ECREA TWG
Visual Cultures Conference.
September
4–6, 2019
Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
Keynotes:
Paul Frosh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Jill Walker Rettberg
(University of Bergen).
In visual
studies, the question of how to apprehend images has been contested at least
since WJT Mitchell’s call for a pictorial turn, defined ‘ex negativo’. While
books on visual cultures, visual analysis and visual research abound, the kind
of consideration that we should give single images is discussed from very
different kinds of perspectives. While some suggest paying careful attention to
visual detail, form, and motif, others call for a turn away from
representations, suggesting that main attention should be given to the
practices within which images become meaningful. While the latter approaches
may question the usefulness of ‘representation’ per se, the former explicitly
prioritize that which is made visible.
While the
positions of how to approach images diverge, images as phenomena to be studied
are themselves increasingly ‘on the move’.
Operational
images, part of complex logistical chains, are just one example of images on
the move, that a human being might never get to see. But also photos used for
phatic communication might be less important for what they show, in contrast to
the social connections that they allow for. On the other hand, public and
private environments are increasingly filled with screens that display images
to be seen. Images travel between contexts, in time and space, asking us to
constantly question who is looking and at what, and in what ways acts of
looking play a role in this constellation. In short, both our understandings of
how to approach images, and images themselves, are ‘on the move’.
This
conference, organized by the ECREA TWG Visual Cultures, discusses the roles of
images for visual analysis by focusing on images on the move. This entails work
on images capturing movement of unfolding events, images themselves moving in
time, space, and across media, as well as the theoretical and analytical
approaches that are on the move.
How should
we work with images and practices on the move?
We welcome
papers on topics including, but not limited to:
- methodological approaches that focus on representational features of images and/or the flows, contexts and practices around images
- researching the visual: new methodological approaches and challenges
- visual ethics / ethics in visual research
- studies or reflections on how to handle image flows and large (moving) sets of visual data
- theoretical approaches on representational vs nonrepresentational approaches
- entanglements between the material aspect of images and visual practices
- images and infrastructures
- ‘fake news’ and the visual: verification of images
- generic images, stock photos and images banks: modes of production, distribution and effects
- digitally mediated visual communication in everyday life
- images and popular culture
- images and developers
- phatic communication and the question of representation
Abstracts of
up to 750 words, including a motivation for the study, information on
theory/concepts used, data/phenomena analyzed and methods used, should be sent
by 15 May 2019 with an electronic form https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/visualcultures2019cfp.
There will
be a conference fee of ca. 120140 Euros, and slightly reduced rates to PhD
students and ECREA members.
Please find
more information on the conference website: https://events.tuni.fi/visualcultures2019/
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