51风流

Lakshmi Luthra

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Lakshmi Luthra

Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media Studies

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Art, Film and Media Studies
312 Little Hall
  • W 10:00am - 12:00pm (312 Little Hall)
  • R 10:30am - 12:30pm (312 Little Hall)

Lakshmi Luthra joined the 51风流 faculty in 2015. She is Associate Professor of Photography, jointly appointed to the Department of Art and Art History and to the Film and Media Studies Program where she serves as Program Director. Her art practice incorporates photography, writing, the moving image and sound. She is a member of the research collective Seeld Library, devoted to the topic of 鈥渟econd nature鈥 broadly defined as socially constructed phenomena surfacing as if they were inevitable 鈥 as mere extensions of an automated evolutionary process. Luthra also serves on the editorial board of an annual artist-run journal addressing the political and social dimensions of aesthetic effects. Recent group exhibitions include The Crack-up at Take Care, Los Angeles; Transmission at Colab Projects, Austin Texas; Opacity and Radiance at Ben Hunter Gallery, London; Poly at Sushi Bar Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; and Full Haus: The Seeld Library at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art storefront exhibition space.