‘2 or 3 Things we’ve learned’ – Intersections of Art, Pedagogy and Protest
Talking in the exhibition, about the exhibition

space RE:solutions. Intervention and Research in Visual Culture
Conference: Vienna University of Technology, 21-23 October 2010

Sat, October 23, 1.30 pm CONFERENCE ROUND-UP

Eva Egermann & Elke Krasny Curators
Julia Wieger, Spatial Intervention/Collection
Titusz Tarnai,  Spatial Intervention/Exhibition

Organisational Interventions
Karin Reisinger, Amila Sirbegovic, Stefanie Wuschitz & Nada Zerzer, conference organising team, Vienna University of Technology

Chair: Helge Mooshammer, conference convenor, Vienna University of Technology

Intervention and Research in Visual Culture
Vienna, 21-23 October 2010

International Conference hosted by the Visual Culture Programme Vienna University of Technology

What has emerged over the last decade as one of the most significant aspects of work in Visual Culture is a persistent desire for both a critical sensitivity toward its theoretical underpinnings and an experimental elasticity in its methodological approaches.

This drive is giving rise to a plethora of new investigative practices and multi-directional engagements, particularly vis-a-vis matters of geopolitical urgency and their cultural and spatial implications.

Marking ten years of Visual Culture studies at Vienna University of Technology, this conference aims to bring together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners interested in the dynamics between emergent spatial phenomena and new modes of theoretical inquiry.

Examining the blurring roles of intervention and research, the conference seeks to debate how critical and creative work in Visual Culture negotiates unexpected transitions and oscillations between individual and collective, real and virtual, center and periphery, and activism and academy.

The conference will partly take place within the exhibition setting of 2 or 3 Things we’ve learned Intersections of art, pedagogy and protest (IG Bildende Kunst, 14th Sep to 29th Oct 2010), which aims to produce a discursive space to address processes, displacements and intervention through art in education.

http://www.kunst.tuwien.ac.at/conference.htm

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space RE:solutions. Intervention and Research in Visual Culture
Convenors: Christine Hohenbüchler, Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
Organisers: Karin Reisinger, Amila Sirbegovic, Stefanie Wuschitz and Nada Zerzer

Thursday 21 October 2010
VENUE: IG Bildende Kunst

10.00 am OPEN DOORS / COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
10.30 am WELCOME ADDRESS
Peter Mörtenböck, conference convenor, Vienna University of Technology
Petja Dimitrova, IG Bildende Kunst
Elke Krasny, co-curator of the exhibition ‘2 or 3 Things We’ve Learned’, which provides the setting for the conference

10.45 am INTRODUCTION by Peter Mörtenböck

11.00 am KEYNOTE 1
chaired by Peter Mörtenböck

The Aesthetics of Mediated Congregation: The Crystal Cathedral and Evangelical Visual Culture
Erica Robles, New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

12.00 am PANEL 1: IN/STABILITIES
Chair: Helge Mooshammer, Vienna University of Technology

Methodologies of Destabilisation
Lucy Britton, Elizabeth DuBois, Susannah Haslam, Maria del Mar Pizarro, Verena Schwarz, Lucy A. Sames Goldsmiths, University of London

Fortified Knowledge
Eduard Freudmann & Lina Dokuzovic, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

1.00 pm LUNCH BREAK

2.30 pm PANEL 2, cancelled, paper by Ruby Sircar, moved to panel session 4

3.00 pm PANEL 3: CIRCULATIONS OF BELONGINGS
Chair: Gülsen Bal, Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna

Disrupting the Visual Paradigm
Amila Sirbegovic, Vienna University of Technology

Motor City Illusions, Fairytales Driven Over the Sea
Dan S. Wang, Columbia College Chicago

4.00 pm COFFEE BREAK

4.30 pm PANEL 4: POLITICS OF VISIBILITY
Chair: Elke Krasny, Architekturzentrum Wien

Fast and Furious Tools
Ruby Sircar, Graz University of Technology
The Mise en abyme Effect: Politics and the Fantasy of Total Visibility
Margot Bouman, Parsons The New School for Design, New York

5.30 pm BREAK

VENUE: Vienna University of Technology, Kuppelsaal

7.15 pm  CONFERENCE ADDRESS by Christian Kühn, Academic Dean, School of Architecture, Vienna University of Technology

7.30 pm KEYNOTE 2
chaired by Helge Mooshammer, Vienna University of Technology

How to be Counter-Environmental: Art, Research and the Techniques of Discovery
Jorella Andrews, Goldsmiths, University of London

