"Image Wars: Conflict, Media, Globalization" Symposium

Pratt Manhattan Gallery

poster for "Image Wars: Conflict, Media, Globalization" Symposium

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ZONES OF CONFLICT have proliferated globally, designating an historically unprecedented condition of war without geographical and temporal limit, one confronting a 'terrorism' similarly without spatio-temporal boundaries. Artistic responses have included the documentation of military action, the memorialization of loss, activism against war, and conceptual analyses and contestations of military and media representations. But conflict has also divided artistic representation, pressing the need for the reinvention of documentary strategies and the acknowledgment that conventional forms of realism and reportage are no longer adequate. Following seven years of the so-called 'war on terror,' we are now in a position to consider in what ways contemporary art and visual culture have reflected
and confronted social and political upheaval and "infinite war."

Speakers:

T.J. Demos, guest-curator of Zones of Conflict, writes widely on modern and contemporary art. The author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007), his essays have appeared in international magazines and journals. Based at University College London's Art History Department, he is currently working on a new book-length study, "Migrations: Contemporary Art and Globalization."

Faisal Devji teaches political history at the New School for Social Research. Devji researches the political thought of modern Islam as well as in the transformation of liberal categories and democratic practice in South Asia. Devji, whose broader concerns are with ethics and violence in a globalized world, is also author of Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (Cornell University Press, 2005).

Maymanah Farhat is a specialist in modern and contemporary Arab art. She is the editor of ArteNews, an online newsletter that focuses on Middle Eastern art and culture (www.arteeast.org), and has written for journals such as Electronic Intifada, CounterPunch, and Z Magazine.

Allen Frame is a practicing photographer and teaches photography at Pratt Institute, International Center of Photography, and School of Visual Arts. Frame has had solo exhibitions at Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York and Schedler Galerie, Zurich.

Andrea Geyer's photography stages social interactions and navigations through spaces as sites of the production of culture and sources of experience. She has exhibited widely, with solo shows at Secession, Vienna; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; and Platform, Berlin (with Sharon Hayes). Thomas Keenan

Thomas Keenan teaches human rights, media, and literature at Bard College. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics (Stanford University Press, 1997), and co-editor of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2005), and will soon finish a book on media and conflict.

Vyjayanthi Rao teaches anthropology at the New School. Her work focuses on globalization, and in particular issues of technology, infrastructure, memory, and modernity in South Asia. She is currently finishing a book entitled "The Speculative City: Global Mumbai, Urban Futures, and Formations of the Public."

Lecture hall 213, next to Pratt Manhattan Gallery (144 W 14th St., Fl.2)

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Schedule

January 30, 2009 from 14:00 to 18:00
Coffee Break: 4 - 4:30 pm.

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