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Faculty » Jason Weems
Aerial Survey Photograph of Grundy County, Iowa
United States Agricultural Adjustment Administration,1939
United States National Archives,
Washington, DC, USA
Assistant Professor
Office: 229 Arts Building
Phone: tba
E-mail: jweems@ucr.edu
Ph.D., Stanford University
Areas of specialization: American art, photography and visual culture (colonial period to post WWII) with emphasis on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Research interests include the history of vision and technology, practices of landscape representation, American regionalisms, modern design and theories of material culture.
Jason Weems is a specialist in American art and visual culture from the colonial period to the present. His research focuses on often overlooked images and visual interplays, exploring the way that meaning is produced across levels of representation through overarching paradigms of visual experience. Weems' current project, entitled Barnstorming the Prairies: Flight, Aerial Vision and Modernity in Rural America, 1920-1940, examines the development of modern aerial vision and its role in refiguring subjectivity, space, and culture across a spectrum of American life. His other research includes a study of changing conceptualizations of scale in American art and scientific visualization and a consideration of pattern in American landscapes. Weems' teaching interests include topics such as the art of colonial encounter, regionalism and transculturation, the relationship of vision and science, and the history multisensory expression.