New Topics New College-- From Paleolithic caves to the Museum of Modern Art

New Topics is a collaboration of the New College Foundation and New College of Florida. This dynamic community series pairs prominent national speakers with New College faculty for stimulating discussions on relevant topics of our time. A reception follows each program and provides an opportunity to meet the speakers, students and faculty. Media sponsors are the Herald-Tribune Media Group and WEDU.

San Francisco-based New College alums Carla Schroer and Mark Mudge have developed new technologies for documenting and analyzing the surface of objects, be it cave art in the Pyrenees, a Brancusi sculpture or Jackson Pollock's contemporary paintings. They have consulted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Mark and Carla, who are also husband and wife, will speak to their life on the road and how their sophisticated, but low-cost technology is leading to the democratization of archaeological research and the preservation of cultural heritage. Co-sponsored by the New College Public Archaeology Laboratory.