Visualizing Europe at the University of Barcelona
The second conference of the initiative entitled Visual Culture in Europe (VCE) will be held from April 11 to 12, 2011 at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Following the first, founding conference held at the University of Westminster in 2010, this second meeting aims at discussing the distinctive problems of the European cultural sphere in the context of the new paradigm in science and theory introduced by visual studies. The organisers are inviting all interested theoreticians of visual culture, scholars, students, curators and visual artists to contribute to the conference by their lectures or presentations or by taking part in roundtable discussions, focusing on the following questions: By what means is visual culture participating in the remaking of Europe? What kind of intercultural visual challenges have emerged within the region during its latest geographical eastward enlargement? By which means and how successfully can 'small' European countries and 'small' European languages realise a space of their own visual, cultural and national identity?
Find out more about the conference here (PDF, 37 kb).
Images – Journal for Visual Studies announces a call for submissions for its inaugural issue
The first international online magazine for visual studies in South-East Europe, IMAGES, announces a call for submissions for its inaugural issue. The main theme will be After visual (studies) turn: What happened to pictorial representation? All submitted papers will be reviewed by international and/or Croatian experts in the fields of visual studies, film studies, art history, sociology, mediology and other disciplines in order to ensure a high scholarly profile of the issue. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! More about IMAGES and more details about the call for submissions on the magazine's pages.
Part One of the Project Visual Culture
Studies in Europe:
A Conference at Westminster University
The Center for Visual studies has been invited to participate in a scientific research project entitled Visual Culture Stuides in Europe. This is the first systematic initiative set out to define the status and reach of visual studies on the Old Continent and join the most modern forms of research of visual phenomena today. This call was prompted, on the one hand, by the unimagined development of mediatized visual expressions and the ever stronger domination of the American school of visual studies, and, on the other hand, by the Center's present and past projects which prove it to be an able collaborator. More
Image Science: Visualization and Contemporary Art
The Centre for Visual Studies has started a new scientific research project entitled Image Science: Visualization and Contemporary Art. Image science (Bildwissenschaft) is an articulated complex of newly emerged human sciences which since the period of the iconic turn at the end of the 20th century aim at investigating the epistemological problems of present-day visual culture. The main theoreticians of image science, such as Boehm, Belting, Grau, Sachs-Hombach, Wiesing and Groys, consolidated the understanding of the world of art as a changed relationship between life, technology, science and culture. The world view contained in the very fundaments of this new post-disciplinary science is the image generated artificially or as a form of art from technical information, thus turning into an interactive communication of a wide circle of users. In this way the traditional notion of visual art is replaced by the digital visual arts. More
Images: Journal for Visual Studies
Images is a newly established international peer-reviewed journal for visual studies published by the Center for visual studies in Zagreb. This is the first scholarly journal in Southeast Europe with the main scope to disseminate knowledge in the field of visual studies and visual culture studies. The journal is concieved of as a dynamic platform for exchanging ideas in our incessantly globalizing world with special emphasis on visual artefacts regardless of how we make particular use of them or what their general purpose might be. Visit the site
Visual Culture and New Media
The Center for Visual Studies launched a research study into the interrelations of digital technology and culture, i.e. the relation between the new communication media (the Internet, mobile phone, satellite and digital television, etc.) and visual art. The research brings together various specialists from the fields of art history, history of literature, semiotics, sociology and media theory. Taking into account the tradition in media culture and media art, as well as the importance that new digital technology has in modern Croatian society, we believe the time has come for a certain reassessment of the events on the new media scene in the past twenty-odd years. More
