The Construction of Images, eikones Summer School
August 26th – 31st, 2012

This year’s eikones Summer School of the NCCR Iconic Criticism will dedicate three transdisciplinary courses to the construction of images. Images are not only generated and constructed in many different ways but, in turn, contribute towards a construction of fields of activity and scopes of knowledge. All three courses will deal with a complex field of iconic criticism, in which contexts of production, reception, and work aesthetics are closely interwoven.
“Image Production in the Arts and the Sciences“ will study what role the fact that images are made can have on their definition from the point of view of art history, philosophy, and the history of science.
“A Somewhat Different Measure” proposes to approach the image from the theory of proportions and, thus, re-define it from the point of art history and theory.
“Shaping Knowledge” finally seeks to define the epistemic and aesthetic potentials of graphical forms of notation in the construction and consolidation of disciplinary schools of thought and modes of action.

Seminars

Course 1
A Somewhat Different Measure – the Image Within the Context of Proportion
Audrey Rieber  and Gerald Wildgruber with Anne Sauvagnargues

Course 2
Image Production in the Arts and the Sciences

Margarete Pratschke andVera Wolff with Angela Matyssek


Course 3
Shaping Knowledge: “Drawing Scenes” of Modernity
Claudia Mareis and Toni Hildebrandt with Barbara Wittmann


Public Lectures
Further information about the public lectures will be available under www.eikones.ch in the Spring.

Application

The call for papers of the eikones Summer School addresses advanced students and doctoral candidates of art history and art theory, philosophy, musicology, film, media and cultural studies, literature, science, mathematics, sociology and related disciplines, as well as researchers in the fields of visual culture, the visual arts, architecture, and design theory and practice. 
The courses will be held in German and English. A passive knowledge of both of these languages is required for participation in any case. The course 1 will be held additionally in French. All participants are expected to contribute to thesuccess of the courses by giving presentations and actively participating in discussions.
NCCR Iconic Criticism will pay for accommodation and lunch expenses.
Applications should include a professional curriculum vitae and copies of diplomas (where
applicable). The applicants are requested tosubmit an abstract of approximately 350 words.,
Further details and a bibliography will be sent to the selected participants.

Please send your application per e-mail (one PDF-document, max. 10 MB), indicating the preferred seminar, by April 23, 2012, to the lecturer in charge:

Course 1
A Somewhat Different Measure – the Image Within the Context of Proportion
Audrey Rieber, Gerald Wildgruber
Summer School
NCCR Iconic Criticism
Rheinsprung 11
CH-4051 Basel
audrey.rieber(at)unibas.ch
gerald.wildgruber(at)unibas.ch
Course 2
Image Production in the Arts and the Sciences

Margarete Pratschke, Vera Wolff

Summer School
NCCR Iconic Criticism
Rheinsprung 11
CH-4051 Basel
pratschke(at)wiss.gess.ethz.ch
wolff(at)wiss.gess.ethz.ch


Course 3
Shaping Knowledge: “Drawing Scenes” of Modernity
Claudia Mareis, Toni Hildebrandt

Summer School
NCCR Iconic Criticism
Rheinsprung 11
CH-4051 Basel
claudia.mareis(at)unibas.ch
toni.hildebrandt(at)unibas.ch


Deadline April 23th, 2012

Co-ordination: Claudia Mareis
Organisation: [log in to unmask]
Further information: www.eikones.ch

eikones NFS Bildkritik, Rheinsprung 11, CH-4051Basel
Schaulager, Ruchfeldstr. 19, CH-4142 Münchenstein/Basel