(Full info at http://www.ed.ac.uk/iash/future.events.html )
"VISUAL KNOWLEDGES"
CALL FOR PAPERS
University of Edinburgh, 17-20 September 2003
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of
Edinburgh; Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of
Glasgow
This interdisciplinary conference will investigate the role of visual
technologies in informing and shaping knowledge. Its overarching
aim is to investigate the claims of scholars such as Barbara
Stafford, Martin Jay, and Timothy Binkley that our own culture is
currently, in the wake of the electronic revolution, undergoing a shift
in which the visual medium, traditionally playing a secondary role
as the illustration of text, is becoming the dominant medium of
thought.
The conference will project forward by casting backwards in time to
survey the role of successive new technologies of vision in
generating new cultures of knowledge, perception, and experience.
From the seventeenth-century invention of the telescope and the
microscope, and the progressive elaboration of spatial
representation in photography, cinema, the x-ray, scanning
technologies and the interactive computer screen, the conference
addresses the broad role of technologies of the visible in culture.
Conference sessions will include both historical and thematic
panels. All will be asked to reflect on the relationship of their topic
to the emerging history of the new media and its cultural
consequences.
Plenary speakers will include: John Bender, Tony Bennett,
Jonathan Crary, Simon During, Martin Kemp, Celia Lury, Joel
Snyder, Mark Wigley.
One-page proposals for papers should be sent to: [log in to unmask]
The deadline for proposals is 31 March 2003.
Papers should be 30 minutes in length.
For further details visit the conference website at:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/iash/future.events.html
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