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Roundtable: Visual Cultures &Material Practices
A. Lehmuskallio
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1
University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
The aim of the temporary working group is to provide a forum for discussing and developing work on visual cultures in dialogue between different disci‑
plinary approaches. This year’s panel will focus on practice-based approaches to visual cultures. We aim to address those approaches and issues which focus
on the intersection between visuality and materiality. Our aim is to deepen theoretical and empirical understandings of the multiple ways in which visual
cultures and material practices intertwine.This panel builds on the assumption that our understanding of images is partially based on the material practices
in which they are intertwined, and that, however, these practices alone do not suffice to address all regarding the visual. Key questions that arise from this
observation include: - What is the relation between those seeing and that which is seen (e.g. hierarchies, symmetries)? - What part do media (that provide
images with means to become visible) play in influencing where, what, how, or who is seeing or being seen (e.g. television, cinema, photography, soft‑
ware)? - What kind of relations do different people develop with images and the practices surrounding them? - How are power relations articulated within
visual and material means? - What is the role of image-based strategies within the practices of particular communities (e.g. in politics, urban planning,
advertisements, religion)? Instead of focusing only on images made with particular technologies (such as photography, computer-generated imagery, or
the like), this panel is interested in a variety of practice-based approaches to visual cultures, trying to understand the similarities and differences between
uses of pictures. The TWG aims to collaborate broadly with researchers in the field, working in areas such as Media and Communication Studies, Visual Cul‑
ture, Bildwissenschaft, Media, Visual and Digital Anthropology, Art History, Material Culture Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. Cooperation with
other networks is envisaged, in the form of joint seminars, round-table discussions and conferences. We aim to provide a platform for scholars at various
stages in their academic careers for deepending their understanding of this particular dimension of visual cultures.
PN 123
Can Visual Literacy Be Assessed? Material Practices to Visual Education
J. Kedra
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University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Can visual literacy be assessed? Material practices to visual education
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Transnational Representations of Protest in the News
K. Becker
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1
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Transnational representations of protest in the news
PN 125
Visual and Material Practices in Romantic Relationships: Repertoires, Uses, Meanings
K. Lobinger
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USI - Università della Svizzera italiana, Institute for Communication Technologies, Lugano, Italy
Visual and Material Practices in Romantic Relationships: Repertoires, Uses, Meanings
PN 126
Together While Apart?
M. Schreiber
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, P. Prieto
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1
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Together While Apart?
TWG –Visual Cultures
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