Dear All,
A final reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the RAI Art, Materiality and Representation Conference is this Monday January 8th.
We invite papers for panel 057: The Aesthetics of Modelling
https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6113
Discussant: Maryon McDonald, University of Cambridge
Panel Abstract:
The practice of modelling shapes social and material arrangements. From envisioning networks in big data, graphs in economics, diagrams in psychology, biomedical mapping, and global systems analyses from climate change to shipping supply chains, modelling is a practice of crafting visual representations that produces vast material effects.
This panel will consider what is aesthetically compelling about this process, to decipher what becomes (un)desirable about certain social arrangements through their visual representation. The efficacy of models will be explored by asking questions such as: how do qualities such as friction, disruption, and flow become enticing or unappealing through the aesthetic qualities they acquire in the act of modelling? What notions of beauty are entailed in their colour, shape, and scale? How is meaning articulated in depictions of dimensions, intensity, and magnitude? The panel will approach these issues ethnographically while seeking insights from the artistic, cartographic and topographic technologies that shape the practices of modelling. It will explore experiences of these processes, from the satisfying to the monotonous, and examine how mastery of the craft of modelling establishes expertise in its associated disciplines.
Finally, many such practices draw their authority from claims to objectivity and rational scientific process, often producing visual representations that pertain to be absent of particular political intention, but which are central to policy-making on an array of issues. While this claim differs significantly to that of some artistic endeavours, this panel will also seek to draw insights into the efficacy of modelling by situating the practice in conversation with discussions on the intersection of politics, science and art.
If you would like to submit a paper proposal for the panel, please supply a title, a short summary of up to 300 characters and an abstract of 250 words at:
https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/paperproposal/6113
Art, Materiality and Representation Conference
June 1-3 2018
Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute, co-organised with the British Museum and SOAS, London
With best wishes,
Alice Pearson (University of Cambridge) [log in to unmask]
Mikkel Kenni Bruun (University of Cambridge) [log in to unmask]
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