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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Seminar in Visual Culture Money Money Money Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Room ST 275 (School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1B 5DN London) Thursday 29 Jan, 6.30 - 8.00pm Dr. Yair Wallach, "Money becomes Text: Gold and Paper in Palestine" In what ways is money written or read? Does the shape of money matters to its use? I will address these questions looking at money in everyday life and high politics in late Ottoman and British ruled Palestine (1858-1948). The dramatic shift from gold coins to paper banknotes in Palestine provides an intriguing example of the abstraction of money and its de-materialisation, its becoming a text of sort. The paper will discuss these developments against Palestine's textual and political economies, as well as the monetary theories of Marx, Keynes and Simmel. Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), "Doing Visual Culture: Currency and Graphic Design" I will discuss work produced with second year BA Graphic Design students at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design for a recent studio project centred around the theme of currency. While the student work itself approaches money from multiple perspectives and with a variety of interests and concerns, the main objective of this talk will be to present this studio project as one model for integrating visual design practice with intellectual agency. RSVP [log in to unmask] so we know roughly how many people to expect. The Seminar in Visual Culture aims to create a forum for practicing artists, researchers, curators, students, and others interested in visual culture to present, discuss and explore the various aspects of a given theme within the field. In 2009, to keep apace with the present credit-crunching times, the theme is Money. While the media are providing us with endless analyses of the credit crisis from all imaginable economic angles, it is now perhaps time to look at how artists and writers are responding to Nasdaq and FTSE100, to shiny coins and colourful banknotes and to the repetitive images of worried brokers shouting into their mobile phones. After all, money is itself an object of design and has long been the subject of the creative arts and the credit crunch has not only inspired economists and journalists. The seminar looks at the relationship between art, money and the everyday - in times of crisis and of affluence. Sessions include theoretical papers, art presentations of new and existing work as well as film screenings. For more information please contact [log in to unmask] Programme: Thursday 29 Jan, 6.30 - 8.00pm Dr. Yair Wallach, "Money becomes Text: Gold and Paper in Palestine" Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), "Doing Visual Culture: Currency and Graphic Design" Thursday 26 Feb, 6.30 - 8.00pm Samuel Thomson, "Artist Futures" (film presentation) Jon Purnell, Cack-U-Like (art presentation) Wednesday 25 Mar, 6.30 - 8.00pm Marina Vishmidt, "Speculation as Mode of Production: Art, Money and the Formalism of Value" Carolyn Kay, "Economics and Gaming" (art presentation) Tessa Garland, Consumerism and Art (art presentation) Thursday 28 May, 6.30 - 8.00pm Dr. Diane Gabrysiak (Birkbeck College), "Let's Make Money - Representing money on film" Morgan Adamson (University of Minnesota), "Inflation and the Image: Film, Financial Crisis, and the End of the Gold Standard" Wednesday 24 June, 6.30 - 8.00pm Dr. Gavin Grindon (Kingston University), "Art-Activism, Anticapitalism and Value - from the Situationist International to now" Robin Priestley, The Space Hijackers (art presentation) ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html