Croatia: ‘Visual Construction of Culture’ Symposium
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 October 26 – 27, 2007, Zagreb, Croatia - Call for Papers
Application deadline: August 20, 2007
(confirmation)
Organizers: The Croatian
Writers' Society, the theory, culture and visual arts journal Tvrða, and the
Zagreb Centre for Visual Studies.
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)
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Representation of visual cultural identities (of
pictures—icons—ideologies).
Please send your presentation title and
summary (up to 200 words) by 15 September 2007 with ‘Symposium presentation’ in
the subject line. 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.
More information
Website: www.c-v-s.hr.
E-mail:
zarko.paic@zg.t-com.hr (Mr. Zarko Paic, PhD, Editor-in-Chief,
Tvrda)
visual.studies@post.t-com.hr (Mr. Kre¹imir Purgar, Senior Researcher,
Centre for Visual Studies)
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