Visual Culture Studies in Europe
This project is a collaboration between established and emerging scholars, curators, educators, and editors from across a number of European universities and cultural institutions with a commitment to Visual Culture Studies in Europe, and the study of visual culture. The project aims to:
(b) explore the ways in which these diverse trajectories in the emergence of the study of visual culture are historically and theoretically distinctive because of the unique characteristics of a specific country, location, language, peoples, their histories of migration, governmental policies, and the contexts within which universities function as sites for interdisciplinary learning.
(c) interrogate some of the hazards of this distinctiveness –around, for instance, the hegemony of the Anglo-American, English as the lingua franca of the academic humanities, and questions of publishing and dissemination.
(d) discuss how the advent of Visual Culture Studies, with its new ways of seeing, knowing, understanding, and participating might:
(2) generate particular kinds of cultural practices, and
(3) be itself responding to activities in anything from art and curating to policy making and industry initiatives.
(e) inquire into the economic imperatives (university priorities, increases in student numbers, government policy, etc.) that are playing a part in embedding Visual Culture Studies as a paradigm for research, learning, and making in universities, art colleges, and cultural institutions.
Visual Culture Studies in Europe will host a conference in late 2009. Details forthcoming.
Participants:
Joachin Barriendos, Curator, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
Professor Jose Luis Brea, Editor of Estudios Visuales, Madrid, Spain
Professor Iain Chambers, University of Naples, Italy
Professor Anna Maria Guasch, University of Barcelona, Spain
Professor Oliver Grau, Danube University Krems, Austria
Dr Joanne Morra, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, England
Dr Almira Ousmanova, European Humanities University Belarus/Lithuania
Kresimir Purgar, Center for Visual Studies Zagreb, Croatia
Dr Vivian Rehberg, Parsons Paris School of Art + Design, France
Dr Marquard Smith, University of Westminster, England
Dr Oyvind Vagnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Dr Nina Lager Vestberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway
