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Syndicate: Visual Culture @ De Balie, 6 & 7 April, 2001 |
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ________________ Visual Culture De Balie, Amsterdam Friday 6th & Saturday 7th of April 2001 Visual Culture in De Balie An important theme for De Balie in coming months is Visual Culture. This new interdisciplinary terrain is typical for current times: it focuses on different disciplines simultaneously while searching for connections. Film, television as well as visual art, advertising, the urban environment and new digital and electronic presentation forms are part of Visual Culture, but also dress codes and the manner in which magazines and shops present themselves in our experience economy that is strongly based on visual stimuli. Visual Culture looks at the totality of visual messages, icons and codes that confront us on a daily basis. Two days, two themes The program kicks off on the 6th and 7th of April with a two-day research conference in the Balie in Amsterdam in which the subject Visual Culture will be explored. Our wish is to further reflection beyond establishing that so-called `high-' and `low' culture are increasingly less easy to distinguish from each other, that art, culture and commerce are currently developing ever more hand in hand and that our notions on art and culture are changing - among other things because contemporary image culture is a multiculture. Two main themes will be broached: the increasing interrelation of art, culture and economy and the mix of different image cultures in multicultural society. What does the convergence of all these cultural and social fields - that were hitherto separate - mean? What consequences will this all have? How, as an image producer caught up in that network of interests can one still take a critical stance and put it into practice? What then does such a critical stance look like? These questions among others will be dealt with. Who's attending? Nicholas Mirzoeff, an American authority and advocate of Visual Culture as a new perspective. Olu Oguibe, visual artist and art-critic, expert on critical issues on contemporary (African) art and cinema. Together with Okwui Enwezor editor of Nka, journal of contemporary African art. Cath?rine David, artistic director of the last Documenta. John Akomfrah, a black film maker and critic who unlike anyone else is able to analyze and depict value judgements on the basis of ethnic and/or cultural differences. Jeff Rian, editor in chief of the magazine Purple. >From Holland those attending are among others: Felix de Rooij, artist and film maker, producer of the famous exhibition Wit over Zwart. Matthijs de Jongh, responsible for strategy at advertising agency KesselsKramer. Chris Keulemans, writer and journalist. Patricia Pisters, tutor and researcher into gender in film and video clips and co-author of a book on Madonna. Henk Oosterling, philosopher, associated with the center for philosophy and art at Erasmus University. Felix Janssens, graphic designer. But there will certainly not only be talk and theorizing. There are also many visual presentations involving people who are formative in Visual Culture themselves: artists, designers, media and theatre producers, fashion designers, photographers and architects, people from business and advertising - especially those whose perspectives cut across the boundaries of their discipline. An interdisciplinary field calls for an interdisciplinary approach. Preparations are being made on a special Visual Culture - website, that is currently being developed for the Balie by a group of students from the department of Interaction Design of the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU). This will be operational in February 2001. Further information at De Balie: e jet.zeiss@balie.nl t +31-20-5535151 f +31-20-5535155. Research & production: Ineke Schwartz, Ingrid van Tol, Tessa Boerman, Jet Zeiss. _________ We kindly request you to send this message to interested parties in and outside your organization. A mailing will insure that everyone interested in the Visual Culture program of the Balie is kept up to date on developments. ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress