artinconflict
War, Art and Visual Culture 2019
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About artinconflict
Today’s images of war and violent conflict are unlike those of the past – and the stakes are particularly high, and contemporary war artists reflect on these images, sometimes offering alternative perspectives on war and violence. Artists and photojournalists are often embedded with troops, while others risk everything to work independently. War, Art and Visual Culture is a symposium aimed at exploring these complexities and generating new knowledge in this growing field.
Topics
Contemporary art, War studies, Visual cultureCall for Papers
KEYNOTES:
Prof Joanna Bourke Birkbeck, London, editor of War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict (2017)
Dr George Gittoes AM Sydney Peace Prize 2015, Bassel Shehadeh Award for Social Justice USA 2013
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- The conflicts and compromises of embedding artists, journalists and photographers with troops
- Historical perspectives on war, art and visual culture in comparison with today
- The ethics and aesthetics of aftermath photography and moving images
- The exclusion of other voices from the art and visual culture of war
- Uncovering the violence of image archives
- The politics of aesthetics in images of war and violence
- Differences in the approaches and work of official and non-official war artists
- The still and moving digital image in contemporary warfare
- Populism and nationalism in the art and visual culture of war and conflict
We invite abstract submissions for individual 20-minute papers, as well as proposals for panel discussions, and other modes of presentation. We also invite graduate researchers, and particularly encourage interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and international submissions.
For papers and panel proposals, please submit an abstract of no more than 350 words, as well as a brief CV and 100-word biography (for each participant). Deadline for submission is Monday 16 July 2018.
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