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<p class=MsoTitle><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and
Practice<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoSubtitle><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>An international conference to be held in
London 15th-17th July, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoSubtitle><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Organizers:
Professor Gillian Rose and Dr. Divya P. Tolia-Kelly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>This conference
takes as its starting point the apparent exhaustion in much critical theory of
the term 'representation' as a means of grasping the effect of the visual in
contemporary times (although, in contrast, ‘representation’ remains
a key driver in advertising, geopolitical policy and military practice).
Conventionally, critical interpretation has concerned itself with the meaning
of images by situating their connections to broader discursive formations, but
for many this is now a reductive analytical schema. There are suggestions that
these approaches have become formulaic; that they ignore the physical
materiality and political and cultural power of visual imagery and visualities;
and that this approach can reinstate the power structures it intends to
critique. The aim of the conference is to consider where representation and the
need for a new interpretive paradigm may coalesce/intersect. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Visuality/Materiality</span></i><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> attends to the relationship between the
visual and the material as a way of approaching both the meaning of visual and
its other aspects. The image as sign, metaphor, aesthetics and text has long
dominated the realm of visual theory. But the material role of visual
praxis in everyday landscapes of seeing has been an emergent area of visual
research; visual design, urban visual practice, visual grammars and vocabularies
of domestic spaces, including the formation and structuring of social practices
of living and political being, are critical to 21<sup>st</sup> century networks
of living. The relationship between <i>Visuality/ Materiality </i>here is about
social meaning and practice; where identity, power, space, and geometries of
seeing are approached here through a grounded approach to material
technologies, design and visual research, everyday embodied seeing, labour,
ethics and utility. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>This conference is
aimed at providing a dialogic space where the nature and role of a visual
theory can be evaluated, in light of materiality, practice, affect,
performativity; and where the methodological encounter informs our intellectual
critique. One strand will invite sustained engagements with the theoretical
trajectories of the ‘material turn’, the 'emotional/affective turn'
and the 'practical turn' away from the 'cultural turn'. Where are these
turns taking us, exactly? What are we leaving behind when we turn, and
does that matter? The organisers are also keen to encourage contributions
based on research experience and practice into specific aspects of visuality
and visual critique including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>What is the relationship between the material and
the visual?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>How do we develop new theoretical approaches to
new visual practices? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>What can we learn from everyday visualities? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>How can we approach the ethical through visual
practices?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>How valuable are theories of materiality,
performance, embodiment in research on the visual? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>We welcome
participation from all disciplines and from varying research approaches. To
participate in the conference please send a 200 word abstract before December 1<sup>st</sup>
2008, to: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><a
href="mailto:Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk">Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk</a></span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>All
details will be updated on the conference web site: </span></i></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality">http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality</a></span><b><i><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>Ruth Fazakerley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>SA School of Art<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>K4-12 Kaurna
Building, City West</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>University of
South Australia</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="mailto:Ruth.Fazakerley@unisa.edu.au"><span style='color:blue'>Ruth.Fazakerley@unisa.edu.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>Tel: + 61 8 8302
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