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Backlight 08 offers three open lectures given by researchers of visual culture:
Wednesday 22.Oct 16.00 – 17.30
"Transformations in screen culture"
KARIN BECKER
Professor and Chair of Media and Communication Studies.
Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMK) Stockholm University, Sweden
As Anne Friedberg has argued, the transformation of screen culture is evident in the expanding range of "screen practices" that draw variously upon the movie screen, the TV screen and the computer screen, at the same time that images are losing their medium-based specificity. Using this argument as my point of departure I present a proposal for a research program investigating the forms of sociality that arise through changing screen practices. In what ways are these practices altering previous distinctions between the public and the private, and between physical and virtual space? Can we identify ways that screen-based images transform how we experience events at a distance, those that are near at hand, and the relationships between them?
Thursday 23.Oct 13.30 – 15.00
“Between narrative and collage: using images in social science research”
GILLIAN ROSE
Professor of Cultural Geography. Head of Department of Geography.
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
The lecture will suggest that visual images in social science research tend very often to be used simply as illustrations to written, narrative text. The paper will explore the implications of this illustrative use of images - particularly its implicit epistemological claims - and then
move on to explore another mode of image use, which will be described as collage. The lecture will discuss a range of research on the experiencing of urban spaces to expand on the different potentials of visual narratives and collages for producing different kinds of social science work
Thursday 23. Oct 15.30 – 17.00
“Learning and representing culture trough narrating with images”
+ The film: “Struggle for Living” (22 min.) from the Northern Cameroon
TROND WAAGE
Associate Professor, Visual Cultural Studies
University of Tromsø. Norway.
Visual Narration - Photography when words do not grasp the meaning. In this paper I will discuss Photography as fruitful tool in cross-cultural research and in dissemination. Examples will be given from my research in Northern-Cameroon and from my photo-documentary: "Struggle for Living" (22 min.) This film, made by stills is a portrait, made to describe the struggle of a young poor man in Urban Cameroon. He tries out a lot of different relations to make a living, but he meets a lot of misfortune. Some how paradoxically, this makes him a better Muslim.
Place:
Plenums at lecture room C8 in
University of Tampere (Department of Journalism and Mass Communication)
Kalevantie 4, Tampere, Finland
Organiser:
Professor Janne Seppänen, University of Tampere and Nordic Network for Visual Studies
More information:
Professor
Janne Seppänen
janne.seppanen@uta.fi
University of Tampere
Executive director
Irma Puttonen
irma.puttonen@backlight.fi
Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Backlight 08
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Symposium program in Tampere
(Changes are possible)
Symposium ohjelma suomeksi
TAMPERE
Saturday 20th Sept.
11:00 - 13:30
Portfolio Review (enrollment: portfolio@backlight.fi)
Place: TAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finlayson campus / The School of Art and Media, Finlaysoninkatu 7, Tampere
11:30 - 13:30
When photography is documentary? –panel discussion (in Finnish). With Sari Tervaniemi, Anu Suhonen & Tatu Hiltunen. Open for all.
Place: Aamulehti Auditorium, Itäinenkatu 11 (Finlayson)
12:00 - 13:00
MEET THE ARTIST in Vapriikki
My Hellsten, Loredana Nemes, Reiner Riedler,
Andrea Stultiens, Filippo Zambon
12:30 - 13:30
MEET THE ARTIST in TR1
Daniela Cojbuc, Tatu Hiltunen, Lilly McElroy,
Camilla Micheli, Oiko Petersen, Piero Steinle,
Sari Tervaniemi, Edward Thompson
13:00 - 13:30
MEET THE ARTIST in Gallery Rajatila
Wiebke Leister
13:00 - 13:30
MEET THE ARTIST in Mältinranta Artcenter
Giuseppe di Bella, Gerda Lampalzer
14:30 - 16:30
Curators´ panel (In English). Open for all.
Discussion about roles and responsibilities of curators. Moderators Harri Laakso and Annu Wilenius.
Panelists: In addition to Backlight-curators also guest curators Tina Schelhorn and Aura Seikkula.
Place: Aamulehti Auditorium, Itäinenkatu 11 (Finlayson)
19:00 – 24:00
Intercultural dialogue between artists and curators.
Sunday 21st Sept.
12:00 - 14:00
MEET THE ARTIST in Voipaala Art Center, Valkeakoski.
Albin Biblom, John Goto, Jan von Holleben, Rafal Milach
15:00 - 17:00
Backlight workshop starting up in TAMK (TTVO) for students.
Giuseppe di Bella, Reiner Riedler
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Childrens´ Backlight
Exhibition “Kikatusta etsimässä” open in Tampere, Finland (Lastenkulttuurikeskus Rulla, Väinö Linnan aukio 15) on 11.Oct – 9. Nov. 2008. Workshops held for children 2007-2008.
Backlight 08 Workshop Exhibition
open in Tampere, Finland (Emil-sali, Keskustori 4) on 25.Oct – 9.Nov 2008. Workshop held in September by Giuseppe di Bella and Reiner Riedler at TAMK University of Applied Sciences / the School of Art and Media.
International academic seminar for researchers and students will be held in Tampere 2009. |