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Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw you attention to a panel that my colleague Luc Pauwels and myself are organizing for the forthcoming RAI conference: "Anthropology and Photography", British Museum, Clore Centre, 29-31 May 2014 http://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-photography/

Our panel is entitled “Photography, new technologies and the predicament of the frame: theoretical and methodological reflections” http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2802

Short abstract

To work with photography today entails to engage with social networking, augmented reality, new visualization technologies, etc. We are asked to integrate our knowledge about images with that of digital technologies. This panel explores the theoretical and methodological implications of this change. 

Long Abstract

Recent developments in the field of digital technologies have redefined the horizons of photography. Through its entanglements with new digital technologies, photography is today increasingly merging with social networking; with applications for augmented reality, geolocative and geosocial media; with new visualization technologies allowing us to see the previously unseen.

To study (and to conduct research with) photography requires therefore today an increasing capacity to integrate the conventional knowledge offered by visual anthropology and visual culture with insights gathered from the study of digital culture and technologies. It symbolically entails a move beyond the frame and the field of vision.

This panel aims to explore this changing scenario from a twofold perspective. On one level it will explore the theoretical implications of this shift from within a variety of different empirical fields. On the other it aims at addressing the methodological possibilities for gathering as well as for visualizing data that have been made available to us through these technological innovations.

To propose your paper: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2014/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=2557

We are looking forward to receiving your proposals.

 

All the best,

Paolo Favero

 

For further details on the conference visit:

http://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-photography/call-for-papers/



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Paolo Favero
Associate Professor 
Film Studies and Visual Culture
Department of Communication Studies
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
University of Antwerp
Sint-Jacobstraat 2
BE-2000 Antwerp
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