Deadline- 1 October 2013
The International Association of Visual Culture (IAVC) is accepting proposals for its main concept that is Visual Activism. This conference is being conducted in San Francisco from March 14-16, 2014.
Related Question-
- How can we better understand the relationships between visual culture and activist practices?
- How can we engage in conversations about abstract or oblique visual activism, for instance as is demanded in conditions of extreme censorship?
- How can we approach the complexity of governmental or commercial ‘visual activism’ to better address hegemonies of visual culture (for example, in advertising and the mass media)?
- What becomes of the temporal lag that attends such images, when the politics of visual production are only made legible in retrospect, with historical distance? How does the past become a form of ‘visual activism’ in the present?
- To what degree do forms of visual activism travel, and in what ways are they necessarily grounded in locally specific knowledge and geographically specific spaces?
Presentations should respond to these questions or related topics and may take the form of scholarly papers (20 minutes), artist talks (20 minutes), short performances (5 to 30 minutes), or lighting-round interventions (5 minutes). Proposals should include a 400-word abstract, links to websites with additional publications or relevant images and information, and a CV.
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