conference_visual_construction_of_culture

Oct. 9, 2007

Type: event
Starts: Oct 22 2007 at 12:00AM
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Visual Construction of Culture
Zagreb, 26 - 27. October 2007.
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The Croatian Writers' Society, the theory, culture and visual arts
journal Tvrda, 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 (Friday and Saturday).

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.
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Symposium Programme

Friday, October 26, 2007

•• 10.00
Introduction

•• 10.15
ZARKO PAIC, Faculty of Textile Technology, Zagreb
Deconstruction of Image: From Mimesis and Representation to Communication

•• 11.00
NADEZDA CACINOVIC, Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
The Visible and Cognition

•• 11.45
MILAN GALOVIC, Faculty of Textile Technology, Zagreb
Image in Technical Era

•• 12.30
KRUNO MARTINAC, University of Melbourne, Australia
Someone Looks at Something

•• 13.30 Lunch break

•• 15.00
ALEKSANDAR MIJATOVIC, Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Profane Iconology

•• 15.45
IZAR LUNACEK, Ljubljana
The Visual Construction of Carnival Reality

•• 16.30
SRECKO HORVAT, Zagreb
Holocaust and Media

•• 17.15
Closing of the first day's sessions

Saturday, October 27, 2007

•• 10.00
KEITH MOXEY, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York
Visual Studies and the Iconic Turn

•• 10.45
NIGEL WHITELEY, Lancaster University
Visual Disciplines in a Post-Disciplinary World

•• 11.30
SONJA BRISKI UZELAC, Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka
Art in the Age of Cultural Reconfiguration: From Artifact Towards Visual Text

•• 12.15
MARCO SENALDI, State University of Milano-Bicocca
Contemporary Art and Television

•• 13.00 Lunch break

•• 14.30
KLAUDIO STEFANCIC, Center for Visual Studies, Zagreb
User Interface as Space of Cultural Differentiation

•• 15.15
ANTONIO SANTANGELO, University of Turin
"Real Fiction": The New Frontiers of Constructing Reality in Television

•• 16.00
KRESIMIR PURGAR, Center for Visual Studies, Zagreb
Visual Turn and Literary Text: Subversive Iconology in the Novel City
by Alessandro Baricco

•• 16.45
Closing of the Symposium

More info: http://www.vizualni-studiji.com/