Estetická dimenze vizuální kultury – pozvánka na konferenci












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            * Estetická dimenze vizuální kultury – pozvánka na konferenci
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            Katedra estetiky FF UK je hlavním organizátorem mezinárodní konference Aesthetic Dimension

            Culture, která se bude konat 20 až 21. října tohoto roku.
            Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture Event: international conference
            Date: 20–22 October 2009

            Place: DigiLab, Academy of Fine Arts, U Akademie 4, 170 00 Prague, Czech Republic.
            International 3-day conference to be held at the DigiLab AVU (Digital Laboratory of the Ac
            Arts in Prague) [ URL "http://dl.avu.cz/lang/en-us/about"] and organized by the Aesthetics

            Departments of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic in cooperat
            The contemporary situation in humanities and social sciences is often characterized by the

            “visual turn”, or the increasing emphasis of theory on the power and scope of the visual i
            science, and art. Reflection of this increased influence of image, pictoriality, and visua
            information and expression has resulted also in the formation of the notion of visual cult

            of Visual Studies. The rise of Visual Studies involves several fundamental problems relate
            of aesthetics. Theoreticians of visual culture often suspect philosophical aesthetics of c
            sins of ahistorism and blindness towards cultural differences; according to the culturalis

            aesthetic experience is to be conceived as conforming to the ruling cultural ideology. Aes
            often seen as irresponsive to the challenges of new media, post-conceptual art practices a
            revolution. On the other hand, aesthetic vocabulary has far from vanished from contemporar

            nature and various shapes of our visual experiences, a fact especially pertinent where a d
            with vulgar value relativism prevails. The driving thought behind this conference has been
            debate among scholars coming from different quarters on the aesthetic dimension of the vis

            participants from different fields – aesthetics, film studies, art history and theory, lit
            philosophy, but also culture studies, visual and media studies, sociology, psychology and 
            – are invited to consider the following proposed topics organized into three thematic grou

            1) Debating Disciplines: Pluralist Aesthetics / Local Visual Studies
            *Visual Studies: a national or transnational project?
            *Local variants of visual studies and their potential of application: What are the possibi

            localizing visual studies?
            *Pluralist aesthetics: an oxymoron or a reform?
            *The visual and/or the aesthetic: Do visual studies allow for an aesthetics?

            2) Defining art(s) in the 21st century
            *Recent perspectives in definitions of art
            *Art without the aesthetic? Defining conceptual and post-conceptual art practices

            *The legacy of Institutionalism; reappraisal of institutional/procedural approaches
            *Artworks or images: making sense of aesthetic canons
            3) Appreciating the Visual

            *The fate of aesthetic autonomy after the visual turn
            *How has the digital revolution changed our appreciation of the image?
            *Aesthetic blindness: individual or social disease?

            *Aesthetic alienation or aesthetic distance? Aesthetic experience in the age of spectacles
            *Perception and/or sensation: contemporary perspectives on phenomenology of the aesthetic 
            Invited are abstracts of no more than 200 words (in English) on these or broadly related t

            will receive 30 minutes for presentation. We also invite PhD students to present their wor
            submissions should be clearly marked as such.
            Selected papers will be published in conference proceedings.

            The conference fee is 10 Euro, students are exempt from this fee.