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Von: Enca Gutierrez [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2004 15:56
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Betreff: [vifu] Fwd: [socio-l] CALL FOR PAPERS: 'Compositing Gender',
International Symposium, Cologne March 2005 (fwd)
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Date: 03 December 2004 11:53 +0000
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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: 'Compositing Gender', International Symposium,
Cologne March 2005
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Compositing Gender.
Concepts of the Body and the Politics of Desire at the Interface of
Material and Visual Culture
Call for Papers for an International Symposium, funded by the DFG (German
Research Foundation)
Date: 31.03. - 02.04.2005
Place: Center for Cultural Studies, Goethestr. 31, D-45128
Essen
phone: +49201/7204-260, fax: +49201/7204-111;
www.kwi-nrw.de
Chair: Dr. Elke Gaugele (University of Cologne)
Ilka Becker M.A. (Center for Cultural Research
Media and Cultural
Communication of the Universities of Cologne,
Bochum, Bonn and
Aachen)
Contact: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
'Compositing' as a term is used in the practice of generating digital
images, but also describes the process of an increasing overbinding and
transformation of visual elements, material objects and homogenized image
surfaces, since the 1990s. In our project 'Compositing' should be discussed
as a heuristic term to work on new perspectives of processes of gender
construction, especially in their relation with consumer culture.
Compositing Gender is understood as a practice of the merging and blurring
of images, bodies, objects and spaces. The symposium will focus on
different types of images, which should be considered in their social
aesthetic interactions. This might include art images, advertisement
images, cinematographic images or video clips, as well as their movements
between bodies and goods in public spaces, e.g. through mirrors, cameras or
digital user surfaces, as used in shopping malls.
Compositing Gender should be discussed in its problematic as well as in its
potentially productive senses. It is problematic insofar as the idea of
'Compositing' ties up to phantasms of androgynous bodies, which are
commercial used and theoretically and practically hyped as salvation. It is
productive in how the art system can no longer claim to be positioned
as the critical outside of these social, aesthetic and media processes and
hence must be re-thought in terms of popular and everyday culture.
This symposium should contribute to the differentiation of aesthetic
practices and current approaches to the intersections of visual and
material cultures. It should explore and open up the concepts of
'visuality' and 'materiality' as well as the status and possibilities of
images and objects.
A central question of concern is whether there are current concepts of
desire at the interface of visual and material culture, which could be made
theoretically productive for processes of consumerism. The merging of
spaces, bodies, images and goods suggests that ?desire? has moved towards
becoming part of a symbolic or social space/image production and cannot be
understood through a logic of deficiency. A current example is digital
technologies, such as body scanners, which mirror consumers and transform
them into avatars. Body technologies like this do not address the absence
of a desired object, founded through a constitutive division of subject and
object, but rather desire, or lust itself is an integral aspect.
A consequence of this is that traditional acts of emancipation have lost
their impulse and success and can no longer be situated within established
feminist practices. Rather new criteria must be developed that address how
the participation in the politics of desire, bodies and goods and the
confusion of the gaze and image, work in relations with economic, visual
and material contexts.
We invite colleagues and PhD Students to contribute to this meeting with a
papers emerging from their current research projects. Papers should address
several aspects of the questions above.
We are pleased to receive your abstracts (max. 500 words) until 15th of
December 2004.
Contributions to the meeting should not be longer than 20-30 minutes. All
talks will be in English. We are planning to publish the talks after the
conference.
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