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Ethics and Visuality: Seminar and Conferen |
(Hope this isn't a repost! d) --- Begin Message --- To: diana@mrf.hu Subject: Ethics and Visuality: Seminar and Conference From: Horanyi Attila <horan@hcbc.hu> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:06:48 +0100 The Philosophy Department of Pécs University (Pécs, Hungary), the Civic Education Project (New Haven, NJ & Budapest, Hungary) and the Research Group for Contemporary Art Theory, ELTE (Budapest, Hungary) are organizing a joint seminar and conference on Ethics and Visuality: Constructing Social Space to be held between June 4 - 7, 2000 at Pécs University. The seminar and the conference will reflect on the ethical aspects of the ways visual culture shapes our social space. By social space we mean physical spaces, cultures which produce and use them, and social interactions which take place in them. We also think that visual culture plays a crucial role in the formation of identities within these spaces both on the social and on the individual level. The lectures and the papers will discuss ethical considerations concerning visuality both within and outside the artworld. We are also interested in reflections on the responsibility of the producers of artworks and their mediators for the community. (See e.g. the controversy around the Sensation exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum of Art last fall. See http://www.artsjournal.com/Brooklyn.htm) Although the interpretable works range from artistic to commercial and family images, we are especially interested in artworks which acknowledge and/or explore their own political, cultural, moral, and intellectual consequences. The seminars (each morning between 9:30 and 12:30) will be held by Professor Douglas Crimp (Dept. Art and Art History, University of Rochester, NY) and will consist of a lecture and a follow-up discussion. The seminars are open only for accepted participants. The conference (each afternoon, except June 7, between 14:30 and 18:00) will have three papers (20 min.) each day and follow-up discussions. The conference is open for the university community and the general public. Both the seminar and the conference will use English as official language. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send your abstract by February 14, 2000. If you are interested in attending the seminars, please send an application specifying your background and your reasons for wanting to participate. A limited amount of grants covering accommodation, food and travelling expenses within Hungary are available for participants from Central - and East-Europe and the former Soviet Union. All abstracts, applications and inquiries should be sent to Katalin TÃmár Research Group for Contemporary Art History Theory, ELTE H-1137 Budapest, Pozsonyi út 33/a (36-1) 349-4839 (v/f) or Attila Horányi Civic Education Project - Eastern Scholar University of Pécs, Department of Philosophy H-7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6. (36-1) 201-5650 (v/f) horan@hcbc.hu --- End Message ---