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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/