Practices of looking. Images, Icons, Ideologies – seminar and discussions
To explore the meaning of images is to recognize that they are produced within dynamics of social power and ideologies. We propose to investigate the relation of cultural ideology and institutions to the production and perception of visual messages, the way media images, texts and programs move from one social arena to another, and circulate in and across cultures. This approach concerns the institutional frameworks that regulate and sometimes limit the circulation of images, as well as the ways in which images change meaning in different cultural contexts.Focus for seminars and discussions inside working group:
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Images as commodities
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How is the meaning of images negotiated in the social process
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Icons as shared values
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SEMINAR
2004 - IMAGES OF VIOLENCE / VIOLENCE OF IMAGES - 1st Edition of The Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest
Visual Culture and Trans-Cultural Dynamics in theSouth Eastern Europe
Identity and visual culture – conference, lectures and presentations
The recent focus on identity was often used as a means of resolving cultural and political dilemmas. But identity is as much a problem as it is a solution when it comes to contexts and regions with closed and divided societies, with poor practice of dialogue and communication.The flow of information at global level and the changes from the recent past of SEE countries put on the agenda questions of mutual knowledge and trans-cultural dynamics in the region. As visual culture is part of these trans-cultural dynamics, we cannot but take into consideration the role of seeing and visualising in constructing the notion of cultural identity/alterity.
Discussion focus during the conference, lectures, and presentations:
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visual culture as interdisciplinary domain; visual culture – tactic or academic discipline
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visual culture, visual studies and cooperation at regional level; policy and strategy
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the role of visual in the circulation of ideas and concepts across cultures
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images and meanings: what images tell us about the cultures in which they are produced
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presentations of projects and initiatives at regional level
CONFERENCE
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Ami Barak (F) . art critic, curator, president of the International Association of Curators, City Hall of Paris
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Matei Bejenaru (Ro) . artist, cultural manager, director of Periferic Biennial, Iasi
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René Block (D) . art critic, curator, director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel
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Vladimir Bulat (Md) - curator, art critic and director of Art-Hoc Magazine
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Magda Cârneci (Ro) - art critic and curator, president of AICA - Romania
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Irina Cios (Ro) . curator, art critic, director of ICCA Bucharest
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Alexandra Crãciun (Ro) . associate senior lecturer Phd., University of Bucharest
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Liviana Dan (Ro) . art critic and curator, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu
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Dan Dediu (Ro) - composer, Head of Department of National University of Music
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Alexandru Dimca (Ro/F) . mathematician, J.A. Dieudonné Laboratory of CNRS, University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
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Liviu Dinu (Ro) . mathematician, University of Bucharest
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Arjon Dunnewind (NL) . curator, director of Impakt - Video and Media Art Festival, Utrecht
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Vasile Ernu (Ro) . theoretician, director of Idea Press House
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Steven Gartside (Gb) . PRD . Centre for the Study of Location, Memory and Visuality MIRIAD
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Bogdan Ghiu (Ro) . writer, media analyst
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Irina Grabovan (Md) . art critic, curator, director Aorta Gallery, Chisinau
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Adrian Guflã (Ro) . art critic, professor at the University of Arts, Bucharest
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Florin Iaru (Ro) . poet, writer, computer graphic designer
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Ivan Mecl (Cz) . director, Umelec International Magazine,
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Prague Werner Meyer (D) . art critic and curator, director, Kunsthalle Göppingen.
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Viktor Misiano (Rus) . art critic, curator, founder and chief-editor of Moscow Art Magazine
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Brandusa Palade (Ro) . Lecturer Dr in philosophy, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration
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Elena Panayotova (Bg) . visual artist and organizer of cultural events
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Anne Peschken and Marek Pisarsky (Urban Art) (D) . visual artists
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Simona Popescu (Ro) . writer, professor, University of Bucharest
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Jiri Ptacek (Cz) - art theoretician, curator and editor-in-chief of Umelec International Magazine, Prague
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Alex Sãndulescu (Ro) . director B-24-FUN, advertising Magazine
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Ron Sluik (NL) . visual artist, curator of AORTA Gallery
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Marta Smolinska-Byczuk (PL) . art critic, editor-in-chief ARTeon Magazine
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Alina Serban (Ro) - curator, art critic, editor Arhitext design Magazine, Bucharest
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Janka Vukmir (Hr) . art critic, curator, director of the Contemporary Art Institute Zagreb
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Stevan Vukovic (S&M) . art critic, curator, program coordinator SKC, Belgrade