[ecrea] CFP: Visualizing the Street

Call for Papers:

*VISUALIZING THE STREET*

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Professor Gillian Rose
<http://uva.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d716ad4643f2e0f147befb9d9&id=9f6eedee15&e=f001d8ee38> 
(The
Open University)

For the international conference /Visualizing the Street,/ the ASCA
Cities Project
<http://uva.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d716ad4643f2e0f147befb9d9&id=afe299d654&e=f001d8ee38> 

invites papers that explore the impact of contemporary practices of
image-making on the visual cultures of the street.

*Date:   Friday 17 June 2016*

*Place:   University of Amsterdam*


New technologies of visualization have opened up the practices of
photographing, filming, and editing to everyone who carries a phone and
is connected online, resulting in the mass circulation of privately
produced imagery. This development has social, cultural and political
significance. For example, Larsen and Sandbye (2014) write that
“increasingly, everyday amateur photography is a performative practice
connected to presence, immediate communication and social networking, as
opposed to the storing of memories for eternity, which is how it has
hitherto been conceptualized.” Hito Steyerl (2009) points towards the
potential of such low resolution imagery in propagating a less
hierarchical and more democratic regime of visuality. At the same time,
new technologies have also contributed to the expansion of an urban
visual culture that is subject to a professional system of visual
production and distribution. The visual experience of the contemporary
street is partly shaped by artistic visualizations, detailed
advertisements, big-scale billboards and high resolution renderings that
pervade urban environments. Although responding to different
sensibilities, there are striking similarities between these various
registers of everyday visual experience of the street. The digital means
of production of street imagery – never delivering a clear end product
and always in circulation between material and virtual networks – and
the fleeting glance with which consumers relate to that imagery, point
towards a distinctly performative visual language. It seems that what is
most important to this visual culture is not so much the content of the
imagery as its immediacy. This development asks for new concepts,
theories and research methods that would combine close analyses of the
image with the study of the practices of production, circulation and
consumption of the image, and the diverse set of social, cultural,
affective and performative implications of it in everyday life.

Please submit abstracts (max 300 words, for 20 min papers) together with
an academic CV to Pedram Dibazar (email: (p.dibazar /at/ uva.nl)
<mailto:(p.dibazar /at/ uva.nl)>) by *November 1, 2015*.

Please note that we are also working on a publication on the same topic
for the Amsterdam University Press book series Cities and Cultures
<http://uva.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d716ad4643f2e0f147befb9d9&id=f43ea60594&e=f001d8ee38>. 

A selection of contributions to the conference will be included in the book.

For any inquiries please contact organizers Pedram Dibazar
<http://uva.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d716ad4643f2e0f147befb9d9&id=b5dc4c1f20&e=f001d8ee38>or 

Judith Naeff
<http://uva.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d716ad4643f2e0f147befb9d9&id=6b422db91c&e=f001d8ee38>.


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