[Commlist] Forensic Knowledge and Mediation: Visual Methodologies Workshop

Please find below information for a one day workshop taking place 
Wednesday 25th May at the University of Exeter/Online.

You can register here: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forensic-knowledge-and-mediation-visual-methodologies-tickets-328150716627 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forensic-knowledge-and-mediation-visual-methodologies-tickets-328150716627>

Organisers:
David Huston Jones (University of Exeter) and Patrick Brian Smith 
(University of Warwick)

Participants:
Fiona Allen (University of Exeter), Cristina Costantini (University of 
Perugia), Larry Duffy (University of Kent), Claire Launchbury 
(UCL/University of Leeds), Laliv Melamed (University of Groningen), 
Alexa Neale (University of Sussex), Pooja Rangan (Amherst College), 
Helmuth Rosales (SITU Research), Kathryn Smith (Stellenbosch University)

The workshop aims to address the increasing prominence in recent years 
of the evidentiary and mediatory at the forefront of an emerging 
“forensic turn” across diverse fields of cultural practice. Such 
forensic practices have sought to explore how our engagement with the 
forensic is always an increasingly mediated experience, with new 
technologies reshaping the ways in which power can be scrutinised and 
held accountable. The deployment of evidentiary visual material in 
expert and non-expert environments, meanwhile, has become a particular 
concern during the COVID-19 pandemic, when unprecedented problems of 
framing and mediation have attached themselves to the use of medical 
evidence. While expert knowledge has played a crucial role in the 
dissemination of evidence, that evidence has been accompanied by an 
insistent visual rhetoric which has remained largely unexplored. In 
addition to this contemporary focus, the project also addresses the 
deeper roots of forensic activity, focusing in particular on the 
institutional histories of practices now recognised as medical and 
forensic. Those histories frame visual practices in which objectivity 
and the production of evidence are the key stakes, and yet subjectivity 
and non-expert witnesses remain inescapably present.


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