Imagining Autonomy: Recontextualizing Visual Expectations of Identity

How can one visualize power in material form? In this panel Simone Handelman Duffy, Case Fulton, and Lilly Gorman explore the visualization of agency through bio-art, fashion, and archivally-informed performance.  By subverting visual expectations and theoretical perspectives they question how our material world reflects and defines our understanding of autonomy and identity.

Case Fulton, BAMA: Liberal Arts '27/ Fashion Studies '28

Fashion’s Feminist Fabric: From Schiaparelli to Today - Where are all the women are in high levels of the industry?

Lilly Gorman, BAFA: Journalism + Design / Photography '26

How does performance for the camera and the family archive investigate the visual language Texas uses to project an identity?

Simone Handelman Duffy, BAFA: Culture and Media / Design History & Practice '26

Exploring bio-art as a medium that foregrounds collaboration with more-than-human life forms, this presentation proposes a relational, environmental ethic of creation rooted in interdependence and symbiogenesis.

Faculty: Brita Servaes, New School Libraries