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Visual Construction of Culture

Call for Papers
Zagreb, Croatia, 26-27 October 2007

The Croatian Writers' Society, the theory, culture and visual arts journal
Tvrða, and the Zagreb Centre for Visual Studies are organizing an
international interdisciplinary symposium entitled Visual Construction of
Culture, to be held at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb, Croatia on 26-27
October 2007.

The Croatian Writers' Society, the theory, culture and visual arts journal
Tvrða, and the Zagreb Centre for Visual Studies are organizing an
international interdisciplinary symposium entitled Visual Construction of
Culture, to be held at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb on 26 and 27 October
2007.

Over the past ten-odd years, the interest for the establishment of Visual
Culture / Visual Studies as a new interdisciplinary field of scientific
study has surpassed the boundaries of contemporary visual arts. As W. J.
T. Mitchell, one of the leading theoreticians of visuality and the image
in the media age puts it, the new way in which images are created in the
digital age requires a paradigm shift. This visual, pictorial and cultural
turn marks the liberation of the image from the dominant paradigms in
language philosophy and from the prevalent iconology interpretations in
art history. Today, the picture is understood as a medium of communication
and as a contextual field of autoreferential denotation. It is no longer a
"holy" picture or a picture of High Art, but a multiplied and networked
world of visuality which demands its own new grammar, syntax, semiotics
and hermeneutics.

Culture can no longer be explained by social identity theories. Visual
culture is constructed autonomously and in the media age it is a
prerequisite for the cognition of reality and its various interpretations.
The Symposium will therefore focus especially on the need for a new
approach to the concepts of picture, visuality and media in our time. How
do pictures function in the culturally pluralistic and ideologically
hybrid postmodern societies? Why can the new picture only be understood in
its (cultural policy-, society- and ideology-related) context?

You are invited to participate in the Symposium and contribute to the
articulation of Visual Culture as a new scientific discipline dealing with
the visual in the media age in Croatia and its wider European environment.
During the two working days, discussions will focus on the possibilities
of co-operation between the fields of art history, semiotics, philosophy,
sociology, cultural and visual studies in the research of the:

concept and phenomenon of the picture in the age of the iconic turn,
mediological aspects of contemporary visual communication (e.g. the impact
of new media art, as well as the mass media abolition of the borders
dividing "high" from "low" art, popular from elite art production),
representation of visual cultural identities (of pictures—icons—ideologies).
Presentations by symposium participants, divided into three subject areas,
will be limited to 20 minutes each, followed by a discussion. Working
languages are Croatian and English. Deatils will be made available at the
Web site of the Centre for Visual Studies at www.c-v-s.hr. You are kindly
requested to confirm your participation by 20 August 2007. Please send
your presentation title and summary (up to 200 words) by 15 September 2007
to visual.studies la post.t-com.hr, with the words "Symposium presentation"
in the subject line.

Contact persons: Mr. Žarko Paiæ, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Tvrða, zarko.paic la zg.t-com.hr, and Mr. Krešimir Purgar, Senior Researcher
at the Centre for Visual Studies, visual.studies la post.t-com.hr.


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