[ecrea] CFP: Contemporary Iranian Digital Photographic Cultures: New technologies, Digital art and Popular Photographic Practices

 Call for panel presentations
Ethno-photography of/in Iran: Past, Present, and Future

Closing date for submissions: 8th January 2014

The Royal Anthropological Institute
Anthropology and Photography Conference
British Museum, London, 29-31 May 2014

Sub-panel: Contemporary Iranian Digital Photographic Cultures: New
technologies, Digital art and Popular Photographic Practices

 Sub-panel organiser: Shireen Walton, PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford

 The past decade can be said to have born witness to the rise of diverse
and sophisticated contemporary digital photographic cultures in and
relating to Iran.
> From the increasingly visible presence of Iranian digital artists in online
art networks to the rise of popular online photographic practices such as
photography-based weblogging and the use of Flickr and Instagram, these new
spaces of creative output have played an instrumental role in wider socio –
political as well as artist developments. In all cases, the online medium
of the Internet exists as chief exhibitor and communicative vehicle of
these timely and decidedly visual discourses, whose aesthetic and epistemic
scope invariably extends beyond national and geographical boundaries.
Contemporary Iranian digital photographic cultures thus pose new potentials
for transnational as much as national socio – cultural engagement and
critical reflection.

More broadly, the ubiquity of online image – based discourses in
contemporary global communications poses fresh epistemological scope for
anthropological engagements with photography, positing an embodied
researcher in relatively unchartered digital field sites of enquiry.
Considering new digital photographic cultures in an applied, ethnographic
manner can provide tangible insights for wider theoretical and
methodological reflection, particularly concerning the position of
researchers vis-à-vis their 'subjects' in increasingly polyvocal and
self-representational contexts.

This panel’s digital ethnographic focus on Iran seeks to bring together
papers that critically introduce specific examples of these latest Iranian
photographic visions into the discursive, global visual politics of
cultural representations of Iran, including discussions of social salience,
artistic agency and political acumen. It particularly invites papers that
theoretically and methodologically engage with the theme from a
digital-visual anthropological perspective.
All submissions should be made via the online form on the official panel
page of the conference:

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2590

For further information and enquires regarding this sub-panel please
contact:
Shireen Walton ((shireen.walton /at/ sant.ox.ac.uk)<
mailto:(shireen.walton /at/ sant.ox.ac.uk)  <(shireen.walton /at/ sant.ox.ac.uk)>>)

Shireen Walton
Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
St. Antony's College
University of Oxford

(shireen.walton /at/ sant.ox.ac.uk)<mailto:(shireen.walton /at/ sant.ox.ac.uk)<(shireen.walton /at/ sant.ox.ac.uk)>
>
http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/current-students/our-dphil-students/#c9719

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