Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image
 A tVAD Research Group Conference, University of Hertfordshire,
Hatfield, UK.
 Monday 12th September 2005.
 http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/tvad/event160905.html

 The proverbial picture tells a thousand words. Yet, images are rarely
 devoid of textual or verbal accompaniment. We use words to describe
 images, just as we use images to convey stories. Images and text
 appear in conjunction, and in succession, and these juxtapositions
may be read as narratives. In sum, text, image and narrative are nothing
 less than mutually constitutive. In learning about objects and
images,  and in preparing resultant outcomes, cultural historians and
 commentators employ a range of methods and sources, from observation,
 interview and oral history, to object analysis and documentary
 interpretation. What is at stake in the translation of sources, both
 visual/pictorial and written/verbal, in the production of these
 analyses? Posters, paintings, guidebooks, films, computer games and
 other digital environments are just some of the cultural artefacts in
 which text, narrative and image intersect in particular ways. Art
 historians, design historians, material culturalists, practitioners
of cultural studies and others are invited to reflect on their sources,
 the issues mobilised by articulating images and objects with language
 and the ways in which their talking and writing conditions
 understanding of cultural artefacts.

Show/ Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image is the first
conference in a biennial
 series.

Panels of three or more papers might address the following indicative
 questions:

 * How do cultural narratives shape understanding of the artefacts they
represent?
 * How does propaganda manipulate word and image to tell truths and lies
about gender?
 * How have old media such as cinema responded to new media sites for
stories?
 * How do theory and practice intersect in the art and design education?
 * How do archival and curatorial practices shape cultural
understanding?
 * How does oral history inform understanding of texts, narratives,
objects
and images?
 * How do we write, talk and teach about the tacit and the haptic?
 * How is taste shaped through text, narrative and image?
 * How do text, narrative and image appear in the works of individual
practitioners?
 * How might the borders of text, narrative and image be transcended?

Proposals for papers and panels are invited for March 1st 2005 -
 e-mail an abstract of 300 words, a short biography and contact
details  to [log in to unmask] (questions should also be directed
to
 this address). Papers will be 25 minutes in duration. Proposals for
 panels are welcomed and should include a rationale with the abstracts
 and contributor details. Selections will be made on the basis of
 relevance to the conference theme, originality and clarity of the
 theme, research context, and method. Publication of selected papers
is  planned: contributors will need to supply a full paper for the
conference, for refereeing.

 Hatfield enjoys excellent transport links: the University is served
by  the A1M motorway, near to Stansted and Luton airports and is 25
 minutes from central London by train.

 Grace Lees-Maffei MA RCA ILTM, Co-ordinator, tVAD Research Group
University of Hertfordshire, Faculty of Art and Design, College Lane,
 Hatfield, AL10 9AB.
 Direct Line: 0 44 (0)1707 285369 ~ Fax: 0 44 (0)1707 285350 ~
 [log in to unmask]
 Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Design History
 http://jdh.oupjournals.org/