Visual Construction of Culture Call for Papers Zagreb, Croatia, 26-27 October 2007
The Croatian Writers' Society, the theory, culture and visual arts journal Tvrða, and the Zagreb Centre for Visual Studies are organizing an international interdisciplinary symposium entitled Visual Construction of Culture, to be held at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb, Croatia on 26-27 October 2007. The Croatian Writers' Society, the theory, culture and visual arts journal Tvrða, and the Zagreb Centre for Visual Studies are organizing an international interdisciplinary symposium entitled Visual Construction of Culture, to be held at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb on 26 and 27 October 2007. Over the past ten-odd years, the interest for the establishment of Visual Culture / Visual Studies as a new interdisciplinary field of scientific study has surpassed the boundaries of contemporary visual arts. As W. J. T. Mitchell, one of the leading theoreticians of visuality and the image in the media age puts it, the new way in which images are created in the digital age requires a paradigm shift. This visual, pictorial and cultural turn marks the liberation of the image from the dominant paradigms in language philosophy and from the prevalent iconology interpretations in art history. Today, the picture is understood as a medium of communication and as a contextual field of autoreferential denotation. It is no longer a "holy" picture or a picture of High Art, but a multiplied and networked world of visuality which demands its own new grammar, syntax, semiotics and hermeneutics. Culture can no longer be explained by social identity theories. Visual culture is constructed autonomously and in the media age it is a prerequisite for the cognition of reality and its various interpretations. The Symposium will therefore focus especially on the need for a new approach to the concepts of picture, visuality and media in our time. How do pictures function in the culturally pluralistic and ideologically hybrid postmodern societies? Why can the new picture only be understood in its (cultural policy-, society- and ideology-related) context? You are invited to participate in the Symposium and contribute to the articulation of Visual Culture as a new scientific discipline dealing with the visual in the media age in Croatia and its wider European environment. During the two working days, discussions will focus on the possibilities of co-operation between the fields of art history, semiotics, philosophy, sociology, cultural and visual studies in the research of the: concept and phenomenon of the picture in the age of the iconic turn, mediological aspects of contemporary visual communication (e.g. the impact of new media art, as well as the mass media abolition of the borders dividing "high" from "low" art, popular from elite art production), representation of visual cultural identities (of picturesiconsideologies). Presentations by symposium participants, divided into three subject areas, will be limited to 20 minutes each, followed by a discussion. Working languages are Croatian and English. Deatils will be made available at the Web site of the Centre for Visual Studies at www.c-v-s.hr. You are kindly requested to confirm your participation by 20 August 2007. Please send your presentation title and summary (up to 200 words) by 15 September 2007 to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with the words "Symposium presentation" in the subject line. Contact persons: Mr. arko Paiæ, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Tvrða, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and Mr. Kreimir Purgar, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Visual Studies, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sursa:culturelink -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" skype: us.vladimir http://www.oberliht.org.md . . . . . . . . . . . http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova
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