Publications - Art and Design

A Musical Suite Composed by an Electronic Brain Reexamining the Illiac Suite and the Legacy of Lejaren A. Hiller Jr.

Funk, Tiffany (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2018-09)

In 1956, Lejaren A. Hiller, Jr., and Leonard Isaacson debuted the Illiac Suite, the first score composed with a computer. Its reception anticipated Hiller’s embattled career as an experimental composer. Though the Suite ...
Borders are Rough-hewn: Monuments, Local Landscapes and the Politics of Place in a Hittite Borderland

Harmansah, Omur (British Institute at Ankara, 2017-08-01)

Cultural historian Elliott Colla proposed in a recent paper that ancient borders, unlike their modern versions, were often roughly hewn, both materially and conceptually. With this he not only refers to the artfully crafted ...
ISIS, HERITAGE, AND THE SPECTACLES OF DESTRUCTION IN THE GLOBAL MEDIA.

Harmansah, O (American Schools of Oriental Research, 2015)

This paper focuses on ISIS’s recent destruction of archaeological heritage in Iraq and its (self-) representation in the global media. It is argued that the Islamic State’s destruction of archaeological sites and museums ...