9.00 pm DRINKS RECEPTION (Kuppelsaal Foyer)

Friday 22 October 2010
VENUE: IG Bildende Kunst

10.00 am OPEN DOORS / COFFEE AND REGISTRATION

10.30 am PANEL 5: EXPRESSING DIFFERENCE
Chair: Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna

Talking Space
Nada Zerzer, Vienna University of Technology

Visual Sociology and Organization of Space: Comparative Analysis
Marina Semina, Lomonosov Moscow State University

11.30 am PANEL 6: CONFLICT MEDIA
Chair: Suzana Milevska, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje

Contention of Antiromaism as a Part of the Process of Decoloniality of Europe
Ivana Marjanovic, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

On the Ground: Reflections on Visual Culture in Conflict Zones
Krista Geneviève Lynes, San Francisco Art Institute

1.00 pm LUNCH BREAK

2.00 pm PANEL 7: BORDERLINES
Chair: Peter Mörtenböck, Vienna University of Technology

In/visible Borders: Mapping the Strait of Gibraltar
Teresa Callejo Pajares, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Employing Social Art Practice: Exploring New Methods for Research and Geopolitical Realities
April Bojorquez & Matthew Garcia, Arizona State University

3.00 pm PANEL 8: FEMINIST TECHNOLOGIES
Chair: Erica Robles, Steinhardt, New York University

INANNA: Female Developers of Interactive Art in Public Space
Stefanie Wuschitz, Vienna University of Technology

Transition into Marginalisation: On the construction of femininities and masculinities within Latin American guerrilla movements
Luisa Dietrich, University of Vienna

Feminism, Peace Activism and Visual Strategies
Katharina Hübner, University of Vienna

4.00 pm COFFEE BREAK

4.30 pm PANEL 9: QUEER VISUALITIES
Chair: Johanna Schaffer, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Of Metal, Blood and Soil: Towards a Generative Ecology of Live Art
João P. Marques Florêncio, Goldsmiths, University of London

Queering Colonialism or Queer Imperialism? Migrating Images and Methodologies of Spatial Transgression
Ernst van der Wal, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

5.30 pm BREAK

VENUE: Vienna University of Technology, Kuppelsaal

7.15 pm KEYNOTE 3
The Reciprocal Relation of Art and Visual Culture in the Balkans
Suzana Milevska, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje

chaired by Peter Mörtenböck, Vienna University of Technology

9.30 pm CONFERENCE DINNER

Saturday 23 October 2010
VENUE: IG Bildende Kunst

10.00 am OPEN DOORS / COFFEE AND REGISTRATION

10.30 am PANEL 10: SHIFTING GROUNDS
Chair: Barbara Holub, Vienna University of Technology

Space Complicities: Vectors of Conjunction
Karin Reisinger, Vienna University of Technology

Great «Americas» of Visual Culture
Serguey Naymushin, ral State University, Ekaterinburg

Notes on a Possible Relation between Art + Video + Technique: Audiovisual Practice, Technologies and Poetics in Argentina
Anabella Speziale, Universidad de Buenos Aires

11.30 am PANEL 11: TRANSGRESSIONS
Chair: Jorella Andrews, Goldsmiths, University of London

Living Rooms: The Art of Mobilizing Belonging(s)
Florian Bettel, Julia Mourão Permoser & Julia Rosenberger, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Would You Betray the Original?
Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schrödinger, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Goldsmiths, University of London

From Web Mashups to Real-Time Visual Practices: Posthistorical or Cosmopolitical Condition?
Denisa Kera, National University of Singapore

12.30 pm COFFEE BREAK

1.30 pm CONFERENCE ROUND-UP

‘2 or 3 Things we’ve learned’ – Intersections of Art, Pedagogy and Protest. Talking in the exhibition, about the exhibition
Eva Egermann & Elke Krasny Curators
Julia Wieger. Spatial Intervention/Collection
Titusz Tarnai, Spatial Intervention/Exhibition Organisational Interventions

Karin Reisinger, Amila Sirbegovic, Stefanie Wuschitz & Nada Zerzer
conference organising team, Vienna University of Technology

Chair: Helge Mooshammer, conference convenor, Vienna University of Technology

2.30 pm LUNCH BREAK
VENUE: Open Space, Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Lassingleithnerplatz 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria

5.00 pm  BOOK LAUNCH

Suzana Milevska: The Renaming Machine