*CFP* "IMAGES AS AGENTS IN PUBLIC DIGITAL SPACES", ALPEN-ADRIA-UNIVERSITÄT KLAGENFURT AND ISA VISUAL SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH COMMITTEE (RC57)

Images as Agents in Public Digital Spaces

3rd International Workshop on Visual Research for doctoral students

27-28 June 2019

Klagenfurt, Austria

Keynote speakers are:

Robert Hariman, Northwestern University

Yvonne Volkart,  Academy of Art and Design FHNW Basel

Organized by Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and ISA Visual Sociology Research Committee (RC57)

Students’ paper presentations will receive feedback from:

Gary Bratchford, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) & President of ISA Visual Sociology Research Committee 

Roswitha Breckner, University of Vienna

Marc Ries, HfG Offenbach

Possible themes for presentations are, but not limited to:

• the political and social agency of (moving) images in the digital age
• social practices related to contemporary image production
• global-local changes and transculturality connected to contemporary media worlds
• visual media as agents of postmodern cultures of the self and identity politics
• art, new media and ecology - visual media as a means for social and cultural research
• artistic research - economies of looking and sharing in social networks
• cultural and economic aspects of popular image production
• Non-human photography and automated image production
• contemporary art practices in relation to digital image making

To apply, please send an abstract (in English, max. 400 words) and a short CV (max. 200 words) by 19 April 2019 at the latest to visualworkshopisa19@gmail.com.

Participation is free. Shall you wish to attend the workshop without a paper presentation a registration by 10 June 2019 is still necessary.

For more information on a possibility of travel grant, registration, and further details please see workshop website.

Further information on Visual Sociology Research Committee can be found via the following Website

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