Understanding Visual Culture. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Programma

21 April 2016

14.00 Welcome & introduction: Patrizia Violi (Director SSSUB); Marco Solaroli (University of Bologna)

14.15 W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago) - Method, Madness, Montage: Aby Warburg to A Beautiful Mind

15.45 Break

16.15/18.15 A tool-kit for visual culture: Confronting disciplines, theories, and methods

• Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento), The visible: Element of the social
• Angela Mengoni (University of Venice - Iuav), On the logic of the sensible: Bildkritik and visual semiotics
• Luca Acquarelli (University of Lille 3, Gériico lab), Reframing the presence of images
• Marco Solaroli (University of Bologna), What do icons want?

Chair & discussant: Cristina Demaria (University of Bologna)


22 April 2016

9.30 Robert Hariman (Northwestern University) -Photography: The Abundant Art

11.00 Break

11.30/12.45 Photography of/in crisis: Migration, terrorism, and violence

• Farida Vis (University of Sheffield, Visual Social Media lab), The iconic image on social media: The death of Aylan Kurdi
• Daniele Salerno (University of Bologna), Visualizing crowds: Terror, security, politics

Chair & discussant: Isabella Pezzini (University of Rome - Sapienza)

12.45 Lunch

14.00 Gillian Rose (Open University) - Seeing the City in Digital Times: Going with the Flow

15.30 Break

16.00/17.15
Visual-material culture and urban scapes

• Dominik Bartmanski (Technical University Berlin), The cultural icon: Material culture and cityscape
• Francesco Mazzucchelli (University of Bologna), How to (un)build an urban memoryscape:
• The visuality of material memory

Chair & discussant: Federica Timeto (Academy of Fine Arts, Palermo)

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