[ecrea] ECREA Pre-Conference Mobile (in)visibilities - cfp

Title: Mobile (in)visibilities
Date: October 31, 2018
Location: Lugano, Switzerland
Organizer: ECREA TWG Visual Cultures

In a well known call for studying vision and visuality, focusing on both 
the physical act of seeing and the social circumstances within which it 
is embedded, Hal Foster (1988) suggested to attend to differences “among 
how we see, how we are able, allowed, or made to see, and how we see 
this seeing or the unseen therein.” Social scientific work on “ways of 
seeing” (Berger 1972), though not always rendered in these terms, had 
already started to focus on the myriad ways in which we move in social 
space, socially regulate interpersonal boundaries, or deal with 
proxemics. In the last years, calls for practice-based studies of vision 
and visuality have started to explore the role of embodied, material 
practices to what becomes visible e.g. in photographs, and what remains 
unseen (e.g. Kember & Zylinska 2012; Rose & Tolia-Kelly 2012; 
Lehmuskallio & Gómez Cruz 2016). These latter studies focus specifically 
on the role of media in transforming that which we might see with our 
eyes as pictures to be shown and shared to others. In doing so, they 
point to the role of media in transforming what becomes visible, and 
what remains unseen. Practice-based studies foreground mediation, and in 
doing so, focus on movement. That which moves may catch our attention, 
or move out of sight. Visibilities are partial, and always on the move.

The ECREA TWG Visual Cultures invites papers to discuss *mobile 
(in)visibilities*, exploring vision and visuality as materially 
mediated, socially constrained, in movement, and only at times available 
for prolonged attention.

Please submit an abstract of 500 words, specifying how your paper ties 
in with the preconference theme by June 30 2018 to 
https://www.lyyti.in/ecrea2018mobileinvisibilities_abstracts

Notification of acceptance: 22 July 2018

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