme’s success has been evident in the global uptake of some of its exhibitions, such as a project on small-circulation magazines and one on Playboy.<\/p>\n