* Deadline March 1st for proposals *
Show/Tell: Relationships Between Text, Narrative and Image
tVAD research group: Theorising Visual Art and Design
Faculty of Art & Design, University of Hertfordshire, 12 September 2005.
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/tvad/event160905.html
The proverbial picture is worth 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,
scholars of film, media and animation 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 1st March 2005 - e-mail an
abstract of 300 words, a biographical note and contact details to
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address). Papers will be 25 minutes in duration. Proposals for panels are
welcomed and should include a rationale with the abstracts and contributor
details. Proposals will be subject to single blind refereeing by an
international panel of referees. 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 by 1st September.
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 ~
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Profile at http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/tvad/lees-maffei1.html
Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Design History
http://jdh.oupjournals.org/
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