[ecrea] CFP: The Place of the Image: Global Connections, Local Affiliations (University of Pittsburgh)

>CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
>
>The Department of History of Art & Architecture at the University of
>Pittsburgh is pleased to announce its 2010 graduate student symposium
>entitled The Place of the Image: Global Connections, Local
>Affiliations. The event will coincide with opening festivities for
>the exhibition Ordinary Madness at Carnegie Museum of Art, including a
>screening of Harry Smiths film, Heaven and Earth Magic (1957-1962)
>with live musical accompaniment. The keynote speaker will be announced
>shortly on the symposium website.
>
>The Place of the Image: Global Connections, Local Affiliations
>symposium aims to explore the relationship between image and place
>across different time periods and geographic locations. This
>relationship can be construed in multiple ways: images can reflect
>visual producers connectivity to place, participate in the
>socio"political construction of allegiance to place through the
>organization of space and time, and stimulate changes in viewers
>affiliation to place as a result of their local and global
>circulation. The place of the image can enhance or undermine its
>affective and effective impact; analogously, the image can consolidate
>or subvert the power of place.
>
>Topics of possible interest may include, but are not limited to:
>" visual culture and globalization, world art, internationalism in the arts
>" the migration of images across cultural boundaries and visual media
>" commissioning, collecting, and archiving images
>" the market and its alternatives
>" museums, galleries, and other public and private display contexts
>" spectatorship and aesthetic experience
>" images as implements of power
>" visual culture and the nation
>" displacement and dislocation, exile, diasporas
>" the social, political, and cultural roles of image makers
>" images and sites of ritual
>" iconophilia, iconophobia, and iconoclasm
>" the place of images in architecture, monuments, and public art
>" place and duration
>" connectivity to temporary spaces of spectacle
>" virtual places in new media
>" site-specific visual representations
>" the relation between place and non-place
>" utopias and dystopias
>We encourage paper submissions from graduate students working on
>visual culture at all stages of their studies. We also encourage MFA
>students to present art projects related to the symposium theme.
>Abstracts should be under 300 words. Presentations should not exceed
>20 minutes. Please submit abstracts and CVs to
>(theplaceoftheimage /at/ gmail.com) by July 15, 2010. Selected speakers will
>be notified by August 15, 2010.
>
>Symposium website: http://web.me.com/pitthaa/HAASymposium2010/Welcome.html
>
>
>
>--
>Cristina Albu
>PhD Candidate
>Department of History of Art and Architecture
>University of Pittsburgh
>http://www.haa.pitt.edu/graduate/albu.html

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