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2007/05/14

Migrating Images - Reading and Translating Images Transculturally

Organizer

The symposium "Migrating Images - Reading and Translating Images transculturally" was organized by the House of World Cultures, Berlin, and held in the House on 7/8 November 2003.

Context

An incessant stream of new images, assailing us daily in everyday culture, film, and the creative arts, has led to an exponential expansion of the image cosmos. Precisely in our "visual age", images are, despite their seemingly immediate accessibility, not uniformly intelligible for viewers from different cultural areas, thus requiring translation. The speakers, comprising art historians, curators, and art and media scholars, discussed how images can be produced, presented, read and translated today.

Programme

› Introduction
› Reading: The readability of images
› Transporting: Translating images
› Producing: Image production in a global context
› Presenting: Displaying images
› Resumé: Images travelling transculturally

Speakers

Introduction

Peter C. Seel

Project leader at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Introduction of the Conference "Migrating Images"
[07.11.2003]
› Video [RealMedia | 10 Min.]
› Video [Windows Media | 10 Min.]
› Database Entry

Reading: The readability of images

J.W.T. Mitchell

Professor of English and art history, University of Chicago, USA
"Totemism, Fetishism, Idolatry"
[07.11.2003]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 37 Min.]
› Discussion [RealMedia | 21 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 60 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About J.W.T. Mitchell

Jyotindra Jain

Professor of art and aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Universität, New Delhi, India
"Indian Popular Imagery: Reconfiguring the Cultural Identity"
[07.11.2004]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 31 Min.]
› Discussion [RealMedia | 22 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 54 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About Jyotindra Jain

Dirk Naguschewski

Scholar at the Centre for Literary Research, Berlin, Germany
"Reading Foreign Films: African Images and the German Audience"
[07.11.2003]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 32 Min.]
› Discussion [Real Media | 14 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 49 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About Dirk Naguschewski

Transporting: Translating images

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Professor at State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
"Aboriginality: Gesture, Encounter and Visual Culture"
[07.11.2003]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 32 Min.]
› Discussion [RealMedia | 23 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 60 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About Nicholas Mirzoeff

Avinoam Shalem

Professor of the history of islamic art at Ludwig Maximilian's University, Munich, Germany
"Objects as Carriers of Real or Contrived Memories in a Cross-Cultural Context"
[07.11.2003]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 30 Min.]
› Discussion [RealMedia | 18 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 48 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About Avinoam Shalem

Producing: Image production in a global context

Ackbar Abbas

Professor of comparative literature, Hong Kong University, China
"Framing the City through Cinema"
[08.11.2003]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 29 Min.]
› Discussion [RealMedia | 26 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 56 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About Ackbar Abbas

Sabine Flach

Scholar at the Centre for Literary Research, Berlin, Germany
"Der Ort der Bilder: Der Körper als kulturelle Repräsentation in der Medienkunst"
[08.11.2003]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 29 Min.]
› Discussion [RealMedia | 26 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 56 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About Sabine Flach

Geeta Kapur

Art critic and curator, New Delhi, India
"subTerrain: Artists Dig the Contemporary"
[08.11.2003]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 36 Min.]
› Discussion [RealMedia | 28 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 56 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About Geeta Kapur

Presenting: Displaying Images

Machiko Kusahara

Professor of media art at Waseda University, curator and media scholar, Japan
"No Border! Art as Entertainment from a Japanese Point of View"
[08.11.2003]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 49 Min.]
› Discussion [RealMedia | 21 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 75 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About Machiko Kusahara

Resumé: Images travelling transculturally

Sarat Maharaj

Professor of art history and theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Great Britain
"On Cultural Translation"
[08.11.2003]
› Lecture [RealMedia | 69 Min.]
› Discussion [RealMedia | 44 Min.]
› Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 118 Min.]
› Database Entry
› About Sarat Maharaj

Discussion with Nicolas Mirzoeff und Lydia Haustein, Moderation: Salah Has

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