Preconference ECC — Communication for Empowerment: Citizens, Markets, Innovations — 11 November Lisbon 2014
Title: Art Photography in Media Environments
Immanuel Kant formulates in his Critique of
Judgment
what he considers to be the vivid principle of the soul. This principle was tightly connected to art and for him art was a matter of representation, which incites to a
deep thinking. Natural standards of art were conceived by him as being genius art. The connection to nature, natural process of art making were at
stake in Kant's point of view and marked the way art was thought throughout the
last centuries. With the emergence of avant-garde artistic movements, Kant's conception started to be criticized, and a hiatus between art and aesthetics opened
since.
With the advent of new technologies, art started to be deeply connected with new media, which became the raw material for art practices. This
media turn, now widely accepted is being currently enlarged with critical approaches.
Photography is a paradigmatic
example of this new materiality. It has been regarded as the
inscription of an image obtained not by human hand, but by the agency of light per se. Today with the apparition of coded
digital images, photography, such as film, expands. Analog photography is
replaced by a virtual picture. Its perception has changed and the
theoretical approach to it is also transforming.
The main goal of this Pre-conference is to think
about new links between art - in a wider sense - and mass communication technologies, approaching these intersections as a base that incites to a
deep thinking - if it is aesthetic, political, social, cultural, etc.
Topics:
The influence of Media on Art
Art Markets in Digital Environments
Aesthetic and Theory of Art
Cultural Industries
Creative Methodologies in Art
Science, Technology and Arts
Art and Communication
Sound Arts
Art and Politics
Analog Photography
Photography and Immateriality
Photography and new apparatus
Photography and Sacred
The Photography Expanded
Contemporary Art and Photography
From shooting birds through binoculars that doubled as a camera, to experimenting with his parents DSLR the summer before starting high school while hiking through the mountains of New Hampshire, Kobi Walsh became intrigued by the minute details picked up by a camera that would be otherwise indistinguishable to the human eye.
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